TheFutureIsNear

Can you honestly name 15 prospects you care about in our system? I don’t think it will take much selling to add to our awful system

I think there will be at least a handful of teams that would be happy to trade for Graveman to fill their 8th inning role…not saying we would get a great/top prospect. But with now bad our farm system is I wouldn’t be shocked if we can get a guy that is close to a top 5 prospect for us

Good enough to win the World Series? Probably not. Would take a lot of luck with things going our way like ‘05. Unfortunately with the current owner that probably won’t change. But is this team talented enough to be minimum several games above .500 and securely in the playoff race? Yes 1000% and I do believe a coaching change a few weeks ago could/would have changed the season around. Unfortunately the fat lady is all but singing at this point…and the owner doesn’t care enough to fire his buddy.

Abreu Hendricks Graveman Cueto Thats all I would trade. Fire Hahn and the whole coaching staff (wouldn’t hate keeping Katz). Hire a competent coach that doesn’t have ties to the organization to bring in a new culture. Make the small roster adjustments Hahn miserably failed at this past off-season and give it a go. I think we are pretty pot committed to most of this roster. I also still firmly believe this roster is playoff worthy, but is carrying around a ball and chain of poor management (top to bottom)

Not able to watch…but I’m going to assume it’s painfully obvious Tony should have went to the pen?

A managerial change could have turned the season around 2-3 weeks ago…now it’s too late

Maybe Im dumb/naive/all of the above, but I still think the talent is more than sufficient on this team and a manager and hitting coach change would turn this team around

It must be cool to watch your team hit HR’s…

And that’s why you have to hit the front of the bag…

Can’t be wearing bright yellow stuff when in a terrible slump. Just makes you look worse

How pissed would you be if you were the company that paid to advertise “Sox Walk”? Not getting their $’s worth at all

He’s hitting 95 pretty consistently so not sure loose is the problem tonight. I think it’s more that he has a high leg kick and bit of violent delivery that he needs to settle in a groove with. Find a consistent release point with his mechanics

Kopech doesn’t have his stuff in the 1st again. Only throwing the fastball right over the plate and nothing else

Not sure how standing 3 feet away from the bag was helpful, it wasn’t going to help him score at all if the ball did drop. He should have just been standing on the base, if that ball doesn’t get caught Engel scores regardless

Ultimately we (most likely) lost because of an 8 to 5 triple play. Can’t make that up…consistent inept team play should fall on the managers shoulders. All-star break is perfect time to make the change. And fire the hitting coach to the moon too

Even Tony getting thrown out is boring and uninspiring

He was probably out…but there was a hell of a lot less evidence there

Don’t want to see the 10th with who the Twins have coming up

Lol only this team…gotta be kidding me.

Good to see good AB’s and pitch recognition from Yoan. Hopefully finally seeing the ball well

Lol what are we doing here? You can both see and hear it. This home plate has been horrific all game edit- never mind, great call. Clearly never touched him

How does Luis not see that ball? 1-1 would be a lot nicer

Gotta be 1 of the weirder arm motions in the game. I’m sure that change is def hard to pick up off his hand…also no surprise he’s had arm troubles

Not watching…what happened?

Let’s be honest…if we didn’t have a team OPS of .683 and have a putrid 59 team HR’s there would be a lot less complaints about the defense. We could have a defense full of GG’s and would still be struggling to win games