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I was at the game as well. Lots of Yankee fans. Nice to see them shut up.

Changing managers is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Need a new FO.

I think the problem starts at the top with JR, KW, and RH but also reaches deep into the Sox development philosophy. I watch a fair number of MiLB games. Recently, the Sox A ball teams were playing the Rays A ball teams, and the difference was stark. The Rays play to win the game, that means situational baseball, bunting when necessary, pitching changes to get match ups etc. Curt Bloom says the Sox have a philosophy to never bunt in the minors. They leave pitchers in to face bad situations to get their work in, no one hits situationally. Everybody is taking their personal ab to get numbers to get to the next level. At best, the Sox approach every game like Spring Training. At worst, it looks like a try out camp. So, is it any wonder that when they get to the majors, the guys are all selfish, caring only about their own numbers, their own at bats? They have got to bulldoze the hole thing from the bottom up.

Middleton implied that the lack of rules predated Grifol. Hence, fire everyone.

Harris 2-2, Gonzalez 0-2. I understand it’s small sample size, but he hasn’t shown much yet. I was skeptical of this pick to begin with. Let’s say I am getting concerned.

Carela might be an interesting sleeper. Strike thrower with a decent breaking ball. Sox always overestimate hard throwing guys and undervalue strike throwers with only decent stuff (see Dunning, Dane). At the very least getting depth for Middleton before FA is not a bad thing.

Yes, 1 down 25 to go building this roster.

It will be interesting to see what Keuchel has left. His game always had an extremely narrow margin of error, so figuring one thing out might have a huge impact or he may still be a gas can. As a human, I hope things go well for him.

I hate this team.

Man, I wonder how many analysts you could pay with all the dead money they have from bad mid-tier FA signings like Keuchel, Grandal, Leury etc. Pennywise, pound foolish.

Is this a joke or did he really say that?

We need a weeping because it’s true emoji.

I might have sent Patino to A ball of ACL. Clearly, there’s something wrong. Hard to build something new with confidence in the launching pad.

Grifol hired the hitting coaches. They are his buddies. Probably shows the limits of hitting coaches' influence on improving swing decisions.

Let's go for 8.

Enjoyable-ish game. Barons only affiliate to win. Just like at W-S last year Colson on another level from everyone else in the Sox system. So baseball savvy. One of my favorite small plays for him was when he took third on a ball that barely got away from the catcher and the trail runner did not follow. He just read the bounce. Quero hit three balls hard tonight which was nice. Again, I actually thought Nastrini looked pretty good tonight. Defense and bullpen did not help him.

Make that 2-4, 2K

Wolkow 2-3, 2b, 1b, K

Quero just missed a grand slam. Sac fly.

Watching the Barons pitchers like Dollander who have been there all year, you get a real understanding why they have the worst ERA in the league.

Nastrini is done. They took him out with 2 outs and the horrific Barons bullpen let all the inherited runs scored. 4.2 ip 7r 5er.

Sebastien Walcott homered against ACL Sox, that's 7 already. He's gonna be a mega prospect.

Wolkow double, 1st professional hit.

Colson rbi double.

Didn't see the first 2 innings, but I've liked what I've seen from Nastrini. Change up better than I imagined. Good slider. I imagine the challenge is fastball command.