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2 bb and a wind-blown triple. 5-5 now. Jackson Chourio is the real deal, btw.

Quero 3rd ab, took a lot of pitches, 3-2 routine grounder to 1st.

Barons defense has been brutal, 2 errors in the inning, that said a lot of hard contact off Thompson. Fastball needs a tick more for his stuff to play imho.

Error, sb. Good throw from Quero, though.

Baltimore calling tomorrow to see if he's available.

Misiorowski done. 67 pitches, 63 of them did not hit someone. 4HBP, 3bb 2K. Barons lead 4-0.

Quero second ab a weak grounder to ss.

Pallette done. 4IP 3H 1R 1ER 0bb 5K. Solo shot.

Lot of weak contact against Thompson, but his fastball seems light. I wonder what he could be with an org that's better at developing velo. Sox get pitchers and they all seem to lose mph without gaining more command/control.

Quero occasionally a 1 knee catcher.

Thompson 1, 2, 3. 91-92 with the fastball. Curve is lethal. Threw 1 pretty good change.

Broadcast says Peyton Pallette has a nickname: PayPal. Pretty good, I think.

Colson HR.

Quero HBP. Thigh, not hurt. Misiorowski has no idea where it's going. 2-0 Barons, no one out, bases loaded.

Quero in the line up against Misiorowski, a guy with the best stuff in MiLB. Good test for his first game.

Peyton Pallette looks pretty good so far. Velo seems to be up a bit. He did give up a hard hit double after a bloop, but Kanny threw the runner out at the plate. 3K in 2IP so far.

Colson double, Veras single (picked off), Elko walk, DJ single 3-2 W-S.

Michael Turner (a personal fav) HR. W-S up 2-1.

DJ Gladney HR. W-S tied 1-1.

Cronin might pitch tonight. Sox down to a 10 man staff. Playing 3 guys short right now, 4 if you count Vaughn being hurt.

Are you referring to Matt Thompson? Cuz you may want to look at the progress he has made in AA this year. Guy is not a bust. May or may not be a starter eventually, but he is not irrelevant in a pitching-starved org.

Good stuff, doesn't know where it's going. Perfect righty compliment for Bummer. I actually love using the last two months to try and find cheap controllable bullpen arms. Sure beats signing them as free agents. Is Santos the closer now?

Happy to see those guys get the AAA call up. I think that Hackenberg is a possible MLB player. The arm definitely plays. If he hits at all, he could make a nice career for himself, if only as a back up. Carlos Perez's days in the org seem numbered.

Interesting. His MLB.com write up sounds non-too-promising and his numbers indicate that he has little to no offensive approach. But you always need catchers.

One more point about Nastrini and Bush vs. Burke: Notice how both those guys were in AA and the Sox pushed Burke to a launching pad in AAA without a full or dominating AA season? I am not hating on Burke. It's possible that a saner org would have developed him properly.