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Why is Tyler Alexander in any game ever?

All hail Venable!

Understand the move. Wouldn’t do it myself.

To be fair, Alexander has a 4.19 ERA with the Sox. But also, he’s 2-9.

Venable has let him lose a ton of games for the Sox this year. Really bad coming off an off day. But the lefties are all interchangeably bad down there.

I'll be surprised if they do. If they pick up Robert's option, I don't think there will be a lot of money to spend. Also, Williams? That's pretty risky. I also believe they will not sign anyone with a QO attached. They can't afford to surrender the draft capital. But they have surprised me before.

I mean, Wikelman looked awesome yesterday and if Berroa comes back strong, you're looking at a pretty good 'pen. Would be nice to not spend spring training watching everyone else's castoffs like Penn Murfee try to make the team.

Sox 7 LOB. Tigers 1. Helps when you don’t throw the ball in the dugout.

Clutch from Beni. Glad they didn’t let Morton off the hook. 33 pitches through one. A couple more decent innings and they will get him out early.

They also get a lot more draft picks than the Sox thanks to those stupid competitive balance picks that help out small markets like Detroit and the St. Louis Cardinals. Also, both Cleveland and Minnesota have had insane luck in the stupid draft lottery when they haven’t been tanking. Cleveland has had one moderately down year in the last 5 and they got the first overall pick. Thankfully, it looks like they got a good player not a great player, but still…

Braden was position player of the month for August. He has been down this week though. Quite a few strikeouts.

Tigers have gotten a lot of breaks in this game. Only thing keeping it close.

Meadows is Babe Ruth against us. Naturally Sox are the first team he plays against.

Bench is Sosa, Baldwin, Lee, Taylor, possibly Tauchman. Smart of Venable to give those guys some rest in the middle of 17 straight, but may be a low scoring game tonight.

I imagine they will come in at 38 or 39. My list has 8 questionable players identified. I’m sure other posters might suggest 3 or 4 other names. I don’t think they are going to be too squeezed.

This is my first pass at an offseason 40 man. Question marks are guys that are on the bubble/cuttable as they add free agents or prepare for the Rule 5 draft. Mason Adams, rhp Dan Altavilla, rhp% (arb 3) ? Prelander Berroa, rhp * Cam Booser, lhp % (AAA) ? Sean Burke, rhp *Ky Bush, lhp Jonathan Cannon, rhp Juan Carela, rhp *Brandon Eisert, lhp% *Fraser Ellard, lhp% Jairo Iriarte, rhp (AAA)%? Yoendrys Gomez, rhp Wikelman Gonzalez, rhp% *Bryan Hudson, lhp ? Jordan Leasure, rhp % Davis Martin, rhp Tanner McDougal, rhp *Shane Murphy, lhp Peyton Pallette, rhp Shane Smith, rhp Grant Taylor, rhp% Drew Thorpe, rhp Mike Vasil, rhp Owen White, rhp ? Steven Wilson, rhp Korey Lee, c #Edgar Quero, c Kyle Teel, c #Brooks Baldwin,ss/2b/3b/of Tim Elko, 1b ? Curtis Mead, 1b/3b/2b Chase Meidroth, inf *Colson Montgomery, ss Bryan Ramos, 3b Lenyn Sosa, 2b/ss/3b/1b Miguel Vargas, 1b/3b/dh *Andrew Benintendi, of Luis Robert, of *Will Robertson, of ? * Mike Tauchman, of (arb 3) ? Rule 5 Eligible but leaving off *Samuel Zavala, of Duncan Davitt, rhp Ben Peoples, rhp% Eric Adler, rhp% Adisyn Coffey, rhp% *Tyler Schweitzer, lhp Wilfred Veras, of DJ Gladney, of Connor McCullough, rhp

Taylor has to have the worst batted ball luck in Sox history.

So, 10. Rockies 11. Nationals 12. Angels 13. Cardinals?

Woo! Twins suck worse than us!

In retrospect, Venable should have done what I assumed he was going to do and that's leave Taylor in after throwing 12 pitches.

Well, this has not started well. Gonna need some good fortune to get out of this one.

Wow. Proves what I know. Go Sox!

This is mystifying. He's literally the worst hitter on the team and he has been ice cold lately.

Button not going anywhere. He has a full no trade and stated repeatedly he won’t waive it.

Good comeback win. Alexander zooms to 5-13.