Timmy U

First and third no one out for Brewers

If Vaughn cannot play left, Sox offense has some serious trouble. Leury got 600 PA’s in 2019 and was a big reason they finished below .500. I desperately want to believe that Engel can be an average offensive player, but there is scant evidence. Vaughn in left, Collins/Yermin platoon is the best solution offensively with late game defensive replacements.

Every pitcher in baseball is down innings this year, so every starter will be watched, occasionally skipped. That means an unprecedented number of bullpen innings across the majors. I think Crochet does get to 80 innings this year. Kopech too.

Whoever had Billy Hamilton and Jake Lamb on the opening day roster, collect your prize! One of them leaves for Engel, then I predict there’s a heavy rotation of the 26th man throughout the year. We need someone to step up and claim the ab’s. I hope it’s Collins.

Final. Rockies 2 Sox 1. Cease pitched great. Concern about the post-Eloy line up, but pitching seems strong. On to the regular season!

Sox minor league depth is sad(zek)

Cease done for the day 5.1 6 hits 0 bb's 11 k's

2 more K's for Cease. He's up to 11. Fell behind Joe and gave up a single on a pretty good pitch. 83 pitches, 56 strikes through 5. Not too many non-competitive pitches with the fastball or slider. Knuckle curve has not been great. Barely thrown the change. He's got a really good game plan working. Hopefully, whatever he found in the fifth inning of his last start sticks into the regular season.

Lamb with 2K's. It's possible he is not the answer.

2 singles, one apparently a roller up the middle, 2 more K's. Cease has 9 through 4 innings. Fastball and slider are both working.

Cease fell behind everyone, but strikes out the side with a single mixed in. Fastball command good aside from the first two pitches of the inning. 33 of 47 pitches for strikes so far.

Cease gets out of the second. 21 of 28 pitches for strikes thus far with 4 K's and a solo shot.

Cron with a HR on an 0-2 fastball. Cease still throwing strikes, though.

Cease strikes out the side in the first. Really throwing strikes with the fastball, which is a good sign

2 days ago he lined a foul ball off his shin and on the next pitch hit the ball 450 feet. Seems pretty tough to me.

Sox pitching looking real good in the last week of spring training. Silver lining to a rough week.

I think Rutherford is probably a bust, which is too bad. The pandemic did not help. Hard to say much about Sheets, Adolfo, Gonzalez, etc. when they didn’t play last year. I think there’s a solid chance one of them steps up by the middle of the year to help out. Maybe it’s Cespedes. What is clear is that the trades brought in way better talent than the high draft picks during the rebuild, except for Rutherford.

Just read a Yankees fan site that suggested we acquire Tauchman from them — for Codi Heuer and Benyamin Bailey. Vaughn is looking pretty good out there by comparison.

We can agree to disagree on the value of Billy Hamilton.

That looks accurate to me. But Fry is expected back May 1, so you can’t put him on the 60 day, and as soon as Engel is ready, you DFA Hamilton, right?

What a cheap Earnie for Carlos. Glad it’s just spring.

Ugh. Couple of cheap hits and now Will Carter is coming in. Carlos pitched well, though.

Nope. Lotta K’s

Carlos looking good, throwing strikes. Wish we had an option year.

Collins approach is just so good right now. Really looking to be dangerous to the opposite field, which the Rate always rewards. I would love to see what he could do in 400+ abs