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USA just totally outclassed Mexico tonight. Sad that Berhalter is coming back but maybe even he doesn’t suck enough to ruin this group (I’m hoping anyways). Mexico was absolute trash tonight with as dirty of play as you’ll ever see. And is there a more awful group of fans than Mexico soccer fans? They need to start docking Mexico points in tournaments, banning Mexico fans from games and fining the Mexico soccer federation significantly if they can’t stop the chants and ridiculous behavior.

I’m shocked that Elvis Andrus has been terrible and should have never been brought back. Well not that shocked

Reports that Berhalter is set to return. Absolutely absurd.

Wait so Graterol was available and you are going to use him anyways and Roberts went second inning Almonte and then Vesia? Roberts does so many unbelievably dumb things.

Why on earth would Dave Roberts leave a horrendous pitcher in for a second inning

Yep. Solid in 2020 and really good in 2021 but this is the danger of signing free agents in their 30s

That was terrible by everyone on the team. Frazier should have hit the cutoff man there, Yaz can’t let it get past him and Santos didn’t back up the play.

Sanchez seems like he has zero baseball instincts.

This Tigers lineup is full of laughably bad players. A bunch of below replacement level players. Without Greene there is zero talent.

Torkelson is a really awful baseball player.

Did the Tigers really pinch hit with Tyler Nevin? How laughably terrible is your roster if you have someone that you think is a worse option at the plate than Tyler Nevin.

Clevinger getting by on pure luck the last two innings (that and Tigers employing Jake Marisnick for some reason). Tigers starting to tee off on him.

Incredibly predictable that Tyler Anderson would revert to being a below average pitcher after leaving the Dodgers, especially to go to the Angels where pitchers that aren’t absolute studs seem to go to die.

Not facing the Guardians and Royals lineups tonight

They really haven’t. Bad defense and luck

And they wouldn’t have scored at all if not for an error.

Giolito would have been knocked out of this game already by a real offense

Really the only explanation. That was softly hit so there was plenty of time for him to react.

Giolito looks awful today. Only facing the tigers with the worst player in baseball (Cabrera) saving him so far.

Cal Quantrill is terrible. I’m surprised the Guardians haven’t called Gavin Williams up when they are pitching bums like Quantrill and Battenfield. Zone has been much tighter for Quantrill than Kopech so far though

So many absolutely horrendous at bats by both teams. This division is absolute garbage. You couldn’t put together an elite lineup if you combined all 5 teams together.

If Francona was paying attention and makes a pitching change after the Ramirez error I’m really not sure the Sox score a 3rd

Cleveland including Francona completely giving this game away.

If every top prospect he acquired hit at a 100% rate they'd be winning at a 95+ win rate isn't exactly a winning sales pitch. Players get injured and prospects bust. That is why you need depth. And realistically: 1. Kopech has at no point shown himself to be a good major league starter and has had tons of injury problems. Counting on him at this point makes no sense. 2. Andrew Vaughn was a high draft pick and solid prospect but not a special one. There are lots of guys like that and they don't always turn out. 3. Moncada has had one great season 4 years ago. It's silly to think that is who he is. 4. Grandal is a 34 year old catcher. He is going to be in the decline phase of his career. 5. Giolito has been fine. 6. Eloy was a bat only prospect who had had injury issues every year for 4 years now. Good organizations build depth and versatility. Hahn has done nothing other than the super easy part of trading three premium assets for good prospect packages. Aside from those moves his talent acquisition of anyone with real big upside consisted of signing Luis Robert to a really large deal in international free agency. His drafting has been s%*#. His major league scouting s%*#. Free agent signing laughable. And he had two just absolutely disastrous trades right before the Sox decided to rebuild when he decided to acquire s%*# pitchers for a team that wasn't winning anything and gave up premium talents in Semien and Tatis (although I fully acknowledge this trash organization wouldn't have turned Semien into anything).

Yep, I’ve seen nothing from Scholtens that suggests he can get legit hitters out even semi regularly and Gaddis has shown nothing in his career or tonight and Sox haven’t even really threatened.