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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.

The Royals are such an atrocious team

Massey swinging early in that at bat made zero sense with Crochet struggling so badly to find the zone.

Lol at Stone and Jason indicating Rocchio might run. Unless they give him the bag there is zero chance I run with Gallagher up because you would never want that joke of a hitter leading off an inning. I wonder when Cleveland calls up Bo Naylor because Gallagher and Zunino are comically terrible.

Luckily this Guardians team without Ramirez and Naylor would struggle against every single starter in baseball as long as you don’t gift them walks (and this group isn’t even really working counts).

Eric Spoelstra has become the best coach in the NBA

Sox playing well the last two days but holy hell this guy is atrocious. Stuff is garbage and mediocre at best command. And someday soon teams will figure out you don’t need to throw Burger any strikes right now because he isn’t taking anything.

Cleveland is just flat out bad without McKenzie and Ramirez. This pitcher today is absolute trash. Couldn’t even miss bats in the minors.

He’s not an elite pitcher anymore either. Stuff has badly deteriorated from a few years back.

Yep, a good organization takes a crack at using this year to build up his arm in the minors and see if he ever has a shot at starting, especially when the Sox will desperately need starting pitching next year.

And that they have a terrible starting rotation and bad lineup

Lol, Andrew Vaughn is so unathletic

Astros playing dreadful defense so far today