1 hour ago, KrankinSox said:

A win today puts us at 7-7 during the Yankees, A's, Rays, Jays stretch. I'll take that.

Agreed, not  a bad heist considering we werent putting out our A lineup

33 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

We have 1 other person who can play IF, who isn't currently a starter.  It kind of amazes me to be honest.

Lamb can play third and first, Leury can play anywhere?

Toronto's Lineup is out, Springer remains on the IL.

Dickerson and Gurriel are out, Kevin Smith and Reese McGuire are the new players today.

1. Bo Bichette (R) SS

2. Marcus Semien (R) 2B

3. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (R) 1B

4. Teoscar Hernandez (R) RF

5. Alejandro Kirk (R) DH

6. Santiago Espinal (R) 3B

7. Randal Grichuk (R) CF

8. Kevin Smith (R) LF

9. Reese McGuire (L) C

Clearly they are going to limit starter innings moving forward, so they're keeping Wright. I think they'll flip that for the playoff roster. 12 pitchers max is my guess. I hate watching them back into the playoffs, personally. Even if it's not predictive for playoff success, watching the last two and a half months has been a drag. I have TA's dead legs and I'm not even playing.

AV is 1B by trade and most probably serviceable at 3B in an emergency   I won't mention his one start at 2B.

 

Sox lineup released. Tim remains in the lineup, Yoan gets the day off, Zavala returns behind the plate.

1. Tim Anderson (R) SS

2. Luis Robert (R) CF

3. Jose Abreu (R) DH

4. Eloy Jimenez (R) LF

5. Andrew Vaughn (R) 1B

6. Cesar Hernandez (S) 2B

7. Brian Goodwin (L) RF

8. Leury Garcia (S) 3B

9. Seby Zavala (R) C

I think Yoan kind of needs a day off, tbh. He had that nice stretch of 10 games but if anyone could use some extra rest to get right over the next month, seems like its him.

It’s amazing how many at bats Goodwin and his .281 OPS against LHP has got against southpaws lately 

1 minute ago, fathom said:

It’s amazing how many at bats Goodwin and his .281 OPS against LHP has got against southpaws lately 

Yes, but he's DUE!

If they can pull this one off it'll be .500 ball against Yankees, A's, Rays and Jays the last four series.  Some ugly losses in there but if you had told me at the beginning of this stretch they would go .500 I would have taken it.

4 minutes ago, fathom said:

It’s amazing how many at bats Goodwin and his .281 OPS against LHP has got against southpaws lately 

Pretty much because Moncada is out but would have been nice to have Mendick at 3B against a lefty.

We really need Engel to be healthy. When he’s out, we don’t have a reliable RF to take over his spot and it kind of messes with the lineup. We should’ve went after one at the deadline but now we definitely have to go after one in the offseason.

Edited August 26, 20214 yr by maloney.adam

Just now, maloney.adam said:

We really need Engel to be healthy. When he’s out, we really don’t have a reliable RF to take over his spot and it kind of messes with the lineup. We should’ve went after a RF at the deadline. Now we definitely have to go after one in the offseason.

If Engel returns healthy in 2022, and Vaughn is also capable of playing there, why would we need a RF in offseason?

1 hour ago, southsider2k5 said:

Kind of surprised to see him go, but I guess this protects roster options for the playoffs.

We are in fact dickless!

6 minutes ago, Greg Hibbard said:

If Engel returns healthy in 2022, and Vaughn is also capable of playing there, why would we need a RF in offseason?

Engel is not an everyday RF. If you really believe that, I don’t know what to say. Vaughn can play RF but I would rather he stick at DH/1B.

Edited August 26, 20214 yr by maloney.adam

8 minutes ago, manbearpuig said:

Pretty much because Moncada is out but would have been nice to have Mendick at 3B against a lefty.

Mendick was optioned

Just now, soxfan49 said:

Mendick was optioned

Exactly why I said "would have been nice to have" haha

Just now, maloney.adam said:

Engel is not an everyday RF. If you really believe that, I don’t know what to say.

Eh, I disagree. I do believe he can play 100 games there and be just fine - IF he's healthy. Vaughn can split time in RF/LF/1B, Jose can play one more season at 1st primarily while sharing the DH load with Eloy and 1st with Vaughn, while Eloy plays the other half of LF. We will have another Goodwin like OF somewhere anyway. Engel is a much better offensive weapon since his age 27 season and he's always been a great defender, so I would like to see him have more of a workload if he's healthy.

I got fucking cheated

Cool, back to 9 bullpen arms, and 3 man bench! Logical.

7 minutes ago, Greg Hibbard said:

Eh, I disagree. I do believe he can play 100 games there and be just fine - IF he's healthy. Vaughn can split time in RF/LF/1B, Jose can play one more season at 1st primarily while sharing the DH load with Eloy and 1st with Vaughn, while Eloy plays the other half of LF. We will have another Goodwin like OF somewhere anyway. Engel is a much better offensive weapon since his age 27 season and he's always been a great defender, so I would like to see him have more of a workload if he's healthy.

If Engel can stay healthy and that’s a big if. I would rather they go out and get a legit RF in the offseason and end the experiments in RF. 

Just now, maloney.adam said:

If Engel can stay healthy and that’s a big if. I would rather they go out and get a legit RF in the offseason and end the experiments in RF. 

I can understand that, but who? Who is the option?

If Engel truly can get healthy, do you agree his offensive numbers alone (21 doubles, 3 triples, 16 homers over his last 462 PAs) deserve starter time?

He has 1.3 bWAR in like 100 ABs this season...

This has sure been a strange month offensively, of the 5 months (March and April are combined), here is where August ranks for the Sox in various categories:

AVG 2nd

OBP 5th

SLG 2nd

HR 2nd (may end up 1st)

XBH 5th

Runs/G 5th

K 3rd (will end up 2nd)

BB 5th

 

7 minutes ago, ron883 said:

I got fucking cheated

No you didn’t.