August 1, 20223 yr The Sox are two back Lucas and Lynn should see their numbers improve as they are pitching way below their expected FIP. Mike Matheny and the Kansas City Royals are in town. Tony and Jerry are one day closer to enjoying a long and relaxing retirement.
August 1, 20223 yr Author Sox have the 3rd easiest remaining schedule in all of baseball as of the start of August: https://www.tankathon.com/mlb/remaining_schedule_strength
August 1, 20223 yr They win 60-70% of their remaining division games...they win the division. It's that simple.
August 1, 20223 yr They’ve played about as badly as can be imagined, and they’re only 2 games back in the division and 2.5 out of the wild card. TLR was napping for the first 100 games. “It’s go time.”
August 1, 20223 yr 17 minutes ago, Texsox said: First place by Sunday evening. I think they stay 2 games out until the last series of the year...Sweep the Twins and win the division.
August 1, 20223 yr Following up a bad first half with a really good second half and making a deep playoff run is…not really all that weird. Sure, nothing about their play for the first half has indicated that they will go on a run…but that’s true of every underachieving first half team. I predicted a shitty first half and big second and I’m sticking to it.
August 1, 20223 yr Fangraphs projects the Sox to win 84 games and has them as the favorites to win the ALC. Given the upcoming schedules for the contenders in the Central, I expect the Sox will be in 1st place 2 weeks from now, if not sooner.
August 1, 20223 yr Keep Eloy, Robert, and Juan on the field...the results will take care of themselves.
August 1, 20223 yr 10 minutes ago, poppysox said: Keep Eloy, Robert, and Juan on the field...the results will take care of themselves. Who the F is Juan?
August 1, 20223 yr Author 20 minutes ago, KrankinSox said: Who the F is Juan? I was thinking Soto, in keeping with the thread theme.
August 1, 20223 yr 37 minutes ago, KrankinSox said: Who the F is Juan? Juan Pierre. Travelling back in time.
August 1, 20223 yr It's amazing that the basically the entire team could regress for almost 2/3rds of the season and they're 2 games out of the division. Minnesota could have ran away and hid by now but they didn't. Sox need to make them pay.
August 1, 20223 yr 2nd half rebounds from Eloy, Moncada, Pollock ,and Grandal. Add a few LH pieces on the pitching staff and in the lineup among others, Santander, Wendle, Happ, Gallo, Colas, Matt Moore, Quintana, Martin Perez, Andrew Chafin, Joe Mantiply, Gregory Soto, Steven Okert. Lynn gets better the more he pitches.
August 1, 20223 yr 37 minutes ago, almagest said: It's amazing that the basically the entire team could regress for almost 2/3rds of the season and they're 2 games out of the division. Minnesota could have ran away and hid by now but they didn't. Sox need to make them pay. The AL Central being absolute trash is our saving grace. All we have to do is get healthy for a minute. We get healthy and hot in October we can win.
August 1, 20223 yr 13 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said: The AL Central being absolute trash is our saving grace. All we have to do is get healthy for a minute. We get healthy and hot in October we can win. They're probably gonna get smashed in the first round if they do but I'll take a chance with Cease starting twice in a short series.
August 1, 20223 yr It’d be great to have one of those 6-8 week stretches where everything TA hits finds the OF grass.
August 1, 20223 yr 29 minutes ago, almagest said: They're probably gonna get smashed in the first round if they do but I'll take a chance with Cease starting twice in a short series. Cease in the 2022 playoffs is such a different proposition than he was the prior two years. From throwing 2/3rds of an inning to hopefully throwing 7 solid shutout.
August 1, 20223 yr 26 minutes ago, ChiSox59 said: It’d be great to have one of those 6-8 week stretches where everything TA hits finds the OF grass. I would love a six to eight week stretch where almost all of our players hit the grass on a daily basis.
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