1 minute ago, South Side Hit Men said:

Deadline or offseason, I'm good either way.

Best chance IMO is to keep him healthy at DH for 4 weeks plus the ASB, hope he can hit 6+ HRs despite his aversion to DH, and they can flip him before he goes down again.

He's a -28 Defensive Runs saved in RF this season.

 

I sincerely doubt they will do the hard reset that I would, but I would try to move every dollar possible at the deadline. I wouldn’t worry about the return, if I can get someone to take on his contract, I will count that as a win. Removes the risk of him struggling or getting injured over the last couple years.

The Ranger fan behind me complaining the whole game about how much the Rangers suck is pissing me off

Worse call than Rangers' game last night just happened to Twins. 

Didn't matter.   Twins walk off. 

Edited June 22, 20232 yr by caulfield12

ChatGPT, what does a team look like when they've given up?

[ this game appears on screen ]

Honestly that game in person felt like 17-3

Another quality loss.  Keep losing series, Boys!

Just now, Harold's Leg Lift said:

Another quality loss.  Keep losing series, Boys!

Brilliant job getting outmanaged so Sheets had to face a LHP

Consecutive series losses to Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Texas.

Watching this game at home was a waste of electricity, not to mention the fee paid for the baseball package.

11 minutes ago, wegner said:

At least Touki saved the pen today

Don't worry Katz will "fix" him.

5 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

I sincerely doubt they will do the hard reset that I would, but I would try to move every dollar possible at the deadline. I wouldn’t worry about the return, if I can get someone to take on his contract, I will count that as a win. Removes the risk of him struggling or getting injured over the last couple years.

I agree, but I'm holding out hope he gets hot and someone offers something not even Hahn will turn down.

Those rumors of Eloy and Yermin for Pedro Lopez haunt me to this day.

18,962 plus one disappointed Wagner in attendance tonight.

16 minutes ago, wegner said:

I've got a side angle with these seats but 8 thought there were some bad calls...mostly going against the Sox

Didn't expect the umps to do us any favors, but the zone was pretty actively hostile. Rangers pitchers got basically everything on the black and then some, Sox couldn't even get the edges called consistently.

For example, the aforementioned missed call on Heim:

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Meanwhile, Seby was called out on a far worse pitch:

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26 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

You should probably stop now.

Which cities of Pitt Balt Cincy Detroit Milwaukee Cleveland (basically the Rust Belt) are doing demonstrably better than the 70s 80s 90s???

Washington has unique advantages due to Northern VA suburbs, corporate/government connections. 

9 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

Consecutive series losses to Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Texas.

Couldn’t ever have predicted that….this team is just bad

19 minutes ago, fathom said:

Brilliant job getting outmanaged so Sheets had to face a LHP

He got played there as usual 

Meanwhile Anderson STILL hasn't played and they STILL haven't put him on the IL! ?????

5 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Meanwhile Anderson STILL hasn't played and they STILL haven't put him on the IL! ?????

Technically he pinch hit yesterday so they’d have to do any IL stint starting then.

Benintendi has a craptacular game tonight.

56 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Didn't expect the umps to do us any favors, but the zone was pretty actively hostile. Rangers pitchers got basically everything on the black and then some, Sox couldn't even get the edges called consistently.

For example, the aforementioned missed call on Heim:

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Meanwhile, Seby was called out on a far worse pitch:

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I thought Seby was going to get tossed....who's the emergency catcher?

I thought they may have pulled Kopech for decreased velocity / potential injury concerns, but he was pulled to give him an extra inning of rest. WTF?

Why not put in Touki at that point to get multiple innings? Sox would have been in the game, perhaps one it, if they didn't punt with Lambert who now has a 6.85 ERA, and hasn't looked good beyond mop up / low leverage situations.

This was a chance to win the series against a solid team, and they threw in the towel. 

A new GM needs to bring in a new manager ASAP. Both are severely out of their element.

 

 

The bigger picture is to let this guy try to get through the fifth if he's healthy, build up experience for future games when he needs to suck it up and pitch through adversity.

Edited June 22, 20232 yr by South Side Hit Men

Man, four hits won't cut it. So inept.

Let's face it, we have a great highlight film ready to be made of Vaughn homers, Robert, Eloy, BurgerKing,, but they hit them so infrequently. ... Let's face it. They all once in a long while tee off on the baseball. But their consistency is nada. If those four get consistent someday, look out. Not sure if they are valuable prospects or not, but again Vaughn's homer tonight was majestic. Other than that, crud.

What's with the starting pitcher going 4? Was he dogbleep? Pitch count was still under 90. Our starters by the way throw way too many pitches. Another trouble spot. We do stink. Unloveable bad team.

1 hour ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:

Another quality loss.  Keep losing series, Boys!

You rooting for high draft pick? That's an exercise in futility often, specially with Sox scouts. They'll take a stud pitcher who'll get hurt like they all do. Or a Burger-esque hitter. love me some Burger but his average is down to .230 and his penchant for swinging too much annoys.