hankchifan

I see Kimbrel as a nice to have, a luxury,but not essential with Tepera, Kopech and Hendriks on board. Certainly not give up Madrigal. Would have rather spent the money on a slugging outfielder. We need more home runs on our homer friendly park. We are 25th in the majors in homers.

Agree. Tepera shoud now be our 7 th inning guy.

Our defense has not been good either. Now we also get Tepera who is an upgrade in relief over Ruiz, Burr...

Only in Soxtalk alternate reality.

Hey, Eaton is not in the team anymore.

Good. We need more guys hitting more balls in the air. More big flys and less hitting into the dreaded double plays.

Are Leury and Mendick hitting 18 homers? Have Leury and Mendick ever won a Gold Glove?

Can’t be worse that Leury or Mendick with that GG.

I don’t think anyone is surrendering with the way the Sox have been playing lately.

Minor upgrade to whom? Think is a major upgrade. He did win the GG.

Does Hernández take walks? Important for lead off and lacking with TA.

Looks like a good deal. Gold Glove winner, switch hitter with 18 homers this season so far. A big upgrade over Leury and Mendick. Gave up a AA pitcher.

Hit into two more double plays today. Need to hit and run more. Put the defense in more motion. Get our hitters to focus better. We are not hitting homers so we need to play more small ball whether we like it or not.

Rodon start should not have been wasted with this AAA lineup and the brutal heat. Should have been a bullpen or AAA pitcher game. KC lineup was substantially better than our line up today.

You are right. We miss him getting the ball in play, minimum strikeouts and .300 hitting..

KC has some good position players like Merriwether, Benintendi, Soler and Salvador Perez who can put the hurt on you. Their main weakness is starting pitching, but we can’t even hit their high ERA starters.

Hendriks did not use his slider and his flat fast ball against the middle of KC lineup was not effective tonight.

His fastball is better than Hendrik’s with more movement.

Yoan however did not come through tonight in the 10th when he had a man in scoring position and struck out.

That was on Moncada. Maybe should have tried bunting, but we had Hamilton protecting Moncada instead of Vaughn.

And another forgotten blunder was to challenge home run hitter Salvador Perez with a fast ball in the 9 th. Where was Hendriks slider?

Our outfield defense has been horrible and is costing us games.

TA has forgotten that as a lead off hitter he has to work some counts. Should try to go the other way as well. Every time he pulls the ball he hits a ground to 3rd. He has not been setting the table for anyone.

And Vaughn gets taken out in the 9 th in a one run game with possibility of extras.

He had to make contact with man on 2 nd in the 10 th with no outs and not swing on sliders not in the zone. Not a quality effort. Had no protection either as Vaughnwas stupidly taken out in the 9 th.