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Those OPS's are HEAVILY bloated with BB's. He walked a lot, great, ho hum. But at the same time, he hit .244, .224. & .234 with pretty ugly K-rates. His Slg wasn't bad over that time but he struggled mightily to make contact. Yermin's slightly better total OPS is based on hits. An OPS matters how it was constructed. My statement of "struggled mightily" is out of context when you mentioned his lofty college numbers. his 1st 3 minors season dropped mightily from college stats.

Not pitching Yermin or hating Collins here. Just saying that placing their MiLB career stats side by side, defensively they average out fairly evenly, some better for Yermin and some better for Collins. Offensively, Yermin has been consistently better by a wide margin. College stats mean very little after draft day. Collins is a perfect example as he struggled mightily for 3 years in the minors before his one and only very good 2019. Then fell back again with the Sox. How is that a "better track record"? If you're going use the term "better track record" at least use their minors stats before college stats. Minors much more relevant and recent. You like to "cherry pick" stats to back your view even when they are much more irrelevant than stats that go against you view.

Dude, yes he's 2 years older and a righty. The rest of your statement is just made up.

Sox media outlets ( &MLB) has totally miscalculated Sox fan interest. MVP 100 has some NY schmuck on at 3pm. More listeners for him than Sox? Really? NBC Chi has alpine skiing profile and IL St vs N IA football. Huh? No wonder Sox fans drink the most! ...with all due respect to IL St & N IA fans!

Don't think that's entirely true. ST can make the difference in specific positional competition such as BUC & #4 & #5 SP this year; including Lopez. Same for AV at DH. If he's incredibly good or horribly bad could easily decide his immediate future. If he's somewhere in the middle, who knows.

Nice to see Vaughn in the lineup again. Giving him lots of AB's is a good sign of him earning his way onto the 26 man roster. 1B, too.

Don't understand the expectations on this board that Crochet will ever be a starter. His college stats at Tenn are completely contrary to this. In his 2 years, he had 35 appearances with only 12 starts. In those, he only pitched >6.2 once; going 8. About half were < 6. He also got hit pretty hard in many starts. How does that convert to 160-200 MLB innings any time soon, if at all?

At least me & Tony got our naps in.

whew that was ugly!

oh yeah

Has any Sox hit the ball hard yet? Can't think of one.

if his baseball career falls through, the Bulls need a SF.

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This games sucks! Sox just sleepwalking through it.

Game day post soon? Fun one; Stiever + 1-7 lineup awesome!

Happy Birthday, Nick Madrigal! ?

I added a little more to my post after you quoted. I just don't like shutting him down in August and having to fill #5 down the stretch, especially with what might be going on with the staff at that time with uncharted dead arm waters. Pitching coaches are going to have their hands full managing their staffs this year. I wouldn't be surprised if a new MLB record is set with fewest 200 inning starters. Even 180 is probably going to be a challenge. Stone touched on this during the 1st game about larger rotations this year because of last year's reduced innings. If the FO was smart, they'd go after another SP ASAP. I have a feeling they're going to be in high demand at the trade deadline and much more expensive this year.

I'm one of the few who really likes the Sox plan with him, if I'm interpreting it correctly. If he progresses thru the 1st half or so without issue, his RP appearances can get a little longer each time. Then he's going to get all the starts he can handle in the 2nd half even if he's not plugged into the the 5 man rotation. Within his limited innings & shutdown schedule, there should be enough makeup DH's and SP skips to fulfill those remaining innings. If they decide he's ready or needed for the 5 man rotation, he needs to have enough allowable innings remaining to finish the season or it could be a rotation disruption at the worst time. Call it what you will, perhaps a 5.5 man rotation, I think is great for him, best for the staff, and a very valuable contribution. Let me add, that with last year's limited innings, the dog day, dead arm period will be a bit of an unknown, Having Kopech around as viable substitute could be really important.

I couldn't agree more about Rodon & Lopez but Cease still has a very high ceiling. He hasn't even totaled a full season in appearances. He's got filthy stuff & Katz stated he's working with improving Cease's delivery in order to gain more control by utilizing his lower body. One 2020 stat that stands out to me is that 10 of his 34 BB have come after 1-2 counts. He needs to learn to trust his stuff and just put batters away. Once he gets over that hurdle, the sky's the limit. What a fantastic delivery he has ( video from recent post last week); so smooth and powerful!

Okay but you missed your target.

Are you going to listen to it?

SF: MLB.com ? Does this mean that its the Giant announcers even though the Giant radio network isn't broadcasting it? Also, "MLB.com" only appears on SF schedule, not Sox.

One step closer to complete lineup.

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For what its worth, Colome got blasted pretty hard yesterday; 1inn, 5 hits (3 2b), 4 er, 1 hr, 1k. ...and possibly a LO DP but can't say if that happened in his inning. (2B to SS DP)