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Probably goes 5 innings or 75 pitches max .That's my guess for tonight. I don't care how desperate they are for a win ,Crochet should go 5 or less .

I do have sympathy for him.How much money he makes is of no consequence. Can't be bitter about everything Sox related. Just throw my hands and say nothing I can do about it. No doubt he wanted the job but hard to judge the competence of anyone without keeping in mind his many restrictions. He been mostly dealing with fringe players so far and GMs who knows JR is just cutting expenses to make the team sellable for his heirs. He's going to have to sift through a lot of bad offers and I expect he'll be getting some pretty weak offers filled with pitchers and 1st base DH types right up until the last day or 2.

It's not a great time to get position player prospects .Everyone is prospect hugging and overvaluing them . Not only that but other GMs know Getz is operating under an owner crying poor and still wanting payroll slashed more. He's not in a very enviable position.

Fedde should bring 2 real legit prospects .One for each year and at least one other piece. He's not flashy but right now I'd consider him to be top 25 starting pitcher in baseball. Doesn't he have just as much if not more bWAR as Crochet? I legit think Crochet and Robert are overvalue by our desperate fans for high quality position player prospects but are under valuing Fedde. It's very much about about how you are performing right now and Fedde is near the top of that list.

Resting him because of expected soreness according to Grifol . Not considered a setback . They wanted to push him and they did and it didn't work. Guessing he won't be back on the Sox till after the TDL.

Why watching Game Day.Game was televised on MLB .TV app free .

Check Bruce's X ?

Personal opinion is Francona is done.

People have been predicting he'd be fired since last season. They'll make trades with Grifols input then fire him. It's the RH /KW trick.

If JR is calling the shots yes. Getz can always pretend teams wouldn't bite. But if he's fired you never know if he pissed JR off . You want Crochet then eat Beni's remaining salary and give us a DSL SS .

Because guys with better stuff cost more. Basically every acquisition was a project including Fedde. If anyone else truly thought Fedde would be any good he wouldn't have signed with the Sox.

The only train wreck that keeps rolling is the Sox.

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Quickdraw McGraw reference ?

Lopez with 3 walks probably had shot at 4 if he didn't decide to be a hitter in his 3rd AB and swing at crap below his ankles.

Bong bomb time !

You're supposed to know baseball. He's faced guys on base plenty of times probably wearing the same spikes he always has. This started once he started trying to mix the slider back into his repertoire. It's a slide step issue. That's on his left leg not picking it up enough to get extension. Which knee was giving him trouble last year ? Left or right ? Both ?

It's not the spikes it a bad slide step yip trying to keep the runner from stealing.

WTH is Kopech doing that on purpose. I realize with men on base u want to use the slide step but 3 times he balked now by catching his spike. Someone tell him to lift his damn foot a little higher on the slide step.

A tipped ball if not caught is like any other foul ball so can't steal. If you catch the tipped ball it's treated as a swing and miss for the base runner. Since the catcher caught it he could have thrown out Robert on the steal attempt. But he lost the ball on the transfer . Maybe you asked rhetorically.

Bochy ejected on Robert stolen base on foul tip. Bochy was wrong. Heim caught the ball and dropped it on the transfer to make the throw.

441 ft 109 MPH Robert another hit to start the 5th.

Apparently he'll get more so probably not a great idea to fret. Fedde impressing as usual.

Nice knock by Baldwin . Sox have more than 1 run ! 1st RBI and SB of Baldwin's career.

Nice moment in the dugout after Baldwin got aced on a 3-2 pitch on the low inside corner with man on 3rd and 1 out. Vaughn had his arm around him talking to him probably about needing to protect in that situation. But that was a tip your cap pitch by Lorenzen .