JUSTgottaBELIEVE

Boy is it nice to have Gio back. Making Buxton look like a minor leaguer today. Get Lynn back in a few weeks along with Cueto even sooner than that and I don’t see a better starting rotation in MLB.

Who are these other divisional teams that have improved so much? No team in the division is over .500

When both teams are healthy - C, 1b, 3b, LF, RF, DH or 2/3 of the non-pitcher positions.

I doubt the market is big for a 30 year old coming off a year where he didn’t play at all due to injury and the season before was an average starter.

Doesn’t sound like the World champs clubhouse was all roses either https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/braves-star-ronald-acuna-jr-sheds-light-on-rocky-relationship-with-freddie-freeman-says-he-wont-miss-him/amp/

What?!? Man, there’s some bad takes on this site lately.

That will improve starting next week

^to this point, the Sox’ four ALC rivals are 9-19 outside the division so far this year. Ugly. None of these teams are running away with the division anytime soon.

Yes. Bunch of mediocre teams. I think 85 wins is enough to win the division this year. All it took was 81 last year.

Google. But baseball is a very different type of team sport than say basketball or football. Much more of an individual sport by nature.

Isn’t that baseball though? https://not.fangraphs.com/the-ultimate-individual-sport/

It’s 14 games. We’re not even 10% of the way into the season. Thru 14 games, they have the same record as last season. Division still sucks so I’m not worried. The Sox are never as bad as they look during stretches like this and they’re never as good as they look during win streaks either. Let’s see how the next few months play out before freaking out.

Wow. This guy must be depressed. Turned down a $100M+ extension offer recently and now will be lucky to earn even half of that over the rest of his career. Greed got the best of him.

I don’t think the division got much better tbh. After 13 games last season, Sox were 6-7, 2 games out of first, tied for last place. Actually in a slightly better position thru 13 games this season.

Emotional posters losing sight of the big picture. If Cease and Kopech pitch like #1s all season and into October, this team is considerably better prepared for postseason play than they were last year. The bats will come around.

Dude, you need to chill. Take a step back from the ledge.

Kopech and Cease might be the best 1-2 in MLB next year

And thank god they didn’t. Add Semien’s name to that group yikes

100%. Aside from the last call, the Reese call was a huge one in that inning. Pagan was struggling big time and falling behind 2-0 would put him in a very tough spot. Why can’t we get roboumps for balls/strikes already? Everyone wants it except the umpire’s union. So dumb.

No doubt Timmy is struggling big time but it’s also fair to complain about the ump changing the outcome of the game in the 9th

And the beauty of it is they’re one game out of first place despite playing terribly for most of the season.

Jeffers saved the game. Framing and incredible blocks on balls in dirt with runners on third. But seriously that ump. Pitcher was all over the fricking place and you’re giving him those calls? I’m sorry but that’s bad.

Pitcher was all over the place. When do guys like that get the benefit of the doubt? Weird

Tough pitch. Could have gone either way

Here we go!