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In his 2nd to last start, all I have heard so far is the Biloxi home announcer say he sits between 92-94 on the fastball. I feel like their own announcer should have the most up-to-date info on his velocity, unless the readings he is seeing are wrong. I've reached out to Biloxi's PBP TV guy for clarity.

For those wondering what Kodi's velo is right now, I just fired up his start from last night on MiLB.tv. The Biloxi feed doesn't have any graphic, so I can't see any readings, but I'm hoping the commentator mentions it at some point. I'll edit this post with any velos I hear. Slider - 77 MPH, 76 MPH, 77 MPH Welp. That was is. Only 3 teams was velocity ever mentioned in his last start. His slider is beautiful and slurvy. He commands it pretty well. Honestly, his command in his last start was just fine. I think he only walked 1 batter, and it was on a blown 3-2 count strike. His defense let him down a ton. I guess I'll go find the start BEFORE this one and see what I can find for velocity.

VERY pleased with this return. Love Medeiros. Was hoping for a better secondary piece than Perez, but we also know very little about him, so he could be a guy has taken a big turn or matured physically this season. Seems like a lottery ticket to me, but I trust that if we made such a deep dive on him, it's because they saw something they loved.

I guess I would take RF Julio Rodriguez and RP Matt Festa???? Their system is really quite bad, it's hard to even find names with an age that would line up well for us.

I had plans to go to the game with Jeff Samardzija's cousin, who is a Rays fan. I called him up the night before we were going to go and told him I didn't feel like going, and that he should just come over and watch it at my house. So yeah....I should have been there in person. I would have been in a very small group of people to have witnessed both his No-Hittter AND his Perfect Game in person. Biggest regret of my life.

You don't find 30 IP as too small of a sample size to keep him off limits to get an arm like Jay Groome?? Sure, I like Fry now too, but I wouldn't bank on him still being highly effective in 2 years when this team might be ready to contend. Relievers are so insanely volatile.

Jon Morosi‏Verified account @jonmorosi 3m3 minutes ago More In preliminary #RedSox-#Marlins trade talks, source says Miami indicated that Michael Chavis or Jay Groome alone would not be sufficient to acquire setup man Drew Steckenrider. That is one snapshot of the market value for controllable relievers. For anyone like me who had never heard of Steckenrider before, he is someone who *should* have less value than Jace Fry. Fry is 2 years younger, and extra year of control, a lefty, and has been better in 2018. I would think we would all be pretty damn happy with either of these guys for Fry.

Other orgs have multiple AZL teams, so I wonder why the Sox didn't go down that road.

Orioles are 3-7 over their last 10. They've actually improved their winning%. Sox are 4 GB of the #2 pick 7 GB of the #1 pick

Madrigal Elektromotoren - Das gut!

Could be. Although after seeing Brad Hand get the #14 prospect in baseball, I wouldn't rule anything out.

Not in the beginning, but my point is they could have moved any of their corner OF over to 1B to make room for Kittle, or just played Kittle at 1B to get a guy who has belted 90 HR over the past 2 years in to the line-up. Squires was their back-up 1B that year, so you're talking about replacing a bench guy with no bat, with a slugger putting up legendary numbers in the minors. Us fans would be insane now a days if that happened, even with a non-prospect like Matt Skole. If he belted 40 HR last year, and then was on pace for 50 HR this season, we would be begging to see him get a spot somewhere on the team. I get that the '82 Sox were a decent team, but you get the point.

Can you imagine Eloy hitting 40 HR in AA with a .326 AVG and 1.119 OPS and then the following year hitting 50 HR in AAA with a .345 AVG and a 1.194 OPS and NOT getting called up that year until September 2nd? That's fucking bananas to me. People would be asking for Hahn and Getz to be fired for letting Eloy sit in AAA for that long. And Kittle was 24 when he finally got called up too. Meanwhile, 1B Mike Squires hit .267 with 1 HR that season in 116 games. The fuck were they waiting for?

THE ACTUAL FUCK

Sosa was a 2016 J2 signing.

BRB, murdering myself

Ooof, Kopech got a little help on K #9. Looked a tad low, but Garneau framed it well and the ump gave a late call.

Of the actual hits? No. Only 2 hard hit balls at all that I've seen, one was a lineout to SS in the 1st, one was a groundball to Leonard at 3B. So 2 hard hit balls, both resulted in outs. All hits have been weak, or misplayed.

Castillo steals 2B. A good throw to second would have had him. Then Kopech allows a single that squirts through, and the runner scores.

Kopech allowed a leadoff single that went off of Leonard at 3B, and in to LF.

Kopech strikes out Lind. He's got some filthy off-speed stuff. Not bad when you can pump 97-99 all day long.

Kopech strikesout 2 more batters in the 5th. 5 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 K

Kopech with his first "walk" of the game. The ump missed 2 strikes, at least borderline, in that AB.

FIrst batter of the 5th "singles" on a ball to 2B. Skole and Alvarez both thought the other one would take it, so they both let up and there was no play.

Ti'Quan Forbes lines a double to the LCF gap. Any good major league LF makes the catch, but this guy couldn't.