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In 2024, the Sox were 27th in O-Swing%, 14th in Z-Swing%, 18th in O-Contact%, 20th in Z-Contact%, and 4th in pitches seen in the Zone%. In 2025, the Sox so far are 7th in O-Swing%, 12th in Z-Swing%, 26th in O-Contact%, 21st in Z-Contact%, and again 4th in pitches seen in the Zone%. So far they're much better at not swinging at pitches outside the zone, average at swinging at pitches in the zone, worse at (as in they make more) contact when they swing at pitches outside the zone, and about the same at contact in the zone and in how many pitches they see in the strike zone. Overall, some positive trends, but the lack of talent means teams can fill the strike zone against the Sox and they can't do a whole lot to punish that.

Like I said, this is a talent maximization strategy, but you still need talent to maximize.

https://x.com/haffball7/status/1909609219793314222 Guessing Ryan Fuller has something to do with this. Good stat with some promise, not leading to a good outcome yet though. This is a talent maximization strategy, but you still need talent to maximize.

You might know better, but I'd guess the offers were complete trash or required the Sox to absorb a lot of money, which they won't do. If they had a solid offer without a lot of money going to the other team and Getz didn't take it, then that's a big mark against him.

Stop me if you've heard this before, but... Andrew Vaughn hit a ground ball to short.

Lopez is missing center cut on the fastball and Sox can't do anything with it. They might as well sit fastball and hold on anything with a wrinkle.

This is a pretty good one - just plausible enough to be realistic, and not a HUGE trade to instantly make people suspicious.

Doesn't really matter in a 9-0 game, but whether this is interference or not Slater better not do this again

I'll give the Brewers a break because the Yankees were using these:

Also I'm sure they'll bounce back as this roster has some talent, but this Twins team looks straight up not ready for the regular season.

I guess I can get behind this team scoring a ton of runs, then nothing, then a ton of runs because it's a surprise what will happen every day!

So far the Knights can HIT.

If he does that s%*# again and Elko looks competent bring him up and cut Vaughn. Or slide Vargas to first and put someone else at third.

The ol’ Vaughn dribbler to short

lol take a walk against an infielder pitching

I definitely did not see this coming. The Angels are really bad, so yeah, but the Sox look like an actual major league team

Just situationally stupid baseball

Stupid Benintendi. All we needed there was a deep fly ball, not a 3 run homer

Whew

Yeah, MLB.tv giving me a service error on my Xbox right now. Good job on screwing everything up on the most important day of the season, MLB.

I was thinking they could put him on the MLB roster for a bit then send him down, but if that's not possible then he'd still be a nice shot to take as a bench/platoon corner OF while Tauchman is hurt, and who knows how hurt Benintendi's hand really is. Once trades start flowing he could start, assuming he hadn't been terrible.

Trading Bellinger for nothing, as well as acquiring Paredes then trading him for one year of Tucker, while doing almost nothing else to help the team plus Tucker looking like a one year rental is borderline malpractice. They're like one quarter going for it and three quarters having no idea what they're doing.

He'd be worth a shot as a platoon guy, and especially if they can stash him in AAA. His strikeout issues are gonna keep him from ever being more than a guy who runs into one every now and then, though.

Fletcher, Colas and DeLoach will be in the minors. Benintendi is being paid a ton and at least has a history of some value. Slater was positive WAR at the end of last year with Baltimore, and has a history of some value. Taylor and Jankowski are bench players. Robert should be fine. The only thing Moniak has going for him is his age. He'll either catch on somewhere in the minors, or bounce around being DFAed until he goes to Japan, Korea or Mexico.

Yes, it looks like we have a team that can at least generate 0 WAR or higher per player.