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I dont think people will like this but it is the truth

Carson Fulmer and his career -.8 WAR was on a team a few weeks ago.

When are we supposed to get that 10k of student loans relief?

Same thing happened with Cole. However, Bauer's spin rate was only down significantly on his fastball. The additional spin on the fastball is not nearly as important as it is on a breaking ball. His spin was only down slightly on the breaking stuff. If you listen to Bauer, it is very likely he is going to manipulate his spin rates to skew his numbers. So we know for a fact his fastball is down significantly. I'd be interested to see where his change up is at given less spin can make it more effective and further offset his heightened rates. Despite all the social media/MLB drama being annoying, Bauer is the guy to watch because he is working with cutting edge science and having better results than others (both by spin rate and traditional performance measures). I'd imagine Bauer takes the spin off his FB and change-up and uses the spin for high leverage pitches where he's going to a breaker.

Why can't you just avoid visiting the site?

Codi Heuer now leads all relievers with .429 BABIP. He has a 6 ERA and 3.23 FIP. He will be better.

The lowest 5 spin rates on the Sox in 2020 (see below) have combined for 0 innings pitched in 2021. 5th and 6th lowest is Rodon (barely pitcher last year) and Keuchel (spin rate down year-over-year. After those two it's Fry (hasn't pitched) and Detwiler (gone) -Alex Colome (FA) -Jimmy Cordero (IL) -Reynaldo Lopez (AAA) -Dane Dunning (trade) -Gio Gonzalez (FA) So if you look at the top 17 "used" (min. 100 pitches) pitchers from the prior year, 7 of the 9 lowest spin rates haven't pitched for the Sox this year for one reason or another. These pitchers have been replaced with: 1) More Rodon (similar spins y-o-y) 2) More Crochet 3) Lynn 4) Kopech 5) Hendriks Past that there have been a few 2020-2021 increases (FB spin rate) Cease - 2521-2612 Marshall - 2334-2456 Giolito - 2349-2425 Foster

People the more unknown/effective substances (i.e. not pine tar or sunscreen/rosin) are going to see the most significant change in their breaking pitches (as opposed to their fastball). The Indians have a bunch of guys that have taken big steps forward based on their breaking balls. None we're huge prospects or big velo guys. Just guys that threw strikes that all of a sudden started putting people away with the breaking stuff. Bieber is the big one. Plesac and Civale basically came out of nowhere. Bryan Shaw's slider is considered one of the most effective pitches in baseball. Karinchak has velo but he's obviously using something. Look at the Reds after they got Bauer. All slider spine rates 2018 vs. 2020/2021 (Bauer joined the team in 2019) Lucas Sims - 2484 to 2733 Robert Stephenson - 2615 to 2809 Tyler Mahle - 2511 to 2625 Amir Garrett - 1748 to 1826 Luis Castillo - 2206 to 2447 Cody Reed - 2296 to 2565 Literally every player that was on the Reds in 2018 and either (or both of) 2020/2021 saw increases in the spin rate.

In before Yermin is down 0-2.

I am against Leury.

A bit strange Engel is rehabbing this long...

That's why he's scary. It's like buying a free agent before they're popped for steroids. I do think the Yankees, Astros and Indians will definitely be affected if legitimate enforcement was put in place.

Hendriks has had clear markings on his hate all year long.

R SS TA L LF Eaton S 3B Moncada R 1B Abreu L DH Lamb S C Grandal L RF Sheets S CF Hamilton R 2B Madrigal That's what I would do.

hah so typical

And this is what has been reported. No need to make unnecessary inferences about a 23-year-old kid. I am sure he'll be back soon.

I'd go SS TA C Grandal 3B Moncada 1B Abreu DH Lamb LF Vaughn RF Eaton CF Engel 2B Madrigal

Hmm?

I'd be delighted to find out if the next person up could be worse than Fauci. And if so, how. Trump is gone. Fauci is not. Not that you can't blame Trump, what is the argument for Fauci's continuing on?

If your theory is correct it still doesn't excuse Fauci. His job was to serve the American people. If he was fired for telling the truth that's a noble way to go out. Your concern of Trump lying shouldn't take precedent over Fauci actually lying. It's remarkable the excuses people will make for Fauci. Even when he deliberately and purposely lies to the public, it is still Trump's fault. The one thing that is Trump's fault for sure here is him not firing Fauci early in this mess. Fauci was in no way acting in a way to avoid getting fired by Trump - it's quite the opposite. He would roll his eyes behind Trump when Trump spoke and publicly make opinions that were in contrast to Trump's. This is why Trump put Pence in charge of the COVID stuff early because the media and Fauci and were trying to make it all about Trump and make COVID political. This isn't about Trump (he's gone) - it's about Fauci. Blaming Trump for everything is the way to make sure nothing gets fixed. Fauci should be held accountable not excused because orange man could be bad if he didn't lie. Fauci lied, there's evidence, he's admitted to it and for whatever reason, the media supported all of his lies for a long time. It's very curious. Fauci's been in his position for decades. He's not the person to make sure this doesn't happen again. The country needs accountability.

Yikes...I am sure Fox has articles on this too but they didn't come up at the top of google. I don't know what oan is. Hopefully these sources and bits of reporting meet your preference. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/30/science/china-covid-origin-wuhan.html NYT 5/30/21 - U.S. experts press calls for China to allow deeper inquiries into the pandemic’s origins. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/26/us/politics/biden-coronavirus-origins.html NYT 5/29/21 - Biden Orders Intelligence Inquiry Into Origins of Virus https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/facebook-ban-covid-man-made-491053 POLITICO 5/27/21 - Facebook no longer treating 'man-made' Covid as a crackpot idea https://www.wsj.com/articles/intelligence-on-sick-staff-at-wuhan-lab-fuels-debate-on-covid-19-origin-11621796228 WSJ 5/23/21 - Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/26/democrats-covid-lab-leak-theory-490951 POLITICO 5/26/21 - Dems back growing calls for Congress to probe Covid lab leak theory https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57268111 BBC 5/28/21 - Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is being taken seriously

If you're going to respond with the same tone, I am not going to respond anymore. You can brag that you got me I don't care. If you seriously wanted to understand, I answered your questions but I think we both know that's not what your post was about. You and I are subjected to different rules and given this post and others from you I realize that you don't respond to my posts because you want to have a conversation or hear a different view point. So if it's going to continue with more of the same, I am done responding. All I am doing is speaking on the current event that is a result of an official government release as a result of the Freedom of Information Act. This release, among many other happenstances over the last ~16 months cast Mr. Fauci as someone who is either incompetent or consistently lying about significant matters. As an American, I am simply questioning why our government's highest paid employee is, in the best case scenario, completely incompetent. And if that's not the case, I would like to know what's causing him to have different public and private opinions and rotating, ever-evolving public opinions that change given the month, administration or "phase" of the virus. I don't understand why you respond to my posts so rudely and why you feel the corporate media entities and the highest paid government employee (a millionaire multiple times over) are in need of you defense? Why are you rude to a fellow American questioning them following the unveiling of their questionable behavior? Do you really think the billion dollar media companies deserve your fervor-filled defense?

They were saying there was no chance of a lab leak or anything engineered publicly. Privately they had much different positions. That's the point. Not sure why you're trying to make a case to ignore the truth. Fauci, for one, should be investigated and be held responsible. They should investigate it all.

https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1399932956307771397?s=20

There is a chance. Especially given TLR has played Vaughn in RF in at least one blow out to get him some exposure out there. I just think the Sox are going to be careful with Eloy and Vaughn has shown enough, at least to me, to pass up Eloy in LF. They probably rotate in some capacity but I wouldn't be surprised if the Sox put the kid gloves on Eloy. In Spring Training, TLR wanted Eloy as the DH.