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In other news, gotta imagine we see Mendick tomorrow for Sosa. Dudes on fire for Charlotte.

These guys are literally all playing for their careers. I don’t think anyone is just “going through the motions”. They just aren’t any good.

3-18 here we come.

I don’t think Eloy should bat 2nd, but he’s the best hitter on this current team by a country mile. He should absolutely play everyday he is able. I would bat him 3rd and just leave him there until Robert is back.

It’s a SSS, but Menas era is so far is pretty misleading. Nearing a 1.4 whip and walking a batter in 65% of your innings pitched terribly sustainable for success. Mena may become a serviceable back end SP, but I think it was a fine gamble and do think Fletcher will be solid piece for the Sox.

I mean, more like $9.0M, if we’re accurate. Not that it really changes much.

Revisit in July 2025.

It doesn’t even look like Benintendi tries in the OF. Just brutal

I just don’t see how a guy goes from a solid 1.5 to 2 war player to just absolutely awful so quickly in what should be his prime years. It’s not like he’s 33-35. He can’t possibly be this bad.

He just slipped and fell.

Cannons stuff is very intriguing.

Honestly I’m fine with it. Going into the season I wasn’t, but at this point what the hell. Same goes for Eloy out there. Frankly nothing to lose at this point.

On the other hand, we have the chance to double our win total tomorrow! ☠️

Assuming cousin goes unclaimed on waivers, I wonder if he is able to be assigned back to the minors. It was obvious that his contract required him to be added to the 40 man this past off-season, but one would think it had similar language if this scenario were to have played out.

Well, now that he's here, hopefully he comes in and whips some of these fools into shape, rakes and then we trade him for someone interesting to plug in for a 2 month tryout in August/September.

Yah. He’s not good. Feel bad for him. It’s a tough spot.

Shaw made $1.5M? Wasn’t an an milb deal?

Interesting mice with Cannon. Didn’t see that coming this quickly.

Ehh. I'd still roll with the AV, but he's certainly earned the skepticism lately.

This. s%*# can Pedro. Promote Jirschele to manager.

Just because everyone likes to point out when former Sox do well with their new team, especially Burger. After getting out of the gate quickly Burger is down to an 86 wRC+ (.228/.281/.421) and quickly fell back to 0 fWAR. He has started as many games at 1B as 3B, and is now on the IL with another core/oblique injury. I wish Jake well, but will again repeat that he's not a guy that is going to haunt the Sox long term.

I think you basically need to play Benintendi mostly everyday against RHP, at least for now. Sox still owe him like $65M. Absolutely have to try to find a serviceable player out of him, especially in a lost season.

Yeah, forgot he was on milb IL, so that makes that a bit more unlikely but not impossible. Maybe Leone then. Would be surprised to see them 60 day Robert.

He hasn’t. And he shouldn’t. But I’d rather play Sheets out there than 30 somethings that have no chance of returning anything meaningful even if they perform well in a season where we’re already 2-13. It’s not like Grossman plays good defense - dude dropped a ball both you and I would have caught with ease today.

Meh. I’d rather have none of them and just let Fletcher, Colas and DeLoach soak up as many ABs as possible. You still have to play Benintendi for obvious reasons and and Robert will be back in 5-6 weeks. Pham, Grossman and pillar accomplish nothing at this point.