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2 entirely different strike zones tonight.

Hits a grand slam off the same guy last night, now Ricky has him bunt. weird.

Um, Michael Kopech called.

Jeez, that ball was smoked.

That would be huge. He's becoming an important player given how Eloy's looked defensively and how many of the other outfielders have not looked good.

Cease likely done. Through 6. Labored and lost his mechanics, so he walked 2, but struck a guy out on 3-2. He's going to be good, but he definitely is not a finished product.

Cease gave up a run on a couple of not particularly hard hit balls. Through 5.

Cease strikes out the side. Ends on 99 right off the black.

2 walks in the inning, but gets out of it. Cease is clearly working on throwing his secondary stuff for strikes. That's the last box that needs to be checked. I think if they brought him up now he'd walk a lot of guys.

Last righthander probably McDowell.

Cease walked a guy then picked him off. Good move, athletic kid.

Cease gave up a couple hits, including a dunker to Ryan LaMarre, but k's 2 more and gets out of it.

Fair enough, but that number is crazy. How do you slap a 20 on a guy with 33 xbh in 330 AB's? That's 40 power minimum.

Update: Engel is still bad.

1, 2, 3 for Cease in the first. One K on a nasty backdoor curve.

Watching the Charlotte game at Gwinnett. They changed the words to the national anthem to "and the home of the Braves," which, not cool.

Huh? Even in the minors, Ozzie Albies never had anything like 20 power. He hit 24 HRs last year and an xbh once every 10 ABs. I will buy 40 power that showed up as 50 with the juiced ball, but Madrigal can’t even see 40 power from where he’s at. Maybe after he completely reworks the swing, but why take a polished college player with limited upside at 1-4 if he’s gotta retool his entire approach and swing?

It begs the question “can a guy get to his 60 hit tool, if he has 20 power?” Kind of interesting really.

My comp from before the draft on Madrigal was former Oregon State great Darwin Barney and, sadly, so far he is living up to that. There is still time for him, but he has to change his swing, imho, to be much more than a second division regular ala Barney or Yolmer Sanchez.

I disliked Farmer as a player and he’s a bully and a blowhard as an announcer. I was at the game where Al Cowens charged the mound and I kinda rooted for Cowens. Farmio’s headhunting ruined the guy’s career. But like another poster said, it’s a microcosm of everything wrong with the Sox. Farmer kisses the chairman’s ass, so he has a job for life no matter how much he hates it.

Hey, I'm just happy someone else is just as miserable about the 2016 Sox as I am. The Shields trade that topped the whole thing off is the perfect epitaph to a not-good and not-enjoyable team.

Wow. Against that lineup? Why bother showing up? Save Jerry the air fare and forfeit. Leury is probably our closer.

Palka 1-2 with 2 more walks today. Hard to tell if this new patience is real unless you bring him up.

Marisnick has been great so far though.

Fixed it.