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With Hutch, he kinda had to work a bit to get out of the fifth and it felt like bringing him back to face the heart of their order was risky. It's a smaller offense though, as you suggest, he's trying to manage his staff during this time and Hutch, overall, pitched legitimately well today. With the Soto decision, it's hard because Soto got a ground ball that, at least from my vantage point, looks like an out if the defense is playing straight up, so it's hard to be too critical of how he pitched... he got the result that he wanted, it just found the hole. That said, I don't understand the need to pull Fulmer in that situation even after the IBB. It just reeks of overmanagement, which AJ can do occasionally (obligatory disclaimer that I like AJ Hinch and am glad he's here) Which kinda leaves Grossman and the offense as the culprits today. That error was costly and, outside of Baez in the first, they just couldn't get hits when they needed them.

I dont know that Grossman is dogging it... but with a team that is 36-49 and a player on an expiring deal, when better options who are younger are a phone call away, it's hard to justify keeping him around when he's not hitting and he's misplaying balls in the outfield.

Was in attendance for this one. This one hangs on Grossman, had a great view of that play and could tell that was gonna be a disaster in real time. But there were some questionable decisions management wise as well... kinda thought AJ was playing with fire leaving Hutch out there in the 6th and really didn't love the decision to play the match up with Sheets versus Soto. And naturally, the Sox get the pinch hit single against the shift to make it 3-2. It's not the primary reason they lost, but I thought he overmanaged the 8th. I would have left Fulmer in and would have been OK with whatever resulted.

They already have to an extent. The big issue looming on the horizon are workloads for Brieske and Faedo. It would be nice to get Manning back before those become more acute issues

I believe Tucker Carlson is doing it because he has a history of doing it. Not sure why he deserves the benefit of being treated in good faith given his line of work.

As always, it's not enough to simply disagree with the man's politics. They gotta make up fake controversy

Is it safe to call Beau Brieske good yet?

I believe it matches their longest, but could be wrong. Edit: wrong, previous was 4 games (sweeping baltimore, winning against tb)

I want off Mr. Soto's wild ride lol

Massive add-on run from TORK!

Well done by Brieske tonight...

The latter. Gonna jinx it!

Why on earth is Shepard calling out the fact that certain things haven't happened for the Sox in this game?

Sure. But the upshot as I see it is that Carlson et. al will go to great lengths to blame literally anything and everything for these incidents *except* for the availability of weapons. And that is the context that I see his specious ramblings about privilege, social media, porn, video games, etc. It's not about identifying actual problems or anything like that... it's to muddy the waters to help in running out the clock on this particular news cycle.

Amazing how showing concern to the fanbase over the poor showing on the field tends to be better recieved. Seems like better PR to me, but whaddaya know

He asked the question. Again, Chris I's response made this a bigger story than it needed to be. It is what it is.

Bob Wojnowski asking one question about the Tigers was not going to detail Lalonde’s press conference. To the extent the question got any attention, it was because of the answer Chris I gave.

Will the last member of BoJo's government turn the lights out?

Flores and Madden seem like decent bets... with Madden, I remember one of the Pipeline guys last year on their podcast (can't remember if it was Callis or Mayo) suggesting he could be one of the earliest 2021 draft picks to make the major leagues. Nothing he has done to date suggests otherwise.

My understanding is that there will be a much more comprehensive rerank in August after the current draft. They kinda qualified this rerank in their accompanying article

They did catch Cleveland at the right time, but in general, they have been playing much better ball since Riley has gotten here. The losses against Boston and losing 2/3 to KC have obscured that to a degree.... the team is better than they were when they started 9-23 and when they were going 13 games without hitting a homer. This series against Chicago coming up will be a good test.... they have also had a tough stretch, but some good starting pitching scheduled in the series upcoming.

LOL, how bout them apples? Clemens is about the last guy I'd expect to take Clase yard