4/27 Cubs at Fenway Park--Home, Sweet Home 4:10 EDT ( pay attn)

[moonslav59]

No Reyes. No Hamilton. Yoshida back. His 89 OPS+ is Ruthian in comparison to Reyes and Valdez (25 each)...

Last 14 days:
.825 Yoshida

Last 7 days:
1.500 Yoshida

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Ben Brown, rookie with fair stats so far. 3.72 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 18 K's in 19.1 innings vs Josh Winckowski. Josh only has 2 issues, the 1.80 WHIP and the fact that he is not a starting pitcher .. Just a guy trying to do a job because his predecessors are not able to be there.

If the Sox simply cannot hit at Fenway, then just say so and we'll all save time. Somebody needs to help Duran. When he was on base, slashing to LF, it was great. Get back to it, my man Duran.

Let's beat the Cubbies and get a new streak going.

Your 4 game winning streak is the longest so far. If anyone can get another winning streak going, it's you, Vegas.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Ian Browne of mlb.com says all three will be back by 15 May.

By May 15 will the SOX be over/under .500? I'm guessing under because of the status of the starting pitching staff.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Casas claims he'll be back in 9 weeks at the latest. However, it's also painful for him to breathe, so some significant healing is needed.

Interesting that the initial diagnosis after the original MRI was a cracked rib. Happy to hear that wasn't the case.

[mvp 78]

Duran
Devers(3B)
O'Neil
Abreu
Wong
Masa(DH)
Valdez
DalbeK
Rafaela

Let’s go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bench Duran tho.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Giving credit where credit's due, Dalbec has played a very good defensive 1st base.

[vegasbob]

Valdez is a chickenshit pitcher killer. His matador defense puts Winckowski well over 20 pitches in the first instead of sitting on the bench between innings. PLAY NOT MADE

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Valdez is a chickenshit pitcher killer. His matador defense puts Winckowski well over 20 pitches in the first instead of sitting on the bench between innings. PLAY NOT MADE

Grissom should be back sometime in the future. It appears the SOX FO is going to keep him at WOO for the full 20 days. I mean what's the emergency?

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

O'Neil! And it wasn't a solo.

[vegasbob]

O'neill messed up. There was Duran on base when he left the Park. Actually it was Devers who messed up by swinging at ball 4. There are times when I really dislike Devers.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

O'Neil definitely has the Fenway swing.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

O'neill messed up. There was Duran on base when he left the Park. Actually it was Devers who messed up by swinging at ball 4. There are times when I really dislike Devers.

Yeah, he can be frustrating, much like he was during the last month of last season.

[vegasbob]

Let’s go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bench Duran tho.

Prescient call . Duran messed up by being on base, breaking O'Neill's string of solo HR's. Interesting that Jarren went to left taking advantage of the home field quirks. When he was hot earlier in April he was going to the left side continuosly and hitting well. He and Yoshi both prosper when slashing the ball to left side.

[Oscars]

With Garrett Cooper just traded to the Red Sox , and Grissom joining this week, the Sox will only be carrying Rafaela’s weak bat in the lineup.

[moonslav59]

We gotta keep O'Neal healthy.