cHawk

End the Inning please

Could Buxton be a Top 10 player by the end of the year

Stop with the shifting

Well crumb

Attaboy!

We know Kirilloff will hit a rocket, will it fall is the question...

Who cares...we got the out.

They're going to their pen.

Therefore; DON'T shift

Ayy

Never heard of Rortvedt. Hopefully better than Garver and Jeffers

That’s what I like to hear.

It would certainly look a lot better if he were. IDK, but it’s not just been the pen that has been hot garbage. The whole team has been hot garbage (outside of SP). So possibly as the offense and defense turn around the pen turns around too? IDK.

Of course not. They need it at the deadline if they want to be a serious contender.

Well hopefully the Twins do just that. I had expectations this year. Don’t let me down.

I’m hopeful Alcala becomes that piece.

Any team could realistically take it except Detroit. I disagree that the Sox are without flaws: 1. They are bad defensively 2. Their lineup is full of 1st and 2nd Year starters

Before the season, I thought the pen would rank around 15-20 in the league, and I don’t think that was a terrible take. (Please tell me if it was) But it has looked 25-30 thus far. I think the reason it’s been this bad is that none of our relievers really have any sort of confidence, because that will often lead to control issues. We’re seeing countless walks being handed out by guys like Colome and Duffey. Rogers and Alcala keep giving up hits and making some pretty terrible pitches. If there was more confidence in those guys I think the pen would rank somewhere around 15 in the league. If it can at the very least stay out of the bottom 10 and the offense looks like it did in 2019 and the rotation continues to produce we should be fine. But of course if we want to win in the playoffs our pen needs to be better than 15. Probably Top 10. This is why we need at least one, probably two more quality arms come July. Falvine does deserve blame for not getting enough arms but I think the main issue here is the coaching and the relievers themselves.

I meant 1995-2019

Well yes but that’s still a 20+ year playoff win drought.

They had a time where they couldn’t win a playoff game that stretched from 1991 to this past year

How about the Buffalo Bills all those years

At baseline tho.

But those pitchers probably are still better than the likes of Trevor Cahill and Wil Crowe.

If we’re leading by 6 or 7 in the 7th THEN that would be a time where Colome actually would be a reasonable string to pull.