It's happening

Shohei Ohtani is en route to Toronto today.

This is maddening

Let's go!

As Francys Romero reported, the Red Sox have extended Aroldis Chapman, per source. He signed for one year in 2026 plus a mutual/vesting option. He’s guaranteed $13.3M plus escalators.

Well done!

And now he's lined up with Buehler...

Plus a happy Roman. Pay for the vibes

I think the defense alone and offensive potential make that easily worthwhile, and at least right now it appears he is not so critical to the roster that we can't weather possible injuries. I do hope he gets that wrist figured out though

I'm in

If the Yankees lose to the Rangers tonight they fall out of a Wild Card spot

Sale broke into MLB as RP, so did Crochet. Let's see it

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This team has been plagued by epic bad luck. Just a handful of those one run losses go the other way and we're winning the division and among the top teams of all MLB

Cooper Criswell's outing on Friday was 15th time a #RedSox starter has allowed one (or no) runs over 7.0+ IP. No American League team has more such games. It's the 2nd-most starts in #MLB after #Phillies (19).

Within the story on the movement by AL teams, it's interesting to note that since July 23 (the day before the Mariners kicked off deadline season), no team did more than the Sox to improve its playoff odds. Players dictate more than the front office: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/01/s...

Do we know anything about the Mayer injury yet?

That would be a really interesting feature to measure offensive performance both at the team and player level - are they hot, or just facing poor stuff? Is there a problem with team approach, or the pitching has just been really good?

@skykalkman.bsky.social is there a way to measure quality of pitching faced? For instance, Red Sox have struck out a lot since the All Star game, can we measure whether they have just faced great pitching or is more their own approach/players?

Yes! I've always hated this format

How is their marketing so terrible? I thought this was a for profit business?

He'll have TJ surgery before end of the year

Devers is no longer in the AL East

Seems Fenway will be available

Agreed, and I have a sense that or something else is happening soon. I keep checking in expecting news

Can Suarez play 1st?

💯 - it's quite the plot twist. Right now I've been thinking about the correlation of Casas' injury in May 2nd, the drama that ensued and Campbell's slump, along with several others. The league adjusted to him, but how much did clubhouse issues affect his ability to respond?

We expected the smear campaign, but not from him

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