Emmanuel Barbari
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And actually, they've been worse at home.
So I'm not expecting a lot of home runs, a lot of offense.
But you never know.
These teams usually have pretty entertaining games at Fenway.
But it's going to be interesting to see if either of them can get going.
I bet you Vlad's back is going to feel pretty good with the off day today and then going into a ballpark where he has, I think, an 1,100 OPS for his career.
Yeah, I think that's a good point that you make, that he is going to wear it rather fairly or unfairly.
I mean, you go from Devers to Bregman to Caleb Durbin, and that's not necessarily fair of Caleb Durbin.
He has been better.
He's actually really, really good defensively, and obviously defense has been a major issue for the Red Sox in years past, and they've been really, really good this year.
I think they rank maybe first in Fangraph's War in total team defense, so...
I think KL Durbin was put almost in an impossible spot to succeed.
I actually really like his tools.
As I said, good defensively, not a lot of power, but I do think if he's used properly, he could be an effective utility bench player.
Obviously, that's not how he was brought in.
He was brought in and handed the third base job, and
Almost with the Rays, I think the Brewers are kind of turning into the Rays where they're the boogeyman in terms of you don't really want to trade with the Brewers at this point.
And if there's a reason why the Brewers are ready to move off Caleb Durbin and acquire a pitcher like Kyle Harrison, maybe you should be looking internally as to why they want to do that.
So, yeah, Durbin's not been good, but it also doesn't help that Trevor Story went down and Marcelo Meyer is playing alongside of him and Meyer hasn't hit.
So now they don't really have...