Bryan Joiner

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Deputy Editor at Over the Monster

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Here’s the real cause of the Rafael Devers scandal

5 days ago | overthemonster.com | Bryan Joiner

Ken Blaze-Imagn Images Triston Casas got hurt. That’s what caused this mess.
Here’s the real cause of the Rafael Devers scandal

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Bryan Joiner

Triston Casas got hurt. That’s what caused this mess. As is famously the case with COVID revisionism — a force potent enough to have accelerated the collapse of the country — people are far more focused on point-scoring on second-order issues (“They signed Bregman!” “They told him he was a DH!” “He has feelings!”) than dealing with the first-order problem, which is that they lost their star first baseman for the year and there’s no good way to deal with that, nor to prevent it.
OTM Open Thread 5/10: Digging in the heels

5 days ago | overthemonster.com | Bryan Joiner

Who is to blame for the Rafael Devers mess? Good news: you don’t have to pick just one person!
Stop infantilizing Rafael Devers

6 days ago | overthemonster.com | Bryan Joiner

David Butler II-Imagn Images Asking if Rafael Devers should play first base now that Triston Casas is out for the year is like asking if the sun rises in the east or if the world is round. The answer is yes, and anyone who says otherwise has an axe they’d prefer to grind than see the Red Sox improve as a baseball team. With one exception, they’re not worth listening to. Unfortunately, the exception is Devers himself.
OTM Open Thread 5/7: The cure for baseball? Complaining about it!

1 week ago | overthemonster.com | Bryan Joiner

Is Liam Hendriks the solution to the Red Sox bullpen woes? Aside from the home run allowed in his debut outing, Hendriks has been solid.
OTM Open Thread 5/4: Force multiplier

1 week ago | overthemonster.com | Bryan Joiner

For someone who loves baseball as much as Casas, this is a nightmare.
OTM Open Thread 5/4: Force multiplier

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Bryan Joiner

Sox lost a tough one yesterday, but have a new hope today with Garrett Crochet on the mound. Discuss below. • None One Big Question: Will Carson Smith be a second-half weapon? • None The Red Sox PECOTA projections, by the numbers• None One Big Question: Can Robby Scott grab the second left-handed reliever spot?
OTM Open Thread 5/3: Haunted houses

1 week ago | overthemonster.com | Bryan Joiner

Triston Casas is gone for a while. It’s not good. Eric Canha-Imagn Images Well there it is: 2025’s first major injury, and it’s to everyone’s favorite lad, Triston Casas, leaving the Red Sox an ostensible hole at first base. Is it what you want? No. Is it what you don’t want? Yes. What do I think the Sox should do? Put Rafael Devers there. He played third, he can play first, and I don’t think any amount of equivocating changes that.
OTM Open Thread 4/30: It’s gonna be May

2 weeks ago | overthemonster.com | Bryan Joiner

Thus ends the most promising month of Red Sox baseball since we were masked up all the time. It’s only gonna get better. Discuss below.
Don’t be jerks

2 weeks ago | overthemonster.com | Bryan Joiner

A simple message. Ken Blaze-Imagn Images Yesterday, a fan in Cleveland said an unconscionably bad thing to Jarren Duran. Sox fans have their own history of saying terrible things to players, so let this be a reminder: It is bad and don’t do it.