WestEddy

Those banners hang FOREVAH!!!!!

This is the Dodgers' 6th series sweep this season. It's not like it was a Father son series where the 6 year olds swept.

I see a Jasiel Puig signing in the future.

Soroka with 7 strikeouts against the Dodgers.

The White Sox should hire me for the interest I'm creating in this team.

Soroka be like, "Dudes, I told y'all how to pitch to the Dodgers!!"

Mumbling.

...And Soroka strikes out the side!

You said Flexen in your post. I'm seriously surprised both Flexen and Fedde held the Dodgers to 4 in 6 innings (5.2 for Flex). In either case, you just need one "yes".

And it's possible everyone's so jealous of the possibility, no one will hug him.

Wow, thanks for clearing that up, dude. Somebody hit by injuries and with Scott Carroll and Phil Humber at AAA might grab him for 4th-5th starter and long relief if they're on the cusp.

I'm always amazed - like it's a completely different time. The Brewers just let Jose Valentin go for Jaime Navarro and John Snyder. Then threw in an injured Cal Eldred for good measure. Like, Valentin's agent probably brought some rudimentary advanced stats to negotiations, and the brass was like, "f*** this guy, we got Ronnie Belliard coming up!"

I'm reading Manchester's The Glory and the Dream right now. So many kids from that era were dangerously malnourished during the Depression. The damage to an entire generation was irreparable.

There's not enough Natty Bo to drown that humiliation.

And Flexen gave up the same amount of runs as Fedde in more innings. So I guess we can also expect a 50+ FV prospect for Flexen, too. Groovy.

The last rebuild was styled around 5 pitching prospects. We have at least 15 scattered over 4 levels, now. Sure, lets use TRU's measure, and say we have 7 prospects. That's more than we started Hahn's 2.0 with.

Martin Davis just had his first clean inning in the Arizona Complex League. I could see him or Sean Burke being ready to tandem with Shuster, or whatnot. We could also take back somebody's ineffective veteran and eat the money in a Crochet or Fedde trade. As I look, all the wild card possibles seem to have expunged all of their baggage. Maybe Patrick Corbin on the Nats. He's still owed about $12 million.

Just to clarify - I haven't been arguing that "the only reason they're bad".... They were supposed to be "merely bad". The first 2-3 weeks set the tone. Yes, they have been fortunate with the items you've mentioned. DeJong also had a better than expected beginning to his season. Sheets broke out. Pillar wasn't terrible. Pham hit the ground running, as did Julks. The injuries have covered up Eloy not really being all that. Sheets has out-produced him. And Robert hasn't gotten off the ground all year.

Right. Not like the top free agents gave Getz a blank contract, and he turned them down for DeJong and Maldonado. I agree with the complaint that we're not giving Colas, DeLoach or Ramos innings. But they're not going to eat 3.5 years of Benintendi's contract. So we're stuck playing the tradeable guys for under 5 weeks.

I'd be quite happy with Clevinger throwing about 10 pitches in his next AAA start, and then being done for the year. Hell, throw Phil Humber back out there, instead.

Thorpe and Cannon need to get their innings, and Flexen needs to be traded. I think Clevinger, Thorpe and Cannon will be the beginnings of the post-TDL rotation.

I just looked at the 2000 pitching staff to see who I thought he was like. Was always underwhelmed by those guys, Sirotka, Parque, Baldwin. I always thought Baldwin "sucked", even though they ran him out there for years. Flexen's stats are right in line with Baldwins. Maybe a little more strikeouts. LOL.