WestEddy

the options remain with the player. I think his velocity was down. He's still young, though. Owed $4.5 million over this year and next.

Ramos was 2-4 tonight for Charlotte. 2 singles.

He was only going to be up until Mendick returned from the IL. But he did well. Then the league adjusted to him, and he's not adjusting back quickly. Now he's going to AAA to get straightened out. It's not a bad move.

Didn't most of MLB owners hate Veeck? I thought they kind of drummed him out of the game when he owned the St. Louis Browns, threatening to contract his team. They also allowed Walter O'Malley to block Veeck's ownership of the expansion Angels.

MLBTR says he seems to have lost about 4-6 mph on his fastball, and he's signed for 2 years @ $4.5 million. He probably clears waivers and accepts assignment.

Single inning relief pitcher.

Don't want to create a new string just for this, but Miami just DFAed Woo Suk Go. Fangraphs had this to say about him: Woo Suk Go, SIRP Video International Free Agent (SDP) Age 25.4 Height 6′ 0″ Weight 198 Bat / Thr R / R FV 40 Tool Grades (Present/Future) Fastball Curveball Cutter Command Sits/Tops 55/55 45/45 55/60 30/40 93-95 / 98 A powerful, compact athlete with big arm speed, Go is a solid middle-inning reliever with a bevy of offerings. He mostly leans on his mid-90s fastball (sitting 93-95 mph, up to 98) and low-90s cutter, but he’ll occasionally break off a nasty 12-to-6 curveball, too. He led the KBO in saves (42) and K%-BB% (24.6%) in 2022, and was first in strikeout rate among pitchers with at least 30 innings in 2023, his second consecutive season with a K% in the 31-32% range. His feel for release is a bit inconsistent, likely limiting him to the middle innings in MLB.

I believe so. Maldonado improving means 2 hits a week.

Glasses. Oh, that explains his .083 batting average. Now he's seeing the ball better. We have this to look forward to. https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2024/05/29/seeing-is-believing-white-sox-martin-maldonado-hopes-glasses-make-a-difference

I think Crochet is a stud, too, and have been one of the more bullish on his conversion to starter. I think this is probably the first time in his life he's been fully healthy, not half-recovered from something the season before. But I do think it's a possibility that he does run into a fatigue period next season. Guys like Greg Maddux have talked about the fatigue that sets in, just from the extra 2-3 weeks of playoffs every year.

My thinking is that the worst the Sox would do to Crochet is push him to 110-120+ innings this year, and he'd be fine for it. The problem would come when he hits a wall next year and has to push through lowered velocity and results, thus, setting him up as a 2026 TDL candidate.

Joe Barlow looking like some yummy reliever goodness in the near future.

If Benintendi must play in hopes he pulls out of this slump, why not DH him so he stops hurting us in the field? Rotate Sheets/Vaughn and Benny through the DH/1B slots, and Julks should start about 100 of the remaining 106 games. Oh, and I was having a problem displaying Twitter links. I changed the link address to Twitter, but I also went into the source button, top left, and erased an "a href" tag, and it's </a> closing tag the link was nested in.

I think whatever little power he has is creeping back. A few more singles shooting further out so they can be stretched into doubles, and he's firmly above "replacement" territory.

I agree with everything here. My take is that Grifol further undermines himself by playing dumb, whether he cares or not. He's random in the way he interacts with the media. The "fucking flat" comment was the right comment at the wrong time. There's 30 other games where guys were phoning it in that he could have made that statement, and the clubhouse would agree.

I think this is a non-issue, but being mealy-mouthed just breathes life into the non-issue. He doesn't establish "the statement" on the matter that would put it to rest. He makes the player the lead on the non-story, and it lives on as some sort of mystery for a day or two. Also plays into the narrative that he's losing the clubhouse, because players are getting into tiffs with umpires that the manager isn't even aware of.

You tease.

Nicky Lopez now has a 9 game on-base streak.

Okay, let's get the next 24 in a row, and we have a game.

Gavin Sheets is a lefty bench bat. I don't consider him a RF consideration for Atlanta. Maybe they'd take Colas.

Gavin Sheets' 119 OPS+ would be 3rd best on that Braves team.

MLBTR has a story on Braves' OF trade possibilities. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/05/where-can-the-braves-go-for-outfield-help.html Contains this passage on Pham and Sheets:

Joe Barlow appears to have thrown an inning in the ACL on Friday, 5/24. 4 batters faced, one K, one hit.