WestEddy

It all depends on the order guys come off the IL and queue up for promotion. On the IL you have Teel, Mune, Pereira and Hays. LHH IF/LF Mario Camilleti is raking at AAA and B. Monty looks comfortable there. And on the 40-man, you have RHH OF Junior Perez. The situation right in front of them is that Derek Hill seems to be a bit hobbled. If he's not 100%, he could be an easy IL move to get Hays back on the roster when he's ready. Kicks the can down the road for a week and a half. Grickuk's lightening is still in the bottle, and Acuña was kind of the centerpiece of the Robert return, so neither's an easy DFA. The next conundrum could be if Pereira is ready to come back at the same time Hill's healed up. If they do move Hill to the IL, nothing else needs to happen until 6/12. By then, Beni could have fallen back off the table, or Rikuu could start to look horribly overmatched.

It's performative. "My opinion holds more weight because I get angrier because I take this more seriously."

Right now, he's not on the 40-man. If the Sox don't add him, next off-season, the Sox would have to chance him being selected. He has all 3 options if the Sox add him to the 40-man. However, with the end of the player contract, the owners may just decide to forego this year's GM meetings and Rule 5 draft. I believe they did that last lockout.

Oooh, that's a good one. I wasn't thinking.

Yeah, when people treat the QO pick as "letting him go for nothing", teams don't trade the top prospects they know are going to be perennial All-Stars. They trade the projects and keep the sure things for themselves. I have no idea how good the Tigers are at scouting and getting "buy low" guys they know they can develop.

I'm almost feeling sorry for the Tigs. Been there.

You know? The Phillies don't really scare me. Beyond the big three, that offense is somewhat pallid.

And now Gonzo's mom gets a free baseball!!

10-15 years ago, you had to grease the Andy Frains to get into the lower deck. I guess the team isn't back there, yet.

Jerry's probably cashing out a couple of CDs and liquidating a couple shares of AT&T to pay that $50k fee.

Ben Peoples giving a lot at the office today. Gabe Davis with the rude welcome to AA. Anthony DiPino has taken to AA. Nice outing by Riley Eikoff in Kanny.

It's also occurred to me that Kelenic could have elected free agency just to get another deadline in his minor league contract. He seemed to have some sympathetic boosters among the coaching ranks here.

If some of these guys work out (Nishida, Gonzo, Acuña, Quero) that will be a fun problem when Hays, Teel, Pereira and Mune start to return from the IL.

No, being condescending while mocking others for being "irrational" because they won't declare that a pitcher who looks like a shoo-in for the All-Star game "stinks" - is what rubs many the wrong way. Laughing at the appropriate term "market inefficiency" makes you look argumentative about things that aren't controversial. Calling a team with top 3-6 players (at their positions) in the lineup "mediocre" and then arguing that for pages in the face of reasoned evidence makes you look like you're just being a contrarian for the sport of it. I don't care if you admit you're wrong. Everybody here is wrong a lot and admit to that pretty easily. Stop acting like you're hated because you're so freaking smart. Or don't.

Gonzo's not exactly the hotshot middle infielder. He hasn't really hit until he started the season in the infamous bandbox. He's not fast, and not really known for his glove, at any position. He should have been the heir apparent at 2B, but again, hasn't hit until this year. It's really only LaMonte Wade, or Gonzo. If he can really hit, he has a good 6 weeks of runway to prove it.

I thought maybe Kelenic was unlucky. BABIP of .344. I guess he's unlucky he struck out so much and didn't hit cutoff men.

I'll answer what I can make sense out of. Most of the stuff you're angry at I didn't say, and I imagine is just engagement baiting. Your sentence I quoted basically says that winning doesn't matter. You root for payroll. Good luck with that. It seems that not railing on like an insane person about how much I hate Getz and how he's caused all of my life's misery is considered "praising" him. You're not making an argument when you point to any random player who is doing better than some other random player and pretend you foretold that difference. That's what a 7-year-old does to feel smart. I sure hope you win these arguments against whoever is saying all these things you're angry about.

Or that it was crazy to trade Mead because everybody knew he'd wRC+ 143 by the end of May. LOL.

Rikuu not losing that number!!!