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If he's selling out for power then ofcourse the K rate will skyrocket. Yeah, I highly doubt Gonzalez is gonna displace Meidroth, at least not this year. Meidroth is on pace for somewhere around a 2 fWAR season. I'm glad Gonzalez is improving tho.

Pretty much the only real thing we got was salary relief. I wish him well and I feel bad for Luis. He still has alot of ability but can't shake the injury bug.

Another strong win. IMO, with Teel this is definitely the best team in the division.

Burke's improvement over last year is encouraging.

Alot of our guys have struggled making the jump from AA to AAA so we still need to see how he adjusts to that for at least a little while. Need to see what his K rate is in AAA. Braden will probably be in Chicago before the end of the year, tho.

Beni has zero business leading off. This makes zero sense. His OBP is awful. Antonacci or Meidroth depending on the pitcher or maybe Teel when he comes back.

Last year he was better as a RHH, this year better as LHH, but the thing I've also noticed in the last couple games in particular is that his K rate seems to be coming down finally and ofcourse he is walking significantly more this season. The ISO is damn near .300 too which is awesome.

Great win. Good job by Schultz settling down after the first inning walks and ofcourse it's always great to see bombs by the two left handed savages. I don't understand why Beni is batting leadoff with his atrocious OBP. It should be Antonacci or Meidroth.

Nice....he's also been improving recently in avoiding Ks.

It's a little bit frustrating knowing that if we had even made a halfway decent effort in FA to get a semi decent SP option and also not had our starting catcher hurt we could easily be in first in this division. Would going to 120m in payroll instead of 100m or whatever criminally low figure they are at have really hurt that much Jerry? There's alot of interesting pieces on this team. Another good bat and a third reliable pitcher would make this a truly fun team.

Boenemer should be promoted. At least Hagen is missing bats and people are struggling to make contact on him. Command continues to be an issue but he's still improving as compared to last year. Still expect him to be in Chicago at some point the next couple months. Dude needs to replace Kay....even if he can only pitch 4-5 innings per start.

Thanks

For the second straight year, the Broncos took an Illinois player in Miles Scott (last year they took Pat Bryant who turned out to be our 2nd best WR by the end of the season). Need scouting report from Illini fans on Scott, please.

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Good to see another strong start from Davis Martin. If we could just have a third reliably good starter besides Schultz and Martin, we'd start to be really interesting. Having at least one other good BP piece besides Taylor would help too. They took 2 of 3 on the road against two decent teams so I think we're seeing some solid progress.

Does Zavala look like he can stick in CF?

If he makes it clear he won't sign an extension and wants to test the market then you need to get some good assets in a trade.

Braden has been killing it from the left side this year. Promote him to AAA already and move Bonemer and Shelton to AA

Braden 2-2 with a walk so far.

Very few people on the big club can hit so im glad at least some of the position prospects are developing well at the plate. Maybe he can end up in Birmingham fairly soon and so can Bonemer. Braden to Charlotte hopefully soon also.

Im assuming that in the next couple weeks Bonemer will be promoted to AA and Braden will be promoted to AAA if they keep hitting.

Bonemer should be in AA soon

Promote him to AAA

This is awesome. Dude needs to rescue our major league rotation because its awful right now. Smith shouldn't be too far behind either.

I wonder how many more starts they want to see before he is brought up? I'm assuming they at least want the extra year of control. Our rotation badly needs Schultz right now.