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Hopefully us. No Bonemer trade

He will need more than just a return of low 90s velocity. He needs another tick or two on the radar gun otherwise his margin for error is slim. It also remains to be seen if his command and the elite changeup remain intact. Sometimes after TJS, some pitchers gain a bit of velocity. If he can get up to 92-95 instead of 89-92, it would be very helpful.

Good news on Teel all things considered. Even if he is out a month or a little more, he will be back for the stretch run in September.

Sigh

If it isn't torn that's a huge win already

Ankle sounds better than Achillees

Dammit.....Hopefully just a sprained ankle

Burke pitched a gem. Great job by Montgomery & Montgomery. Good to win a road series.

Let's get another insurance run.

Great job Burke

Gonzalez helping us out by hitting a bomb to put PIT ahead of CLE 2-0.

Yep

Worst case scenario he can DH although he would lose much of his value but still there's always room somewhere for someone who is likely to hit over 30 bombs a year from the left side and can also provide probably league average OBP (that's where he was at before this recent slide when it dipped).

It's amazing they have hit on all these controlled young position players. At some point things are gonna get crowded as Mune and Vargas get closer to FA and Bonemer and Cholowsky are up. There's also the Antonacci/Meidroth issue at 2B. With Colson likely moving to 3B due to back issues at some point, there's a crunch where at some point they will need to sell high on someone because there's only so many spots when Bonemer/Cholowsky comes up. Beni coming off the books after next year will help but there still will be a crunch. With regard to Peters while there almost certainly will be offensive regression, he provides so much defensive value (OAA etc) there's still a good chance he is a long term 2 WAR player there even if the vast majority of it comes from D and given Getz emphasis on premium defenders up the middle even with a fall off offensively I don't think he is going anywhere especially since he will be cost controlled until he hits his early 30s so if they can get a premium defender for a long time without having to worry about an extension, I don't think they are gonna mess with that and it was nice to see them get another potential premium defensive CF in the draft, who even though the bat is a big project, we have many years to wait for that now. They really have done a great job with the trades/drafting for position players and development. And if Wikelman Gonzalez becomes a key piece of the BP, they could potentially get close to 10 WAR a year from those 4 players in the BOS trade which is insane.

Yes it's good to see they are open and not super insular. Props to Getz. This was a great article.

Alot depends on the CBA. The owners are pushing for a cap and also a floor. We have very little on the books right now and if there was say a 175m floor, we'd have to spend a ton just to get up that high.

Yes, this provides a safe floor to work with and whatever he can add onto it will be good. I like the prep CF and SP prospects.

This sounds great.

They can pay players in college now (especially SEC and Big 10 schools) so HS players have even more leverage to insist on very big bonuses.

Yeah I liked the prep pitcher and CF.

Very nice series and good job Noah,.Braden, Psycho Sam and Hicks. First place at the break and nice sweep.

Sox sweep!

That's a nice pick

That was a great play. Chase is looking like a 2.5 WAR type of player which is amazing for the third piece of a trade.

Congrats to Beni for 10 years of service time.