Look at Ray Ray Run

Your brain is broken

Kimbrel blew a 3 run lead two outings ago. Fact is the dominant unhittable back end has blown 2 3+ run leads in a week.

Speed certainly isn't more helpful than world class training, nutrition and etc that has taken off. It may give you some energy but it's not helping with recovery.

It's amazing, conditioning, exercise and nutrition and etc have improved ten fold over the past two decades, but for some reason position players in baseball need 20-30 games of rest per year to stay fresh while their counterparts 20-30 years ago took about 5-10 days off a season. Load management for position players in baseball is a load of garbage. Pitchers, because they've become so max effort are a different story.

What have I ever stolen from anyone exactly? Pretty bold accusations. Care to cite a single instance? Thanks in advance.

Lol the white sox literally just stole that from fangraphs.

It has more to do with the base itself being considered the keystone base, so the position just adopted the same name.

To be fair, you literally refused to acknowledge any logical argument in rebuttal of the move because you were euphoric over the idea that the Sox acquired the big piece for the first time in forever; which is fine. I actually get the mindset 100%, as I wanted them to push the chips in and this move certainly signified that. Now I would have shoved all my chips in a different direction, but the moral of the story is still that they shoved and it's exciting to watch your team shove.

This is a tricky one for me. The reliever aspect of this makes it tougher. In order for Kimbrel to be worth his price, the Sox need to not only get that far in the playoffs, but also play in close enough games that him being used over a replacement was significant enough for his impact to be a big reason why the Sox won. This is why I'll forever be frustrated that the Sox didn't go after Bryant and a lesser reliever perhaps; or just Bryant. Bryant impacts every inning of the game - regardless of score. Kimbrel impacts the game only in circumstances where the leverage was high enough and the game close enough that having him over someone else is incredibly valuable. As I have said prior, paying extra to have him next year is just a waste of prospect/player capital because you could have just signed a top reliever next year and paid him less money and gotten 95% of the productivity that Kimbrel would give you, and I'll argue until I'm blue in the face that there is no guarantee that Kimbrel is absolutely dominant next year; all without giving up Madrigal/Codi. If the Sox, say, lose in the first round this year then you paid a premium to use a guy in situations that never came up. That's obviously the risk of trading for any rental, but even more so a reliever rental imo.

Optimal lineup 1. Tim 2. Luis 3. Yoan 4. Abreu 5. Eloy 6. Grandal 7. Vaughn 8. Cesar 9. Engel

Some of the worst luck I've seen.

Yoan is now 6/46 on hard hit balls his season. Unreal.

Cesar Hernandez is way way way better than Leury Garcia. Whatever idiot said they're pretty similar should ban himself.

Eloy lol Guy hit that off the end of the bat and was out front.

Maybe I'm wrong and it is up to Jerry, but no RSN announcers were traveling with the teams.

Jerry has ownership stake in NBC Sports Chicago; the decision on things like this is 100% not up to Jerry Reinsdorf imo. No RSN announcers were/are traveling with the teams. This is NBC cutting costs. Maybe Jerry could overrule but who knows.

I mean, the radio crew travels. I don't think this is a Jerry decision. This is NBC.

ahh, you beat me to it.

Huh? Statcast projects distance based on distance from the ground when it hits something i'm pretty sure.

I thought they resumed travel after the all-star break? Did they cancel that? I saw that reported everywhere.

Of Eloy: Fangraphs: "Shit, we forgot this guy existed when we made our trade rumors list. Maybe no one will notice after he gets back if he struggles a little" **10 games after the return** Fangraphs: Damn it...

LOL that projection makes no sense; he broke the tracker. The wall is 410 and he hit it off the facade like 40 feet in the air.

ElOy CaNt HiT aS a Dh!

Tim is hot again. So streaky, so good. Teams think they find a hole, he sees it, changes, and one week later lights out.

Vaughn needs reps. The guy didn't play in games last year, and this is his first time ever playing the outfield. Reps are the only way to get better, and for a young guy the more the better. He's not some seasoned veteran who has the whole game figured out.