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Lopez might have given up 10 bombs if it was july. Nice start though.

Moncada is fine

They mixed up tilson and Cordell’s picture on the scoreboard which is hilarious

Moncada is fine

The theme nights are so half assed I can’t imagine anyone has ever made plans for them. Except Elvis night maybe

Well yeah I’m not advocating for that

You would think. Probably will break camp with the team anyway. He makes Adam Engel and Avi Garcia easy to get rid of

DHing your other catcher is a bad idea.

It was considered a minor miracle that he was available at 3. Injuries happen. Sucks it didn't work out but out of all the picks to complain about, this isn't really one. I can't really fault any team for not being to predict pitching injuries, because if any one could, they'd be the single richest person in baseball.

Rodon was never a key to this. I'd also argue that attrition is part of the plan anyway, at least it had better be.

There is no 8 years. That would be a new rebuild at that point. They know this.

I'd be interested to know if Organizational health is actually noticeably different, or if we are just paying more attention to it now.

Not necessarily, could be any number of things.

I'd be surprised if we ever seen him in black and white again

If he has TJ I'm cutting my loses now tbh. I'm not paying him in 2020 to keep him around so we can see if maybe he could pitch when it should absolutely be go time for the team.

It seems to me that the simple change would be to tweak that huge leg kick, which is probably sapping what strength he does have. He doesn't need to hit for power, but every time I see him, he's hitting the ball with absolutely zero authority and that needs to change.

I think this is absolutely what is going to happen

You didn't say that ? But yeah, he's not worth a very interesting prospect, so I'd rather hold him and make at least some effort to be competitive in 2020 than trade him for Kodi Medeiros or Ryan Cordell. If you can get someone like Miguel Amaya+ off the Cubs hands, I'd be willing to reconsider my position.

Kahnle mostly netted them Rutherford, not Robertson. It was obviously some aggregate of Robertson, Kahnle, Frazier but the vast majority of the value was in the young controllable fireballer. I'd make that trade too, but the chances of getting a > Top 50 guy for Colome are sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim so I'd rather hang on to him for next year than trade him just to trade him.

It is nothing one none of it is long term money. They didn’t give Machado the extra 50 million because Jerry wouldn’t commit that to one guy not because they signed Alonso and Jay

I honestly feel p good about next year. They’re playing well enough to snap the FO into go time mode one would hope.

Crazy giolito could rebuild his entire delivery and become successful under the worst pitching coach in baseball

Good point

Rain into the fence back first. I would guess he’s probably fine. He stayed on the field and finished the inning.

There’s going to be official word in Rodon this week.