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I don't know - I'm not seeing this as as big of an error as others are seeing it. Yes - he gets added to the 40-man a year early. Yes - he burns an option. As someone else said, though - he now has 2.5 years basically to prove he's a worthy major league player. If in 2025 he's still a borderline AAA / 4A player, then hemming and hawing about a burned option when he's 22 isn't really that big of a deal. As for "why call someone up for 5 days?" - who knows? Optimistically, maybe there's something personal that he can benefit from for his development as a player (conduct, advice, coaching from someone like Abreu and definitely not Menechino, etc.) that he can take back with him to the minors?? My guess is that there was no better option with Sanchez hurt (not a good thing to not have sufficient organizational depth) so he was the next guy available. Bad spot for the organization to be in, but IMO the downside isn't as catastrophic as others make it out to be.

There WAS Mendick....

I feel like this isn't true for this org, going all the way back to Omar Vizquel's start at DH in 2010

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From The Good Place. Trevor is a demon.

To be clear - when you say "4/30 in O-Swing %" and "5/30 in GB%," does that mean that they have the 4th and 5th highest in the league? Or 4th / 5th best?

My guess is that in baseball you have a lot more downtime, so your muscles have a chance to cool down far more.

TLR is definitely Trevor.

I concur. JR = Shawn Hahn = Michael Katz = Janet

Leaving this here.

To be fair.... that's probably led to a reduction of about 2 runs. Let's be honest - a majority of those 13 would have been stranded at 3rd anyways.

...or is actually benched.

Adam Cimber is on my fantasy team. You're welcome.

I would say his defense.... but he also just took out our best defensive infielder.

That's the outfielder's ball. Haseley needed to call off Mendick.

The ironic thing is that Haseley might be the best defensive LFer we've fielded this year. I blame a complete and utter lack of communication on balls hit in the air. I would be willing to bet that we lead the league in outfield collisions.

In this statcast era, do they keep track of fielder collisions?

His numbers / peripherals remind me of Chris Young (OF), but as a 2Bman.

To be fair, he would probably only have played about 45 games on the Sox.

Related to that.... I think VV is one of the biggest "glue" guys on the staff. With how fickle the health of the staff seems to be, having a relief valve for Kopech (not to mention the other starters that may need rest as the season goes on) will be huge.

I wonder if this had anything to do with Lorenzen's gripes and the Justin Upton HBP.... https://sports.yahoo.com/angels-pitcher-michael-lorenzen-rips-mlb-balls-after-hitting-justin-upton-in-head-with-pitch-150837089.html

He’s been pretty productive in June.

My army or relievers makes up for the WHIP / ERA deficiencies.

I started Berrios in my fantasy team today. You're welcome.

You have to admit that Joyce's nickname is badass ("Volunteer Fireman")