Autumn Dreamin

Barons drop a close one late, 4-3. But Gowens was nice with 5 scoreless, and BMont legged out his first AA triple

He says he doesn't want to leave and has a NTC.

Could not be more night and day for Hatch compared to his outing at the Rate

Sosa has some vicious pimp jobs lol

Hatch shut them down last series, nice adjustments so far.

Dash win 1-0 behind that first inning shot from Perez and some great pitching. Ziehl (Slater return) went 5 scoreless with 1 hit. Phil Fox got a 2 inning save. He's had a really solid first year, mostly pitching leverage innings. 3.14 ERA/0.96 WHIP over 57.1IP with 71 Ks to just 13 walks.

Rough one for Crochet vs. the Guardians: 6IP, 7ER, 9H (4 HR), 4K. Getting squared up by guys like Hedges, Fry, and Rocchio makes me wonder if he was tipping? Not good for the Cy odds either way.

The A's have some good young pieces, will be interesting to see their offseason

Padres bringing Maldonado back on a minors deal. He was Cease's (4IP 2ER on 91 pitches today) personal catcher in the first half, but it's not like it was leading to better results so I'm not sure what the rationale is. I guess just injury insurance, since they seem to not like Campusano at C.

Productive inning for guys with the initials CM

HRs in four straight games against the Twins for Colson

Sosa hit HR #18 today. His first 9 took half the season (81 games) but he got the next 9 more than twice as quickly (38 games). He's also very nearly doubled his RBI pace from the first half to the second (31 RBI in 81 games vs. 30 RBI in 38 games). Some of that is probably a result of the generally better team offense. Some is improved plate discipline as he's dropped his K% from 23.7 to 18.7%. Taking 8 walks in still 38 games isn't much, but it beats 8 walks in 81... He also just seems to be punishing "his" pitches more: 9 HR out of 24 XBH in the first half (14 2B), 9 HR out of 12 XBH in the last 38 games (3 2B). It's a big jump in ISO from .150 to .204 while simultaneously improving his AVG/OBP a bit. Will be interesting to see if the trend keeps up to finish the season or if it's just a hot streak in a (still solid) year.

Bonemer finished 3-4 with a double, 2 HR, and a walk for good measure. Very hot start in WS, 6-18 with 5 XHB through 5 games (2 doubles, 1 triple, 2 HR). 4 walks to 4Ks. Dash won 5-0, Oppor finally gets his first W at the level.

Bonemer just hit another lol, 106mph 424ft to LCF

Good start for Oppor: 5IP, 0ER, 2H, 1BB, 6K. Efficient 66 pitches, barely broke a sweat.

They've said the plan is still to have him make all of his starts, though I imagine the leash gets shorter for them much like Crochet last year.

Pretty insane coming from the Rays of all orgs?

Bonemer's first HIgh A 💣

Great August for Shane. 6 starts, 33.2IP, 10 ER (2.67 ERA), 31K, <1.00 WHIP. His last two outings are the two longest of his career.