Autumn Dreamin

6 hits between Raleigh and Julio...0-28 for everyone else.

Kerry Carpenter came into the game 4-8 with 4 HR in his career vs. Kirby. Maybe should have walked him with first open and two outs?

Shohei vs. Sanchez: 0-3, 3K Colson vs. Sanchez:

Also there's a pretty high correlation between repeat outings in a series and worse performance for relievers. No reason to give the Cubs extra looks at their pen.

Sleeper agents activated

Don't think Boston picks up the mutual option, but I also don't think Liam hangs them up quite yet even if he has to work his way back on a MiLB deal.

Jim Callis on ranking Bonemer vs. Carlson: https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/pipeline-inbox-arizona-fall-league-carlos-lagrange-billy-carlson-joshua-baez

A little more detail from the article: White Sox lefthander Christian Oppor cracked the top 20 in our sliders ranking and leads all pitchers in Stuff+ scores for changeups. His change has 14-15 mph off velocity separation off his fastball and good vertical separation, too. Oppor also shows the ability to command the pitch, which translates to high whiffs and chase rates. Adisyn Coffey's changeup also made the top 20. UDFA Carson Jacobs made the top 20 for splitters.

Pipeline update: Stop me if you've heard this one before, but Montgomery is the Sox #1 prospect

On the one hand, interesting that they all made the postseason. On the other, Brewers are the last ones standing.

If XB got his walk, is that a game tying sac fly?

If the game comes down to that missing runner...

They should have the tying run on with no outs

Egregious call in this moment

Would like him to be overtaken by wholesome Colson

Crowd at Wrigley going WILD for an immensely routine flyout lol

You're welcome Dingler

Detroit remains the only team without a postseason HR so far

Treinen's 1.93 ERA in 46.2IP last season is also good, but If you're holding his recent performances against him then you can't just ignore Kopech's. I disagree that the stuff is the same. Fastball is slower/straighter/wilder with a career worst K% and he doesn't throw a slider anymore. Career high pitches per batter/inning because his misses are too uncompetitive to get chase. Between OKC and LA, he has walked 33/122 (27%) of batters faced this season. And that includes his stats before the knee surgery, he's been even worse since then. 9 walks (and a HBP) vs 5Ks across ~32 batters in 5.1 rehab innings in AAA. 9 walks vs 4Ks across ~24 batters in 4 MLB innings. A guy with twice as many walks as Ks, allowing a free pass to every 3rd batter and 3 baserunners per inning, just does not scream postseason leverage arm to me.

Eh. He's running a 1.73 WHIP with more than a walk per inning (and more walks than Ks) on the season...But even worse, 6.75 ERA/3.00 (!!!) WHIP since his return from the IL in September. 62 of 117 pitches for strikes, and a lot of the misses are bad. I remember watching him walk the bases loaded with 1 out in low leverage, they had to burn Vesia to strand his runners. And that's all after ramping up with a rehab stint that obviously wouldn't be available to him now (though he was getting lit up in AAA too, 18 ER in 11.2 innings with a 2.91 WHIP). In any case, he's so banged up that the team apparently didn't even know what to put on his IL designation at the end of the season so I don't think he he'll be healthy (and don't see why they would trust him even if he was). Sucks for him going into free agency this year.

Rodon off to a great start

104 right on the corner, wowza