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He's been my favorite relief prospect seems like forever now (liked him even when Hamilton, Burdi, etc. were lighting up the minors). I'm expecting him to make noise on a callup this year.

And 2 K's. He always had the stuff but he still has no idea where any of it is going.

I would be surprised if Encarnacion isn't behind Abreu. Jose has spoke glowingly on him about protection in the lineup already. I can see Ricky accommodating that and then putting Grandal at 5. Then again, I'm surprised Ricky isn't batting Leury at the top so it's a start...

Because LaVine doesn't like his dumb ass timeouts when the game is over.

Alex Ovechkin 700 goals. 8th player ever to reach that number. Just an incredible player and career.

Nice. Now get Jorge on board.

Who was the guy who called this one?

Ew..

Good. Let the high school talent slip to us.

Props to you Alex for knowing who the real/original Gio is.

Dear lord no...

Dallas Keuchel laying in the weeds with this one...

Saad.

Bingo.

Seriously. This is a tremendous development by Ricky. Let it be Anderson then Moncada. Yoyo hates leading off and he's way better in the 2 spot where your best hitter should be anyways.

Yea what a fat ass.

Ouch.

I bet Kevin Dziepak knew. By far the smartest guy on that morning station.

Bingo. Good teams have good bench players who can sub in effectively in case of injury. I'm not as worried about the infield because I think Mendick would be an adequate enough replacement for Madrigal or even Timmy.. well.. we'll see how he performs with the glove this season (we're screwed if Moncada misses alot of time) and there's plenty of good hitters (Encarnacion, Grandal, maybe Collins/Sheets) who can fill in at 1B for Abreu if something happens to him but the outfield bench isn't very good (you can say screwed if Robert misses time too as he and Moncada are probably our main 2 guys who are irreplaceable, even temporarily. Maybe add Timmy to the list if his defense improves). Eloy is tremendous but you can at least survive with Puig (or Mazara) in that spot because of the glove and an adequate enough bat.

Timmy, Puig, Grandal... man talk about bat flips bonanza.

Baby got back.

Sorry to hear brother. Condolences to you and the family.

Carlos Lee walk off grand slam versus the Cubs (I believe it was 01' as I just graduated or was about to graduate 8th grade and was set to begin high school). Best game I ever went to.

I'm not sure Mercedes has much of a future here but he absolutely deserves a big league shot somewhere. I know the Sox weren't just gonna let him go for nothing, but I think they should do their due diligence and trade him to a place where he can get playing time. I won't be greedy.. give me a reliever prospect with good stuff and upside and I'll be happy.