fathom

And that's where the coaching staff, that's supposed to be here to help the young guys develop, need to be held accountable.

hands of stone

Don't know if you've heard this, but he has a big house in Arizona

He also isn't a comic, but unfortunately he tries to be one far too often. He's significantly better when he does games on ESPN.

Yoan has got to rotate his hips when he's swinging righty. Far too stiff from that side.

Teacher's pet....I still say the Timmy/Avi ones were complete crap by Renteria

what happened

It's kinda amazing he gets paid a lot of money to be so awful. He has brought nothing to the table this year.

Beautiful swing by Timmy there!

He'll have Kopech throwing 94mph in no time

That was impressive by Avi. A few years ago, that's a ground ball to the left side.

Yeah seems dumber to me than if they had called up Eloy, as Eloy is the much safer style of player to give a big extension to.

Could see the Cubs wanting him now

Agreed, it's exciting to watch him but can't help wonder why this wasn't done a few weeks ago? Giving up that extra year for 6-7 starts this year seems like a bad business decision.

He's going to end up being a late inning reliever if he can't develop anything else

Lopez out after another hit allowed. When he has bad starts, they're really bad.

Kopech on Tuesday

Lopez had the 2nd worst xFIP in baseball during the first half of the year (trailing only Giolito for qualified pitchers) and is easily the worst in the 2nd half. It's getting to the point where if he struggles the first half of next year, you have to reconsider your options with him.

Hopefully Davidson pitches today. At least he has a strikeout pitch.

haha, Cooper FINALLY wakes up from his nap. How does the most overrated coach in baseball decide to finally come talk to his pitcher after he's allowed 6 runs in an inning?

absolutely horrible inning for Lopez. That last homer another example of his terrible fastball command this season.

and now a 97 mph high fastball with 2 strikes is destroyed, as Lopez continues to have the ball tail right over the plate during the second half of the season.

Lopez has great velocity today, but man he must give away his changeup somehow. 11 mph gap and the KC hitter looked like it was a batting practice pitch.

poor Avi, his season is falling apart. Probably costing himself a decent amount of money trying to play through the lower body injuries.

I will never understand why they moved him back to the leadoff spot after he said he felt more comfortable lower down because he got to see what the pitcher had. Ricky must have been busy talking to Avi about his hustle when Yoan made those comments.