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Ok someone has to say it. Congrats to Rick Renteria .

Unfucking real baby !

I thought that was a hit. Yes Engel. Yesssssss hell yes Gio !!!!!!!

Ok now with 3 outs to go I'm pumped but the W is what counts.

UFOs over Chicago

Welcome back Yolmer. Have glove, will travel.

Thank you, thank you, thank you !!!

Did you see them being no hit when you took the Cubs on FanDuel ? I trust you doubled down the next day against Darvish ! Don't hurt me please !!

Jerry is that you ?

If you want to give up big innings in the playoffs and totally frustrate your pitchers and inflate their ERAs then Castellanos is your man with Eloy in the other corner.

I could see this post coming from you from a mile away and I agree wholeheartedly.

Nor Vaughn

Still 90 % sure no Vaughn . They have no reason to bring him up. If they shock us and give up EE then Collins and the catchers rotate DH. If they need another one they try Yermin. No need whatsoever to screw with Vaughn's service time when they got a guy like Mercedes whose service time means nothing.

The sick power numbers came in AAA and in spring training and bringing up the juiced ball with him is just the type of resistance to him I'm talking about. Its not like only he hit with a juiced ball. Robert had the juiced ball too as did all MLB player. YM also led in ST HRs with 4 had a .955 slugging and 1.400 OPS. Every major opportunity he got he raked. He hit slightly better than Robert in AAA with a better K %. The Sox could do something bold and dump EE . I'm not suggesting they will but between Collins and Meredes thats a lot of power and I think youd get decent OBP from both of them too Just my musings.

Not only that but judging/scouting any player ,young or old ,accurately is extremely difficult. Everything to our hitting coach couch experts here is explained away so easily and smugly like they are the end all be all hitting gurus. Personally ,especially with young players ,I hate calling anyone a bust or saying they suck . Sometimes all it takes is some small thing that allows them to adjust to the highest level, be it physical or mental. Some never find it, some it takes years. I want to see a guy like Mercedes get a legit shot to be a DH somewhere. I have never seen him fail as a hitter at any level. Even in the SSS of this years Spring Training he was raking. Just sick power numbers . But one of our resident stats analysis experts said he cant hit a curve to save his life. I don't care how long it's taken him. (The tried and true career minor leaguer bash ) .Obviously his defense held him back but the older he gets he has to produce or it keeps setting him back more. He wont have the luxury of getting chance after chance if he doesnt hit the ground running. Collins being LH and with 1st round pedigree will always be given more opportunties even with failed early attempts. If Mercedes looked as bad as Collins did when 1st getting a look he might never get another shot. That's not an indictment of Collins but more recognizing that different paths are travelled to reach the same destination.

There's a few regular guys in game threads who regularly use the cheating on fastballs line. You know once one respected guy says it others pick it up as the go to phrase to explain how a slumping older guy is through . Or any struggling hitter along with his swing too long, bat speed is so slow. I have no idea how anyone identifies such things from their couch or we had so many major league scouts here. But who knows ,maybe they are using stop watches and have detailed ultra slow mo footage at home in their advanced metrics basements .

Something is off with Mazara . He's having trouble squaring it up. Could be the late start. Could be trying to incorporate changes to get more loft. One little adjustment and he could start raking. Close the stance a little bit, check his vision, hold hands in a different place , stride, leg kick ,timing mechanism. Rooting for him to find the key soon.

Slightly better numbers but yes very similar.

Only 2 Homer's given up during the win streak. 27-2.

It's not all about you my friend. It wasn't you I was referring to.

One particular poster and a good poster but always hard on Abreu was ripping him in a game thread. He said something about Abreu looking old and slow and only being effective because he's cheating on fastballs. My response was if it was so easy to lead the league in hard hit balls (95mph +) by cheating on fastballs he wouldn't be leading the league. There are just so many good fastball hitters in MLB that all look fastball 1st . I told the poster that reason was a reach. He responded smugly when Abreu K'din his next AB . I have not seen him praising Abreu in this thread.

Randal Grichuk is still in MLB and recently had a 6 homer in 6 games stretch.

Ron buddy ! I'm so glad you're Ok ! I thought you might've been gagging on that big black crow shoved down your throat last night.

I already pointed out he had 1.1 bWAR in only 110 PA so that sounds about right though fWAR is generally given more creedence.

If if if Free Yermin !!