Jake

Yeah I've always suspected that part of the deal in the "old days" was the meat grinder of amateur and minor league baseball basically filtered out everybody whose arms needed any sort of babying to manage the workload expectations. Not to say I think it's a good system to have guys flaming out like that, but it would make sense to me that it's what was going on.

I won't support Pedro's continued employment, but I'm ever so slightly heartened that Reinsdorf is taking enough interest to sit these guys down and ask what the hell is going on

As far as Pham's true trade value is concerned, I found it noteworthy that Kevin Pillar wasn't moved despite his better defense and good production in LA. Some signs of luck behind his production (no surprise since he's never been an .850 OPS guy) but it wouldn't have been hard to argue that teams should like him more than Pham considering the defense.

Yeah I'm open to just saying you can't let an unheralded prospect make his debut in any kind of pressure situation. And I'm not inclined to give Grifol the benefit of the doubt on much of anything. But yeah...the options are really rotten and it probably had to be either Shuster or Peralta if it wasn't going to be Ellard.

Just to clarify on the handedness. It was Isbel and Massey coming up. They were both pinch hit for because of the lefty coming in. So manager has to choose between those lefties hitting a righty reliever or putting in a lefty pitcher and having him pitch to the righty pinch hitters.

Must stink when you're terrible at pitching but you're also getting screwed by the ump and your fielders are gifting runs on top of it. So many ways to lsoe

Well I was questioning the decision to put Ellard in there, but looking at all the options available, I guess it's not as crazy as it first seemed. Had two lefties coming up, so I see why you'd want to go for a lefty. You have Peralta available, although he pitched last night. And you have Shuster who is horrible. Besides that, you have Anderson, Toussaint, Steven Wilson likely available but having to pitch against two lefties to start the inning.

I saw a trade graphic on Twitter claiming the Sox received cash considerations in the deal. Can anyone confirm?

Would be nuts to pigeonhole this kid at DH already. But with this brain trust, I can't rule out the possibility that it's the plan

One way to save money is to not light $4.5M on fire by giving it to the likes of Martin Maldonado

Yeah I suspect he will be up very soon given the state of the roster

Shocked we got what is probably a useful major leaguer for Eloy. From FanGraphs:

Some Statcast numbers on McGough in AAA:

Good trade.

I guess that's fine. Wish things would have worked out with him, I still think he's a fun and good person.

Getz trying to make deals but getting a busy signal from the GMs talking with the Marlins

I think the return for Fedde remains better than for Richards and Scott. Of course, it should have been and even moreso than it is.

I could imagine Brebbia not drawing any offers at this point.

3B or LF/RF I would think. He seems to have the arm strength for RF, per the limited Statcast data

Grifol told reporters this story is completely false, FWIW

Tired: Grifol shouldn't have said that Wired: Player(s) shouldn't have pissed themselves hearing someone say this to them

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FWIW, Fangraphs has these guys as 40+, 40+, 40, and <35 (unranked). And they all seem to be having bad seasons, although that is at least somewhat factored into those grades which were just updated.

Not to defend this boob, it sounds like this wasn't offered as serious analysis but as something motivational for the players (whether it would motivate, IDK). Sort of a rah rah buckle up and keep your name out of the history books kind of thing

Come on now, about a third of these are shitposts ?