Jake

They have pitched Mune masterfully today. Only one pitch even close to the meat of the zone and that was a wicked changeup from Canning on the first pitch of the game. If you consistently place pitches exactly on the absolute edges of the zone like this, you'll definitely beat him. His whole deal is just assuming that pitchers won't be able to do that very consistently.

Sheets's ability to make contact on higher than high fastballs is incredible. Perhaps not advisable, but still amazing.

I think that may have already happened this season to Hill lol

When it rains, it pours for Luisangel. Smashed that one right to SS

We all pooped

Gimme one of those GMs smart enough to give a two-way contract or whatever the hell it's called to Derek Hill

Will pulling all the right strings.

That was a fantastic inning by Morejon. Pounded the edges of the zone and never made a mistake. And did it with incredible stuff.

That's true but his arsenal is completely different now. He didn't throw sinker or cutter when he was last in MLB. Used to throw lots of slow curves. Shape of the four-seamer and slider is different now. And he's gained velo. Might just be different lipstick on the same pig in the end but I wouldn't assume that everything translates exactly the same way.

The cost of a starter who is highly likely to be good is...a lot higher than what the Sox paid Anthony Kay. I don't see the potential failure of Kay as some important sign of Getz's competence.

This wasn't the case for Kay in his previous MLB stints, but in this season's small sample he has very pronounced lefty/righty splits. Might bode well for how a transition to the bullpen would go.

He's not throwing his changeup and I think the fact the Padres are realizing that is resulting in these great swings on pitches on the inside edge of the zone.

Threw that pitch right where you would want to as a lefty vs. a righty but Andujar pounded it anyway

Begone, Kelenic

Ozzie on why he doesn't go out to restaurants to get Venezuelan food: "That's why I have a wife!"

You know Cannon was not always this bad. Not that obvious to me what changed.

Canning standing there with his shirt untucked in that picture lol

No-stress third inning for Hagen but velo took another dive. His first fastball of the inning was 90.7mph.

Have there been any updates on the recoveries of Thorpe, Bush, and Mason Adams? I don't remember even hearing about Adams in spring training.

I should say I might be generous in calling the velo drop "slight" depending on where you want to say the baseline should be. I took his first start sitting 96-97 as maybe higher than his healthy normal, but maybe that's not true.

My best guess is Hagen's slight drop in velo has to do with him trying to aim it better, but he did have a brief scare with the arm/elbow last season as I recall.

Great looking pitch chart for Hagen in the first 🤮

Well I'm certainly giving him time. But the K rate is up nearly 50% so as I see it, it's currently at a rate that you can't safely promote him. Just for reference, Joey Gallo struck out less than this in high-A as a 20 year old. So I want to see Caleb show some real mastery of this low level of pitching so he doesn't risk getting overwhelmed later.

Quero entered the night grading out as the worst challenger by a large margin but maybe these nudge him towards respectability

Last I looked, Seranthony had the highest leverage appearances of anybody in MLB. I suspect that went up even further tonight.