Jake

Nice throw and good job by Noah not to f*** it up with a slow delivery

The cutter sometimes works for him like a cutter and other times like a slider.

Yeah and I mean I don't think those two have all that much bearing on each other. Not really room in the starting lineup for Jacob right now and we don't need a lefty infielder on the bench. But I'm not disappointed with Jacob at all and I suspect we'll see him again unless he's used as trade fodder (in which case we'll probably see him again on the other side).

Luisangel has been increasingly hitterish. Think his roster spot is pretty safe by now.

Good time to run there.

Pretty close to textbook. Other one was on the lowest edge of the zone but a couple inches more towards the middle. In practice you're rarely going to do better than that in the zone. Real question is why are the hitters so ready for it? Probably not worth it for him to keep using it against righties right now since they're having such bad swings on his fastball/cutter/changeup.

Both of those sweepers were well located and had the usual, very big break that his sweeper gets (as measured by Statcast). It's either predictable in the count or he's tipping it.

Colson defensive woes continue

By the way Mune tagged up from first (successfully) after reaching base so he's just flaunting his health down there

More extension than Noah but nothing remarkable. Sale does have a lot lower/wider release though. Noah's release point is far from normal, but not as unusual as Sale's. Newcomb's release point is actually very similar to Noah's.

Indeed, Boston was lucky as hell that inning!

Romy having a horrific AB as you make that proclamation lol

Only last season when his knee started bothering him. Otherwise, the main complaint you would have had is maybe he'd give up too much hard contact.

Thought we were about to get a third broken bat single

Noah has not exactly had good luck in his outings.

Any idea why Charlotte pinch hit for Edgar last night? Hard to believe it was performance given that his pinch hitter seems to be a non-hitting org soldier.

I have to admit a bias against high school prospects. I understand the metrics and so on about youth and upside so I'm not actually against a strategy that emphasizes high schoolers. But as a fan who wants to have an opinion about specific players, I just find it very difficult to know whether Grady Emerson is going to be good. It's harder to see him play and it's really hard to evaluate the level of competition. These are obviously problems that affect the MLB scouts looking at him too but they have more resources and such. So it's hard for me to have a strong opinion on Emerson without relying a lot on what other people say. This isn't fair at all but he also seems un-charismatic to me in interviews and watching him on the field. Roch entered the year in pole position and I don't think he really lost it but he also didn't run away with it either. I think there's a bit under the hood to suggest he improved as a player but you could argue part of that rests on last year's production being perhaps overheated/fake/whatever. I believe in some players being safer bets than others but I don't really believe anybody is truly a safe bet. Would you be shocked if Roch Cholowsky initially posts a .650 OPS in high A?

As I recall, Chuck said yesterday we wouldn't be seeing them today

Nice job pulling off the series split. Could have easily swept them. Could also have easily lost them all. Baseball.

3 pitches down the middle and sit the f*** down for Hoskins lol

Don't take the bait and bring Hicks in IMO

Delauter actually has reverse splits as a MLBer.

Sam was scaring me on that one

Newcomb not looking super sharp, similar to his last couple outings

I guess Richards is the only fresh arm on the team lmao. He's like a knuckleballer, he can lob that changeup every day without getting tired.