Jake

Woj says Minnesota is "focused" on Culver!

Why is Ervin Santana Ja Morant's dad

Woj says Minnesota may be working on a trade of the #6

If Culver's there, wouldn't be a shock if someone would want to trade up to get him.

Woj just said on TV that Minnesota traded to 6 to get a PG

ESPN's mock has Minnesota taking Coby White at 6.

I'd be happy!

ESPN's mock has Culver-Garland-White going in front of the Bulls, which to me is the worst case scenario and leaves them with DeAndre Hunter at 7, which to me is the least exciting possibility but probably the right pick under those circumstances. I wouldn't trade up unless the price is trivial.

Other than HBP, I was prepared to say "first of many" about whatever he did

Send this ballpark straight to hell

Every now and then I wonder if Ruiz is going to turn into something

I was only rooting against it because I didn't want Collins to get forced into the game under those weird circumstances for his first ever appearance.

Ricky gets tossed often enough that I kind of doubt he's being a coward. I suspect he just doesn't realize how bad it's been because the calls mostly have not been bad because of height

The data are probably out there to figure out if he has a consistent bias with lefties vs. righties

Good to see the uneven strike zones are still being applied to each team's relievers

Tilson has a .397 OPS against LHP this year. Alonso has a .946 OPS against LHP (not typical of his career to say the least)

Would be nice to have a real RH pinch hit option on the bench here but we're stuck with two left-handed DHs and one RH guy that can cover you in the field

Worth noting that at least 2 of those caught stealing were on batter's interference

It wasn't a good jump though. He had a good jump on the play Lester tried to pick him off. When you have a good jump stealing third, you always steal the base.

The point about the umpire isn't that Lucas is secrely pitching great, it's that the umpire likely put two runs on the board by squeezing Lucas and perhaps kept runs off the board for Lester by giving him a giant strike zone

Too much speed differential on Giolito's changeup right now.

I'm not convinced we'd be losing with fair umpiring.

Since the LA/NO trade isn't official, are they going to make the #4 pick put on a Lakers hat, etc.?

It turns out he wasn't almost ready and the Sox seemed determined to ignore this information as they kept promoting him despite him struggling. For me, it throws off any obvious timeline for when he might reach his potential because he got to the MLB before he showed he was ready to move on from AA. This year, his numbers are much different in that he's getting a lot more strikeouts and swings and misses than ever before, but his command is worse as well. I don't have high hopes for his time in the MLB right now but I don't dismiss the possibility that he eventually figures it out and becomes quite useful.

I don't think Carson was called up because of an assessment by the FO that he's definitely ready...in fact I suspect they'd prefer to keep him down there until his walk numbers get down. But Vieira can't be called back up at this point and they aren't going to open a spot on the 40 man for someone else to get the call.