Jake

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 03:58 PM) More bad baserunning by Hudson there. Should have been tagging up...he wasn't going to score from 2nd even if that ball had dropped anyway. No. He did what he was supposed to.

Two hard hit balls at the OF'ers, only lucked out on one

Nice piece of woodwork by O-Dog, notwithstanding the LF'er

Hope for a quality start still lives.

And that, Gavin, is how you do it.

Dear Gavin, You can't pitch from behind in the count to lefties

Dayan has to quit swinging at that s***. It'll make or break his career, whether he can lay off the high fastball

I hope Tank tries to work that RF jetstream here.

This team is fun.

Nice baserunning Alex

AJ usually leads catchers in innings, games. He claims to be in the best shape of his life right now due to actually working on an S&C program. He'll be okay.

Gavin has this old problem of not being able to pitch with a quick move to home, but being way too slow with a workable stretch motion.

Both home runs have been followed by good pitching. Hmm

Steve calls every slider a cutter. It's a slider. I'm gonna go against the grain and say it's not a bad pitch. It's only bad when it is up, like just about any pitch. He throws it up too much.

Behind in the count is not the best place to be. High and middle is not the best place for sliders.

Dunn has missed a couple decent pitches to hit so far.

Saunders keeping his face clear of that ball.

Got ADA with a change piece.

Settled down pretty nicely. Keep rolling G

Lively ballpark I guess!

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 03:05 PM) Sox are in on Youkilis and if it happens they want it done soon. Spoken with an odd amount of certainty.

If he hadn't repeated AAA so many times at a young age (maybe we pushed him along too quickly) there would be some major buzz at this point. I'm not eager to make him a big league backup, at least not this year. Next year, at 26, there won't be anything left to prove in AAA.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 2, 2012 -> 12:52 PM) Hearing Juan Nieves on the Score, it sounds like Danks probably won't be ready Wednesday. No rush. Maybe let Quintana start Wednesday, and send Danks to Charlotte for a few innings, then let him tell his brother he made the bigs and they got on the plane back together. And who leaves the big league squad to make room for Jordan Danks?

Matt Thornton is the max I'd trade.

Given the current state of our outfield (Viciedo and De Aza in the long term, Rios for the next few seasons) and the fact we have young OF'ers getting close to MLB like Mitchell, Danks2 (look at his numbers this year folks), and the possible emergence of big talents like Walker and Thompson...I don't see us needing to drop big dollars on this kid. Draft an OF if there's a good one available, sure, but no need to spend 30 mill on this guy.