Jake

Will be interested to hear about velocity for Burdi

Man that Birmingham lineup is terrible right now. That was supposed to be the fun one!

Wild in the zone better than wild out of the zone

Maybe I'm forgetting but I just don't think Reynaldo has gotten much use out of his changeup at all this year

The Eloy – Carlos Lee comparison seems to still hold pretty well

I think the best evidence against Eloy is that he got fairly close to it and people are assuming other guys would have been there a few steps sooner. Of course that requires us to be correct that he had a bad route and/or slow speed getting there which is hard to know from watching it on TV

I wish they gave catch probability because the expected BA doesn't actually compute to 1 minus catch probability. The actual catch probability could be more or less than what is implied by .230 expected BA. The expected BA doesn't factor in where fielders are positioned or the left/right direction of the batted ball

I'm not saying that I can just see how his brain may be telling him to start hitting the brakes early so he doesn't go down like a ton of bricks like he's probably done so many times before

Doesn't seem to use his body well at all when throwing

After you see how he nearly died on the ground rule double in the corner you can kind of see why it seems like Eloy isn't comfortable going all out for fly balls

DH my ass!

Seems like Yoan isn't seeing Norris's fastball very well

I think Eloy's defense has more potential than what we've gotten from him so far. The Statcast data suggests his speed isn't (yet) a major limiting factor and he looks fairly comfortable tracking the ball much of the time. I think he needs some more motor and some more experience around the wall, playing the ricochet, things like that.

Yolmer with a much better relay than last time around

49mph exit velocity on that RBI single

How did he hit that

Reynaldo may want to not throw his offspeed down the middle though

Glad to see Reynaldo backing up the play there

Just goes to show you why he shouldn't be slacking!

Lopez missing everything up and in

Don't know why he has but it seems like Welington has decided to mail it in

Watching Tyler Flowers the other day I noticed he does that a lot, which seems bad but of course you can't argue with his results.

I think the only place you could argue is it may be the case that Jose Rondon has leapfrogged Yolmer, but that depends on how much of Yolmer's brutal start is just an anomaly and of course we're not totally sure what Rondon is going to be.

107mph, just gotta get the launch angle now