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\hawk voice I've said it before and I'll say it again, Burger has a chance to be the best baseball we've ever seen.

duh, because he's going to drive those fools in with his 115 mph singles to the outfield wall.

Happy to see my son Carlos play but yes. Especially since W-S will be interesting since it's by far the most affiliate stadium wise (bham is beautiful, just always anemic offensively). Excited for another year of Jirscheles teams to play way above their head while everyone else is 60 games below .500

what a relief I didn't say anything embarrassing in that thread.

I'm having a real morning right now. A real morning.

if you guys didn't catch this, check out Burger's beautiful play last night before they shipped him to Jetsland

literally nobody all offseason that I can remember discussed ADOLFO (edited) as a remotely suitable option for us in RF but think there are like 10 teams that would jump on him to be a starting outfielder. He has power for sure, he has poor contact and swings at a lot. The value of those guys has cratered. I hope he lands back here for sure, because you can see it all being put together, but as hard as it is to believe a lot of orgs have guys like this.

And so begins Jake Burgers ROTY campaign @Quin

VV & Keuchel are the only issue in that list for me. The rest is just the nature of bullpens. Red sox rode a rule 5 pick and a yankee castoff and made a hell of a bullpen last year. They could all explode, but ruiz/crick/sousa/banks could easily find some really strong MR roles there because pitching is wild.

gonna go out on a limb and say that's sonny gray.

I am a bit nervous about dealing with the dreaded Lucas Giolito day game.

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=04/07/2022 https://www.milb.com/scores/chicago-white-sox/2022-04-07

My thing is just that I think the ALC will be better than the ALW. I may be the highest on the Royals. And I'll believe the guardians are awful when I see it, because they are just too well run, constantly.

Also holy crap I'm editing my post because I meant Guardians but I had just written a post about the twins.

Yeah it's unlikely but he's a wild card after 3 years off basically, and if he had made some adjustments in tampa and looks healthy it could happen.

The old claim was steroids now we're going with pitch stealing? I can see the vascillating manfredball's being a bigger deal to a bunch of 25 hr hitters in 2019 declining to mush.

I'm just hoping we aren't looking at a 6 hour game with 2 rain delays.

happy for him. Can't believe what a small class they walked into this year with.

I can't believe those odds for him anyway. I feel like scattering $20 across the entire Guardians pitching staff is the best play considering how good that damn org is with pitching. But OTOH every AL East pitcher has such a big leg up because if one of the pitchers dominates some starts against yanks or red sox 50% of the voters will put them first because they don't watch any other games.

Twins were having great success with their major league scouting and adjustments for a few years before it blew up last year. It will be interesting to see if they have regained some success with Paddack/Archer. It was strange last year watching so many of their promising young players regressing, but if that team finds 150 games out of buxton you can't count them out of anything. He's the straw as they say.

Is Romy gonna be up for TAs suspension ?

Shocker, Perez dominating

He struck out 40% in AA

Not for pitchers

I feel like the sox would have really benefitted from the Rule 5 draft.