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These royals pitchers seem to lose the plot after the second time through the order. No idea what that feels like. We are first time through the order people.

Keller fed TA all fastballs. Good luck with that.

Capra's about as good at 3b as he was at player dev.

I would still take Vaughn if we are deadset against high schoolers.

Good ole Leury, always forcing errors on both sides of the field.

PHew, Leury here to break it open.

I'm so good at this.

I feel the same way.

You gotta be kidding me

Big inning for Mondesi.

Twas divine providence.

Ahem More like No'hearn

Ahem. More like No-zier

There may be some additional reasons aside from dimensions why it's difficult, be it around difficulty picking ball up, weather or geography. I think I've heard that Kanny, being up in the wet NC mountains, is a difficult transition for those used to dry AZ/Montana air. So perhaps there is a birmingham specific component which I'm not sure I'd be able to find.

So it's not terrible for runs in general, but it's very bad for power. This article measures it as slightly above neutral for runs, but you can see much lower for home runs. https://www.milb.com/eastern/news/x-factors-double-a-ballpark-effects/c-66868822 And you can see why a bit when you view the stadium. It's actually pretty normal on the corners (320 ft left, 325 right), and it's only 400 dead center, but it is an irregular shape, where it's depth juts out in left field and is much deeper than the pretty consistent curve shape we'd expect to see in majors. http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?sid=t247&ymd=20120127&content_id=26491494&vkey=team4 And if not for Regions, southern league in general is a fairly high scoring league. So it's not like it should make you a completely terrible hitter, but your power is muted. The biggest difficulty is just AA is a huge jump.

AL East is about one year away from being awesome again though (in the same way NL East is, bal/mia in same position). Angels have started drafting better and have Trout longterm (and ohtani). Central seems pretty weak for a while but I like Minnesota's new front office.

Well that's a hell of a statline for Varnell.

We probably are even not accounting for how bad it was even in spring training. He was 7 for 42 in spring training. So he's 7 for his last 76, a .092 BA.

No Palka, even v. RHP. Keller ate us for lunch last time, Giolito ate them for lunch last time. Defensively, probably our second strongest lineup (yonder at 1b best).

Oh the other thing I liked was he'll only be 17 on draft day. This says he tops out at 90 though. Sure is fun researching this stuff when we'll probably draft a college 1b overslot in the second round! https://www.perfectgame.org/Players/Playerprofile.aspx?ID=551758

Do you know anything about Blake Walston (Lhp prep). I read two sentences I liked, about his size and curve ball. Know nothing else.

This is true. I’ll give some credit to opponents though, Seattle was a buzzsaw that did it to more than the Sox. They are only now starting to cool down (started 13-2! Sox at least stole 1 vs them), and Tampa’s pitching start pegs them to be like the best pitching staff ever so those were happening to more teams than just Sox. so it will be fun if we can watch some nice wins vs AL Central this next few weeks.

Seems like Getz wants players to earn their promotions while in A/A+ ball, then AA will either be they earned it or were pushed up

It’s the ninth inning so Colome must pitch. It’s in his manager Manual.

So Colome it is.