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This undercounts his stealing ability which is important. When it goes up to 26 men on roster, he's gonna have a long career.

Bravo Ostrich.

Burr did a good job though, one of those bad luck innings for a pitcher. Obviously, don't walk people, but getting 2 ground balls and only 1 out is tough.

Ah yes, bring out your big guns here: Josh Osich.

oo boy, me no likey.

And I understand this, realistically we will have a fairly high draft pick next year, however, and it just seems like one of the rare opportunities to take a stab at these type of profiles: a power hitting up the middle infielder. Even if he doesn't play for us, that's ridiculous value. Prior to playing, how much value was Pete Alonso? Now that he's there, you know, it's huge offensive value and I get that and that's why I'd still like Vaughn.

Good stuff from Chuck

Leury just giving Keller that confidence so that he'll stay in game to get destroyed later. SMart. Giving up the pawn to get the queen.

LOL dude is walking james mccann and adam engel.

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.