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Has to be the worst inning between a battery I’ve ever seen

this doesn't sound like it's going away soon.

Fridays seem to be big offensive days so I'm hoping for same.

Read the next post. I'm not saying he forgets how to hit as soon as he stops focusing on it. I'm saying the work he's putting in to improve on defense is taxing, he's learning what it takes to be a professional catcher, and it's affecting his offense.

Really awesome of you to write this up.

From what it sounded like in the article, the latter. Working more on footwork, throwing, managing the game is both time intensive and physically demanding. Part of it was scaling back those drills, while also letting him work more on his swing and approach.

I just can't get over how predictable this was. Eloy was doing very well in AA but not the screaming "promote now" stats that he has in AAA. Sox could have easily avoided this by just waiting to promote him to AAA until aug 1. Then fans would only be waiting 2-3 weeks in april rather than 8 months for the inevitable.

A 24 year old destroying Great Falls and AZL is not impressive of surprising when he's let go. If the team thought he was good he would have moved.

And rather than assuming more liability and improving benefits for player health, they've fought liability, obfuscated research, and acted like hits on the margin are the issue rather than the constant hits.

Those weren't predictions.

but two of those three are still really bad in season.

I wish the NFL before hamfisting this in would have experimented with something like giving each players a grade after each week. "A" for all clean hits, "B", "C", etc. Let teams know which players are best at this, provide data that the better tackling players are better for their own health on the field. Do financial incentives, allow highly graded players to get an additional amount that doesn't count toward salary cap. I would argue that these would be just as effective, or at least more effective than now, as the suspensions/penalties and would not impact the on field product.

Here's my interpretation of Collins year. He was focusing a lot on defense and didn't care about offense, but it got so bad early that he was allowed to focus on offense more for a bit (this was in an article). I think once he proved to himself he could hit he went back to focusing on improving defense.

Nice maybe AFL after then too

He didn't become defensive rookie of the year because he held out.

Opens up more playing time in AZ too which was already crowded with young infielders.

He's about to hit the part where he gets tired and it will begin to be more of a challenge.

I think the reaction you are getting is just, the Iraq war is still the single most destructive and unbelievable action the US has taken in my lifetime, and people like Woodward gave cover to people in that administration who purposefully acted wrongly, and not only were never punished but obfuscated their role to avoid ever having to show introspection or contrition for that. Him providing cover for them is a huge sin to me. Those that drove that war to being absolutely die for that narrative that they were trying to do the right thing and some mistakes were made. And he provided it. It's very disappointing to me.

I think Journalism takes many forms, and Woodward is within a realm. I just can't agree on that he's a digger. His stuff has evolved. He first started this full access book stuff with Carter. And realistically why he was hired in the first place at WaPo was his connections, watergate just got the most out of him. With the Carter book, he actually writes with skepticism and a veil of "why is he telling me this" wink wink nod nod at Carters naivety (thinking specifically to his recount of Carter proactively bringing to Woodward that the CIA had been paying for prostitutes for dictators, thinking it would soften blow). His style evolved to it being prestigious to woodward to come in and give the insider account. But that's what it is, an insider account, effectively primary sourcing. But an insider account isn't necessarily an accurate account. Look at how a person like Chernow handles Grant. There are parts of Grants autobio that are just patently wrong or greatly clarified by other accounts and resources. Woodward just doesn't bother providing that extra layer. THat's okay, and it's valuable to an extent that you get a skin deep view of how an admin views its own actions. But it's also not a definitive account, which is what he posits it as.

I didn't feel any rush to promote Mr. Bush but worth noting a whole bunch of 2018 draft HSers went up to Great Falls last night including jeremiah jackson and ...others that I forgot.

This has been so much worse than I was imagining, and i had prepared myself for backsliding. Developing multiple young pitchers at once sucks when you get that bad tail end of it.

Gotta say, regarding this whole thing, if they weren't gonna promote him this year they ought to have left him in birmingham until august. His numbers were great there but had more flags than charlotte.

Yeah. The bulls will be more interesting, but those boring Charlotte/det will be more consistent and pull out more of the games they are supposed to.

Yeah, it was just a doomed to fail draft depth wise. Made worse by a bad first pick. But few picks plus low budget make it hard to have a good draft.

And it's hard for me to say that the Bulls are even better than the Heat (though I'd probably put heat ahead of WAS this year until they stop being injured and bored) Boston and Toronto is going to be a fight as 1-2 seed. Philly/Milwaukee/Indy/Miami is the 3/4/5/6. That's a lock for me as top 6 teams. The bad creeps in from there. Washington is probably still a 7. How bad are the Cavs without Lebron? How good will Porzingis be this year? What if Jonathan Isaac is a star? That magic team has just an interesting lineup of figuring out Gordon/Isaac/Bamba. And then Detroit. A boring team nobody wants to watch. Still probably consistent enough to be the 8/9 pivot team for the 15th year in a row. Charlotte the same, unless they ship off kemba walker. And maybe even with them miles bridges could be a surprise player. The nets I don't see a team I've listed so far the bulls are definitely better than. They are definitely better. They are def better than the hawks. Probably better than the nets. Saying bulls have most intriguing young roster. I don't even know about that. The suns roster is pretty intriguing.