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It's rough, I'll never get rid of my trib subscription because their metro reporters do great work, but while I would have been p'd off about this in early 00s, now I just feel sad. Paul Sullivan writes like 60% of ever paper. They are stretched so thin. The Athletic was well staffed last night, and I thought Jon Greenberg's column was perfect on it. https://theathletic.com/483971/2018/08/22/it-was-a-long-time-coming-michael-kopech-debuts-before-his-family-and-23000-or-so-new-friends/

Why is Rosario acting like he didn't just swing at that pitch?

HELL YEAH thank god Buxton wasn't back there.

man what an absolute bummer.

brilliant, send him back down, clock never started.

That was when I thought it was starting at 830. An hour delay is really pushing it.

let's ask the people who paid money to go to the game.

You also can't put more obstacles in this game than CB Bucknor and rain. Just give me a 10 pitch inning or something.

Thanks. I guess what I struggle with is all 3 seem like regression candidates. I believe in Howard as a Bears fan, and he is best running out of shotgun and he's going to be put in that position more. But what if things are so spread out that his usage dips way down? But you are right in that the lower picks being lost are guarded more against regression than with Hunt.

and RNC deputy director.

I mean he's from New Jersey so he may well want to go closer to home.

I'd bat Narvaez 3rd personally.

It's crazy that the nats never did more in the playoffs. Still, Murphy and Scherzer have to be two of the best FA deals of the 00s right?

"We will likely try and milk every bit of revenue out of this excitement by irrationally keeping the game scheduled well past when it's clear it cannot go and getting as many concessions as we can before postponing the game for october"

It just feels like perez is gonna be one of those dudes that hangs around and ends up as the third catcher that gets play during injuries from ages 26-28.

Man, poor Leury.

Getz has started to sound like Hahn.

Probably, but next step is send him to the dominican winter league and see how he does. If he can handle the craftier pitchers there he's really turned a corner and may indeed be closer to the majors than we realized.

Just as I started reading positive stuff on Deiondre (or maybe this is cause effect?)

I think receiving can be improved, but the balls he lets by him makes me worried it's an issue with athleticism and not just technique.

This is nice that they've stabilized, I see it as more regression to the mean than anything else. This team was bad, but if we ran this season 100 times I think this season would be in the bottom quartile. It honestly blows my mind that the team could win 30 straight games and only get to .500. The end of injuries has helped. The outfield in june was truly embarrassing, and the bullpen has felt refreshingly average as our SPs have turned in fewer 3-4 inning bombs.

If we're to believe the checked boxes thing as real, I have to imagine the emergence of his curveball has to have been what pushed him up this year.

I think I need to start re-evaluating Narvaez. THis is quite a stretch. I was at the detroit game where he hit a 3 run homer (i think his first of year?) and I laughed at how crazy that was. Now I'm like, expecting him to be our best hitter. I also think his success is good news for Collins. The theory being Narvaez has a wonderful batter eye, but for a while really weak power. So, you'd expect pitchers to just pound zone with strikes and make a player like that ineffective. But Narvaez still ended up with good OBPs because pitchers aren't that good at throwing strikes all the time! Now, Collins probably has as good or better judgment of the zone. But if pitchers challenge him he has the power Narvaez is showing now to make them pay more consistently.

so for our keepers, you only lose the pick from the round you drafted them in +1 (so if you drafted them 2nd, it's a 1st you lose this year). I picked up Jared Goff as a FA last year, so I would only lose my last pick. I have 3 players I consider to be keepers: Goff - 22nd pick lost Kareem Hunt - 2nd round pick lost Jordan Howard - 12th round pick lost Hunt is probably the best player there, but he gives up highest value. Any advice?

Jarred Kelenic after draft .266 .355 .435 .790 Blake Rutherford after draft .351 .415 .570 .986 Both were old for their level high school picks. I'm glad for kelenic, local kid. The difference between rookie leagues and full season ball is large. I hope he does well. Gorman was not a bat issue. What will we say if his size keeps him as a bad 3b likely to move to 1b. Would we be pumped about another one of those?