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"who in the world is Jeff Gelalich?" Literally my exact thought when I saw his name in that article.

QUOTE (flavum @ May 10, 2017 -> 07:38 PM) Hopefully Jordan Guerrero has figured something out. Looks like he's on his way to another very good start. It was talked about his last start but he was just having some ridiculously terrible luck. His fip has been stupid low all year.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 10, 2017 -> 07:21 PM) Chicks dig the long ball and he was a monster in the '15 postseason, so I get the hype train. But he hasn't even played 3/4 of a full regular season including playoff games, his story can still go a few different ways. And was great(albeit in an extremely small sample size) in a World Series in which he missed an entire season. He also put up monster numbers in the minor leagues. It's easy to see why Cubs fans and pundits love the guy. That said, he's been awful so far this year. Like you said, his overall story can go a lot of ways but I'm guessing the guy becomes becomes a pretty great hitter.

All of us who are still hopeful about Gio actually don't think the results have to get any better in the next year or two. As a matter of fact, I'm just ready to call him the best pitcher in baseball already.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 10, 2017 -> 01:28 PM) Hoping for Zack. No Zack.

This game go bye bye.

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ May 10, 2017 -> 02:56 PM) Giolito would be best served by simply pitching better than he has thus far in the minor league. There isn't much more that can be said by him or by others to excuse or to explain poor performance. (0-5 7.31 ERA in the Minors). I mean he obviously would be best served to pitch better. Are you just expecting him to become a complete ghost off the field and not talk to anyone when requested for an interview?

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 10, 2017 -> 03:30 PM) More generalizing here. Not true. I very rarely post in these threads but do read them quite often and it's absolutely true.

Basabe in a little bit of a hitting slump this week but walking a ton.

QUOTE (Brian @ May 10, 2017 -> 09:41 AM) Yeah, just cuz it was 3 days doesn't make it the hardest. Have the said who the champs are on this Vs Pros season? CT, Bananas, Darrell, Camila, Wes, Cara, both Ashley's and Veronica for sure. Sounds like there might be a few more too.

QUOTE (Scoots @ May 9, 2017 -> 09:03 PM) Pretty sure Eaton came from AZ with a trade for Addison Reed...unless there was a 3 team trade deal in there I'm not aware of. Davidson for Reed. Eaton was indeed traded here in a 3 way deal where we trade Hector to LA.

Avi was going to go into a funk at some point even if he has turned a corner. The interesting thing will be to see if he can come out of it in a decent amount of time instead of killing everything he did in April. Lets hope he does.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ May 9, 2017 -> 06:58 PM) Day off for Moncada, or did I miss something? Day off.

I've made it clear that I think it's best for him to be in the majors as quickly as possible but I'm not going to complain about it either. Hope he continues to kill it down in Charlotte.

QUOTE (Harry Chappas @ May 9, 2017 -> 11:31 AM) Football too? No.

2 k's for Micker but 3 of 5 with a triple. Beautiful

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ May 8, 2017 -> 08:15 PM) I'd be a bit more bullish on Giolito than others are here. Seems the velocity is there which was arguably the biggest concern about him. The strikeouts are there (reduced K's is the number one indicator of a pitcher in trouble to me). What he needs to regain is fastball control, which it seems to me is easier to regain than velocity/stuff. He's had it most of his career. He is apparently reworking his delivery. I wouldn't be panicking yet. He's definitely not the prospect he was but there's absolutely no need to be writing him off. I'm with you. He's FAR from a sure thing and as I've said a ton now he's a huge project at this point but he's still a very legit project. And Caulfield you have no clue where Gio's confidence is, it's a ridiculous assumption to say his confidence is shot.

Ya that's super f'n bizarre.

These playoffs legit suck so far. Had high hopes for this round and holy disappointment.

Since when did had a bad game become isn't pitching well?

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ May 7, 2017 -> 03:32 PM) I thought Guardians was pretty awful, which sucked because I was really excited for it. I didn't over hype the movie in my head or anything, I just hated it. I am going to try and see it again this week but I haven't been this disappointed since my mom took me to see Terminator 3.

.856 ops now. He's ranking 10th or 11th among first baseman in most hitting stats now. Mark Buehrle is not an ace.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 5, 2017 -> 10:47 PM) At this point it seems like Cashman has done his mini rebuild right. And they obviously will have money to spend for the amazing 2018 FA class. I call it mini cause it's so much easier with that budget. And it took them like 15 minutes to be contenders again.

Everyone needs to remember that he's still very new to the position in general. He's kind of a victim of his own success as he was so damn good last year despite still being very raw out there. And don't get me wrong, he's been bad and really bad so far but I'm confident he'll be just fine out there.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 5, 2017 -> 09:23 PM) He just reminds me so much of Fields and Beckham where they have great rookie years and forget how to play baseball in their 2nd year. He was the one offensive player I truly cared about how they played this year, and seeing him 3rd to last in fWAR is frustrating. It's a month into the season. He's been bad so far there's absolutely no doubt about that but you're also talking about a guy who has gone through struggles and improved big time at every level. He's going to be fine.