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colson fouled off the good pitch to hit and got aced. s%*# happens.

living on the edge, we'll take it.

LET THE BOY WATCH

sosa is a fucking butcher.

Come on Sosa.

Take that FG defensive run value rankings!

QUERO!

That's what leadoff walks do.

lol his hitch has turned into a huge japan style leg kick, love that for him.

Vaughn 2-4 with another HR.

WTF happened to Baldwin, is he back in AAA after his bad defense?

Michael A Taylor plays way too fucking much.

I thought we had seen the last of Julks. Damn.

No lineup or pitcher announced yet. I hope they don't try and start Taylor again.

Jimmy you know I'm not your biggest fan but I appreciate when you drop little hints like this. Please stay on the right side of the insider path so you can keep posting here!

This team really doesn't deserve so many passionate fans. Speaks to how popular the team would be if they ever have some sustained success.

Time marches on. Lineups TPD.

He gets a passing grade so far. Last season still looms large, even if some of it was a freighter hitting an iceberg.

As we've seen LA doesn't really have any special sauce, just a whole lotta money. Vargas isn't who I would have targeted but I mean it's hardly a huge win or loss for either team. Quite a few GMs and fans operate on the idea that you can only fleece teams in trades, that's not really how any of this works. Getz isn't a genius but it's not like LA is laughing as they are making that deal, they gave up a decent amount on paper and Vargas still has like a 1/3 chance to turn into a solid 2-3 WAR regular which is valuable.

Good post dude.

The problem with his logic is that this isn't the team from april but we're still freaking awful. We pulled into a tie with Pitt for 28th fWAR for position players at 2.5. We're 21st in fWAR for pitching at 7.8 which would look a helluva lot better if we had an actual solid defense behind them, but we don't, which is seen at least partially in the lack of position player fWAR: we're -25.2 runs below avg in the field. That's 2.5 wins right there. We have a long way to go, if we trot out this lineup the rest of the way more often than not: Meidroth, Tauchman, Robert, Colson, Sosa, Vargas, Teal, Quero, Baldwin and the pitching doesn't fall a part I can see a 38% or maybe even 40% from here on in. I wouldn't take anything over 40% even with Greg's house. The pitching is almost certain to regress here.

As I said, I'd be thrilled with 70 wins next year. Just pull back into bottom 1/3 territory instead of historical suck.

This guy eats at PF Changs? When he's in the Hudson Valley? Troubling.