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I'm having a good time watching this game. Huh.

just brutal. was completely in the zone right down the middle.

The vast majority of the innings have been competently pitched. That has been nice.

nasty run on that "sinker" or whatever the hell it is.

Nice play Grossman.

uh, wtf was that lee?

Great job bearing down and being effectively wild around the zone.

damn impressive. sit down fat face.

That's 4 horrible pitches for Fedde to start. Oh boy.

It was a terrible play by the Indians and a good play by Gavin. Beni lucked out.

lol wow!

I know he's on a nice run but stuff wise today he doesn't have it.

ok Gavin. I'm picking up what you're putting down so far this year.

looked like a tie. safe.

STOP BUNTING

this SP for Cleveland does not look great. Lets jump on him here.

lol 83mph avg exit velo for the pride of chicagoland.

I agree and Robbie Cano admitted as much in a big interview he did when he came to Seattle that will always ring out in my mind. The trainers down in the Dominican especially are not who these guys should be listening to. It took Cano until he was in his early 30s to get a baseball and injury prevention specific program not just a weights program. Lifting heavy is great, you need explosive power to do explosive things, but you also have to train holistically and you can over train one area while under training another and that will lead to injury.

It has happened before.

It's because baseball is a stop start sport and often involves going from zero to 60mph as hard as you can half a dozen times a game. This isn't exactly a new phenomenon. It's not exactly like Moncada is unique in suffering an injury related to sprinting in baseball.

A complete tear. So he def felt a rip and it was possibly even heard by the others around him. f*** people saying he is weak or soft. You ever rip a muscle off a bone? Whatever, he got 100 million for his troubles so I ain't gonna feel sorry for him, but he ain't soft whatever else. I'm shocked he walked off with a grade 3 tear. It sucks losing a possible asset but for this season means little if anything. I will miss watching him play well tho.

we have another viral menu item?

I agree but the quality if his contact suggests a true talent jump. His wxOBA is like .525 he's hit the piss out of the ball. And as @southsider2k5 said if he's a 700 OPS catcher (so plenty of time to regress that 17 PA line) with decent defense and baserunning that's one of the best 10 starting catchers in baseball, easy.

Rick is still alive. He wasn't exactly young when I was a kid and still picking up the occasional physical copy of the Tribune when he was there. His bio says he graduated NW in '82 so I guess he's only in his mid 60s.

Fletcher has been fine. https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/savant-player/dominic-fletcher-666150?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb He's not setting the world on fire but he's also looking like a perfectly cromulent OF. Certainly worth a roster spot unlike most of the vets Getz brought in. You can question the process of the trade but so far Fletcher looks like a decent pickup.