chitownsportsfan

contracts.

it's the dumbest shit and it goes well beyond pitch recognition, which is hard and whatever. BUT YOU'RE A MLB HITTER YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHEN TO FIRST BALL HUNT AND WHEN NOT. 80% OF THE TIME YOU'RE NOT. SOMETIMES YOU'RE 100% NOT.

totally. I've been on those teams. it's a shit feeling.

it's a grind for every pitcher on the roster given the fucking offense. 1 run down feels like 5 right now.

we have absolutely garbage luck on top of sucking ass.

another massacre incoming.

This fucking thread. We got more meteorologists here than anywhere online.

Hitting is a contagion but the opposite is also true. Everybody is pressing. Need to just get a few guys going and relieve the pressure. Right now this is a bad team. Not sure it's their true talent level, but right now it is.

we need a horrifying rating.

this you?

Fegan is a really bad tweeter. Great writer, can't tweet for shit.

We need major changes. Starts with telling Jose he's a part time player.

This is a bad team I'm going to go ahead and say it.

turned it off, fuck this shit, slop ass outfield defense hanging every breaking ball.

just awful pitching, can't even blame the pitch calls. hung a fucking slider.

come on, why would you throw another FB there? He's now in swing mode, bury a slider.

too high, can't command shit right now.

high fastball he's gone.

huge AB early.

what an annoying AB.

It's a plausible scenario. Borderline utility guy at best, poverty background, makes a risk reward calculation to get to the bigs then makes another one once he's established as a 25 man guy. As always, I really don't care about players using PED. Do what you gotta do and it's up to the league to prevent and catch it. I wouldn't be for some organized team led juicing thing but players are always going to cheat one way or another I don't attach any moral value to not juicing or juicing.

Someone already said it but man it's nice to have a guy 22 doing this and not 25-27 range. Of course that's the same thing I thought about our last young breakout 2B, Yolmer. Maybe we can get a three WAR season out of Sosa at some point. Yolmer was actually a decent starter for a minute. My personal suspicion is that he stopped the vitamins once he established himself in MLB and then the power absolutely dried up.

poor start.

Just can't catch a break.

Converted SS so you'd think it would be fine but then again I thought the same of Madrigal. Scouting report says similar bat to ball skills but Sosa has much more raw and in game power. MLB.com had him 40 grade overall preseason. Have to think that would be revised up to 50 or even 55 if he keeps up this batting line, which is solid regular territory.