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Nice, it's Japanese heritage night in San Fran. Let's get a Mune shot!

The have the worst walk rate in 140 years of MLB apparently. Our bats need to give davis 3-4 and let him do the rest.

Wolkow comp is like a Sheets than can play a competent RF?

Not a bad lineup but just sucks having Quero as the 2nd leadoff guy. I'd flip him and Peters but most managers are still stuck in the worst hitter is 9th mindset. For sequencing it's better to have the worst hitter 8th.

Cubs lose again. 6 in a row now. Piss crack asswipe had a solid game but alas it wasn't enough. That's a shame.

I think it's Colson.

If we're a .500 or better team we gotta win 2/3 here. They are not a good team and implied odds for tonight are like 60/40 sox. Win this one and split the next two.

Our pitching sucks. It's a miracle it's been as good as it has so far. That said, I don't expect it to last much longer. The Giants offense sucks but June is filled with better teams.

McCovey ChroniclesGiants-White Sox Series Preview: Mass AppealThe White Sox are having fun. Will the Giants be able to make them as miserable as they’ve made their fans?Fun writeup from the opposition's POV.

You move him in a few years if he keeps getting banged up. Otherwise you park him at catcher for a decade. No reason to try and "preserve" a stud catcher in his early 20s.

Gonna be a late Friday night game thread. Pace yourselves. Trevor Macdonald goes for the Giants, who are 30th in RS and have lost three in a row and sit at 20-30. Macdonald has good numbers with a 2.37 ERA and a 17/3 K/BB ratio and a WHIP of only 1. Sox will have to be patient and make him work if we want to get into the bullpen before the 6th.

Drafting him and then moving him off the hardest defensive position would certainly be a choice. One I would hope not even the Sox would be foolish enough to try.

making an obvious joke about the last black american catcher of note? nothing malicioius in that. it's like when every white euro player was compared to peja or ginobili for awhile. it's just sports cliches.

I mean that was the first thing that came to mind but we old. I was lucky enough to see Charles live on a spring baseball trip my soph year of HS down in FL when he was with the Marlins. He did indeed do his (at that point) infamous pregame routine of throwing it 300 feet from around home plate to the OF before the game. Very cool. If he pans out seems like this kid will hit more than CJ did tho. We'll see. I do admit I'm intrigued watching him. Def a pretty stacked draft. Bulls and Sox in good positions.

FanGraphs BaseballWhat Do You Do With a First-Round Catcher?The Red Sox struck gold when Kyle Teel fell to them with the 14th pick. But the teams that took high school catchers in the first round are swimming upstream.I don't like a catcher at 1,1, but I also like to be open to possibilities. Good writeup from fangraphs on the upside of them, and also some Teel porn.

NGL she's kinda my type. Husband is a lucky man.

I'll allow it. They are pretty much dead and buried. Their expected wins is now about even with ours around 78. They remind me a bit of our 81-81 season that led to another rebuild. Wasted a bunch of money on FA duds and a bunch of dudes just turned out to be not that good position player wise -- and injuries of course.

I wouldn't touch a 1,1, catcher HS or college with @ron883 's dick. Cool name though and one that will def be one of those "wait, Vahn Lackey is black" type things for awhile.

Season. I can't see much explanation in the stats available on fangraphs and milb reference.

Does Charlotte have statcast? Anybody have a link if so? Curious as to Gonzo's numbers.

Next time we get swept ur on. Mojo is too good since the Colson pic.

Dare I say

"Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation." -- Jerry Re, er St. Augustine.

That's just a pipe dream. Benny is what he is I guess, just never let him see the field and try and platoon him against LHP. He seems to have accepted his reduced role and we just have to accept they aren't going to DFA him.