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Sending out 10 expected WAR at pre arb prices to get Chapman and Gray is stupid. We'd be on the hook for something like 30 million including the Gray buyout, and Chapman has a 15 million dollar option that I believe according to spotrac is guaranteed as long as he passes a physical at the end of the year. For taking on all that salary relative to the performance we should be giving up a couple lotto tickets and Adams, not including Carlson and Fauske.

Fedde has been pitching well enough to earn his spot for now. I think the decision will be between him and Kay eventually. They won't eat Kay's salary but I can see using him as an opener or swing man. His metrics are really bad despite whatever smoke and mirrors he's used to get a semi respectable ERA.

he will certainly be up with the big club by august. edit: already on the 40 man so yea.

Put the pressure on them late and they folded. Great pitching effort all night.

this ump is horrific.

very nice.

great 4 innings from Taylor after those struggles.

BOOM

fucking babip

trying to catch them sleeping on a crazy bounce, not the worst idea.

oh well we'll take it.

than he gets aced, that's what happens when you foul off the hanger.

Man colson just needs to learn to sit back a bit more.

that was a great swing from sam.

boom! or just rip one into the gap, good job kid.

Good AB. This guy will walk you if you are patient.

Good lord.

Well executed by them but also lets just get out of here with minor damage.

Great piece of hitting what can you even do.

Once again enjoying the opponent's broadcast and they are complimentary to Sox.

Teel gonna need a couple weeks to ramp up to swinging in anger. Tough to come back in the heart of the season after missing pretty much your entire spring.

We sure have gotten some tough velocity on SP lately.

I'm oddly confident in Burke right now. He's seen a stuff uptick. If he can control his walks tonight he'll put up some good innings.

Taking a HS player with Lackey and Roch on the board based on a "timeline" would be the dumbest possible decision and one that could set the franchise back 5-6 WAR a season. Emerson is in no way a lock to be a star, in fact of the three at the top he's probably 2x more likely to bust as a HS kid with a long development path ahead. You don't take a HS kid here unless he's like Bryce Harper. He ain't that.

I musta got asked for a loosie 20 times walking around inner harbor.