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STFU JOHN

is that his first hit oppo of the month?

shota has nothing so far tonight. hanger to vargas should have been into the seats.

friday night all access. puke.

paging @fathom

that's what prompted my comment on him. He's fucking dumb dude. He's not just a company man, he's dumb.

Colson has a fucking hose. Ironically there were concerns about it when he was drafted.

lol John is a fucking moron bro.

this production is just slightly over the top.

Noticed that as well but he stayed in the game. Think he's just day to day. Aren't we all.

Fake injury imo. They just aren't going to push him at all this last week.

It's been a little closure seeing him play well the last couple weeks.

He's good but doesn't have a lot of stamina coming off his hamstring issues last month. Hopefully we can get his pitch count up and get him out by the 5th.

Ah yea, I'm sure the Sox are telling everybody they are desperate to trade Robert and will accept any offers! These guys, at least some of them, get paid to write.

We're playing good baseball, or at least as good as we can as a 35% winning team. Let's just not get swept.

Looking at Colson's numbers in every way, granted in a very small sample, the one thing he's improved immensely is his popout rate. He had an absurd popout rate in AAA, 32.3%! So far it's at 7.8% in MLB. He's also cut his K rate down to 26% from 33%. Still too high ideally but with his swing speed it might just always be the case. His keys are launch angle and when he runs into them run into them -- like he did last night. His pull rate (44%) is solid, and he's hitting more balls up the middle so far as a MLB (33%) than he did in the minors at any stop. You'd like to think he's learning when to sell out and when to try and poke one through, with his levers it doesn't take too much.

I like that Sosa has a contact oriented approach but he's a man without a position. Could just be a good utility guy long term. His defense at 2B is pretty brutal imo. Vargas seemed to slump a bit at 3B but it was probably just because they decided to start him playing at 1B so often. Another puzzling decision.

Guess he was trying to throw a fucking fastball?

The trade winds:

Meidroth playing an above avg SS for the 50 games or whatever before Colson came up pretty much guarantees him a 10 year plus career imo. There's just not more than 30 of those guys in the entire world at any given time.

Question on Meidroth is can he be 15 runs above avg over a season at 2B? If so he can slash 240/320/340 and still hang on as an averagish regular. If he hits more than that he can be a solid regular. The tiers make sense and your list is pretty similar overall to mine. I don't know if I'm as high on Taylor and Smith however. I think maybe they'd be peripheral guys on a good staff. Obviously you'd hope both continue to develop.

Perfect excuse for a lockout. Forget that franchise values are the real value of their ownership and not yearly operating profit.

I loved Teel's emotion when he crossed the plate on Colson's ringing double. I don't think everybody needs to be a redass, certainly not, but you can't have a molten core of disinterest like with Moncada, Eloy and those awful vets Hahn would bring in every year that were just getting one last big league pay check. I will give Getz credit for bringing in some quality vets and leaders like Taylor and Tauchman.

Problem is Biggio is 13th all time in PA. MB is not 13th all time in IP. I get what you're saying. I agree, but I'm not 100% convinced that durability, availability and "unique things" are a HOF case. I'm a small HOF guy of course. @Colome's Hat T55 all time in bWAR for pitchers. Of course with NYC bias he was an easy induction.

So I'm looking at bWAR leaderboards. MB is 66th all time in pitching bWAR. There are currently three active players ahead of him and IMO they are all slam dunk HOF: Verlander (26), Kershaw (28th) and Scherzer (30th). The only other active pitcher in the top 100 is Sale, at 80. Around MB are guys such as Andy Pettite, Don Drysdale, Jim Bunning, Bret Saberhagan and so on. Saberhagan didn't even sniff the hall. Vet committee put Bunning in. Pettite is slowly rising and got 25% of the vote last winter. He will probably get in due to NYC media bias. Drysdale got in on his 10th vote. What does all of this tell us, if anything? I think it tells us pitcher HOF criteria are hard, the voters don't have a great handle for it, and MB if he does get in, will need a sustained campaign similar to Drysdale.