chitownsportsfan

working title: John and Kumar Go to Queens.

You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill—he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it, and so pass to genuine vindictiveness. But get up, sit down, I beg you. All this, too, is deceitful posturing..." -- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

well so far he's shown neither control nor elite changeups. 4.4 walk rate in MLB per 9 and -.4 runs on his changeup. I root for the guy, hope he can succeed, but his profile has a sliver of an opening to success.

I feel like Kumar Rocker has been around for 20 years and he's pitched like 100 innings. I remember hearing about this guy his senior year in HS and then something went down with the Mets on draft night and blah blah blah.

More than that. It looked like a high ankle to me. I'd say 4-6 weeks at best. This s%*# can linger. But as @Bonemer, I Hardly Know Her said at least now he can have a productive offseason if nothing else. Everything was fubar for him this year starting with probably over training in the offseason and then ramping up too fast for the WBC. Teal is a very intense guy, I think he was desperate to be a part of this team and maybe was just squeezing the bat, his body and his mind a little too hard. You guys are dogging that video of him on the training machine but that machine is designed to safely test forces, the machine gives way, the ground does not. That training had nothing to do with his injuries. Adding mass and ramping up too quickly and just bad luck was the cause.

Why? He was replacement level before the injury. He hasn't thrown a ball in anger in what, 15 months? There is zero reason to expect him to contribute anything this season, and not much optimism beyond it, unless somehow he starts throwing 94-95 instead of 90-91.

Zero chance this kid is called up. Fun story, but he's at least another 300 PA away in the high minors. If he continues to rake you bring him into spring training to get a better look at his everyday catching and go from there. I'd imagine Lee is the call for now, maybe we make a trade at the deadline depending on what's up with Teal. Best case I think it's probably a bad ankle sprain so 6-8 weeks. He'd be back for the playoff push but yea. Teal's season reminds me a bit of the Rose year he tore his ACL. We didn't have a lockout compressed schedule this season but like Rose Teal had a series of minor injuries in season and it just felt off the entire way. Hopefully Teal avoided a season ender.

thorpe is not anything to count on.

Cubs blew it, oh well, I'll allow it.

109 off the heel, yikes.

cork or similar I'd imagine.

that's the turf filler.

BENI

oh come on sam, lol

we let him off the hook and he's deep in the weeds now.

that sucks but good defense.

lol, gotta love sam, one day he will do the lebron celly after a tough AB walk or HBP.

Happy that I can watch it with DVR and everything for my paid, uh, free MLB.tv sub (thanks Tmobile). These will be our 51st, 52nd and 53rd away games. We have played 48 at home. Small boost after this trip.

I see the game isn't on Apple TV or Peacock:

FGs has begun their trade value count down. No Sox so far. I have to imagine that vargas is around 30, and Colson is in there as well, maybe around 35. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2026-trade-value-nos-41-50/

This was a big debate my freshman year in the dorms. I've always said when you find a song, just play it non stop until you're sick of it. There's no reason not to.

The AL is setup for an insane finish. Yankees and Rays might be in trouble. Rays have been playing over their heads all season until now and Yankees without Judge are a solid but not elite team.

Braden's statcast ticking up a bit. The scouting reports are playing out. Hits too many ground balls, doesn't make consistent contact, but athletic and can provide value in other ways then just the bat. He's still got a ways to go as a hitter but it's nice to see a relatively high floor. He's been solid out in RF a couple mistakes aside. I thought that ball in the 9th yesterday might have gotten down with a less athletic player out there. He got a great jump on it, took a bit of a looping route, but made the play.