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Yonder is trash.

BIG GAME JAMES

lol this kc broadcast is priceless.

I'm a drunk reactionist, which one should I go with?

catharsis.

nova is thicc.

Yea Yolmer as a regular going on four years is getting old. He is what he is.

funny how much more respect the KC crew is showing the Sox after that brooming last week.

lol perfect pitch for his bat speed right now.

perfect example. That ball should be in the light tower.

Eloy's bat is so fucking slow right now he is really struggling to get extension.

lmao you prompted me to google him. what a fucking fall! https://twitter.com/MariottiSports?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

I've said it many times watching Rick manage this club on a nightly basis is like stubbing your toe 1st thing out of bed in the morning. Even if the rest of the morning if great your toe still fucking throbs and you got nobody to blame but yourself.

Also pretty great to see Jose at 1B with a contact guy on the mount. The one fucking thing Yonder brings is a solid glove at 1B right now.

Rick Renteria is braindead. Nice to see fucking a 180 hitter up before our young studs. WHAT IS THE POINT OF A RICK RENTERIA?

well damn.

totally, hence my caveat.

Not that I disagree that the Sox will fuck this up and keep him way too long -- but managers get extended and then fired quite often. Their contracts are partially guaranteed at best.

It shouldn't be. Most athletes make their biggest physical gains between 18-24. He's in a professional training program now he should be getting bigger, faster and stronger.

That would be awesome.

you think a guy that is hitting 272 in high A is going to put up around a 300 average in MLB? That's wishcasting. Other than his K rate there is nothing in Madrigal's batted ball profile to suggest he'll be a 300 hitter in MLB. @oldsox is 100% correct right now Yolmer is the better hitter. Yolmer also put up better lines, at a younger age, in the minors. At 22, Yolmer was hitting 293 in AAA with a 293/349/412 line. There is a strange confirmation bias going on with Madrigal and certain segments of the fanbase. Because he was typecast as a polished college player with a high floor it's almost assumed that's what he'll pan out as. So far, he hasn't panned out into jack shit. If his FV was something like 60 on draft day right now it looks close to 45. He's got time to turn things around and his next three months in AA are absolutely critical either way. If he can hold his own he looks back on a "solid regular in 2021" path. If he can't hang, he's going to be repeating 2020 in AA at 23, which isn't ideal for a guy drafted where he was.

aka blake rutherford! lol

They got some random A+ guy for Jay Bruce so using that as a guide I think they'd want a bit more for Domingo. I don't rate Rutherford at all so I'd rather trade him than Adolfo. Still think Adolfo has a 270/330/500 ceiling and is the better prospect.

He'd come cheap no doubt. I bet if you offered the Mariners Rutherford straight up and asked for the Ms to cover the remaining 1 million he's owed this year they'd do it without hesitation. I would too, at that price who cares. He could possibly improve enough to be a 3 war player. Only 26. Would also have the benefit of pushing Yonder off the roster in theory.

He has had numerous plays where the ball literally is in his glove and then he drops it. He is nightly talk radio fodder here in Seattle. Fangraphs has him a staggering -12 runs (that's Jose Abreu territory) after 60 games so far this year below a league average defender (including positional adjustments).