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Shields just fully outperformed Garcia there

Nice bat work Connor.

That is not looking good for Garcia

96 mph high fastballs from chris sale aren't exactly fair.

Ow.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Apr 6, 2014 -> 02:51 PM) Walked 17.4% of the time in AA last season. That went down to 9.9% of the time in AAA and 1.4% in his cup of coffee. Just moving up a bit quickly is all. He'll be fine. I still think he has a bit too much going on at the plate when he's triggering

Winter soldier very good, stll a tick below Avengers for me. Now I want to know how in the world Agents of Shield will deal with all that!

Gardenhire won his 1000th game yesterday. Only 5th active manager with that many wins, one of only 10 managers in MLB history with 1000 wins on a single team.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 09:10 PM) Lol, thread backfire Royals >> Greg.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 6, 2014 -> 10:05 AM) Here is an interesting thought. What if next year's draft is better than this year? Maybe you take Rodon, don't sign him and "blame" Boras and next year, you get the 4th pick in addition to the one we earn from this year. I could see that as a possibility if the draft class were just bad, which does not seem the case this year. Some people would have suggested top teams would have done that last year with the expectation of a strong 2014 draft. If this draft is no longer viewed that strongly, that should be your red flag. If this year is still viewed as a strong draft, then that doesn't sound smart either.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Apr 6, 2014 -> 01:55 PM) Anderson is an intriguing piece to the puzzle. If he can't stick at SS, wonder how things shake out with him, Micah Johnson, Semien, and Eaton as to who plays what. That's not even taking into account what the organization thinks of Carlos Sanchez. The way they value power it would seem that Sanchez is more of a fall back option though. Anderson is far enough away that we really shouldn't be worrying about such things. Right now let's just hope we get 1 success out of the multliple middle infielders at teh upper levels.

Nice AB for Marcus.

QUOTE (daggins @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 10:43 PM) This makes it pretty explicit: "Davidson is in a bit of a similar position. Thanks to those almost two months in the majors last season with the Diamondbacks, he's got 50 days of service. If he is on the Opening Day roster, and remains on it the whole season, he'll have accrued well over a year of service time and be on track to be a free agent after the 2019 season. But, if instead the White Sox have him "work on some things" at Charlotte until 61 days have passed, he won't and the White Sox will control him until through 2020." From the SSS article about service time. 61 days is right around June 1st. That's not exactly how it works any more, it's difficult to impossible to project how many days it will require to be a free agent in 2020 at this point because the super-2 deadline is based on the numbers for all guys who are called up and qualify.

August because I think it will take that long to guarantee his super 2 status since he was up last year.

Now that I know the result of game 1 I really want Wiscy to eliminate this opponent.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 02:53 PM) What the hell just happened? A popout 2-3. I think the box score actually captures it perfectly.

I feel like Marcus over-does it with the trigger he uses on his swing.

Will Chen give up a baserunner the rest of this game?

Viciedo's timing completely screwed with. Maybe if he sits on the bench more he'll figure that out.

It's not supposed to be physically possible to pop a bunt up that high on Bruce Chen's fastball.

QUOTE (Bigsoxhurt35 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 01:57 PM) This team will balance out eventually. Hitting will come down and pitching will be better However, we can confidently say Tyler Flowers will continue hitting close to .500 right?

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 01:11 PM) Not a formula for a winning team They shouldn't have been expected to be one.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 12:31 PM) If they follow the comics, then Captain America is already recast, Winter Soldier takes on the Captain America mantle The guy who plays the winter soldier is signed for like 9 additional movies or something ridiculous like that.

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 5, 2014 -> 12:08 PM) I'm assuming the extra scene mid credits is a set up for A2. Won't be seeing for 4 hours...but supposedly there is a mid-credits scene and an after credits scene.

This was a really good read.