Balta1701

Tony LaRussa’s actions after Abreu was hit in the head last night have become a trending topic overnight. The good news? Unlike last time, it isn’t universal condemnation! Reactions run from applauding him for defending his player, anger at him for escalating the situation, and laughing at him running. Here’s a decent selection.

Well that’s sorta exactly why you need to get him enough game reps before you bring him up.

That’s fine. We got literally the best reliever in baseball in addition.

I don’t know about everything, but DirecTV used to have a “nationwide sports channel” package that would give you access to all of that for about the price of one of their movie channels. You don’t get copyrighted games but you get all the other local content. I switched to my local cable provider when I last moved so I don’t know if they still do that or if other cable providers do. They became awful after AT&Terrible bought them.

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I still think Kopech is starting Sunday.

Guessing Kopech is pitching Sunday now that they added bullpen help.

He's listed as active...

He's 27, has been in Charlotte since 2018 (3 seasons, 4 years thank you COVID), and put up a .630 OPS there this year/.698 over 3 years. He's a below .600s OPS player in the big leagues.

I think we have several guys doing dead arm periods right now. Give Kopech the start on Sunday and tell him to go 4 if he can, then follow him with Lopez.

They specifically said they weren’t going to play Engel in back to back games after his repeated injuries IIRC.

Ball is just all over the plate on Lynn. this would be a great day for Kopech to be throwing 2.

If he’s there he’s active.

Oh I think this one, the Engel ones definitely say something is amiss.

Today makes it very foolish to not stretch out Kopech.

This is gameday right now. Is he active?

Someone posted an incorrect lineup early and multiple people haven’t noticed that the real one is different.

Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. … … Fool, you can’t get fooled again.

Dafuq? You realize that a team that wins the AL Central, by rule, goes into an 8 team playoff for the World Series championship?