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Perfect pitch in on the fists.

Great read by Frazier. Mauer didn't get to 2B either leaving the DP in tact.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 01:49 PM) Santana's got 6 inches off both sides of the plate right now. This ump... Apparently he has a plane to catch.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 01:45 PM) Latos had the off-speed stuff working real well that inning. Both of his starts he used the fastball more early, and pushed more to the slider and curve later.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 01:40 PM) As Frazier heats up, he will lay off I believe. This. Jose is a good enough hitter that he will adjust. A nice inning for Latos there.

It would be real nice to get Latos up around 100 pitches and through at least 6.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 01:37 PM) On Game Day both those called strikes looked like balls. Watching live, they were balls for sure.

Chased that one WAY out of the zone.

Latos keeps the damage from the misplay to a minimum.

A harder breaker, maybe a slider there for the K.

Sox play the IF back and give up the run for the out.

Melky bellyflopped that into a triple.

Thankfully the XRays were negative for Buxton.

Garcia does WAY out of here to DEEP CF. You heard that one off of the bat.

Damn Navarro is just wearing it right now. Kepler made a heck of a read and catch out there in DEEP RCF. He killed his first AB as well, but it was RIGHT at Mauer.

QUOTE (Black_Jack29 @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 01:12 PM) If he stays heathy and finishes the year with a 4.50 ERA, I'll call his season a success. If he stays healthy that alone is a success.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 01:09 PM) Fundementally the question is does trading Jimmy speed up or slow down the process. I think having a guy like Butler who is affordable, etc. and is top 15 in the league speeds up the process. You get rid of him and you start completely from scratch vs. having him to potentially help attract another star. If there is one thing we've learned recently, you better have some good players if you plan on getting a FA and you have to hope those players want to play with your star (Jimmy seems like a guy more likely to recruit, etc, but whether his reputation is tarnished this year or not, who knows). One thing for certain, Jimmy has elevated his game every single year in the league and I can see him self reflecting and putting not only more effort into the physical game but working hard on figuring out what went wrong and what he needs to do to be a better leader and that answer might just be solved by bringing in more young guys who only know jimmy as a star and will see how hard he works despite being a star and how hard he worked to get there and thus him doing his thing is really and truly leading by example. It seems like guys like Dougie have seen what Jimmy does and realize how hard you have to work to make it in this league (and that is a good example and a great quality of a leader). I am pretty against moving Buckets unless you get blown away. His cap number is so cheap given the rising cap, etc. Reading between the lines of what was said last night, I think they know that one of Butler or Rose is going. Butler is the only one with any value at all in my eyes, which means it is going to be him.

Latos gets the pop up and inning over. 46 pitches through 3.

NO chance to catch Buxton there.

Class act by Navarro to make sure Buxton was OK. But it got him on the wrist.

That was a nice diving play by Escobar to get to that ball and save a run for Minny.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 12:58 PM) Not watching game, did it look like he was trying to hit Abreu there? A lot of really inside pitches The first pitch I thought that, but after that he was trying really hard to avoid the strike zone.

Yeah, Santana wanted NOTHING to do with Jose in that AB. He didn't come within a foot of the strike zone.

Santana with the fastball up and in on Abreu.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 14, 2016 -> 12:53 PM) Pierre/Podsednik were pretty recent Pierre was pretty done for by the time he got here.