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Luis just hit a fly ball with a runner on 3rd.

HBP on a nasty back foot slider and an error.

RIP Reds.

0 hits, 0 runs.

My God their CF is little league bad.

Exactly. They aren't running the A flight out up 4 runs right now.

This team is so much more enjoyable when the defense plays like it should.

Run him.

Clearly safe

That's a great situational awareness for Sheets

Eloy is looking middle again.

The most impressive part of the ReyLo outing may well be his pitch count.

He went pro am to MLB in about a year, after 2 Achilles blow outs. It's nuts.

Man, I had totally forgotten about Burger. That is a Hollywood level story.

Gavin is just a classic LH power hitter.

Even that won't kill people. This is more like the right to play in interstate traffic.

It's Yermin. Rodon and ReyLo both had top of the rotation stuff, but couldn't quite get it. Yermin came out and supernova'd.

Eloy almost played that into a triple

Bring in a 2b and let Leury supersub all over the diamond.

If he hits .300+ on top of expected power, speed, and defense, he is a top 5 guy in all of baseball.

Again this isn't something like picking a favorite sports team. There are rights and wrongs here. The wrongs are literally killing people like you who listen and follow along.

The funny thing is he had a much lower FIP with the Sox (3.68), than he has had with the Cubs (4.39) even though his ERA with the Cubs had been lower (5.12 Sox vs 3.25 Cubs). His strikeouts have collapsed with the Cubs 17 in 27 innings vs 39 in 38.2 IP with the Sox. His walks have also jumped 13 in 27 IP with Cubs vs 10 in 38.2 IP for Sox. His BABIP is .234 with the Cubs, and was .367 with the Sox.

I feel like most people who don't like the reliever trades are glossing over how scary the pen was right before the deadline. Ryan Burr was getting big set up man innings was how bad things had gotten. Bummer had an ERA near 5 at this point. Heuer was still over 5 for his ERA. Kopech was just off of injury and wasn't doing back to backs. Crochet had given up earned runs in four straight outings. Ruiz had his struggles. ReyLo had just come up from the minors in the 2nd half of the month and his 8 ERA at AAA, and hadn't really established himself as trustworthy yet. Burdi had been awful and send out to AAA. It was scary trying to get the ball to Hendriks, especially the 2nd half of July. You can make an argument about WHO we should have gotten, but the pen was really, really bad during this stretch is an absolute fact.