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But 2005-06 SHOULD be the measuring stick for this team…and the division was 3x stronger back then. At the very least, they need home field advantage. Let the four AL East teams destroy each other.

No. If Burger is doing another Yermin for the (entire) first month, then you can at least think about it…if Harrison is still hitting in the 100’s. Even then, TLR would start playing Leury there more frequently.

23-9 in 2006...

"He is a stud - his body looks like LeBron's , about 6'4" solid muscle." Do we have a picture of Eloy working out to prove how off this take actually is? Maybe you actually meant La Pantera?

The Tigers will be the tougher team with Greene back and then one more year to add FA's.

LOL. Zack Collins now looking like a HoF hitter in that Blue Jays lineup. 5/12 (417) 1 3 (3/3 today with a homer)

After just 8 games? That award almost always goes to managers who see their teams through 15-20 game positive swings from year to year in victories. The Twins are down Buxton, Kiriloff and Sonny Gray now. Every team in baseball has injuries due to a confluence of factors.

The interesting thing is that he's right around that 85-86% mark for save conversions...whereas elite used to be considered 90%+. I will give him credit for cutting down the runner at third...that turned out to be the key to the inning, that and walking Choi to get to the inexperienced fielding first Walls.

That's just a bit of hyperbole but with VB tomorrow it's a solid win. Best record in baseball with Mets losing. Very very fortunate to have Walls up there. Not pitching to Choi the right move with McGuire to block pitches now.

And LaRussa as manager...who insists on playing Leury over Bummer.

Had to go to the off speed pitch. Kopech Abreu and McGuire players of the game lol.

Slider?

Those aren't even close.

This is more ridiculous than Colome for twice the salary...

Now have to be really careful with the sliders...Cash with the strategy supported by eye popping numbers.

Aiyo...

Great Zunino next. Please avoid some heart attacks.

Runner might have been on third with Collins Zavala Grandal catching.

Wow that really hung up there forever...thought it might drop.

Go shadows go...

Slider so inconsistent in the early season...and still lacking a tick or two on the velocity meter. Why in God's name is Harrison throwing that ball?

Seems LaRussa considers defense in the late innings to be important every other day. Engel is in RF.

Here we go yet again..

Well sure, the long term prognosis on two TJ surgeries not all that great...

Pretty sure nobody expected Ruiz and Sousa to replicate the 2005 pen coming into today...Politte and Cotts.