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Of course Leury doesn't start when he's 3/5 against Ray...?

Poor Kelenic. Out to almost as poor of a start as Miguel Sano. Dylan Moore in LF is interesting. Probably end up with 2 XB hits. Torrens at DH as well.

One should also note Sox ranks in DH and RF production over most of the last decade...we always say and incessantly hear that corner spots minus 3B (and also 2B) are easy and cheap to fill. Then not only don't fill them, but over allocate precious resources to those areas. Just like over drafting collegiate relievers for 2-3 years but having very little to show for that emphasis.

Realistically, only one of those four balls should have been caught. But it's also why the Rays limited his outfield time...because it's even more disadvantageous on turf to have a below average defender.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33724762/how-mlb-only-black-double-play-combo-passing-jackie-robinson-legacy

Pitch count was only 80. Sandy Koufax in 1965 still only perfecto in franchise history. Lost it to Sanchez. First game in career against Minny, first appearance at Target Field obviously.

Perfect game for Kershaw with near personal high for K’s. Treinen will go the 8th. Bellinger, Lux, Barnes just went back to back to back against newly-promoted Derek Rodriguez. No pitch but one over 91 mph for Clayton, almost all Ks on sliders. Treinen sitting back down with lead up to 6-0. Vesia in…Dodgers’ fans in Minny booing and booing.

What would you set his highest ERA at to keep getting starts in the second half? 5? 5.25? That’s still above average for a fifth starter…but essentially replacement level, let’s say on course for a sub 1 fWAR like 2020. Even if he’s at 4.5 to 4.75ish, Hahn pretty much has to go out and add at least one more option in June/July…in order to cover Kopech. But also to show legit options in the case of a Keuchel grievance to where the team has a legit argument that they had better choices for starts. Of course, the last guy with conditions like this was Yonder Alonso. Didn’t come close.

98% sure it only counts regular season innings…

160 this year is the correct answer, looking at it again. Would give him 322 combined, for an average of 161.

What are the current Vegas odds on that one? 2024 Vesting Option vests with 320 IP across 2021-2022, including 160 IP in 2022 So he simply needs to pitch 160 innings this year, ending up at 322 total. Not 158.

KeBryan Hayes 3/3 today so far after inking that extension…nice positive development for that storied franchise.

But which non Top 10 payroll teams have done it? The Rays, Brewers recently, Braves are mid-tier and now even higher…maybe 3-4 out of thirty can pull off that trick. Maybe the Cardinals, too. Part of it’s due to the current weakness in Pitt and Cincy.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance Gives a pretty good indication where the Twins, Tigers and Royals season ticket bases stand coming into the year. And TB deserves so much praise for competing when they’re only drawing 7000-8500 per night. It’s uncanny.

Sure, but we will see with the Twins this year the impact of subtracting their closer and best high leverage guy in Robles. Just watch.

Eloy should have had that ball right on the line…his sprint speed getting over there was probably 8-10.

Mackenzie Gore is starting Friday now…

Well, they nailed it with Gausman, DeSclafini, Alex Wood last year…and not so bad when you can replace Gausman with Rodon and Cobb.

The Tigers will look completely different with Torkelson actually hitting and Riley Greene in the lineup.

Okay, well, anyone can have at it starting a Keuchel Countdown to Option Lock-in...with all that said, you pretty much guarantee a 6-7 inning outing and only a couple of earned runs if you do it before Dallas' first start. I really thought Chris Archer would get rocked by the Dodgers and he didn't give up a single run last night. It was actually the relief corps that was rocked instead. They're going to struggle mightily without Robles and Rogers.

Well, that's because the Royals essentially had 25-30 years of tanking between World Series titles...

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/batvspitch/_/id/32175/robbie-ray Looks like Leury and Vaughn will definitely be in the line-up tmrw...not exactly a huge amount of success in those numbers by Sox hitters against Ray lifetime.

Too early. Let's see where things stand after Hawkeroo's old 54 game pole...1/3rd of the season gone at the end of May/early June.

The front office will unfortunately be able use his emergence as leverage with TA's deal up after 2024...approaching his age 32/33 season (and assuming they exercise all the option years, zero reason at this point to think they wouldn't.) For a high school player, the arrival time generally ranges from 3 1/2 years (starting with draft year) to 5. So somewhere in the middle to end of the 2024 season would be the ETA. The jump from Low A to High A is really tough adjustment for high school kids who are playing against guys 3-5 years older, as well as from High A to AA.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/33718964/the-new-cba-was-supposed-end-tanking-mlb-here-why They cited the Reds, Pirates, A's and Orioles. Arizona isn't far off. At least the AL Central has five teams that each have reasons to be hopeful/optimistic for the future. https://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?122885-Phil-Castellini-surprised-that-Opening-Day-tickets-still-unsold&p=4402116#post4402116 Here's a LONG thread with a discussion of Reds fans about why Opening Day wasn't close to selling out, and then the last 24 hours of hatred towards the owner's son (well, that sounds a bit familiar in Chicago I'm sure). Talk about a real PR disaster there.