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Looks more like Velasquez when he doesn't have his better stuff. More Cardinals' vets please. Vaughn slow out of the box on that single and slow to make instinctual throws from the outfield.

Story has settled in at .740 ops. Semien, Correa and Seager all underperforming for the huge dollars they received.

Promoting Little Caesar's?

Make Katz the manager. That would be more fun. Lynn doesn't look anything close to first half 2021 form. That wasn't expected, but he looks like a shadow of his former self.

Two homers in the entire month for DET, too funny.

What was Lynn's average velocity first half last season?

Tigers are quite excited for a team buried at the bottom of the division.

Uh oh.

Abreu bails out Vaughn and Robert. Now let's see what Lynn actually has to work with.

That seems like two years ago, honestly.

Biggest concern is Lynn pushes himself too hard tonight trying to cover additional innings and makes matter worse… And they can’t afford to keep giving divisional games away, so the problems just keep snowballing.

Defund the White Sox Bullpen and Utility Infielder Spending! Doesn’t exactly roll right off the tongue…

This site needs more homages! Such a positive-sounding word…

Those NFT’s and SPAC’s aren’t looking all that great right now…irrational exuberance version 3 or 4. It’s going to be a huge wake up call for those under 35 coasting along with massive gains due to excess liquidity chasing diminishing returns…they were in the right place at the right time, but likely not as brilliant as thought. Now all the leverage is turning against.

He’s not ILed, either? MRI? If it was the dreaded right forearm stiffness…well, TJ is par for the course this season since we haven’t had one yet, lol. Sox just rake in the insurance comp payments, then he’s good to go for the first year of the rebuild in 2024! (Teal/green.)

Thought the Tigers or White Sox signed Antonio Bastardo from the thread title…

Too bad no Bristol anymore. Charlotte has too many distractions, comparatively.

You can’t combine that with Baby Shark. Or maybe only Nancy Faust could…

Engel at age 30 is at 30.5…something’s definitely up physically or psychologically. Covid has been the easy explanation, but it’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma.

Someone had 109…I warned him.

Orioles, guys like Mancini or Santander are some of the better options…assuming not all in on Benintendi due to buy high cost that you saw with Adam Frazier All-Star last year.

Stealing a page from Russia and China.

1.5 fWAR=bargain Just don't look at those ugly prior seasons.

Who are the Indians?

Fine, they have Casali and Wynns right now. There are maybe 7-8 catchers in the entire sport doing "pretty well" offensively right now. We are not talking the 32 year old Grandal of last season. We are talking the banged up (can hardly play in 50% of team's games as an actual catcher) 33 year old version this season. SF is not going to bring in someone who can't throw out opposing baserunners or block pitches...they value defense too much, hence their preference for Casali right now. They're also not going to willingly take on $28-30 million in salary. They're smart...they will get Hahn to pay 40-60% of the remaining money, then with risk level mitigated, they'll happily take him off the White Sox hands as a much better gamble. I would love to hear from all the other SoxTalk posters who would take on the entire Grandal contract...without even having to trade anything in return.