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And he has lost Giolito recently…

Kirk 4/8 homers against Sox this year. #3 vote getter behind Judge and Trout.

Leury instead of Anderson in. Sigh. Jays feast on sliders, by the way. Banner curse in full effect. Poor Mendick.

Wasn’t he out for a while due to injury then unexcused personal absence/restricted list? Two DP’s already. Usually Abreu hitting and not running into one.

Boston Again. We need our own defensive specialist. No idea what Cairo or Narron do. Abreu #1 in RS last three years in AL…Devers #2.

Is Leury still out/unavail? Because they need to go to Perez to shore up backup catcher or Sosa/Sanchez.

Can’t out any weight on right knee…

right knee…oops

How bad is Mendick’s left knee?

Blue Jays’ coach Guillermo Martinez already went after Eddings in lineup exchange. And George Springer might have something seriously wrong with his right elbow. Will be re-evaluated next 24-48 hours. Espinal on an 0/25 run…ouch.

Left him in to eat it last couple of starts to preserve pen a bit. This is the playing with house money/just keep everyone healthy game. Then try to take 3/4 from the O’s at home. Also, would pay to watch Kirk and Daniel Vogelbach in a cage wrestling match…those guys are so much fun. One will be starting the All-Star game, too.

He and Jose Ramirez are the two toughest players in the division. Not even close for third. Maybe Sal Perez, who has been absolutely banged up.

Sure. Let’s wait at least 2 more months and see what happens when pitchers start making adjustments. Jose Rodriguez has been one of the few top prospects to actually hold their own after a really rough start this year. It has been a graveyard for rookies partially due to the 2020-21 lack of reps…and ball change as well.

If you were stuck behind the Dodgers, Padres and Giants for the foreseeable future…and financially limited…acquiring Jimenez for two relatively expensive seasons vs. 6-7 cost-controlled of Alek Thomas, the roughly #30 MiLB prospect who can play anywhere in the OF and LH. Well, let’s just say if if if the 2015-2016 White Sox made the equivalent of that move, we would go insane. Yes, Jimenez could even have one 2008 Carlos Quentin season in him…but what are the odds of actually extracting it right now?

That combination of speed and power is also very special. Plus he’s a very charismatic, marketable player in the right city. Think Luis Robert but a much smaller 2B version of him. He oozes talent.

To me, Jimenez now has a pretty similar profile to Jorge Soler when the Cubs finally decided to cut bait with him…and they already went through the Yasmany Tomas experience.

The Rays have made some really strange moves, like selling low on both Adames and Cronenworth. The one really good one was dumping Snell early to the Padres. Then again, they turned Margot from a 4th outfielder to a very valuable piece. Like the Giants, they get the absolute most out of their lineups. And miss Franco dearly. The biggest problem seems to be running their pitchers into the ground and trying to compete in that incredibly-tough division.

What good would Jimenez do a rebuilding team that should be shedding Marte and Bumgarner and perhaps even Gallen? This is like another version of the Chisholm trade…although Thomas isn’t ever likely to be a 5+ fWAR guy.

Stolen bases and Gold Glove defense?

They won’t do that until Harrison crashes back to reality again. He’s bought himself through the middle of July now.

Last time I checked, on pace for a 5 - 5.5ish fWAR. Would have been 2.5-2.75 last year had he played the full season. It’s as if Tim Anderson had broken out his second year instead of going into a sophomore slump. We can’t even manage to get Harrison’s 1.5 fWAR from last year or 2021 Madrigals’s extrapolated pace.

Well, also kind of a shot at Big Energy Harrison critics the last two days…granted, we have all been frustrated but suddenly he’s a huge difference maker. It was too early for Sosa and Yolbert Sanchez is always going to be a complimentary piece like a similarly-named Yolmer Sanchez at even his very best.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/joey-gallo/14128/stats?position=OF Except it seems like Gallo’s defense has really cratered. And the Yankees are going to not simply help out a potential playoff opponent for nothing more than salary relief and Engel…especially when everyone in baseball knows about the Sox LHH issues.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/39882/jake-burger Are we talking about the same player? I guess 39 at bats against LHP is a bit of a small sample. The interesting thing is that Burger in yet another very small sample size last year killed righties. .https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/splits/_/id/39882/year/2021/category/batting 33/136 or .243 overall against RHP last two years combined.

Hence, Adam Frazier…