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He was actually pretty good offensively his rookie season until fading a bit late...quite similar to Beckham as a rookie. It was the second seasons that were terribly disappointing. Well, Gordon's entire career, but that's another story.

That might be the best marketing idea of the year so far. Forward to Brooks Boyer.

Not if we had three full games to put up those runs without Robert...with no reason to even pitch to Anderson anymore.

Padres are going to send them Lamet (who has been sent to the minors, but now Clevinger's hurt yet again) as well to make up for Paddack...

Current RS/RA AL Ranks 10. Mariners -25 11. A's/White Sox -32 13. Baltimore -34 14. Detroit -50 15. KC -60

Don't forget McCann. I'm sure he was much happier in the AL Central than NL East.

Restart the retirement conversations again.

White Sox RS/RA differential ends up making TLR look like a genius if Phil Rogers is still assessing the team so simplistically . Almost 8 runs. Wind not carrying the ball, a bit cold night game prevented the homer for Kike'.

They're going to come up with a full 8-10 verse Nationwide song at this rate. Jose Ruiz next man in.

Old teammate Odor just homered against Yankees for a 5-3 lead. Would be four losses in a row for Yankees if that holds up in BALT. F U Donaldson!!! Serves them right. Also, looks like Clay Holmes will supplant Chapman as the closer, and soon.

Please lock/close thread, lol. You at least have to be a +10 games over .500 team in the AL Central to be deserving of this accolade.

Guess we need to try Yale (Epstein). Stanford/Haber isn't doing so hot, either. Although we really have no idea if he's good or bad...because he's a mirror of Hahn, and you have to figure in TLR/JR/KW as well. This MLB.com article is a bit out of date, but illustrative as a general trend. Of the 30 general managers or GM equivalents in the Majors today, 12, or fully 40 percent, have Ivy League backgrounds. Harvard leads the way with five. Princeton has two, as do Cornell (Daniels) and Dartmouth. Penn has one. No other collegiate group remotely approaches this number. And this does not include the man whose success started the trend. Theo Epstein is a Yale man who was in a leadership role for the two teams that broke the most storied World Series championship droughts in history -- the Red Sox and the Cubs.

To me the biggest shocker so far this week (and it's early in Game 2 of the series) is how well the Guardians are playing the Astros in Houston.

Already covered. He NEVER in a million years had the arm for RF, so that entire trade was flawed from the very start considering the fact Jimenez was the planned for LFer at the beginning of the season.

What's the average exit velocity so far for Boston, 106-108? That one was 112. 54 pitches, 6 runs on 7 hits. YIKES.

Well, Boston couldn't buy a hit with RISP that series in Fenway. WHITE SOX (almost) ALWAYS SHIT THE BED after a big emotional series like they just went through in NYC. Can't blame this one on a big crowd though, looks to be around 20,000ish.

2-0 Twins. Now Correa starting to heat up. 5 1/2 GB would be the low water mark of the division race. White Sox have final four months to try to chase down MINNY or at least a WC spot, but not like they drew it up this offseason. Lynn isn't expected back until around June 12th-15th.

Curse of the Best Rotation in Baseball Thread. Just like the Curse of the Best Bullpen last year.

Bradley 7 for his last 12. Good God. Have to pull Cease. He's not as strong mentally as Giolito IMO.

Leury Legend might be in again by the end of this. Or Abreu, to mimic Pujols. Of course, one of those position players would get hurt, somehow. Need to just throw it up there in the 60's like Brett Phillips. Shades of the Lucas Giolito Patriots Day Massacre. I think that was 8 runs maybe? At least 7.

Another offline throw by Pollock. Who knew? Nobody warming up yet in the bullpen. If Bradley's going to start hitting, it's game set match. Kike, too. Loud contact. Pull him LaRussa. Just let everyone in your B bullpen group pitch 1-2 innings. And still nobody out.

3 for his last 31...they might have brought him back too quickly, because Charlotte/AAA at-bats are so misleading. That said, most thought he was down there TOO long.

If it was one of those Eurosport soccer possession stats, 80/20 or 75/25 in favor of the Red Sox...

They've been doing almost all of this without Correa (now back) and Buxton in a terrible slump, all the way down to .217 but 11 homers and an 875 OPS and still playing great defense when he manages to play the field.

Chilly weather, no Robert...pitcher who mastered us last time, most logical bettors would take the under. Obviously baseball betting is almost impossible. Caveat emptor. Moncada just 3 for his last 30. Yikes. "If your best player is your best person and leader, you've got a great chance." Gene Mauch