caulfield12

No Buxton again. A's look like they are bound and determined to save the White Sox a one game negative swing in the standings. Twins 7-23 since 2012 out there and 3-9 their last 12. A bit reminiscent of West Coast swings for Sox from 2000 through 2008...@LAA @SEA @OAK. That was also the only team the A's beat when they were both making all those playoff runs from 2001-2010, the Twins. Until they beat the White Sox in 2020. A's also had that crazy loss against KC when Oakland was arguably best AL team in the second half of 2014.

I can't imagine how low the attendance for THAT game would be. Worse than if you had Bevington and Ventura and Manuel signing autographs as a promotion. Can throw Torborg and Lamont in there if still kicking.

Not without big league track records that would show Sheets as anything but a platoon player confined to 1B/DH. But yeah the Pirates would trade Q for those two, lol. Although they have Hayes for 3B already. Vogelbach is pretty similar overall to Sheets in terms of what one might expect out of him.

Hernandez had huge power numbers but regression came quickly on both sides. Tepera fine. Like he was a traitor to the Indians for playing well for a hated rival almost. It was weird especially with that option. Clearly not a good fit for whatever reason in our clubhouse. But quite a few of us came out against Kimbrel being forced into 7th and 8the inning work. Of course, he's once again 7/7 in converting saves this year so far.

Once again, other than some high profile tiffs with NBA superstars...when has a star player/captain in MLB called publicly for a manager to replaced or even?questioned him strongly/called him out? Very very rare. Unless you know the GM and especially ownership group have your back. But TLR is a HoFer and is backed by Reins for free which everyone in baseball knows. So you're going to risk all that...and for what? A trade?

But we used to say the exact same thing with every FA class...and usually ended up disappointed. Almost nobody liked his offseason, and payroll flexibility won't be high now with Cueto added and averaging 21000 per game.

That's fine. Giolito's already got one foot out the door. Then what? Hope for another extension with Robert before his future value shoots through the roof? Kopech? Cease? Vaughn? Long term deals with 1B that are not superstars and pitchers with TJ histories...basically everyone now that starts...don't usually end up well.

Going 6-11 against the AL Central...the very worst of six divisions in baseball, well it's not exactly highly correlated with any level of success unless you are the 83-79 Cardinals World Series team.

Did he recognize the best AL hitter for average over the last three seasons cumulatively was sitting on the bench with him?

Death incarnate everlasting and warmed over...three similar versions of Zombiefication. TLR has a final career ahead of him in the Evil Dead/Dawn of the Dead sequels/remakes.

Imagine. Melendez caught both ends of a DH and still managed to hit the key homer. Anderson and Abreu couldn't be troubled to come off the bench. No Royals catcher has done that in 27 years. And a rookie to boot.

If Grandal is the one tasked with fielding the ball, sure...

Even the Angels the way they are going. And our offense might not even be able to outscore the Rays with their endless army of 300 arms.

The Central is so so so bad. Reds tried to give it away against Guardians with a huge blown save, both teams blew opportunity after opportunity and somehow Cincy prevailed in CLE so we are 1/2 game up on them whatever that actually means. Probably very little.

Oh for the days of lift and pull when we actually had huge offensive nights occasionally.

He has a front office job already, just like Hostetler. That new coach can fix aging and provide the fountain of youth elixir?

Guess we have to rely on the A's to beat the Twins sometime before that stadium lease expires in 2024.

Why didn't they use Anderson as a PR for Harrison or PH for Engel? No need for a hotter Abreu? Sheesh. A sense of slightly more urgency please.

We didn't even need VV or Cueto! Except against the other four divisions with East and West in their titles.

Hot radar gun? Singer consistently 96? Kelly/Hendriks must have been 98-100.

Royals not shockingly averaging just 2.5 runs per game at Kauffman so far this year.

Moncada back to scuffling after hot start. Managing to make Singer look like a 1-4 pick again.

He won a Gold Glove or two at first didn't he?

With Martin pitching to contact you would think Robert in CF Engel in RF and Vaughn at DH just might be the better defensive approach? Nah.

Well when you're struggling to make the Top 30 out of the 30th ranked farm system...somehow survived that inning. Bullets being hit everywhere.