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Don’t see a ball hit like that stay in the park during the summer months usually.

And there’s some who want Kopech if he could go at least 4+ innings…

Well, Lillian likes him since he hits left-handed, so there’s that. Cease looks pretty much in danger of giving up a 4-5 run inning. Well, at least the slider’s sorta working now.

Oh, no, another TLR apology thread for his charitable contributions…

The Tigers are about to just four games under .500 and could be legit threats as late as second half 2022 for a wild card spot because of how bad the Twins, Indians and Royals could all be depending on how things break.

Sal Perez says hello.

Doesn’t playing just 1-2 games per week make it even more likely he’ll get hurt trying to make a play to prove he deserves to be out there on an everyday basis? Not really sure it mitigates the risk all that much…

Rutherford? That trade was complicated by the Frazier and Robertson salary dumps…

Also, think it’s a pretty foregone conclusion the White Sox won’t give Giolito 5-6 years and $125-165 million… How much are we willing to give Tim Anderson when he’s going to already be 31 and hitting 32 in midseason 2025? That seems to be a really controversial contract looming, like the one we gave to Abreu…obviously, at some point, he’s going to lose a step or two on the basepaths and defensively, with perhaps another 5-8 homers added to his output. Would anyone take Berrios as a FA after 2022 (instead of keeping Lucas) because of his age, lack of TJS (or does that still seem risky his first will be due?), and then also dinging the Twins, who are going to attempt to get a bargain basement deal out of Buxton with his injury history chopping off roughly 50-60% of his potential future value? Giolito wins a World Series, the calculus changes…but then, look at what the Strasburg contract did to Washington, they had to give up Rendon. As far as Berrios goes, he’s never quite the dominating sum of all his parts…or maybe it’s pitching for a losing team this year. But we don’t have to look beyond this week to see why one might be leery of making that kind of financial commitment.

This was updated for 1/2 of 2021, because Moncada outside of the Top 50 when he’s been ranked around 7-10 to a bottom of the thirties in fWAR makes little sense. Unless you assume/d the Covid-19 version was him going forward. Or they’re counting that contract on the back end as the primary fault or flaw. So the interesting one is going to be Jimenez ahead of Robert with a much lower fWAR ceiling. Vaughn’s a tough player to get a real read on until he has one full season under his belt at 1B, and coming into a rookie campaign after Covid that’s left guys like Kelenic and Wander Franco scuffling mightily.

Well, that and the fact he went through a tough/er 2017 and 2018…and was a couple of years behind in general due to the immigration issues with Cuba/international players and being so talented that he developed some bad habits that weren’t exposed until he got to the big leagues (both defensively and hitting from the RH side). But look at Kelenic or Wander Franco now at .208. Vladdy Guerrero came up at a really young age and took a couple of seasons to find himself. Byron Buxton can’t ever stay on the field. Or Ohtani as well having a number of setbacks. Then there’s the all-time poster child for unrealized talent in Josh Hamilton. It’s natural for every fan to want the next Soto or Acuna, Jr…but that’s in that rarefied Top 3-5 or MVP air very few ever breathe.

Goodwin seems to fit in really well with this team, too.

Fake News! Hoax! Evidence manufactured by MSM! There were two Dr. Richard Kimballs.

Take that, Hot Takez Even Stone recently has been very complimentary about his hustle down the line on a foul popup and his ability to throw across his body on the move like the last out of the game against Donaldson.

Two crazy comebacks for both Chicago teams tonight…

Hamilton picking up Anderson was huge, too. Someone the Royals gave up on to bring back Dyson.

Hamilton picking up Anderson was huge, too.

Bumped. Those 75 rbi’s aren’t clutch, are they? One of the other threads was that Abreu according to FG was expected to have the biggest drop off in OPS in all of MLB… .823 seems…not too bad.

Some really interesting roster decisions coming up with Lamb, Mendick, Sheets, Burger…Hamilton has definitely earned his place on the roster based on enthusiasm alone.

Now have to worry LaRussa will put in Ruiz or Lopez with non-save situation, lol…

What are the odds of Hendriks in the 9th if it’s still a tie? Scared to see what TLR chooses to do this time.

Gutsy send…with Engel not reading it well.

Don’t know why anyone would throw Collins anything but a fastball here…

Houston is tough, Boston is adding Sale and TB is on the verge of adding some more pop…they’re really making huge bets on all their players coming back healthy or the market coming back to the buyers over the last 2-3 days before the deadline.

Yep, despite how blah we’re playing other than the last two pitching performances against Houston, an 8 1/2 game lead is the high water mark for the year. CLE really struggles on the road, and their starting pitching issues are beginning to become more pronounced.