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Yeah, but he's never been good at judging them off the crack of the bat despite being right inside the stadium with a bird's eye view.

Grandal and Benetti have one thing in common....terrible perception about home run balls.

Twins quite fortunate to only surrender one run that inning...guess the Anderson and Grandal balls were both well hit?

When are the Rays going to call up Franco....sheesh, what does the poor kid have to do? It's not the Rays' offense at the major league level is anything to write home about.

Where are they going to bean Mercedes, that's the main question here...then they will put in Pineda? Moncada at .810 and climbing. Let's hope Stone has another opportunity to make an idiotic and unfounded assertion.

Haha....Lamb-ka-bomb. Where the heck is Pineda, another PED's suspension? Even Lamb's at a 760 OPS....we must be leading that category of sub .200 hitters with decent OPS lines.

BURGATRON....homer #4. Top prospect in the Sox system rising like a speeding bullet. Average up to .231, .876 OPS. Of course, the top six hitters in the Charlotte line-up are ALL over .853. Charlotte numbers are more hyper inflated than the crypto and NFT/SPAC markets.

Let's fix Luis Castillo and buy him low on the sly...you can't go from Top 5 in the Cy Young voting to THIS in one off-season...it's like he's the baseball version of David Duval.

They will if they want to continue to grow the game internationally...because they're soon to collide with a demographic challenge, running out of 49-57 year old white dudes in 'Merica. ANd WHO the HELL is Bailey Ober? Sounds like a newspaper delivery boy from the late 1950's in Danbury, CT.

Yermin is benched, sent to Charlotte or traded? Yerminator burgers no longer offered on orders from the "fun police"?

Way to try to ruin the best early-season story in MLB, Karate Kid LaRusso. Go, Johnny!!! Take down the "false" dojo.

Let’s talk something realistic. What would you be willing to give up to add Max Scherzer to be our version (see Astros) of Verlander down the stretch and into the postseason? Because having a guy who has done it (Keuchel can’t be trusted, Lynn will be there for sure if healthy) is worth its weight in gold. Of course, as of today, Cease/Kopech/Rodon all look like legit threats to start post season games with Lynn...Giolito has lots of time to right the ship, but how many are still left standing ay the end of the season? You can even go to a six man rotation or put Kopech in the pen (mostly) to preserve/protect his arm from going beyond 120 ip. It likely won’t happen, Hahn is nothing if not risk-averse compared to KW, but imagine this team and adding Scherzer, Robert and Eloy to it. Does TLR have any connection to Scherzer?

Mark or Mike...heck, we’ll throw in Kirk Ferentz, too.

With those outfield arms, anything but a bunt would be an automatic out...

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=2b&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2021&month=0&season1=2021&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&startdate=2021-01-01&enddate=2021-12-31 One game pushed him up to 20th out of 26 2B. 0.1 to 0.4 shift, back to the much more acceptable 1.6 fWAR pace. Marcus Semien leading with a 6.0 projection. Btw, Tim Anderson #18, Yoan Moncada all the way up to 21st overall. Yermin, a 4.8 fWAR pace.

I always thought Ron was like Monty Burns or Ned Flanders...

Nor Carole Baskin. Well, you did have Robin Ventura and Josh Fields at OKState. And the Commerce Comet, Mickey Mantle. The one I suspected as being misidentified was “3rd cousin” Ryan Mantle. Drafted by the Giants in 2008…to great fanfare, what else is new…he played 3 nondescript seasons in the minors and is now out of baseball. But that’s what everyone said…Mickey’s 3rd cousin. Look at the years of birth in Chart 620. Is it possible for 3rd cousins, who by definition are of the same generation, to be born 55 years apart? https://relatedhowagain.wordpress.com/2014/06/

Expected wins and losses with ten blown leads has the Sox at 27-13, or underperforming by -2 games. Some would argue 28-12, even 29-11 were there for the taking, just in the first four on the road in Anaheim, one Mariners game in Seattle, one Detroit loss...the game Giolito was left out way too long when he was completely gassed, etc.

Go out and get Max Scherzer, then. Pitching dominates in the post-season. With the Conforto and Seager injuries, even more of a premium on remaining positional players is going to be asked. Kris Bryant would be a great fit, but would Cubs dare do that to their fans? Or Baez...or Rizzo? Makes for an interesting debate, but still seems highly unlikely...if not completely improbable.

More like a rambling rough draft of brainstorms that needs to be polished quite a bit.

Going by normal bust rates, especially in that lower price range, we're lucky to get one useful player out of Cespedes and Colas...

Drugs other than caffeine and nicotine are not allowed in China. Death penalty, brah, ever heard of it? It serves as a pretty effective deterrent for MOST foreigners or expats here. Although there are some teachers who want to get cute and start their own drug (marijuana or E mostly) distribution networks until they get caught, which is almost the inevitable, inexorable conclusion to such entrepreneurial side gig endeavors.

He works counts when he doesn't put the first ball in play because that's the result quite often when he makes softer contact...so the average of pitches/PA is still going to be lower (3 point whatever, compared to almost 4 pitches for the average MLB PA), but there are two stories coming into play....the whole "Nicky Two strikes battling back from 0-2/1-2/2-2 to full counts and running up pitch counts storyline vs. the putting the first or second ball into play because of bat to ball ability/lack of selection on which pitches he can drive, etc.)

Slackers!!! C'mon, brahs and baes!

1) Trade for Jonathan Gray of the Rockies (FA after this year, only $6 million contract) or German Marquez. Marquez is a mess right now, so there's probably not a match, but he has the extra years of control. Depends on scouting/Katz assessment. Willing to trade ANYONE not nailed down in the organization, other than Burger (have a sneaking feeling his bat and 3b/1B glove will come in quite handy eventually)...plus the Rockies already have McMahon for third. Obviously, Reynaldo Lopez would be one to ship out, along with ANY minor league pitching. Depending on their feelings about Cespedes, the Rockies could definitely use another outfielder as well in the future. 2) Bring up Alec Hansen, DFA/outright Marshall or Ruiz and allow the two former OU teammates (Gray/Hansen) to work together again. Hope to catch lightning in a bottle. 3) Buy out the rights to QB/CFer Kyler Murray (the third OU connection) from the A's and let him play everyday at Winston-Salem. Play up the PR spin and marketing connections to two sport standouts like Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, Tim Tebow and Eddie Alvarez (haha) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multi-sport_athletes Prepare for total world domination with an OF in 2024 of Murray, Vaughn, Jimenez, Robert, Cespedes and Colas. 4) The key point. Start working with the agents for Lynn, Gray and Rodon (difficult with Boras Corp.) on an extension for 2-3 seasons. Likely 3. Can use that leverage to see if you can get Giolito to bite on an extension as well (with the leverage of knowing you will get at least 1/3 or go the route of 1 or 2 qualifying offers for Lynn/Gray/Rodon), although with his extreme volatility doubt JR will be offering $125 million in light of the Danks fiasco. Of course, those qualifying offers (if they survive CBA negotiations) would get some potentially useful compensation back if only one of the players accepted (you could see them working behind the scenes with Rodon to offer knowing Boras will politely decline will chasing after the 2-4 year deals on behalf of his client.) If you can trade for Marquez, you already control his rights for 2 1/2 seasons in a prototypical "Jose Contreras/change of atmosphere or scenery deal." JUST $26 million for 2022/23 combined, so you're protected by the $2.5 million buyout (otherwise $16 million in 2024 with two Top 5 Cy Young finishes, which any organization in baseball would be extremely elated to pay $16 million in exchange for.) 5. With three OU players in the fold, this doesn't mean you also need to go after REAL Steele Walker (yet another OU player), just in case Hahn had that hankering for a reunion. This also allows you to take a little more time and strategizing in terms of converting Crochet to starting (knowing you can throw Colas into the mix in 2022-23.) 6. With Kyler Murray playing baseball, Tim Anderson, Luis Robert, Eloy Jimenez, Yoan Moncada, Nicky Two Homers/Two Strikes Madrigal, the Yerminator, the Burger Baconator, "even more Cubans (Colas adding to the LHR corps with Bummer/Fry/Crochet)," Michael Kopech, etc., you suddenly have the most entertaining/interesting team in all of baseball (yes, ahead of the Padres shockingly) and krush the groove out of the Cubs and Marquee Network with playoff appearance after playoff appearance so boring it's like being an Atlanta Braves fan in the 90's and early 00's. Ricketts needs to sell off developments in Wrigleyville to raise cash for 2024 run, JR buys them all out and reallocates the profits from yuppie Cubs' fans from the NW Suburbs and grandmothers from Des Moines, Peoria and South Bend to the White Sox "war chest/coffers."