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Leury next year $250K buyout, $3.5 million club option. We were going to be pretty happy if Madrigal hit 3-5 homers in a season. Leury already at 3 in 12+ games.

Club option for 2021, $3.5 million. Pretty darned likely at this rate to be picked up, and a bargain to boot.

Okay Leury, you're forgiven for your "error" earlier in the game. Can we just leave him at 2B and redraft 2018, haha (JUST KIDDING.)

SIX DIFFERENT PITCHES. Where were our Asian scouts? Seems the Brewers magically come up with pitching every year, dudes like Aguilar and Thames and Travis Shaw. Mazara FINALLY breaks the string, pulls his hands in, gets on top of the pitch and pulls it into RF.

Has a Rollie Fingers "splitter" going tonight. Or Jose El Gran Titan Contreras. Last time this happened (five in a row to start a game) was 1988 for a Brewers pitcher.

Nastiest pitch of the year except for FB that Dustin May threw recently that must have veered almost 2 feet to the right in the last 15 feet.

Kerry Wood/Max Scherzer/Clemens/Nolan Ryan/BIG UNIT on the mound tonight... Crazy this guy was playing in obscuring in Korea for 5 seasons.

Is that relaTed to the Jimi Hendrix Experience?

Living on the edge of disaster so far, but getting away with it... Well, the Indians finally woke up these last couple of games against a pitching-heavy REDLEGS' squad.

For one or two games, he was receiving a lot of praise, especially for his arm. He's an above average defender, if he can just concentrate on ONE position and get totally comfortable there. Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case during his White Sox career.

Bogus strike call there. Low.

So much for Gold Glove Garcia...should have been caught. Hit off the heel of the glove. Well, we woke up Omar Narvaez this year. Omar Coming (Again).

NOT FOX AFFILIATE in KC where Harris Faulkner got her start, therefore, FAKE NEWS. Used to be CBS, if I remember correctly.

Looks like they're finally going to lose a game to KC. They pretty much just have to pay 7 games below .500 for the rest of the season to make the playoffs, considering they can destroy KCR, Det and Pittsburgh, who might be the worst franchise in modern baseball history when all is said and done (can't lose 100+ games, of course.)

Well, then this team isn't going to go very far in the playoffs with a #2 in Giolito and a #3/4 in Keuchel. Unless they can just bludgeon teams to death offensively. Didn't work all that well in 2000 and 2008 (well, not having Quentin was already the kiss of doom.)

The ideal situation is cash-strapped franchises that are non-competitive dumping contracts that are 1-2 years beyond 2020, providing some measure of team control without over-committing. Stroman is a counter example, bringing someone in for a 4-5 week "internship/trial period" to see if he fits in well with the institutional culture of the team before hitting FA.

How did Rongey manage to date her? (Gets ready to be attacked by those arguing that money/appearance aren't the only qualities a man can possess.) I might have to change my opinion about him at least having some game (one redeeming quality), although not about his broadcasting. Interestingly, Rahimi is the same age as Ginger Zee. Unfortunately, in the broadcasting business, there's always that constant recycling of female sports anchors in their late 30's/early 40's....reverting back to the mid 20's, fresh out of the journalism/analytics school equivalents of peppy blonde, blue-eyed cheerleaders. For me, I'll take the knowledge/insight over the external qualities every single time, but there's always that inner Brent Musburger imprinted in the male brain. I know from when I worked in minor league baseball, about 90% were men. The women were always pushed into ticket sales and on-field promotions, like the quite suddenly VERY dated Chevy Pride Girls. Now, there's actually signs of progress, like Jessica Mendoza and the coach for SFG. AGEISM.

Of course, part of that drive came from being traded before he ever had an opportunity to play a MiLB game. Most importantly, growing from 5'11" to 6' 3 1/2" inches in 18 months. Elijah is still just 5'10" or 5'11," at least at this point. There's another reading on this. He has even more natural ability than his older brother, but hasn't reached his potential or been forced to really push himself...having gotten by on talent and family name alone so far.

Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals, like Buehrle and Crede growing up.

Pretty sure that family is about to be set for life financially. $500k won’t matter much in the overall scheme of things. It was essentially a do over for the Sox, mostly for fighting hard at the last second to sign the older brother in the first place when he was going elsewhere. And pre-existing relationships between Sr. and Sox execs, especially KW and Paddy.

Fine, but WMAQ-670 was the only way (more at night) for this teenage Sox fan to follow the team from Iowa in the 1980’s. Later, of course, SportsChannel and WGN. It was either that, or Jack Buck/Mike Shannon doing the Cards’ games.

The scary part is if we made the playoffs in 2016, got routed and a certain SD shortstop had disappeared into the ether...it would pretty much be like 2013-2015 all over again, except six plus years of losing baseball in all likelihood.

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This will never work in a million years because...Elijah.