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Miami is only three games back and advanced last year in the postseason. Unless we overwhelm them, where’s the incentive to make a deal? The Rangers should have more reasons to deal Gallo, but just opened a new stadium and look to be dealing DeShields for a minor piece or two first. Still like Haniger here, because he fills the need/s for the current year without impacting future Sox outfields, meaning the acquisition cost as a half season rental should be less than for Marte. Plus you have to consider the NL/AL transition as well, which also favors Haniger. While it’s possible Eaton, Robert, Jimenez, Vaughn and Engel are all part of the picture the last two months, odds of that happening are somewhere between slim and none.

Padres +68 Dodgers +66 White Sox +65 Astros +60 SFG +53 Boston +51

Nope, have to keep him as insurance for Mercedes falling off...

So if the issue was dreadlocks, sagging uniform pants, hat worn at an angle...trashy? Tattoos, piercings and doo rags must really send the alarm bells ringing. What about Keuchel? He looks like a Hills Brother coffee dude mixed with an Appalachian hillbilly or Amish/Quaker/Mennonite...or Randy Quaid in the Big Lebowski. Do beards confer holiness and wisdom? Why have the Yankees banned them for ages? Not even nicely or neatly trimmed goatees. Kopech’s man bun? Trailer park trash of just expressing his individuality? Wearing the pants too low and covering up the stirrups? Lifetime ban. Pink shoes and sweatbands should result in suspensions, except on Mother’s Day and Easter and Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Mullets? Banned, except in Alabama and Mississippi. Earrings? Cut off their earlobes. Dave Bautista or Mike Tyson? Banned.

If he went to Dartmouth or wherever like Kyle Hendricks and wore gold chains, then what should happen to him?

Playing without Myers (Covid) and Machado (shoulder) now... Rockies all-star shortstop Trevor Story crushed his 100th career homer Friday at Coors Field against the Orioles. The blast was a mammoth shot that had some history behind it as Story is now the fastest shortstop on MLB history to 100 home runs. It took Story 448 games to accomplish the history feat. The previous mark was set by Alex Rodriguez who hammered his first 100 dingers 470 games. The only other player to get the job done in under 500 career games was Nomar Garciaparra at 491. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/05/24/trevor-story-home-runs-shortstop-100/ Would have picked Ernie Banks, A-Rod or Cal Ripken for this one. Nomar started out great and fizzled. Back in the day, it was him, Jeter and Tejada ruling the AL. Tatis’ current pace is to hit #100 in 324 games. Myers and Hosmer were clowning on him for wearing Crocs...

Only when dipping some Red Man...

Haniger just hit his 13th bomb...prefect fit, but the cost is going to be pretty considerable based on how he’s going now.

He’s fine or at least slightly below average in RF...but definitely not a CFer, any more than Avi Garcia is.

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&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&sort=21,d&page=6_30 Bottom five defenders in baseball. Interestingly, Hosmer and Gallo have both won Gold Gloves.

Handily...and, as my mom always asserts, don’t count your chickens before/until they’ve hatched.

Just eat green apples, everything will be fine in the end. Actually, Rodon’s evolved into one of those more mature guys you don’t worry about getting distracted by outside noise.

This is exactly how Iowa Hawkeye fans act when the team suffers some disappointing losses...goodbye NCAA tourney, buy out the coach who recruits like he’s in the Missouri Valley instead of Top Ten, get rid of the AD, we won’t win again, ever, or we’ll go 7-5 or 6-6 or 8-4 every season in football and never get rid of the Ferentz family. No matter what happens, we’ll run into a much more athletic team to stop us cold mo matter what preseason dreams and aspirations are bandied about.

.152/.525 (5/32, three hits came in just one game) Almost dumped a single into LF but Pham made a nifty diving catch to rob him. Then a ground out to SS with two outs and two runners in scoring position.

Starting to think they might need to platoon him with Eaton to get some pop in the lineup...but would ALMOST prefer Yermin in RF, haha. You just can’t risk another Achilles’ injury by playing Burgatron so far out of position IMO. All that said, we’re at least 6-8 weeks away from considering a call up. He has missed so much time. That said, something to be said for going with the hot hand, regardless of the situation/background. In summary, you just can’t move Moncada off third, even if playing Burger there makes a lot more sense than the outfield.

What in the holy hell is going on with this site these days?

You’re leaving out another NL team, fwiw. As far as the Mets go, Lindor definitely needs to get back to form, but they’ve also lost Conforto now and still don’t have the lockdown pen they targeted in the Kelenic trade. Of course, a Thor return is there and the Braves are doing themselves no favors, especially Huascar Ynoa pulling a Carlos Quentin. The Giants, fwiw, have salvaged the careers of Gausman, Desclafini, Aaron Sanchez and today, blast from the past Scott Kazmir...Tauchman not so much, .198 and a 617 ops. Just turned 30, which is increasingly the new 33-35 for baseball players over the last 5-7 years as the game has completely changed.

#Gandhi White Sox must have let Colome go due to wearing the cap at a 15 degree angle like Sabathia. Game over at Lake Erie. CLE 1 1/2 GB. Cesar Hernandez walks off Alex Colome.

He’s a lot like Carlos Lee. Pure streak hitter. And that streak has finally come around recently after being buried down in the 100’s. Regardless of one’s opinions, he has never become “the next David Ortiz.” And his defense is so bad at third it decreases his value to just being an average or slightly below average 1B or DH. Think Kyle Schwarber. Also, fwiw, James Karinchak is the single most valuable weapon in the AL Central...man, that guy is a monster. just blanked the Twins for two innings, who are now on the verge of their 8th extra inning loss along with 0-4 in doubleheaders.

The most expensive liability in team history, to boot.

Reyes pulled from game with abdominal strain. Might be an oblique. Good news or bad news, but it likely means we continue to stand pat/tread water and hope for Jimenez or Robert to save the offense the last 6-8 weeks.

By RS/RA and being in almost every game this year, one can argue we should still be 12 to 14 over. But with Vaughn and Anderson scuffling and Grandal contact-challenged, it’s a big pile of average even with our 3/4/5 guys. Puts so much pressure on the starting pitchers and pen to be nearly perfect.

He’s basically Zach Putnam. Hardly irreplaceable.

Indians have sort of figured out Sano...use his aggressiveness against him and make him go fishing for offspeed stuff outside the zone. Still hit homer #8. Btw, Duffey in to pitch now, 3-3 tie in CLE, suspended three games and had it reduced to two. Bieber had started for CLE. Every hitter now in CLE lineup below .764 ops other than Ramirez and Reyes...and that’s Luplow, who is in a huge slump and only hitting .172 (but 9 homers.). Average of all those guys around 600-625.

Nasty, Nasty boys...