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Another 93 mph fastball over the plate he couldn’t square up...

Meanwhile, the Cubs’ game is 2 1/2 innings ahead. Need to work at a faster pace.

It’s a sad day when they’re looking for Ryan Goins to protect our cleanup hitter. All we had to do was sign Cruz to DH and we’d at least have a quite respectable transition year offense that would have been a blast to watch. Scouting.

And there’s a pretty high likelihood that Machado, Tatis Jr. and his father and their agent in common decided quite early to go with the Padres and were just waiting to see if the Sox would significantly outbid it in the end...Padres did a great job keeping that early interest out of the media as Hahn set the market for a couple of months.

Abreu missed another 92 mph cookie over the heart of the plate...

If Adam Engel is the excuse not to add a real outfielder next year...let’s not forget his OPS was a pedestrian 708 entering this game.

Even if they finish with below 70 wins and Cease has to be shut down to prevent his ERA from going above 6 or even 7? No, that’s reserved for Tom Selleck, lol.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a good alternative to this...or a James Patterson thriller. Would almost say Cubs-Brewers is more compelling.

Two days in a row they seem to know every pitch before it’s thrown...

Not over Closers on the block: Will Smith, Kirby Yates, Ken Giles, Alex Colome, Shane Greene, Ian Kennedy, Mychal Givens, Sergio Romo Could be shopped: Felipe Vazquez, Edwin Diaz, Raisel Iglesias, Hansel Robles, Greg Holland, Wade Davis, Roenis Elias, Chris Martin/Jose Leclerc

Yeah, would love to but tricky to effectively monitor investment from half a world away...in China, there’s a saying, never trust anyone to run your business, sometimes not even your own family.

17 years old...

https://mobile.twitter.com/_dadler/status/1154670832842657792 Save by a position player with average velocity that inning of 54.3 mph, pretty funny...not for the Angels. https://www.mlb.com/video/wilkerson-records-the-save

Shows how much I was paying attention to those Marlins games, lol...55 year old son, Todd’s brother. He coached until he was 67. Who were they talking about coaching until he was 82?

Yet Stottlemyre’s running out there at 82...and the Marlins, for as many youngsters as they have, are middle of the road in the MLB without an exceeding amount of highly-touted prospects.

I forgot Bruce Lee...that was awesome, too. I must have fallen asleep there somehow...never adjust completely to jet lag from China, 4 p.m. show is like the middle of the morning.

Jon Adkins...

If they want to claw back a year of control...and they don’t spend big in free agency, then there’s no pointing in pushing Kopech too hard next year in the majors. He’s only going to throw 130-150 innings anyway.

DiCaprio and Pitt were great together. Telling the Tate story without giving her much dialogue was an interesting decision. One or two too many shots lingering on the hippie girl’s butt as she was sweet talking Pitt on Ventura, Hollywood or Melrose. As much as researchers try to figure it out, nobody has cogently explained the hold of Manson on those kids. Finally, favorite scenes were with the precocious Trudi...and missed the Luke Perry cameo somehow. For a director known for violence (and certainly the gruesome true story underpinning the events), it wasn’t that type of movie, it was a love letter to that period of cinema and the way things used to be. Maybe a bit of self-reflection on the director’s part that the things you used to be able to get away with back then are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Crawl was actually the best alligator/crocodile movie of all time, although a low bar for sure. Art of Self Defense already gone after one week, was meaning to watch that...although Zombieland 2 is enough Eisenberg for me. The Lion King was strangely disappointing. Just too much cognitive dissonance laying that soundtrack over real life animals in nature...Seth Rogen for once made it more tolerable.

Very realistic if it’s approached like they did with Robertson, LaRoche and Cabrera. If they just wait until the last minute instead of picking those guys off one by one in an organized November/December blitz of signings, they’re going to be left sorting out the Jake Odorizzis, Jonathan Schoops and CJ Crons of the free agent barrel.

By Pythagorean, we should be 40-60 instead of 45-55. That would give us another #4 pick in the first round, instead of 7-10. When all is said and done, we might be the difference between the Twins and Indians. 2-5 against the Twins, outscored 53-21. 12 games remaining. 7-5 against the Indians (J.Ramirez is white hot suddenly), outscored them 50-40. 7 games remaining. By runs scored and runs allowed, the third worst team in baseball, -103, 3 ahead of the Mariners (-20 games below .500) and Marlins (-24). We can summarize the progress as a #3 starter in Giolito and #4 in Lopez vs. just a 2/3 last year in Lopez. If you want to call it even now with Rodon and Kopech out, up to you. Moncada, Robert, Madrigal and Vaughn and “unprecedented financial flexibility” remain the main indicators of hope.

Liriano

The A’s and Rays are much better at this anyway...

The best spin on all this is that focusing on pro scouting (trades/free agency) is going to quickly become more important than anything else. Unfortunately, there’s not much obvious to trade with a lack of surplus wealth, which means free agency. I think everyone would be pleased if we could manage to have more than one successful signing out of 5-7, right? We need to be at 40%, although 60% would be the mark of some of the best organizations in baseball, typically. There has to some statistical analysis of FA dollars spent per decade and resulting fWAR...I can’t imagine we would be anywhere but the bottom 3-5 teams. At least be middle of the pack, the young core can take care of the rest if they develop as expected. But we desperately need a REAL ace to lead the rotation...as it stands tonight, we’re tied for the 7th pick with Pittsburgh.

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