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Not in the greatest fielding position as he finishes his delivery, but nasty stuff. Some fastballs at 98 are easily hittable, his seems to be more dynamic, crisper somehow.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27026944/mazara-505-foot-hr-ties-longest-five-years Guess that info was out of date...interestingly, Mazara has/had 2 of the 4 longest (Gary Sanchez and Desmond) https://www.mlb.com/news/10-longest-homers-measured-by-statcast-c293547722 He also had another in 2016...these were the longest of the Statcast era, beginning in 2015...two were Coors, one was Arizona.

Why are you not looking fastball there, Leury?

Well...Renteria Ball fails for the opposition, as well. Dave Wills is getting really aggravated, haha.

Oops, guess leadoff guy didn’t reach in the 7th. No point In bunting with Zunino slumping...or they bunt and PH with d’Arnaud.

6 saves, 6 blown saves....that’s not so good (said in Paciorek voice) Seven innings in a row the lead off man has reached for the Rays, crazy.

It’s almost like that rookie hazing...Ozzie, Ventura and Renteria almost always prefer/preferred to go with the veteran. Nice play, Avi! Haha...even the Rays’ announcers thought he was a mere lumbering oaf. Interestingly, Pham and Meadows have both played a lot more CF during their careers.

It’s not that bad...especially if it’s served with the right mix of spices. Better than goat, a little worse than lamb or veal because it’s usually not as tender.

Power problem due to severe thunderstorm problem. KW and Hahn were right...”Avi Garcia has all the physical ability in the world to be a CFer...”

Kansas City had that fish tacos thing going as well since the mid-90’s, one of the local Mexican ristorantes. Carne asada’s great too. Unfortunately, yak won’t catch on...not even in Tibet, where it’s one of the primary meat choices.

You weren’t satisfied with “Engel returns, ‘Ready to help this team win’”? That’s Rudy-esque stuff, right there. If they were playing at home and the heat index wasn’t 110, you’d probably get an update.

Don’t love LaRussa post-White Sox, but that last paragraph is fitting with this franchise’s history. Almost always one step forward, two or three steps back.

I’m heading off to Milwaukee and starting up a Moose Tacos chain....also available in fish, lamb, yak and deer/venison. Thanks for the inspiration. In all seriousness, just give the damn at-bats to Reed and Collins. Then they can fix that position before 2021 if needed.

I don’t imagine anyone desires “eternally loyal to Kenny Williams, Rick Hahn, Robin Ventura and Buddy Bell” as his epitaph.

468 feet to RCF...only 18 ft. off the longest in MLB this year, Ian Desmond in Colorado. Longest by a non-outfielder in Padres’ Statcast history.

The problem, like Palka or Collins...is Engel doesn’t have the type of swing where he can be successful only playing once or twice a week. Defensive replacement and PR, great. But he’s just replicating Leury in many ways without the positional flexibility. Of course, his one huge advantage is defense, where he can run circles around our current roster of OFers.

The problem is that he’s not a good outfielder and he doesn’t have the arm of Hunter Renfroe or Avi to make up for it. He’s actually more like a cross between Franmil Reyes and a younger Nelson Cruz with the Rangers.

It’s not about 3B or 2B. It’s about having six above-average major league hitters (at least) out of 9.

That 1990 team was far and away my favorite until 2005...

Vaughn is ahead of Rutschman, Bleday, Bishop, etc. They’ll move him to Winston-Salem to finish the year if he lights up Kanny. This is like Issue #24 of things to legitimately be concerned about. since the Vaughn at Kanny thread disappeared...

That’s what professional talents scouts/evaluators go on...because if you phrase it that way, you’re never going to consider a hitter or pitcher below AA. Of course, we all remember Kevin Maitan getting similar accolades to Franco and he might be out of baseball in five years. http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&player_id=670867#/career/R/hitting/2019/ALL Granted, Franco now has much more of a pedigree and certainly a less controversial background...

Why? Tatis, Jr., is just 20 and had only 1/2 season of AA and then winter ball. Robert had significantly more international experience before he signed...and played in the Cuban League. He’s also now striking out 30.6% of the time, after being close to 25-27% for most of the year. All that considered...Robert definitely has a weakness with breaking stuff down and off the plate, especially behind in the count. Learning how to foul off those pitches or drive them up the middle or into RF will be the differentiator...between a very good hitter to great/superstar level.

It’s always about potential. And age. And SS getting a slight preference over CF. That said, potential and performance have collided in a big way for Robert this year. It is difficult to claim anti-Sox bias, because guys like Buxton (Twins), Guerrero (Jays), Tatis (Padres)...and Moncada with the White Sox, have all been #1 recently. If they go with Mize, nobody cares about the Tigers, either. I would go with Robert, personally, but I haven’t seen Franco play enough.

This was the same argument with Jerry Manuel and Torborg as well...we desperately need a “finisher.”

By my count, the Padres have now brought up SEVEN (Morejon for the first time and Urias again) milb Top 100 prospects this season, irrespective of service time/extensions or whether they could realistically compete for a wild card. They’re also pursuing Syndergaard, Bauer and Stroman...