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Cody Ross?

That inning Stone and Benetti were funny...

Who needs Giolito when you have Kevin Brown, Jr.?

Looks like Ohtani might need TJS, speaking of 100 mph stuff...

Covey ERA down to 2.4 Not overthrowing, lots of movement on his FB, seems very comfortable out there...in a great rhythm.

Lol. Palka doesn’t play against a RHP (and his former org) but now is thrown out there against Sale?

Trump clearly believes he’s being “tough” with these other countries, and protecting American jobs, with his ineptly-designed tariffs. In fact, he’s putting many more jobs in other industries at risk. A report released this week by the Trade Partnership, a consulting and research firm, estimated that the ratio of jobs lost to jobs gained from Trump’s trade actions will be about 16 to 1: 26,280 steel and aluminum jobs gained, compared with 432,747 jobs eliminated throughout the rest of the economy. And that’s presumably not even counting any of the hundreds of jobs now held by Trump’s fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-waging-a-trade-war-in-the-dumbest-way-possible/2018/06/07/88a2d302-6a96-11e8-bf8c-f9ed2e672adf_story.html?utm_term=.2abbab7048a8

The problem is the #3 outfielder after Harper and Pollock...is Michael Brantley. His injury history speaks for itself.

Primaries Expose Bitter Fight in Democratic Party June 8, 2018 Down with Tyranny blogger Howie Klein says corporate Democrats fight to undermine and defeat progressive candidates in spite of Sanders’ proven success in working class districts https://therealnews.com/stories/primaries-expose-bitter-fight-in-democratic-party

Jurassic World 3.25/4 Totally different type of film than #4...less action, more exposition. Slightly less ridiculous?

He’s really going to be challenged to hold CF...foot speed is closer to Yolmer than Moncada, and his arm is also below-average. Reminiscent of a more athletic Jeff Abbott.

I guess we have to agree to disagree on that one. You’re going with floor, I’m going with max ceiling. Obviously, the previous TJS makes Cease a BIT riskier as well, although the velocity issue is almost the opposite of the Giolito one (gaining, rather than losing.)

Big test coming up for Dylan. Btw, ERA’s heading into tonight: Chris Sale, 5-3, 3.00 ERA, 110 K’s Dylan Covey, 1-1, 2.82, 21 K’s Covey seeks back-to-back strong outings in his fifth start of the year. The right-handler had a no-decision in his last start against Milwaukee despite allowing just one run — none earned — in five innings. He struck out seven. He’s never faced Boston.

Gary Majewski?

If you do a good enough job, yeah, you’re going to lose a number of good players and you’re also going to have a significant talent pool to trade off the surplus...as the Astros have done with guys like Domingo Santana/Brett Phillips (for Carlos Gomez) and, in particular, the Verlander trade that pushed them over the top last summer. Players like Singleton, Grossman and Preston Tucker were all casualties of the roster crunch. Jonathan Villar, yet another player that was traded. Astros kept trucking along, right? We’ve seen the exact thing happen to the Cubs’ wealth of position prospects over the last 2 years...to an extreme, because you’re talking sacrificing at least 2 franchise talents in Torres/Jimenez, another potential one in Cease, not to mention Candelario, Soler, Villanueva, etc. It’s a normal sign of an organization functioning on all cyclinders...of course, even then, you end up with roster crunches where you simply can’t afford to pay 6-8 “young core” guys extensions in free agency when you already have the Lester/Heyward/Darvish contracts on the books (and try to add Machado/Harper as well?)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/romney-predicts-trumps-election-062339518--politics.html Speaking of winning political moves, Romney has now flip-flopped on his anti-Trump stance and “expects that not only will he get the GOP nomination, but he’ll also be re-elected in 2020.”

His OSU coach has actually specifically mentioned CF as a position where he’d do extremely well. Said that he was ready for MLB right now as a defensive replacement at 2B in the late innings. RF would be the biggest issue.....for him making that long throw across the field from RF to 3B...but how often does that happen every 10 games? Just a couple. Is there any way to look up that particular stat....how many throws to RFer’s have to make either cutting down triples, runners advancing from 2nd on a SAC FLY or runners trying to go 1st to 3rd? As it stands, it would probably be: 2B, SS, 3B, CF, LF in that order...with RF and 1B (for obvious reasons) being the least likely options.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/08/us/anthony-bourdain-obit/index.html

We also brought back Beckham, whatever his cost was...it was under $10 million for both, but I’m not sure I would describe it as insignificant to a mid-market team

https://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=6153&position=3B/SS Not exactly. 7.7 fWAR 2013 0.0 (only 179 at-bats) 2014 2.6 2015 1.9 2016 -0.2 2017 1.7 2018 1.7-1.8 (after today)...but heading for a 5ish season If we count the middle 4 years, 1.5 fWAR player. 11/6=1.83 for six years...hard to say he’s worth 0 or 5 (outliers), but this offseason should be valued at least as a 2-2.5 if not 3 player.

Witt, Jr. is pretty clearly the best high school player in the country (for the moment) and there’s nearly-universal scouting agreement on his possessing five tools... As far as our OSU studs go, let’s see how he does next year when you strip away a group of their 5 best juniors/seniors. Can he keep performing offensively at that same level, and continue to improve his defense? At any rate, having Madrigal on board, they’ll (seemingly) have the best insights of any organization on whether to draft one of his former teammates or not.

They need to keep Paciorek around to announce THAT crazy name...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?446461-1/dignitaries-gather-50th-anniversary-assassination-robert-kennedy 50th Anniversary of RFK’s death celebration (Clinton speech begins around 51 min mark) Bill Clinton at first glance seems awfully frail/wounded, almost a shadow of his former self at age 72....but, boy, can he still give a great speech. I keep trying to talk myself into Kennedy’s grandson having a shot at higher office, then you see their two speeches side by side and you realize how far this younger generation has to go in terms of being able to connect with people. Clinton just has that gift...to make people reminisce, to share a common experience (sorrow/pain or joy) and can connect like no other politician in my lifetime. The problem is that no CURRENT Democrat possesses anything resembling that same political gift...a few times, you even start wondering if Clinton’s lost it, his train of thought seems to be meandering off course, and then he ties it all back together, and manages to capture what RFK (especially the 1968 campaign) represented in a way none of the other speakers came close to approximating. We can do better, be better...we have to, it’s our obligation. It’s so jarring to listen to a speech like this and then turn around and be bombarded by the vitriolic/acidic attacks back and forth from both sides of the aisle at each other.

Eckstein or McEwing...

Rutherford’s going to be an interesting case study for the Getz-Ian development of “younger” talent, especially now that he’s come back down to earth from his early season high’s.