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Not an easy problem to address now less than fifty games out. (Hopefully not even Ron wants to rush Bonemer up to a corner outfield spot before the playoffs begin.) Who would have ever thought Keider Montero and Parker Messick would be the two best AL Central pitchers standing going into the second week of August? Strangest season in a good way (especially with the bar set so very low) since 2000.

Lackey!!! Ultimately, they have a bit of a mess on their hands with natural infielders Antonacci Bonemer Cholowsky and Carlson all trying to fit in somewhere... Trade them for pitching? The funny thing is that I couldn't do anything but pick out of a hat right now between Mune Vargas Colson in terms of "fair market value" extensions on all three of them. You could even make your Meidroth extension case right there...especially if the small market Brewers can reward Luis Lara and Pratt so early and so confidently. (Marketing departments across MLB would certainly argue on behalf of Murakami.)

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/castilu02.shtml Holy statistics!!! For pretty much 9 seasons, his bWAR has been declining. Peak was clearly 2019-2023...obviously 2020 was the shortened Covid season. 2018 is the only anomaly. Then the slight improvements from 2024 to 2025 before the collapse this season. 2024 1.9 2025 2.3 Right now, it's at -0.9!!! Prior to 2026, never negative. Note: don't ever buy high priced pitchers on the wrong side of their career decline

14th in OPS and sinking recently with Braden and Peters struggling https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/2026-mlb-team-outfield-rankings-by-team 24th in homers Cubs/PCA of course are #1

"Mad Dog" Russo was outraged by the take and responded as such, saying that “this drove me nuts” and labeled it “derogatory.” “Hey Pete, you’re talking to me now about Ruth!” Russo said as he ran through Ruth’s historical numbers. “Nobody hit home runs like Babe Ruth. Say what you want about Ohtani, we understand that he’s a unicorn. Babe Ruth is so good it’s mindboggling. Did you know, Peter Crow-Armstrong, that Babe Ruth hit 27 home runs over 500 feet? Bonds? Never. Not one. … Ruth owned baseball, nobody hit home runs like Ruth! He out-homered leagues! To sit there and say they were pitching underhand, well why didn’t anybody else hit the home runs hitting underhand." nypost.com

For five weeks?

Can take his genius kid too.

Losing his AL Manager of the Year spot to interim Tracy or Cash

game set match Will certainly breathe lots of life into CLE and DET At least three games recently with blown 3-4-5 run leads.

game set match

debatable Charlie Tilson and Brian Simmons are Silver Sluggers comparatively

Seems that always happens the last thirty years when the White Sox make moves Fedde in? now?

anticlimax there

More strikeouts in key situations.

Bring in Yamamoto to pitch Bot 13.

Benintendi Montgomery Romo Peters

4 1/2 hours almost now

Not even 2023-25 teams managed that, did they?

Red Sox only have Bennett in their pen Tolle starts tmrw

four blown leads now???

Braden Montgomery definitely lacks the wheels for CF third base coach thought he was Rodney McCray there Pods and Pierre would have had him on rainbow tosses maybe even Benintendi

McEwing was supposed to be a manager in waiting or was that Backman? or Vizquel?

Relative of Roger Bossard?

Wilder?

Meidroth bomb?