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He had a really poor read on a ball to the outfield that glanced off his glove. In theory, it was a broken bat that he couldn't hear/identify over the shouts of Cardinals' fans. Injuries like this are par for the course for mid 30's outfielders, pretty much an endangered species anymore in MLB.

Not quite. 2023 61-101 2024 41 wins 2026 50 wins (projected) 2027 59-103 (Season 4 with 100 or more losses) 2028 68-94 2029 77-85 2030 (mired in mediocrity)

Well, they're definitely not going to take Steven Wilson back.

More like the race with the Rockies to the very bottom...

At least it wasn't another one run loss!!!

Somehow you just knew they weren't going to win it by ONE run with an 83% chance of losing (4/24, soon to be 4/25=16%)

Or Tim Hill probably...

Nick Maton's brother in...John Rooney reminiscing about when the screen extended all the way up to the press box area from behind the plate.

Now up to Class A Salem. "Fajardo was among the top arms in the Florida Complex League to begin the 2025 season. In six appearances (four starts) for the FCL Red Sox, the 18-year-old right-hander posted a 0.44 ERA and 2.71 FIP with 24 strikeouts to seven walks over 20 2/3 innings pitched. Opposing hitters batted just .134 against him."

Spanky

Would you rather face Donovan? This pen sucks regardless of managerial decisions.

Error turns into the go-ahead run. Seems like quite a few Cardinals fans in attendance.

Comedy of mistakes in second half of the game. Why warm up a RHP only to NOT use him against Walker????? Fortunate. Of course, putting in a righthander puts Donovan into the game as well.

Last time a Cards' pitcher had four K's in an inning dates back to Bob Gibson...Matz ties record.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/sport/los-angeles-dodgers-ice

Robert sacrifice bunting is new.

16th at his position....in the majors. Smith is the better story, Vargas #2.

Nearly half the NBA’s franchises, a whopping 14, have changed hands since the 2011 collective bargaining agreement. That has given way to monumental television rights deals, and it has become more than trendy to own an NBA team. It's become very smart business. The average NBA franchise value is $4.4 billion, according to Forbes in November. The $10 billion number will only increase that, as well as the expansion that’s expected to kick off pretty soon. When you think of that golden era, only the Reinsdorf family remains with Jerry and son Michael running the team. And it’s very doubtful, if not impossible to see the Reinsdorf family — with all of their investment into Chicago’s West Loop over the last 20 years — selling the Bulls. They're still a cash cow. https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/article/the-lakers-are-being-sold-by-the-buss-family-for-10b-marking-the-end-of-an-era-235841579.html

Montgomery's Bonemer Jeral Perez

Orioles were up 8-0 over TB. Now they're down 12-8 with two more at-bats to go in Tampa. https://forum.orioleshangout.com/topic/57340-june-18th-orioles-vs-rays-rogers-back-on-the-bump/page/45/#comments Now on page 45 of the Game Thread, the comments are pretty amusing from a White Sox "been there, done that" perspective. "On June 15, 1925, the Cleveland Indians led the Philadelphia Athletics 14-2, then 15-3, and finally 15-4 before the Athletics scored 13 runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to win 17-15." "The Athletics (then Philadelphia Athletics) were leading 13-2 in the bottom of the 6th inning against the St. Louis Browns on Jun 17, 1936, and ended up losing..."

It's as likely as any...can't imagine any possibility of Clevinger being traded before the deadline, but stranger things have happened I guess. There's also Martin Perez, perhaps he'll be traded in anticipation of him returning at some point in July/August.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45532575/2025-mlb-mock-draft-20-kiley-mcdaniel-predicts-first-round-picks

Braden Montgomery...but he doesn't have that level of speed/defense/dynamism in the outfield and on the base paths.

Clevinger is, unfortunately, close to fighting his way back to Chicago. Dalbec/Vaughn combo the middle of the order now for the Nashville Sounds...at least they can collect ex-Sox players in that city, if not an actual franchise.

"The Brewers acquired him in exchange for pitcher Aaron Civale, signaling a strategic move to potentially revitalize his career. Vaughn, a former first-round pick, has struggled with consistency this season, but the Brewers see potential in his hard-hit metrics and hope to help him regain his form." says AI Vaughn has never had a “great” or even “very good” season. He has, however, been consistently average since reaching the majors back in 2021. His OPS+ has bounced between 91 and 111 every season of his career save for this one. He’s hit at least 15 home runs every season of his career except for this one. Vaughn hadn’t ever been 49 OPS+ bad before this year, and probably won’t be that bad going forward. This is supported by the fact that Vaughn has objectively been really unlucky this season. His expected batting average is .249, with an expected slugging percentage of .461. On May 1, a couple of weeks before being sent down to Triple-A, Rotowire ranked him as the second-most unlucky hitter in all of baseball. Home runs aren’t everything, but Vaughn’s worst home run total in his career has been 15. That’s more home runs than Ernesto Martinez Jr. has ever hit in a season in the minors. Vaughn was a 21-year-old college junior when drafted. The White Sox looked at that profile and (incorrectly) assumed he’d be ready for the bigs instead of looking at his stats. On top of that, Chicago put Vaughn — a slow, defensively mediocre first baseman — in the outfield to start his career. That’s not how you develop a No. 3 overall pick, even one who was seen as “high floor” at the time. When you look at Vaughn as someone whose development was botched, the trade starts to make more sense. Vaughn is a former Golden Spikes Award winner as the best player in college baseball. He was a third overall pick. He has talent, talent that — per his Baseball Savant page — is still translating to the big leagues. Vaughn is around the 80th percentile in hard-hit rate, barrel rate, and exit velocity this year. That’s something to work with. Vaughn was already committed to play at Cal, and watching him, it was obvious he’d be a high draft pick someday. I was lucky enough to play with other future major league draft picks, but Vaughn was freakishly talented — the most well-rounded, natural hitter I’ve ever seen at the youth level. I can’t speak to his work ethic. However, if what Tyler Osik says is true, it makes sense to me. Vaughn, from the little I saw, was certainly talented enough to sleepwalk into .250 and 15 home runs. https://www.brewcrewball.com/2025/6/14/24448663/the-case-for-andrew-vaughn-brewers-commentary-first-base-discussion-analysis Last three paragraphs have nice nifty little summary as well.