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Mouthpieces are used as a precautionary tool in most sports. If you take a knock on the head and have one in then your chances of getting a concussion are drastically decreased. I think they should be mandatory in just about any sport. You never know when you're going to have a collision so they probably just wear them the whole game. It's a smart move, lots of basketball players have taken to wearing them now as well.

You don't have to square up a 90 mph 4 seamer into someone's temple, but a little chin music never hurt anyone. Just as a fair warning, you keep hitting our guys (potentially injuring them) and we'll do something about it. We've got two guys in our pen that can touch triple digits if they want to keep plunking our sluggers.

I think that MB is probably one of the most underrated pitchers in all of baseball. He's been our number one guy for almost an entire decade which is just about unheard of anymore in the majors. He is incredibly consistent and durable pitching over 200 innings every season and generally giving the team a chance to win most every time he takes the mound. He doesn't have great stuff but gets by on guile, command, control and guts. This however doesn't tend to get you a Cy Young because he's never going to get 200k's or have a low 2's era. But i'll take him for what he is and let him continue to quietly be one of the best pitchers in the game. An all-star berth would be nice recognition though, because he is having an awesome season so far.

i like, he's the kind of player we don't have but need right now. speed kills, real speed though, not JO and his fielding pratice speed

Tyler Kuhn has finally started swinging the bat well again, hitting 371 over the last 10 games. He was one of the real surprise players out of out 08 draft class but got off to a horrible start in Kanny.

I read somewhere that he's still in extended ST . Apparently he broke his leg pretty badly last year and is still coming back from said injury. On a side note, with the exception of W-S today was basically organization-wide crap. from the big team all the way down to low-a everyone played like s*** today. maybe they all just needed to get it out of their collective system.

That was a fantastic review of this film's prospects.

Hudson started the season out in low-A Kannapolis and absolutely dominated there going 1-2 1.23 ERA 22IP 2BB and 30K. Not a bad line. He has now earned a promotion to high-A Winston-Salem. This is a big jump in talent so we'll see what he's all about this summer, whether or not he's a legit prospect.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ May 4, 2009 -> 05:30 PM) Charlotte's having a conhole tournament, so ha. you mean cornhole??

nother HR for Viciedo, he's put together a pretty decent stretch this past week.

QUOTE (Reddy @ May 1, 2009 -> 03:52 PM) what the hell does that mean? /defensive Iowan he didn't spend three years in an elite college program/ less refined player

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 30, 2009 -> 05:57 PM) Hudson is ridiculous. I am not sure about his stuff, but his peripherals would suggest they are very good, prolly the ceiling of a 2. read his AAP page he has 30 k's and 2 bb in 22 IP so far this season. is 15:1 a good k to bb ratio?? i don't know much about the sabermetrics stuff.

Allen and Viciedo go back to back!!!! Way to go Dayan!

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Apr 26, 2009 -> 03:12 PM) Christopher Marrero. You're right, I knew that, I always just come up with Eli for some reason, prolly b/c it is a familiar name

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 26, 2009 -> 02:43 PM) Marrero also threw a runner out at home from RF today. Might be time to consider this guy a legit prospect. He's the same age as Beckham and Danks, and he's put up solid numbers since being signed in 2006. I'm surprised he wasn't even drafted back then. He's from Miami. I believe that he was drafted by us as a draft-and-follow player (whatever the hell that means) the previous season. FYI, he is the brother of Nationals 1B Eli Marrero

QUOTE (Reddy @ Apr 23, 2009 -> 08:58 PM) JD's pecs are weak. seriously. not much to look at with his shirt off

Charlotte v. Norfolk This is a pretty bad team, the bright spot for me has been Dony Lucy bouncing back from a potential career ending knee injury. Good to see him playing well, he even stole a base today. Birmingham v. Jacksonville Beckham sucks, good outing for McCullough W-S v. Potomac Nice game for Danks, looks like he's starting to adjust. Morel already has 5 SB, he must have some wheels. Kanny v. Greenville KW2 has a 2 game hit streak. He's ready for A+ ball.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 21, 2009 -> 11:30 AM) I agree with Ozzie when he said Q isn't even locked in yet! You can tell by some of the swings he's taking at the plate. He is tremendous, hopefully he gets his AL MVP this year. I can't stop laughing everytime I see Eric Byrnes Eric Byrnes is a grinder though

CQ got the Palestinians and Israelis to sign a peace treaty merely by saying "you don't want me to have to come over there do you?"

On his trip to the White House CQ anointed himself the new Secretary of Pain.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 21, 2009 -> 11:03 AM) So I did not see Carlos working on his swing at the White House... He hit a copy of the national budget with his bat so hard that afterwards it balanced itself.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 21, 2009 -> 05:30 AM) How was Wassermann "recalled"? I don't get that. Also, sad to see Bunky Kateon released. Isn't he the guy that was all set to go to law school, and the Sox convinced him to give playing a shot? law school is still there for him. i'm just sad to see our organizational players named Bunky number drop to zero.

you all need to play nice. As far as Viciedo, I just read an article that says the biggest adjustments that cuban players have to make are the lifestyle which i'm sure is quite the culture shock for them and also the way the pitchers pitch. american pitchers work their pitches in different sequences and throw diff. stuff in certain situations than they do in cuba so it's a big change for him and he's just guessing at the plate right now. I think the fact that he's not striking out a s*** ton and has a decent average tells me that he's not totally overmatched which is a really good sign considering that he's a 19 year old playing AA ball which is generally where you find the players with the most raw talent in any minor league level. I'll give him to the all star break, if he's regressing then you look to make a change, otherwise give the kid some time.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 10:06 AM) Well, it's only three games, I imagine something will occur Thursday or Friday. If they want him in the majors, then Jerry Owens could be on borrowed time. If they want him in Charlotte or to continue his rehab up there, Keith Ginter may be in trouble. I'm not sure if he has any options left to be sent to AAA unless it's still considered a rehab assignment. If not we have to send him up to the big club or put him on waivers and with the way he played in spring he prolly won't make it through.

QUOTE (scenario @ Apr 20, 2009 -> 12:26 PM) Although, I could see a scenario where he becomes BA's backup soon. According to JPN, Nix just started a 3-day rehab assignment in Birmingham. If he's ready to come back, I could picture Nix taking Owen's spot on the roster... which would probably result in Lilli getting time in CF. sounds about right