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https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2025-mlb-farm-system-statcast-hitting-rankings/ Sox with second best swing decision score. Love seeing them prioritize guys who don’t chase. Twins and Tigers ahead of the Sox. Sox were 14th in 2024 and 19th in 2022. Not sure how this translates to actual major league success, but nice to see the Sox system moving up. Hopefully a solid draft this year moves them into the top 5.

See that's the problem. TLR should've gotten Eloy Robert and Moncada on the good stuff. Definitely some HGH to help with muscle recovery.

Cubs laid a giant egg offensively in this game. Yeesh.

PCA gonna hurt himself doing that nonsense

2 on 0 out again

This game is never going to end

Yes. If he doesn't work out, I'd look at the young FAs on the market.

Munetaka Murakami would be the #1 option for me. After him, it'd be signing younger players to 3-5 year deals at $5-$10 mil per year higher than they'd be getting elsewhere, or whatever it would take to get them to come here. This would both give the current team a much needed shot in the arm, and worst case you could trade them in 2-4 years for quality prospects if things don't go well. I likely wouldn't consider players much over 30 years old on anything except short term deals, with the intent to trade them in a year or two. Younger players I'd consider: Kyle Tucker Josh Naylor Dylan Cease Ranger Suarez Zac Gallen Pete Alonso (He'll be 31 but his profile should age well. That said he'd come here and hit .220 with 18 HRs) Bo Bichette (not likely unless he's willing to move to third or second, or Colson moves to third)

I definitely wouldn't say I'm happy. This team was an embarrassment to baseball last year and has otherwise been at the bottom of the barrel since 2008. I see what they have to do to turn this ship around given the asinine payroll restrictions and how bare the minors were of anyone who could contribute to the MLB team, though. I accept that this complete rebuild needs to happen, and am encouraged by what we can see so far of the progress made. There is still a long way to go.

The leader is good The leader is great

Tigers rolling now

I enjoy AJ on color commentary

I'm glad the Brewers fans are having fun with this, and it's nice to see Vaughn have some success there. Some players just need a wakeup call or to get in an org that can help them where others can't. I also doubt they bring him back unless it's as a platoon 1B/DH option.

They were exploiting matchups to put all their players in the best position to succeed, which you can do when you have a good roster. Vaughn still struggles against righties.

No, it was about a month for being scorching hot. He had the same number of games started and about as many PAs in July+September as he had in August alone.

I'd say the Cubs offense being substantially worse in the second half (from a solidly above average to below average offense by most measures) had more to do with the Brewers running away with the division than Vaughn's scorching hot month and then back to mediocrity. If they kept up their winning % from the first half the Cubs would've been right there at 96/97 wins with the Brewers. The Cubs this year reminded me a lot of the '00 White Sox - scorching hot offense for the first half, then they cooled off quite a bit and couldn't score in the postseason against a good team.

Blue Jays opening this one up a bit.

I switched to the Yankees/Blue Jays game. Did Fox die for anyone else?

Who are we to question the ways of the highest paid manager in baseball?

The Cubs look exactly like they did against the Padres offensively. That's not going to work against the Brewers unless the Cubs pitching finds another gear.

Javier Assad apparently has like a 2.2 ERA against the Brewers this year. Seems like a better choice than a guy who was fading down the stretch and started three days ago

How did I miss the second out? Ah well. Must resist the temptation to text wife's family full of Cubs fans...

6-1 Milwaukee with one out in the first LMAO

Announcers: "Matthew Boyd is READY for this start" Brewers: Three straight doubles

Yep, and I adjusted for this in a subsequent post.