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Yeah we saw that with Giolito. Guys just sat change up and fought off fastballs.

It's how he got a high speed grade from scouts even though he's like barely above league average in sprint speed.

Feels like he has trouble putting hitters away with something other than that change up. When Giolito lost spin rate after the sticky stuff ban, he made up for it with a much more effective slider.

Just watching him, he's like a Giolito re-gen without the velocity Giolito had in 2019 and 2020. The fastball being 92 is encouraging cause I thought he'd sit high 80s.

I remember his slider not being that bad prior to his knee injury in 2021.

Shoots himself in the foot, almost gets out of it, then shoots himself in the foot again. Classic Kopech.

Kopech is a gas can

The Japanese use gongs too, but this would definitely not fly today. Same with all the racist s%*# Cubs fans did for Fukudome.

Team record is 15. Surely Pedro will be fired if he gets past that right?

So when's Pedro gonna get canned?

Brebbia ain't fooling anyone.

Brebbia is meant to pitch in the pouring rain

I mean what's he supposed to do in that situation? Apparently the fielder can try to seek you out and it'll be interference too...

Vaughn had zero incentive to interfere. He's going back to the base, why would he want Henderson to not catch the ball? This is an example of an umpire seeing something and not thinking of the context or situation at all.

Kevin Pillar is now hitting .323 on the season with a .421 wOBA. WTF is going on in Anaheim?

Fedde Wap!

Soroka is definitely cooked at this point.

Weird how we finally start beating Cleveland when we suck. I'll take it though.

Maldonado isn't an upgrade defensively and Lee has like an OPS 600 points higher. There's no real reason for him to start more than 1/3 of the games.

A "longtime NFL evaluator" had Spencer Ratler as QB1 and Williams as a UDFA.

jerry really needed to pin down the Naperville Central market.

Platoon him with Grossman when Robert is back.

Lee needs to get better defensively. He's made a lot of progress as a hitter, but some of the mistakes behind the plate are inexcusable for a ML catcher.

Pham isn't a center fielder.

It all started with Mark Teahen. Then Benintendi. Now Lopez.