chw42

Imagine fighting for your playoff life and you're starting, *looks at probables*: Velasquez, Darvish, and Arrieta. You'd think Darvish is good, but he's been worse than Arrieta since the sticky ban.

You just know the Cardinals will somehow win the WC game if they get in. It's some devil magic bullshit.

I see Trevino stop wagging his bat over the plate in his batting stance. I don't know how a ML hitter could do something like that.

What can they really do? Tell him to stop throwing sliders?

That's just unfair.

I wonder how Padres fans deal with Austin Adams when he basically hits a guy every other inning.

Pretty obvious he did it on purpose after that bad call on 2-0 too.

Leury's got voodoo dolls somewhere in his house.

This might be the first game that Yaz has looked really off since he's come back.

The Rays literally take guys who throw only sliders and make them useful. Lopez would definitely be good with them.

Yaz just flipped his bat towards the ump after he popped up lol

I still think Reylo needs a third pitch to become something as a starter. Cease has 3 plus offerings and a change up that'll work sometimes. Lopez is basically all fastballs and sliders with maybe 5 other pitches sprinkled in every outing.

I've said this before, but I honestly think he has Gerrit Cole-esque stuff. He just doesn't have the command to completely harness it consistently.

Cease always seems to find his breaking stuff around the 4th inning. But he'll be at like 70-80 pitches by then and last only 2 more innings while looking really good.

Len just jinxed Bumgarner.

They need to spend the money they save from trading Kimbrel on a RFer or a 2B.

He almost closed the first half at 100. It's crazy that he's probably gonna end up as the 6th most valuable position player on the team.

You really wouldn't expect a guy with a sub 100 wRC+ and mediocre defensive value to be worth 2 WAR in 400 PA

Romy picked the wrong park to hit that ball in.

Not good. I don't think his issue is his range, he just makes so many dumb mistakes.

At least he can finish 5 without pitch count being an issue (hopefully).

Polanco's a good hitter, but I feel like his defense would drive most of this board crazy.

Didn't get enough of it. You really have to crush it to get it out of this place in center.

The angles they show definitely make it look huge. I'll be there tomorrow so I'll get a look for myself

Nice job Eloy.