chw42

Depends on who we give up. Also, as much as this looks like a white flag trade for the Indians...they'll just call up Gimenez. Hernandez is probably their 3rd best hitter though and he always seemed to come up with some big hits for them.

Well this is interesting...he's like a slightly worse version of Escobar.

I wonder if this affects Hudson's availability as a trade target.

Vaughn and Arozarena have the same wRC+. That's actually kind of crazy.

Glass half empty: This offense sucks and losing a 4 game series to the Royals is embarrassing. Glass half full: The worst we can do is be 8 games up going into a home series against Cleveland.

He had some info on the whole Yermin episode, so he has a source somewhere. But he also said this isn't a scoop, just a hunch. I'm extremely hesitant to think they have real interest in Baez given he's got a foot injury right now. With the Sox apparently very focused on medicals, you'd think that would put him out of consideration.

Is that the main reason they didn't go after Escobar?

He did use the slider. His first pitch to Perez was a slider that he fouled off. I believe Soler's fly out was on a slider too. He just didn't have it tonight. I don't think it's a pitch selection issue like it was earlier in the year.

7 of those runs were scored in 2 innings. 2 of them were knocked in by Lance Lynn. Eloy's HR last night and Lynn's 2 RBI single are the reasons we haven't lost 7 in a row. The offense needs to start hitting with some consistency. We give away way too many innings by swinging at crap, even in favorable counts.

I had no idea Perez was that good against him until after he hit the homer. Either way, Liam got hit around tonight. It wasn't just Perez. Santana and Benintendi hit him hard too. Benintendi's fly out is probably a homer or double in a lot of other parks.

Burger would be insane there. He already has elite exit velos.

You're getting way too fixated on RBIs and home runs. There are other ways to contribute value to a baseball team. This isn't 1998. I'm not happy with how Yoan has played recently either. His strike out in the 10th was tough to watch, as he probably could have walked if he just went up there without a bat in his hand. If anything his approach recently has been more aggressive and it's actually not working well. He was more productive when he took his walks and didn't swing at balls out of the zone.

I mean we probably drive him in either way. There were no outs in the inning and Zavala and Tim both made good contact right after.

The sad thing is that we probably win this game if Leury didn't drop a routine fly ball in RF.

Yup can't score 2 fucking runs against Kris Bubic and expect to win. Those 2 runs were produced by Vaughn, Leury, and Mendick too. The top of the order needs to wake the fuck up.

He hung the slider on 0-2. Come on man...

Welp we lost anyways.

Imagine if we didn't have replay...omg.

He did tag him.

Zavala are you kidding me?

Don't even pitch to Dozier.

The Astros have sucked ass against the Tigers and Orioles. It happens. That doesn't mean it's not frustrating af.

Goodwin hit that 390 feet. That's probably a homer at GRate.

That ball was actually pretty well hit. But then again, it was a hanging curveball.

I'd almost rather have Mendick hit here...