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Jose leaned his elbow into it. Might as well have that hit you in the butt or back.

God we just suck on offense right now. Doesn't matter who's pitching.

TA's OPS has dipped almost 50 points in the past 1.5 weeks.

It's crazy that Cesar Hernandez has the most XBH on this team.

Why did Lance bend down like that?

Lance missing arm side quite a bit. He usually does that when he's off.

I mean if he can get out of it with 2, it's not the worst thing ever given it was bases loaded and nobody out.

Lance leaving the cutter in the zone.

Welp...bases loaded for Reyes. This isn't gonna go well.

I don't think anyone else makes that play though.

Bad start.

They can help by losing these next 3 games to us too.

Ha first Cruz 3 days too late, now Soler 4 days too late.

Seriously how did he not get thrown into the Kimbrel deal with this return?

At least the crosstown series should be easier to win this year

McCormick in CF full time?

I think my jaw might still be on the floor had we gotten him along with Kimbrel.

Doesn't look like it.

I always thought Straw was a lot like Adam Engel, but without as much power.

The part that makes him good (thinking he can beat anyone) also makes him do some stupid shit. Remember when he threw McKenna, the guy who couldn't touch his fastball just the day before, a slider and then gave up the game tying homer to Mancini? Liam has amazing stuff, but he's not completely unhittable. He's way too susceptible to homers because of poor pitch selection.

That's fine. But I really don't want the Kimbrel money stopping us from getting a legit RF in free agency.

I gotta say if this deal doesn't hype that clubhouse up, nothing will.

Kimbrel made some adjustments in ST to get him back to this version of himself. He's always had good velocity, even when he was terrible. As long as he doesn't forget how to throw strikes he'll continue to be this version of himself until age catches up.

I mean if you put it this way, for 2022, probably not. Madrigal is probably a 4 win player max next year. Hernandez is probably a 2 or 3 win player.

Similar value? Doubtful. Madrigal was a top 40 prospect and you can argue his results in the Majors increased his value. Hell FanGraphs had him in the top 40 for trade value in all of MLB. Only 2 of top 40 prospects have been traded this deadline and both were for SPs and position players.