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I'd love a team in Central Texas. Don't care if it's SA or Austin. I hate having to drive 3 hours just to see a MLB game.

Good teams don't chase his slider and curveball. He can't get away with bad fastball location against good hitters.

We'll be lucky to get out of Houston with a split. Houston was basically the only reason Lynn's ERA was over 3 last year.

Down a little on the curve and fastball. Up on the slider. Cease's spin rate comes from him throwing hard.

Looks like Cease's numbers are basically a product of him dominating the Tigers. He's really only had a few good starts outside of his 4 starts against Detroit.

What in the world happened to Cease between innings?

Crawford Boxes are so cheap. That ball was hit at 95 off the bat and was almost an extra base hit.

Great catch by Vaughn

Tim got K'd by almost the same pitch as the first time.

He just needs to stop reacting right away. At least wait until the camera pans on the ball in flight.

Jason really thought a 250 foot fly ball was a homer.

Vaughn got 2 hangers but were a little early on them

Cease looked good after the HR. I'm not convinced we turn a double play on that ball Moncada threw low, but I'd rather it be 2-0 than 3-0.

Defense kind of screwed Cease, but once again he's showing that he can't be relied upon against good offenses.

Fuck...

Damn it Yoan...

Valdez is lefty and probably one of their best starters.

Time for Dylan to prove he can pitch well against good offenses.

I saw a tweet about the injury and thought it was about Adam Engel and not Adam Eaton. Safe to say I'm very relieved that I had a dyslexic moment.

Not Steve Cishek basically deleted all the tweets about Escobar not being in the lineup. So he was probably just speculating.

They have one more game tomorrow, too. They also scored 2 runs on a triple after having 2 outs and nobody on. Cleveland sure is pesky.

Also, ZiPS RoS thinks Mendick will be a 96 wRC+ the rest of the way and Esocbar will be a 103 wRC+ player. ZiPS does seem high on Mendick, but Escobar really isn't that attractive of a target besides his ability to hit the long ball.

Schwarber's RoS projections are right in line with Abreu's. Both are looking at about a 125 wRC+ the rest of the way. If you can add a left handed Abreu to your lineup, you do it.

Starting next week, we play Pittsburgh, Seattle, Minnesota, Detroit, Minnesota, and Baltimore.

The Orioles are doing their very best to keep Cleveland 4.5 games back. Jose Ramirez got caught in a rundown and ended up on 3rd cause nobody was covering 2nd or 3rd for the Orioles.