Quin

From piranhas to pests.

Ok, so we need to spell this out. Gold Glove caliber veteran 3B >>> not gold glove caliber rookie 3B on defense.

With a ball just on the edge of the plate, the ump robbed us of baseball nirvana.

I can't explain how much I need Mercedes to get a 3-0 count.

This is how you know shit just got real.

Then we play our other "can't play anywhere but first base" player Zack Collins at shortstop. Genius.

The answer to "where will we play all these first basemen" is clearly "left field, right field and second base"

The crowd exploding for a strikeout in the 3rd inning against a team 12.5 games behind us. I'll give Donaldson this - he's good for the rivalry.

As he passed the Twins dugout, AV could be heard shouting "Of course I hit it off a right hander. The ball is no longer sticky!"

Sounds like Yermin needs to hit a 3-0 slam.

what the fuck?

Does this team just not stretch their hamstrings?

At some point I expect this to either be a deal where we don't give up much and it turns into a "wow, that shouldn't have taken that long" type of deal or a wild-ass deal where the Sox send the Dbacks a package built around Madrigal++ and take on Bumgarner for Marte and we're all just left here confused.

Damn, they really liked how Yoelqui looked in that last game.

And play the mighty Luis Gonzalez / Brian Goodwin tandem in LF!

We can start a new Escobar thread or re-open this one when there's new smoke around that rumor. Until then, this thread is far too gone to remain open. Edit: Removed the Donaldson comments, try to keep this thread in some way, shape or form on Escobar.

Even though I'm gonna guess none of us were around, I'm going to say Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, solely because up until it happened, I'm sure people figured it would probably get stopped in one way or another.

Tell the D-Backs we're no longer interested in Escobar. Now it's Marte for Sheets.

YAZ MONEY

He was our 2nd round pick a few years back, so not quite out of nowhere — that'd be the Mendicks, Engels, and Fosters of the world.

Gavin Sheets, thy time is now.