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No Collins? Jon Jay batting ahead of Eloy? Is Ricky trying to win baseball games or demonstrate that he's stupid enough to be in Congress?

Rondón over Collins? I hate Ricky.

I’m the guy who’s trollishly dubious of Robert ever amounting to anything, and I still feel perfectly non-ironic in calling this the dumbest post I’ve ever seen.

Just checking in. We brought up a first round draft pick nine games ago and so far he has 14 PAs. Did we decide with absolute finality that he’s a platoon player? That he cannot hit lefties and never will learn? That he is so certainly a future .230 hitter that he should be benched in favor of Dogshit Palka? This franchise sucks.

Yeah, but Vaughn is a way better player than Sheets/Mercedes/Collins/Burger/whoever. Don’t draft on need, and none of those guys are guaranteed to fill that need anyhow.

That’s not THAT insane. That team just couldn’t hit. Only the three OF hit the .700 OPS mark and none hit the .800 mark. There are tons of non-youngsters who don’t relate to the 1940s, buddy.

Oof! He’s back under! Do you want to play this game all year?

I thought you took that advice already. Or was that a different member of the SoxTalk Stasi?

Drinking margaritas on the balcony at my condo in Florida. Thanks for asking!

Very sorry to hear that. Hope you’re doing OK and know that your folks are still looking after you. Best wishes, dude.

Not from Texas, I assume? Hot as fuck started three months ago.

I kinda thought that too, but OTOH, do you want Collins’ debut to come in this spot as a PH?

Rangel Ravelo has finally appeared in MLB. One uninteresting at bat for the Cards, but I’m interested to see how he does. He was killing it in AAA, although he’s already 27.

I really dislike this idea of benching Collins against LHP. He might end up being a PLT player because of his weakness against LHP, but let’s not settle for that without throwing him into the fire and giving him the chance to improve.

That’s totally fine. When I set my 75 games benchmark, implicit is the fact that it won’t be all at catcher (not even mostly). But those reps are important, and has been said, he needs to shadow McCann constantly. C is where he has the most value.

Ugh. Collins is a top prospect. I totally understand that catchers don’t play 162, but when he’s not catching, he should be the DH as much as possible. If he’s up for the rest of the year, he should play 75 games minimum. If we’re calling him up to be a backup, this FO sucks more than I thought.

Eh, Bryce Harper is the most overrated player in baseball. I don’t care how Moncada compares to him. Everyone acts like I think Moncada sucks, but I don’t. There’s just a clear flaw in his game and working on that flaw will make him significantly better. He’s gotten a small boost from his BABIP this year (not surprising, because of the quality of his contact), but his OPS has increased dramatic because he’s reduced his K-rate by 18%. However, it’s still high at 27.7%. If he could get that down to 20%, he’d be entering superstar mode.

I’m happy for you getting turned on and all, but I really just want fewer strikeouts.

Eloy’s not really on that level...yet. Through 46 games, he’s got an OPS of .777. Acuna’s was .819, and Bellinger, Torres, Soto, and Riley were all above .900 at the same point. (FWIW, Riley strikes out a ton and he should come back to earth soon.) It’d be great to see a guy come up and mash immediately, but there’s a lot of prospects who don’t. Buxton sucked for a couple of years, and Gallo’s first 50 games were disastrous and his next 300 were late stage Dunn-ish. The biggest thing for Collins this year is to get some ABs, hopefully improve vs LHP, and work on his defense. He loses a lot of value if not behind the plate.

I’m excited about the bat. I think he’s a patient enough hitter to overcome the high K rate and produce roughly similar to what he has in AAA. That said, where is he going to play? We need to ditch Alonso altogether, and let him and McCann rotate between DH and C so that their bats are always in the lineup and Collins is learning how to be an MLB catcher. Moncada being injured should have nothing to do with this. Don’t know if I trust our awful FO to play this right. Really hope they’re not calling up a top prospect just because a guy is injured and our other MiLB catcher type was beyond putrid in his one chance.

As awesome as it is that Giolito is 10-1, it does mean we are one of the worst teams in the league when he isn’t pitching.

I don’t trust Hahn to ever achieve that day for us.

I don’t want to waste starts on this guy when we’re good. Gio, Kopech, Cease and pick up two from outside the org.

Can we just DFA Lopez already? Played and won our biggest game in years yesterday, and he shits the bed today. Loser.