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Done with Reylo. Go play in Japan, loser.

It wouldn't have been two. Either way, telling him to bunt with two strikes is betting low on your own players. Show confidence.

It's a good venting place. I can cry for joy and pick my kid up and run around the house like a happy lunatic when we do something great, but I can't (and don't want) to scream "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck" in his and my wife's faces when we screw up. So I come here. You're welcome.

If you want to be technical, his first at-bat would have sufficed.

Man, fuck Ricky. Why would you send Leury there? Yoan hit it 458 feet in his last at-bat. And he's a patient hitter, so even if he doesn't come through, he runs up Strasburg's pitch count and almost surely makes next inning his last. And bunting with Reylo on two strikes? Even in situations where hitters should bunt (i.e. the pitcher is hitting), Ricky overdoes it like the simpleminded twit he is. I hate Ricky so much. If there's any reason to root for team failure, it's so he gets shitcanned. Unfortunately, we'll probably hover just under .500 and the idiots in our FO will credit this idiot enough to let him keep his job. Embarrassing.

Stick with it, dude. Strasburg's got two innings left, and the Nats pen blows. We'll get to .500 tonight and have a bit more fun in the process.

Lopez is crap.

Where does everyone get this idea that, if a guy is fast and plays MI, he should move to CF? That's gotta be one of the hardest positions out there.

72 pitches. Have some patience, get lengthy at-bats, and he shouldn't go more than 5. That'll be fun.

To be fair, a lot of teams, even good ones, have problematic 4th/5th starters...

I'm glad to see Lucas own shit like this. Dude is super likable.

Yeah, I don't see a score box on MLBTV either. I spent most of that rally watching the Nats feed, but I agree with others: not worth it. Edit: it's there now, if anyone's still suffering through those Nats bozos.

And the NL's built in rally killer does its job. The Nats lineup sucks, outside of Rendon and Soto. It's a good head start, even for bad Reylo. I really do wanna get into that DC pen, though.

I was gonna agree with this at first thought, but when Ray says, "as a hitter solely", maybe he has a point. 1991-1997 Thomas had a 1.056 OPS, with six seasons over 1.000 and his max season at 1.217. Neither Mays nor Dimaggio nor Aaron did that, although Dimaggio was interrupted by WWII.

Don't know, don't care. He plays in an organization that has produced a decent number of solid MLB hitters in the last decade. Robert doesn't.

I wanted him to move slower, yes. I still don't want to rush him. Leave him at AA for the rest of the year. This drive to push him to AAA and the bigs ASAP is baffling to me. Eloy destroyed AA and even AAA, but is still trying to figure out MLB. And he had a much longer track record of MiLB success. Robert's not even at 50 games of minors time worth writing home about. So slow it down.

That’s got to be an awful feeling. You get caught totally off guard, a fat guy chases after you, and slaps you on your ass as you fall on your face in front of 20,000 spectators. It’s like the most embarrassing thing I’ve ever done, times 196.

You made a baseball-focused comment that wasn’t incessantly positive about a team that hasn’t been to the playoffs in a decade. How dare you.

Oh please. I’m white, and to the right of Attila the Hun, and I love Tim Anderson’s cockiness. Race has nothing to do with this.

When is Burger supposed to return?

Yeah, that’s the tricky part with this poll. If Rutschman falls, I think we should AND will pick him, but I’m not expecting that, so I picked Vaughn for “will” and Witt for “should”.

Done.

Here ya go!

This is why I’m constantly in here “being the pessimist”. Some of you guys are so amazingly unrealistic. Two teams have scored 1000 runs in a season since WWII, but we have some decent prospects so we could do it consistently? It’s ridiculous! Moncada isn’t going to hit .300. Robert won’t hit 50 homeruns, or likely even 40. The White Sox will never score 1000 runs. And guess what? We’re still going to be really good.

This is baloney. We all know now this Gordo is a light-hitting utilityman, but that’s not what everyone saw in 2009. Back then, he was a high-end draft pick, he was destroying the minors (and even MLB, briefly), and people would have been absolutely justified in thinking he was a future star. So it’s totally fair to use him as an analogy/warning to not rush another highly touted prospect.