Jose Abreu

Exactly what I was about to post

If it's May/June and Lopez is still pumping 93, I'll be right there with you. For now, I'm gonna wait and assume his velo will pick up as it warms up and as he gets more reps

I stand corrected on Junis' velocity drop. But I still don't think that anyone should be freaking out on Lopez averaging ~93 on a 39 degree day in March. As @Jake recently posted, he had a ton of weird fluctuations in velocity early last season too. The sample size is far too small

He should have Hector Santiago's role but be a little more effective with it, hopefully

So because he hit 92.9 on one pitch in the 2nd inning, his overall fastball velocity is at last season's average?

That's not what I said, but I knew that strawman was coming. I was responding to a post about velo being down.

It's 39 degrees with 17 MPH winds.

Steve Stone keeps mentioning that next year, our opening game will be at home against Kansas City. Does he really know this already or is he just joking around?

I hate these new picture in picture ads in between at-bats

Tim Anderson

Jimenez

I don't have Insider but here http://insider.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/26389353/law-cactus-league-notebook-prospects-giants-indians-more

Walker was getting mocked in the late 20s frequently IIRC.

Eloy Jimenez

I'm not sure how this fact is debatable. Luis Gonzalez turned 23 in mid-September of last year. That means that he was 22 for the entire minor league season in 2018.

It's laughable to want a natural shortstop who slugged .500 in the minors last year some more playing time? Rondon might never amount to anything, but we won't know if we don't give him the chance

I hope they PH with Rondon or something

Good AB by Castillo in spite of that swing on 3-1

Maybe they had a different angle, but on the Sox broadcast it was really hard to tell whether or not Anderson's foot grazed the bag at the same time that the 1B's foot came down

I would've called that too close to overturn but oh well

But the Royals didn't score any more in the inning, so usually they go back and make it unearned

It will be fixed at the end of the inning

Awfully strange that Banuelos was ready to come in last inning, and this inning, when Rodon actually is starting to struggle, the bullpen is empty

REALLY good transfer there by Moncada. Bodes well for him at third.

Schwindel with quite the bat flip for a routine pop out