Jose Abreu

No. Let him have a shutout. 97 is enough

For reference, the league average OPS is down this year. .725 is the average

Moncada!!! Stud!!!

Giolito looked.. dare I say.. good today

About a week prior

I wonder who goes down when Castillo is back. Even Zavala may be ready soon. IMO you gotta stick with Narvaez

Moncada is leading off the 6th with another home run. Eloy is going yard twice for Charlotte today. Bet the house.

Sometimes all it takes is a game against KC to get your confidence back up!

I'll take it.

A nice cherry on top of this game would be a Tim Anderson grand slam...

Man he has looked good from the right side the past few weeks.

Leury is good

It's fun watching him improve. I wish the all-star break could wait for a week, because he's really locked in right now

Abreu

traitor

Day to day with a knee contusion is my guess.

It was the ball, not the knee that hit his knee. I think he’ll be fine

Fuck it, I'm not opposed if it's cheap. This team will be fun to watch. In the era of Golden State, that's all I can really ask for.

I've seen speculation of 3/54 and speculation of 3/24... hopefully it's closer to the latter. It has to be at least 3 years though since he's an RFA.

I see a lot of it the other way around too. People declaring that we lost the Sale trade as if Kopech and Basabe are busts, or as if Moncada hasn't only been around for a few months. Or people saying we lost the Eaton trade when it's actually looking pretty good overall and Eaton has played like 35 games since the trade. People need to let the process just ride out and evaluate once these players actually get here (if they do)

Jabari as a 3... man, I just don't see it

Because they're in win-now mode and Moncada would take longer to develop than Benintendi. Plus, he was blocked by Pedroia. Benintendi is better right now, but it's very easy to see Moncada being the more valuable player in the long run, especially given Benintendi's average-at-best defense at left field, which is either the least important or next to least important (1B) defensive position.

He needs a promotion.

For what it's worth, JB Shuck's wife was complaining online once about how the lineups are sent down from the front office rather than Ventura (at the time)

We didn't win anything "easily". Eloy and Cease have combined for 0 MLB games so far. Let's pump the brakes with this kind of analysis. I think it's very likely that we end up winning this deal but it's far too early to declare anything