Jose Abreu

Altuve is a different breed

That would be great. On the pitching side, I could see Stephens being added and us going with 6 starters (or Giolito/Covey being optioned). In the pen, optioning Rondon/Volstad and trading Soria in favor of Vieira/Hamilton, maybe Gomez, would also be nice.

Who would've predicted that Kevmar Smitvaez would be the best offensive catching duo in baseball since June 1?

But a 2:34 BB:SO ratio and 63% swing rate.

He's at least better than Engel. At this point all Engel is doing is being a waste of space. When Delmonico is back, he needs to be in left with Leury in center and Avi in right. Palka can DH/LF/RF so that he still plays 3-5 times a week.

Leury needs to be playing CF every day. That way we could get Palka/Tilson reps in LF

Dan Jennings from GM to (temporary) manager is another weird one

But he's a talent evaluator. Not a coach. Just doesn't make sense to me

I still find it so weird that Capra went from the top farm guy to third base coach. Like, how are those roles in any way related? How is he qualified for that?

Giolito took so long on that DP turn... gave Yoan no shot to get Altuve at first

A Moncada... B, not so sure

Anderson

Shields was having a very good season aside from one bad start (2 IP, 10 R) which inflated his stats. He had a 3.06 ERA outside of that one start.

Some of your blame for Shields could also be placed on Padres GM AJ Preller. He hid some of Shields' medical info from us at the time of the trade. For whatever reason, the MLB investigation concluded without giving us the option to undo the trade.

It's weird because he's actually a pretty good poster for the most part. Just such an odd hatred for Abreu that clearly extends beyond his performance.

Yeah, message board posters are much more reliable

I agree with the premise of the article but that was really poorly written at some points.

Tyler Clippard too

Bregman is so good

If Abreu goes to the DL I really don't know who would represent us at the ASG. Anderson is the most logical but SS is stacked in the AL. Garcia doesn't have enough games. Might have to be one of Soria/Fry

Again, that's not how it works. Every first basemen is automatically at a negative number of runs due to the Fangraphs positional adjustment. Abreu is not 15-20 runs below the average first baseman defensively. The real number, as of now, is about 4.

You can put down the 2005 season as a massive failure too. Utterly awful season for us.

Meh, he deserved it last year and didn't make it so now he's square.

wow two

That was one of my favorite Yoan ABs this year. Excellent patience and got a nice single out of it