Jose Abreu

If he has another good outing against Cleveland tonight I might have to join this bandwagon. I've been in the "he has improved, but he isn't this good" camp, but he hasn't shown signs of stopping yet.

Thanks, I forgot about that

He does need to work on the walk rate but I couldn't care less about his ERA. 48% of his earned runs allowed came from 2 (two) starts.

Corresponding move? Thyago Viera or someone?

Moncada

Just some thoughts I had from reading 1. I'd be willing to bet that Zavala gets promoted to AAA 2. Dedelow deserves a promotion but with the logjam might not get one 3. Eddy Alvarez, albeit at 28 years old, is having a great year for Charlotte and it would be cool to see him in the majors in September given his background

Henzman and McClure (once healthy next year) are more then ready for promotions.

Excited for Luis Robert to hit his first bomb today

Abreu

Yeah, I'm not saying that he hasn't had a bad stretch. It's just that highlighting seemingly crazy variations in OPS isn't as damning as it may seem due to the erratic nature of the stat.

I like OPS but I feel like you use it too often, or misuse it at times. It's a stat that, at this point in the season, is very heavily skewed by an event such as one home run. Therefore, if someone hits a home run and then doesn't hit another one for awhile, it's obvious that his OPS is gonna drop. It's a good stat to use at the end of seasons or with a lot of sample size, but judging a player based on fluctuations in the stat at this point in the season may not be taking advantage of its intended purpose.

My guess is they were balls half of the time. I don't think I've ever seen a prospect with such a good grasp of the strike zone

The White Sox would have to go 26-73 (.262) the rest of the way to finish with Greg's prediction of 48 wins.

Great win, Anderson, Fry, and Lopez were incredible

That's true. The issue is, the minute you put Palka in LF/RF, he becomes a net negative player.

I'd love for him to get some more of the DH starts. That is, if Davidson continues to trend downwards

Again, not what I said. All I said is that Tim is a good defender and shouldn't be moved. I never said anything bad about Moncada, who I expect to become a star

He threw 5 balls and Trayce swung at 3

I don't have a problem with the Bruins but I'll agree on the other 3. They're even worse than New York to me

It never fails to amuse me how excited Boston fans get for weak flyouts. It's even worse than Wrigley

It's not this error, it's that Tim is a good defensive SS and moving him wouldn't make much sense.

IMO it's a lot more likely that Yoan moves off of second than Tim moves off of short.

Nice, double play now an option