Jose Abreu

Good defensive inning so far

Yeah, I saw him in the dugout and was taken aback, as I had assumed that he left already. Must've been his hardest game to manage.

7:15 PM CT, NBCSCHI, Reynaldo Lopez v. Danny Duffy

Welp, I already used Moncada twice this week... Tim Anderson it is

we won awhile ago but it wasn't posted, so, hey, we won!

8th in MLB in fWAR

Good guy Nate is making this a save situation for Soria

He has literally been a top 15 player in baseball this year and you have people who wanted him to be sent down to AAA a week ago. Nobody's making those exit velocity jokes anymore, I wonder why.

Good work by Avilan. Gio finishes at 5.2 IP with 2 ER, 5 H, 2 BB, 2 K

Even if the run(s) get(s) in, a good bounce back outing

450 feet, 110 MPH

Welington has been really refreshing at C overall

Nice strikeout by Giolito to get out of that. Good defense by Anderson too

And at least he has an arm in the outfield too

Ok Trayce...

Solo home run offense

Reminds me of 2014 Abreu. Had to catch every AB. Come on, Bears, trade down.

I agree with this, and I'll add that I think Abreu will be our ASG representative over Moncada.

And those people were ignoring positive trends and just being reactionary. It should be obvious to anyone who watches him that Moncada will be a high WAR player despite his high strikeout rate

I get where you're coming from, but I don't know why he'd want to hurt his new team. If he does want to win, he'd know that he's a huge asset defensively at 3B and a liability at SS. If he really gets his $350 mil, I can definitely see him moving back to third.

So we have ONE bench player tonight and it's a catcher.

I think it’s for whoever pitches the doubleheader Saturday. Kopech would be on 2 days rest so I doubt it’s him

40 man at 39 now, Gillaspie outrighted to AAA. Pitcher for Saturday likely being added

Perhaps to offset the losses of outfielders Cordell and Palka in Charlotte?

Worth noting that Machado is actually a horrible defensive SS. Both this year and in his other MLB stints. Tim Anderson has graded out as better defensively so far. If he comes here, I think the choice is easy to make him play 3B.