Jose Abreu

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.

Yeah I saw that. The 20 game sample of Baez turning into Mike Trout offensively really messed with their minds. Prior to this season, even Yolmer Sanchez graded as a better player than Baez.

Delmonico

Giolito v Junis, 7:15 PM CT, NBCSCHI

How was Cano out on that play in the 9th? And even if he were safe, how is it an error on Sanchez?

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Y Moncada

Haha, I just noticed I was downgraded to legend and figured it had to do with my post count

Random but why did my post count go down during the update? I was past the "Legend" status thingy for sure, I think I may have lost exactly 1,000 for some reason.

2-4 for Anderson 1-3, BB, 2B, K for Moncada Not bad

Golden sombrero for Davidson

Fixed