Jose Abreu

Of course, but what does that have to do with anything? Who was being irresponsible off the field?

That was the corresponding move for Goins

At least he has a sense of humor about it!

I'm sure he meant it differently, but "It's just baseball" -Rick Renteria

Encarnacion

The point is they were expected to be starting outfielders, because it would be foolish to assume that all 3 of Eloy/Robert/Mazara stay healthy given their track records

Yup, this isn't some new development and having Adam Engel, Leury Garcia, Nicky Delmonico as starting corner outfielders was incredibly predictable.

Eloy is not available for this game, guys. PHing Collins for Leury instead of Engel is what I would've done, however. He would've gotten a sac fly at least

That Grandal is not the problem

Those are some great takes from a rookie

That I agree with. Just not with the sentiment that Grandal has been bad

He had a .500 OBP entering today

That Cleveland 5-9 is rough... guess they're stacking their RH power bats for tonight

What bothers me most is that they aren't changing any protocols. The "everything will be fine" approach is gonna backfire when the next outbreak happens on a contending team. It only took 3 days for the first one, who's to say we make it to next week before the next?

Kopech was the third-most talented player involved in that trade, IMO

This thread has definitely been much more mature than Twitter/social media, where such takes are abundant

Yikes. The (seemingly majority) view that the positive results are completely the players' faults for whatever they do outside of the stadium is pretty rough. You can follow all the protocols 100% perfectly and still get the virus

All jokes aside, and as bad as his season numbers will look now, I bet it actually meant a lot to him. Just in the nick of time too

I know I'm in the minority but I like that they went with Lopez today. He might get hit around, but he at least (typically) throws strikes and attacks hitters. With Cease, I'd be afraid that he misses the zone, gets behind in counts, and then gets taken deep by all the power bats. Neither are ideal but I just don't think Cease matches up well against a team that works counts like this

Moncada should be the DH but I don’t really care about the day off. I’m more upset that Abreu is starting over Collins against a guy who destroys RHH but is susceptible to walks against LHH

Likewise but he actually looks a lot better than he did last year (even though he was adequate), at least to me. Off-speed has better movement than I remember

Awesome play there by Yoan

Ha, it was my game thread but I mostly stayed out