Jose Abreu

This was posted last week because it's the article where he mentioned us being motivated for Cole and that Moncada and Giolito are extension candidates

Eh he'll be fine. Once he gets touches he'll be a solid fantasy option. Starting him week 1 was a mistake though. Luckily I started Robinson and the CHI D/ST too.

Anderson

Bears 52, Packers 0

https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=pit&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2019&month=33&season1=2019&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&filter=&players=0&page=2_30

2.5 fWAR for Lopez. Right ahead of Jon Lester

AMAZING series from a rebuild perspective. All the core players played well.

I haven't been able to watch, but has Collins been fine defensively at 1B?

Give him the 9th. They did it with Giolito and he had even more pitches

Eloy is probably gonna end the season with an OPS > .800. Really, really encouraging.

Zack Collins has a .317 OBP despite a .200 BABIP

It's really cool seeing Moncada/Anderson/Jimenez and, to a lesser extent, Collins, have good games together

Tons of hard hit outs today for us

Jimenez

If Vizquel wasn't Ricky * 100 when it comes to bunting, I would really love it for him to be the next manager. That's a great quote

I knew he qualified as soon as he hit the home run, but my first instinct was to calculate Lemahieu's exact average to see if Tim passed him. You aren't alone! It gives us something interesting to follow for the next few weeks

I'd rather not take the risk of sitting him and then having him get hurt or something with a week left. If he's healthy, he should be in the lineup.

I agree with you, I actually think they'll be reasonably aggressive with Vaughn and that he'll be in MLB by the ASB (assuming he crushes AA, which I think he will with relative ease)

*fast forwards to 8/1/2020 where Andrew Vaughn is slashing .300/.400/.600 for Charlotte*

I can't wait for Anderson to not qualify for the batting title because of the few games where Mendick started over him rather than "Sanchy"

They have a lot of talented outfielders. JD Davis, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Tim Tebow (sorry I had to) and they seem to like Juan Lagares in CF. Even if they don't keep Lagares in CF and they move McNeil to 3B, that's still 4 starting caliber players for 3 spots, so trading an OF is possible.

Who would say no to Stiever and Steele Walker for Nimmo (controlled through the 2022 season)? I know their GM makes some weird trades so it's hard for me to gauge value here