Lukakke Appling

He grew up a big Mark Buehrle fan and wore 56 when he first came up for that reason.

Very next post: “I was a die hard Cub fan back then”

Hey dude, Conforto used to be a 4 WARt player.

I love AJ Ewing, but not sure if they’d give him up. Where is the Clifford talk coming from? Is it a thing, or just speculation on the board?

Realmuto back to Philly for 3/45. Domino’s falling fast.

Ol’ Cohen seems pretty jazzed about it. I can’t think who else it might be about. 🤔

I already posted about the McGough signing.

Trey Mcgough (Eloy trade) decided he doesn’t want to be retired anymore and signed with the Mets.

I think Walcott could stick. He’s a big boy, but a freak athlete. Your point remains, though.

Another fear was realized, though.

You can’t possibly be this thick.

Once again, that isn’t the argument. My point was that it’s perfectly normal to take a stance on things that don’t directly affect you. I don’t know why you keep making it about something else.

I don’t think that’s what PaleAleSox was referring to. But you knew that already.

I don’t want to turn this into a big thing because there’s no point, as Timmy joked about, but think this post through. Are you honestly indifferent about people’s behaviour if it doesn’t directly affect you? I doubt it. Anyways, regardless on anyone’s thoughts about Matt Shaw, I can’t imagine it happening.

Shaw certainly has more power potential than Meidroth due to their profiles, but Shaw baseball savant page is much uglier. The guy swings a whiffle bat.

Max Kepler 80 game PED suspension.

Holy hell that’s wild. speaking of arbitration, it made me think of the pettiness with Giolito years ago. Anyone on the Sox a union rep right now?

This actually made me burst out laughing. On the topic though, good for him.

Yeah, I didn’t say anything about their payroll. And actually neither did the other guy. I was just making fun of the *checks notes* thing.

If I had imaginary notes I’d make them much more interesting.

I have the impression he values loyalty over competence.

The idea is they would have an above slot agreement at 2 on hand. But yes, I’m sure I’m overthinking.

Are you at all concerned the Rays will try to push him down to 2 (assuming he’s still the clear 1) with their enormous pool, or am I just being paranoid?

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if they were in on him once he was looking for a shorter term, but bowed out once opt-outs came into play.

Nice! Good for him. He was a fun player.