Ducksnort

With a decent rotation, this team could be 10 games over .500 come september. With the rotation they have now...I'm surprised they haven't lost more games than they have. Literally the only reliable pitcher is Giolito. And it's amazing because he is not only reliable, he is absolutely dominant. What a change next year will be with Kopech and Cease, my goodness. End this Covey train.

I for one am interested to see what happens when they bring Jay into the fold. He's gonna start, but our outfield right now is good with Tilson, Leury and Eloy. Tilson is hitting the ball very well and keeping that average around .300, so they would be foolish to sit him. Leury has been a great option for lead-off, so I doubt they move him out of the lineup, and Eloy will not be removed obviously. My guess is, he takes Cordell's spot on the team. What I would like to happen, if Jay really has to be here, is he takes over in left or center, Eloy moves to DH or learns how to play first, and Yonder sits his rich ass on the pine. Better yet, DFA him. What I think will happen is Jay takes over in center, Leury is moved to 2nd, and Yolmer gets the short stick. Leury then would primarily play second while spelling players here and there who need rest at different positions. Yonder still gets his ABs.

I agree with this, but the very real injury factor is what worries me.

Ohhh fuuccckckkkk

Cmon Tim pimp this one

Good thing Gio spared the pen last night

Stony the prophet

Yeah...I guess we never really had one since Jim Thome.

Oh Yonder with the warning track power

Yooooooo

Would this be the first sweep of the season?

Theres yer answer. Leadoff hit for Leury and they just showed a graphic where he is in the top 5 of most successful leadoff hitters currently in the league.

Literally the only issue I have with the lineup is Yonder...and if thats it then I can live with that. Just kind of finny our worst hitter is our designated....hitter....

That's funny shit. Kind of sucks Cordell is gonna get the short end of the stick when Jay starts playing. Dude will play like, what, 3 months on the team? Him and Alonso, what a waste this is turning out to be.

McCann...our all-star catcher. Really, we have reasonably 3 possibilities for not only all-stars but all-star starters: McCann, Anderson, and Abreu (who needs to start picking it up again) And then Gio probably representing us on the pitching end of it, although not starting obviously. But wow, great realistic possible representations...great progress all things considering.

I'll take the sac fly and extra base...don't really like Jose swinging on the 1st pitch after a 4 pitch walk but he got the run in I guess. Still can't effing believe Yonder is hitting behind him. How the hell is it that our designated hitter, the guy's job who is to hit and only hit, is literally the worst hitter on the team? He has pitcher-like hitting numbers.

Why do fans continue to go after balls that are fair when it is made very clear that you will be removed from the game if intentionally interfering with a ball in play?

Hopefully Gio can go 7 innings tonight and we won't need Fulmer, and/or the offense comes alive and we are up by so many runs it won't matter if Fulmer comes in or not.

Man I really hope Yolmer is around as our primary back-up infielder for our contending years.

Beautiful Yolmer. Now he can have all the gatorade he wants.

Was gonna say this...but I wouldn't with 5 infielders

5th infielder...interesting. Time for Yolmer to hit a sac fly.

Damn it lol.

Great job by Rondon to lay off that sinker.

I really hope he becomes our catcher of the future and we don't have to put all our hope in Collins or a free agent we will never get.