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[Laika]

Shame that prime-age Billy Hamilton is not signing with a team that will properly deploy his talents.

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[Spanky__99]

I guess the Bosox aren't using Eovaldi as a closer, that's a risky signing indeed.

 

[Terminator]

Shame that prime-age Billy Hamilton is not signing with a team that will properly deploy his talents.

 

What is the proper way to deploy his talents? The super-bench role that Fangraphs suggested?

[Laika]

What is the proper way to deploy his talents? The super-bench role that Fangraphs suggested?

 

I imagine there a number of different strategies that could be deployed, but yeah that's what I was thinking of.

 

Really anything that increases Billy Hamilton's percentage of his playing time spent on the bases and/or in the outfield, and decreases the percentage of his playing time spent at the plate, would raise his value substantially.

[jaysblue]

Shame that prime-age Billy Hamilton is not signing with a team that will properly deploy his talents.

 

He'll get close to 700 AB's as the Royals new leadoff hitter.

[jaysblue]

We could use some Jays news. Flipping Diaz off for Thornton isn't really cutting it.

 

Jays sign Drew Pomeranz. Book it.

[baubau]

NYY tried to get Trammell for Sonny Gray..............

 

I mean, I wouldn't expect the Jays to try for any less with Stroman or Sanchez. I am not saying the Jays would get Trammell for Stroman or Sanchez, but you start high and go from there.

[Brownie19]

He'll get close to 700 AB's as the Royals new leadoff hitter.

 

Hamilton and Alcides Escobar batting 1 + 2 in the Royals lineup is going to be killer next year.

[jaysblue]

Hamilton and Alcides Escobar batting 1 + 2 in the Royals lineup is going to be killer next year.

 

Escobar is a FA just checked. Would have been the worst 1 + 2 lineup combo in history lol.

 

Royals with Hamilton, Mondesi and Merrifield will steal a lot of bases. It's too bad Hamilton and Mondesi both suck at getting on-base.

[Laika]

I mean, I wouldn't expect the Jays to try for any less with Stroman or Sanchez. I am not saying the Jays would get Trammell for Stroman or Sanchez, but you start high and go from there.

 

Wow, the updated reports on Trammell make him sound like a monster.

 

- "uncommon" on the field instincts

- excellent plate discipline and approach

- double-plus speed

- change for "huge" in-game power

- runs well enough to play CF, likely more of a "Brett Gardner type" LF defender

[Spanky__99]

Wow, the updated reports on Trammell make him sound like a monster.

 

- "uncommon" on the field instincts

- excellent plate discipline and approach

- double-plus speed

- change for "huge" in-game power

- runs well enough to play CF, likely more of a "Brett Gardner type" LF defender

 

Yeah, he's been bumped up to a 60 FV by most site's.

[Plat]

except they got caught

 

That guy is a f***ing idiot lmfao

[Laika]

I am in awe at this series of tweets.

 

[Terminator]

When I read tweets like that I have to resist the urge to actually want North Korea to nuke our continent. It might be better to just start civilization over at this point.

[Spanky__99]

Weird fact of the day...

 

[Spanky__99]

When I read tweets like that I have to resist the urge to actually want North Korea to nuke our continent. It might be better to just start civilization over at this point.

 

I would like to thank this post as humanly possible.

[Laika]

Here is the Cespedes Family BBQ tweet that had baseball twitter in an UPROAR today and caused that ^ tweet thread:

 

 

And here is, as far as I can find, the closest thing to an actual attempted explanation of why that hypothetical is offensive:

 

 

Luckily, most of the interacting twitter counts seem to not understand or agree that the tweet was bad. The divide between people of different political leanings is so f***ing massive.

[Jimcanuck]

When I read tweets like that I have to resist the urge to actually want North Korea to nuke our continent. It might be better to just start civilization over at this point.

 

Extreme views have existed for thousands of years. Only difference is today the internet.

[Captain Adama]

I don't understand why that tweet was bad?

[Jimcanuck]

I don't understand why that tweet was bad?

 

It's not, maybe some of the replies the issue

[TheHurl]

I don't understand why that tweet was bad?

 

because poor Bryce Harper has no swimmers. It's just mean to talk about children he can never have.

 

I'm kidding he's Bryce f***ing Harper he could probably impregnate a man from 50 paces. Honestly I am confused by it all.

[King]

That guy is a f***ing idiot lmfao

lol tru

[Boxcar]

I am in awe at this series of tweets.

 

Is this f***ing moron aware that white people in South Carolina roast whole hogs regularly? Jesus f***ing Christ.

[Spanky__99]

Is this f***ing moron aware that white people in South Carolina roast whole hogs regularly? Jesus f***ing Christ.

 

She's an employee of THT, what's to expect, lol?

[Boxcar]

She's an employee of THT, what's to expect, lol?

 

K I thought that was just some rando

 

Wow

[Boxcar]

Lmfao, she literally apologized for not including the accent in Cespedes

 

 

Why is this person and her ilk trying to invade my favourite sport?!

[Spanky__99]

K I thought that was just some rando

 

Wow

 

[Boxcar]

 

O/U on number of cats has been set at 15.