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Rowdy Tellez in the best minor league Moniker contest. http://www.milb.com/milb/fans/moniker_madness/y2014/index.jsp?vs=15 Anyone other Jose Jose or Mat Batts winning this is a travesty.

Peterson is still looking pretty good. There are several bats from later in the first that I still like too.

Like all players that turn down 1st round money...I hope they do better. Cause it always makes the "I can't believe anyone would turn down that money, I hope they get hurt" crowd look stupid. Him leaving school is a big red flag to me though.

So this move was supposedly not disciplinary but to make room for Morrow and Norris being added to the 40...yet Colt Hynes, Matt Hague and Neil Wagner remain on the 40. This is another Blue Jays front office making a short term assessment move (not necessarily wrong as I don't think Reimold is anything at all). All I've ever asked is that everyone on the 40 have a potential role or upside in some way. Yet he continues to fill it with...filler.

Kyle Schwarber...joining the Cubs big 5? Seriously this is prototype rebuild. Time to deal for pitching

This kid or at least her Dad deserved to get hit by a 100MPH fastball so much more than that stupid bird. Edit. I take this back as it turns out they were allowed on the field as part of the pre-game ceremony the kid just took the wrong route. Still a Strasburg fastball might stop her from making bad decisions in the future.

As good a place as any for this article. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/how-can-we-make-sense-of-adeiny-hechavarria/

I'd rank them top 10 for sure...most would rank them top 5, but those people like pitching prospects which the Pirates have plenty of. Outside of the obvious two (Taillon and Glasnow) I really like the unflashy Kingham who projects to be a mid-rotation innings eater type. They also have a guy by the name of Adrian Sampson who just got called up to AAA. Again they aren't flashy numbers but turns out he never threw a changeup until this year (or at least never learned to throw one properly)...and it joins his curve as a plus pitch. He looked average solid in the game against Louisville this week. He's gone 6 innings 21 times this year...I love those guys. Pittsburgh is following the Marlins with pitchers that have unsexy stat lines but are effective. As for hitters, the guy to truly look out for the Pirates is Harold Ramirez, most upside of any prospect in all of baseball. He's lacking one tool which is expected to develop (power). I'm calling it now...if he recovers from the shin injury (and doesn't develop any other injuries). He's top 20 mid-season prospect next year. Maybe top 10.

So I ran some simple raw ERA data numbers on players that changed leagues from last season to this season (over the off-season, not during this season). 27 pitchers moved from the NL to the AL 16 pitchers lowered their ERA (by an average of 1.18) 11 pitchers raised their ERA (by an average of 1.37) 23 pitchers moved from the AL to the NL 13 pitchers lowered their ERA (by an average of 1.36) 10 pitchers raised their ERA (by an 1.60) In conclusion I just wasted 25 minutes that I'm never getting back.

Shall I bring you usual rack of lamb sir! Yes, and Tinnish can you get that report on pitch framing for me, I need to protect my new desk from the Tzatziki sauces.

no! Blame always begins and ends with Rogers

That was fun

Maybe he'll watch it go by him like he did in the field.

Got to say that I'm enjoying hearing my 75 year old Mom arguing that Kawasaki (or Kamasaki as she calls him) is a great ball player. She could probably post in the GDT's.

Today and yesterday is exactly the stuff the Rays were doing in May when they were losing every game. Bad decisions on the bases and just bad plays.

Filthy stuff.

have you seen Navarro move? He's lucky to have gotten up.

Navarro protecting that plate like it's a cake

so everyone off that Reimold bandwagon now? Blame Jose A

They will rule that the umpires didn't see the pitcher and batter get set. If the umpire didn't know the rule they will likely uphold though

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/91044678/rays-protest-game-after-blue-jays-win-challenge

What are umps carrying over the border?

that's two strikes called balls...but it's obviously not Navarro cause he's clutch, the umps hate Canada.

Zobrist vs. McGowan...early advantage to the Rays

when you have a closer that doesn't have swing and miss stuff little bloop s*** like Kiermeier had happens. Casey did what Casey does.