Abomination

Huh, wtf? Was he in a previous draft or something and didn't sign until this last one?

I'll take Eeli Tolvanen. JG34 is up!

Would not have guessed the answer. He's just not someone you think about.

Feel better now?

We're tied with the O's now. I won't be happy if they get a get a higher pick than us, although I think they probably will.

His K rates the last two years in the minors has been fine.

I wouldn't count Tulo out just yet either. When you look at his offensive numbers, they're really not that far off this year except for vs lefties (which is not normal for him). His numbers vs righties appear to be pretty much exactly in line with what you'd expect. I wouldn't be surprised to see him bounce back into the 2.5 to 3 WAR range. Maybe borderline in terms of earning his contract, but not a team killer either.

I wonder if we've picked something up on Sale?

Someone remind me how we got Teoscar for Liriano again?

Throw it right back in there Happ, he's not gonna want anything to do with it.

Combination of a tight strike zone and bad slider command (plus JD going nuts).

Bauer may be an ass, but this is both awesome and funny: http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/indians-pitcher-trevor-bauer-loses-drone-park/

I think he made Sale mad lol.

Yeah, I was eyeing him too, although I knew he wouldn't drop to my next pick.

Oh yes we can

Tell them about it on their twitter feed. That'll get their attention if it gets retweeted enough.

Looks like Osuna is back to the two seamer rather than so many cutters.

Paste the team into excel (from each team's page to prevent formatting issues) and run the following query: let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Table1"]}[Content], #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type text}, {"Column2", type text}, {"Column3", type text}, {"Column4", type text}, {"Column5", type text}, {"Column6", type any}, {"Column7", type any}, {"Column8", type any}, {"Column9", type any}, {"Column10", type any}, {"Column11", type any}, {"Column12", type any}, {"Column13", type any}, {"Column14", type any}, {"Column15", type any}, {"Column16", type any}, {"Column17", type any}, {"Column18", type any}}), #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Changed Type",{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Removed Other Columns","No new player Notes","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value1" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value","New Player Note","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value2" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value1","Player Note","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value3" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value2","Day-to-Day","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value4" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value3","60-Day DL","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value5" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value4","10-Day DL","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value6" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value5","Not Active","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value7" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value6","(Empty)","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value8" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value7","Pitchers","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Replaced Value9" = Table.ReplaceValue(#"Replaced Value8","","",Replacer.ReplaceText,{"Column2"}), #"Removed Blank Rows" = Table.SelectRows(#"Replaced Value9", each not List.IsEmpty(List.RemoveMatchingItems(Record.FieldValues(_), {"", null}))) in #"Removed Blank Rows" Then just copy and paste

Smoak just missed it.

He's been great, but then you look at JD Martinez who has 27 in 57 games since the trade ...

Abomination selects Klim Kostin. TCA is up!

Bump for Spanky's curiosity.

My favorite Verlander memory was his no-hitter against us. Towards the end of the game, his velocity kept increasing every inning. By the 9th, his fastball was in triple digits (think he had maybe a dozen pitches in the 101 to 102 range). Really impressive display.

Miggy has two herniated discs in his back. Certainly explains his rough season.

I wonder if the home run problem with the balls is the material, rather than the seams? I remember the issues a long time ago in Colorado with the humidor, etc. Maybe the new balls don't absorb moisture like the old ones did (meaning all balls were like the ones in Coors). If MLB tests at low humidity, they might not see a significant difference in the characteristics.