Slade

Holy s*** are they legit trying to f*** us tonight?

Are you new to baseball? 3 weeks is nothing. It's brutal right now but this is what rebuilding is.

The sunflower seed thing is so annoying now. It's not even funny, nobody looks like they are enjoying it.

Lol who expected Freddy Galvis to be our best hitter.

Love it dude 1 week of poor play and these threads start popping up. This is what rebuilding is, it serves no purpose to add a couple more mediocre pieces to be marginally better this year. Can't start improving until we know what we have, so let all these kids play and see what sticks. It's going to be ugly but it's necessary. Our farm system looks really good right now, promising players at every level. Some things I think are fair the Morales deal was awful and they had to eat that mistake.

The swings not pretty but he's definitely capable of putting up similar to his final numbers last year.

I really didn't think we would be worst than Baltimore but man the way the offense looks here we come 1st overall pick.

Deserved.

Going to be an exciting game every day. Will the opposing pitching throw a no-hitter or a perfect game?

Who cares, the minor league season hasn't even started yet.

May have gotten lost in the news yesterday but Bud Norris was released.

Atkins said this morning that Brito will join the team in Cleveland and that Alford will get the bulk of his at bats in AAA. Said Alford still has more of his game to develop.

I don't mind the deal but I don't think Grichuk is anything special. To me he didn't improve enough last year to warrant a 5 year extension.

Ranked Arizona Diamondbacks #19 prospect after the 2017 season Coming off an injury-riddled 2016, Brito was bit by the injury bug again in 2017 while he repeated the Pacific Coast League at Triple-A Reno. In 2016, he suffered a fractured toe while with the big league team, then he fractured the hamate in his wrist while getting ready for winter ball in November. In 2017, he needed yet another surgery after severely dislocating his left ring finger on a headfirst slide into home plate during a game early in spring training. The injury cost him two and a half months, impacting his standing on the organization's depth chart, and journeyman Jeremy Hazelbaker stepped into the fourth outfielder void. Brito, meanwhile, didn't play well enough at Reno to warrant even a September callup. Little has changed in terms of Brito's tools and upside, and he still gets high marks for his work ethic. Coaches say he might have become bogged down at the plate by mechanics, limiting his athleticism, and he still could use work on his approach. He runs well and can handle all three outfield positions, but he probably is best suited for a corner. Brito has handled righthanded pitchers better than lefthanders in his career, leading some scouts to view him as a potential platoon outfielder. Brito will have to show he can stay healthy in order to reach even that ceiling as he fights for a spot with the D-backs out of spring training.

Here's his interview. 100% worth watching, I've been critical of Pillar but watching that was tougher than expected. https://streamable.com/kiy3u

That's brutal right there but it's a move that needed to be made sooner or later.

From reading this thread people wanted them to trade him "when the time was right".

If the trade officially goes through then he should be. I don't think he's left Toronto since opening day.

That's one thing I don't want to see at all. I hated watching things on theScore because of their constant ticker.

They don't have to hand him the job. They can run with Teoscar LF, Grichuk CF and McKinney RF for now.

Is this a legit post or a troll?

Pretty good return to be honest. De Paul is the centerpiece but we could get something out of the other two. Juan De Paul Track Record: A $175,000 signing out of the Dominican Republic by the Mariners in 2014, De Paula has been traded twice in his career. He was acquired by the Giants in the August 2018 deal that sent Andrew McCutchen to the Yankees. After spending the majority of the last two seasons in the short-season New-York Penn League, the 21-year-old De Paula made only one start in the Giants organization in 2018, striking out nine and walking one in five innings with low Class A Augusta before the season ended. Scouting Report: A skinny, 6-foot-3 righthander with plenty of room to add weight to his frame, De Paula has a plus fastball that sits in the mid-90s and touches 98 mph with above-average life. He has feel for both a changeup and curveball, although both pitches are currently below-average offerings with the chance to become average or above-average pitches in the future. De Paula's secondary pitches and overall control lack consistency at the moment, but that's widely to be expected from a 21-year-old with only one, late-season start in full-season ball. The Future: De Paula has the three-pitch mix of a mid-rotation starter. He's raw and needs to improve his fringe-average control, but he'll receive much-needed experience at low Class A Augusta in 2019. Ranked Pittsburgh Pirates #18 prospect after the 2016 season Once considered among the Top 100 Prospects in baseball--he ranked No. 61 prior to the 2013 season and No. 76 in 2014--Hanson's stock has dropped over the last two years as he has been converted from a middle infielder into a utility player at Triple-A Indianapolis. He made his major league debut in 2016, coming off the bench mostly as a pinch-hitter and pinch-runner. Hanson has been unable to convert his considerable tools into consistent production, though his athleticism still makes him intriguing as a potentially valuable bench piece. The switch-hitter is wiry strong and can hit the occasional home run, and he also has outstanding speed that makes him a threat on the bases. However, he does not always make solid contact. Hanson is not a strong defender and his attitude was questionable earlier in his career. However, he has embraced learning multiple positions. Hanson is out of minor league options, so he will have to fight an uphill battle against Adam Frazier for the utility infielder spot on the Pirates roster. Ranked San Francisco Giants #23 prospect after the 2015 season Law is the son of a big leaguer--sort of. His father Joe made the Athletics big league roster for a few days but never appeared in a game. The younger Law impressed the Giants by piling up strikeouts wherever he went, but he fell to the ninth round in 2011 because scouts were concerned about the effort in his delivery. Their concerns were somewhat validated when Law blew out his elbow and required Tommy John surgery in 2014. He returned to action in late June 2015. His delivery still is not pretty and features a stab in his takeaway, stiffness in his lower half and a finishing spin-off to first base. But Law has toned down his hip turn as he gathers himself over the rubber, and he manages to stay around the strike zone consistently enough to receive average grades for his control. He hides the ball well with his over-the-top delivery, and his stuff bounced back nicely in his return. He still can run his plus fastball up to 93-96 mph, and his 12-to-6 breaking ball is a plus pitch as well, giving him two swing-and-miss offerings. Law is ready for Triple-A Sacramento and could help San Francisco at some point in 2016 as a setup man.

Definitely, I couldn't take another year of Davis.

Lol this game is a s*** show.

What do you mean, he is doing exactly what he's done the last 5 years. 1 half awful and 1 half above average.