Jimcanuck

Hell ya especially in a league with an annual cutdown.

OK so now you must tell us who you gave up for Soto. Rodon and what else

Just an arm to abuse / discard.

Says here Kikuchi is overperforming. https://fantasy.fangraphs.com/starting-pitcher-xera-overperformers-jun-27-2022/

True..... the way the pitching is going it's a lost season unless the FO makes some acquisitions, have been saying this for at least a month now

No one should be surprised with an SP5 proceeds to suck. The chance an SP5 sucks is high by definition. Sometimes they don't (Matz last year), sometimes SP5 ends up being a revolving door of shitballers which looks to be the case this year.

Deep bone bruises are painful as f***

Swanson 13.4 fWAR, Bregman 27.6 ??

It's good for a pitcher to go through a league more than once. The second time through, there could be adversity. Better to hit adversity in the minors than the majors. There's lots of time.

Damn, Kirk having a great AB

fan favourite mate

What are you implying

They can go in a lot of different directions. A big trade would not surprise me at all. Trust in Shatkins.

Just so y'all know, if I fall in the standings as I expect, Kirby will be made avail for a prospect package

Agreed, his optimum role has always been this Is 93 wRC+ replacement level though? Isn't 100 the average, meaning replacement level is somewhere below that?

at least there is no s***** ass division leader to steal my playoff spot this year

I wanted to be peddling off stuff but then I'm in 7th but 12th by the stats, and don't know what the f to do

Ya, maybe 160 too high, not enough power for that. But if he keeps his K rate below 10% and keeps barrelling balls.....

His numbers this year are similar to his MiLB numbers. True talent 160 wRC+, minimum

Start with better managing.

I was right, dummies. Gilbert >> Buxton. Twins • Bryon Buxton will likely get half of as many at-bats going forward. Byron Buxton was out of the starting lineup for a second straight game in Thursday’s series finale against the Guardians with a continued flare-up in the tendinitis in his right knee that makes it too painful for him to swing and run. Despite that, the Twins maintained that there are no plans for their center fielder to go on the injured list. Buxton had also missed Wednesday’s 11-10 loss to Cleveland with the chronic knee pain and swelling, which the Twins had been managing day to day since the start of the season. The club will continue to do so, with the hope that Buxton’s knee will improve enough for him to play within one or two days. “He’s done an admirable job and he’s going to continue to do an admirable job going forward dealing with this,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. “But, like I said, when you literally cannot swing or run, you can’t play the game. And there have been other days this year, earlier in the season, where he couldn’t do those things and he doesn’t play those days. And there are other days where we have to get him a day off his feet so it doesn’t get to the point where we’re talking like this.” Why not place Buxton on the IL, then? Baldelli said there’s no guarantee that would even resolve the issue. What the Twins don’t want is for Buxton to have to miss a sizeable chunk of games and then be right back where they started within a matter of days upon his return.

I believe Bohm is available.

1. Eury Pérez, SP Signed: July 2nd Period, 2019 from Dominican Republic (MIA) Age 19.2 Height 6′ 9″ Weight 220 Bat / Thr R / R FV 60 Tool Grades (Present/Future) Fastball Slider Curveball Changeup Command Sits/Tops 55/70 50/60 45/50 45/60 50/70 96-98 / 99 After he made just five starts at High-A toward the end of his breakout 2021 campaign, this season the Marlins sent the 6-foot-9, 19-year-old Pérez to Double-A Pensacola, where he has been a buzzsaw, striking out 34.2% of opposing hitters while only walking 5.4% across just north of 50 innings. Over the last year, Pérez has added about 30 pounds, experienced a two-tick fastball velocity bump, and incorporated a second, harder breaking ball that has become his primary non-fastball weapon. After sitting 94-95 mph last year (Pérez was a 50 FV prospect ranked 67th in the offseason), he’s now parked in the 96-98 mph range for entire starts, and his hardest sliders (in the 85-87 mph range) are nearly 10 mph harder than his average curveball was in 2021 (77 mph). While he’s been uniformly dominant in the minors, Pérez’s stuff has now hit a different gear. Even more precocious than Pérez’s velocity is his fastball command, which is absurd for a 19-year-old, let alone one who throws this hard and is also this size. He shows bend and balance in his lower half as he propels himself way down the mound and releases on the doorstep of the batter’s box, making hitters extremely uncomfortable. Though he doesn’t throw the pitch a ton, his changeup feel is also very good, and currently more consistent than his feel for his new slider, though I expect that will come. Pérez’s fastball shape operates to the east and west of the zone. His heater is only generating about a 14% swinging strike rate, per Synergy Sports, which is above the big league average but not elite. There are still some things to work on here, but Pérez is younger now than Trevor Rogers was on the day he was drafted, and the fact that Pérez has made relevant adjustments this year and continues to dominate while implementing them is remarkable. Within the last few weeks, scouts who have seen Pérez (one who I happened to be at a game with, as well as a newer source of mine) have said they can make the argument that he’s the best pitching prospect in baseball right now because the other few in that discussion (for me, Grayson Rodriguez, who has a strained lat; Shane Baz, who had arthroscopic surgery from which he recently returned, arm strength intact; and Daniel Espino, currently in a pretty long layoff for a knee issue) have all been hurt recently.

I think you mean reckless hothead that f***ed up his body

He's been a workout beast for the past two years, major body change. He's now a 30-30 or 40-40 player. What Buxton would be if he wasn't made of glass.