Laika

Gibby 2.0 is a good meme. Thumbs up.

And he also owns McJesus and Stamkos, lmao. It was very satisfying to trade him Stamkos right before a season-ending injury and then win the league. The long con.

Only in the most niche of circumstances... like, it's Sunday and you are tied in Runs and randomly Dusty Baker is hitting Michael A Taylor, who you own for some dumb reason, leadoff.

Baseball is probably the most difficult major pro sport to play, mentally. I think the potential mental impact from jumping a 20 year old international free agent from low A ball to the big leagues is being understated WRT Castro. He spent most of 2014 in VANCOUVER. Not even Lansing! He had like, 170 total pro innings before making his MLB debut in 2015, and more than half of those literally came in Rookie ball. Before 2014, 73 out of his 90 pro innings actually occurred in the DOSL - in his home country!!!! So irrespective of the "nuts and bolts" development (command, consistency, offspeed pitches, etc.) his mental development was also seriously truncated. I'm not saying Miguel Castro was ruined by being rushed, but to downplay his being rushed is disingenuous. It's reasonable to think that if Miguel Castro had not been rushed, he would be set up for a much more effective and lucrative major league career at this point. If the Rockies had decided to send him to A+ or AA in 2016 to work as a starter and develop his profile, who knows what would have happened. But they didn't, so Miguel Castro was shaken, like a baby, for the second time. It's hard to recover from abuse like that. We can talk about things like this without talking in absolutes.

Source: Keep your eyes and ears peeled for a potential "Barry Davis Podcast" in the near future. He's planning on recapping the Blue Jays and interacting with fans. Not very tech savvy though, so he needs help setting it up!

Grilli almost certainly gets first crack

see rule 3.11.

It's not awesome! I'll add Barney as a low-upside guy. Also, it's important to note that the upper minors is still pretty thin. Particularly with starting pitchers - every depth guy who Toronto could realistically go to in 2017 sucks. Some of them suck A LOT. On the position side I suppose there are a few good options and the depth is probably average-ish. But man, that SP depth...

smrt

They could have stashed him, in fact they did already assign him to the minors. This was outrighting him off the 40 to add Freeland. The Rockies are very dumb. I don't understand why they even targeted Castro if they were just going to throw him into a Colorado bullpen. Why not at least take one season to try to develop him as a starter?

He has an option left. Great guy to stash in the minors, horrible guy to put in an MLB bullpen if the team is trying to win.

Important to DFA players like this so they can pump 45 OFP Antonio Senzatela directly from limited AA experience to Coors f***ing field.

Hard to see happening! But, this is the time of the year where it might.

CoreDick with the first of many, many, many hits this year. Look for him to hit .280 with 30 dingers

I wonder how much of this, if any, is interpersonal stuff. The players clearly love Goins - does that matter?

Upton released. Bolsinger DFA'd. Osuna is hurt. Pompey is hurt. Goins makes team. Tepera makes team. Leone makes team. I want to die

Yes, he's weird.

"Ovwa" = "Au Revoir" as attempted by Jason Grilli

Bolsinger did not seem right this spring. He really doesn't have the stuff to pitch in relief... one of those weird guys who is perhaps more effective as a starter. I don't know if it made sense to keep him around in the bullpen.

Who gives half a f*** about Buster Olney?

They might still keep Upton. This could just be a feeler. And this FO is actually really good at explaining things, IMO. They are very forthcoming, especially compared to AA's gibberish PR philosophy.

Yeah Pompey's concussion symptoms are sticking around. They're being very careful with him.

Having to waive Bolsinger will really hurt the depth chart, if he doesn't clear.

Any depth SP with a pulse and an option left would maybe suffice...