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Nope, right to Little. I agree with this even if Little hasn't had great command his last few times out. Turnbull's BP fastball was just waiting to get demolished.

good time to steal, Gimenez. go for it.

Big inning here. If Turnbull gets through it, the Jays can go to some good RP to finish the game.

100% I would be cutting Swanson and Green if this occurs. Here are the projected ERAs in the pen, rest of season: Hoffman 3.23 Little 3.41 Yimi 3.55 Burr 3.75 Sandlin 3.91 Flu 3.91 Y Rod 4.02 Macko 4.14 Fisher 4.18 Swanson 4.20 Tate 4.20 Schultz 4.29 Green 4.30 Using Green in leverage is managerial and organizational incompetence at this point.

Hopefully Lauer can give them 4 innings and they don't need much from Turnbull. Maybe Fisher + Little + YRod can get them to the finish line with no reason to use any scrubs like Green or Swanson

Pretty sure they are #1 or tied for #1 in the last 30 games / days too

89 poo just pray the balls find mitts

May not be room at AA for more than Yesavage right now. They have a decent rotation already with Grant Rogers, JWB, Yesavage, and three sleeper prospects in Watson, Dominguez, and Harrison. Stanifer has been piggy-backing as a 4 IP reliever all year so this is his chance to be a normal SP, probably. Start a game for the first time and go 5 IP for the first time.

Lol Cards fans are truly the worst

I'm guessing he slipped a bit in the draft because of those weird mechanics. Teams thinking it won't hold up.

Vlad remains endlessly frustrating. Should be so much better.

Some interesting movements this time. Time to drop certain dudes aggressively and move others up who are performing or finally returning from injury. IMO.

He will always be Delete_My_Account to me

Crazy how quickly things change. Last year, the Franchise was at risk of contraction. Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro looked like limp-dick bottom 10 execs. The team could not draft or develop. Many players on the team were in decline, or past their peak. Vlad and Bo were set to leave and the window was going to shut. There were no good prospects on the way. The only players under control would have been 2 WAR flawed players like the fat catcher Kirk and his swiss-cheese swinging centrefielder Varsho. The payroll was bloated short term, and perhaps the only good thing you could say about the organization was that they luckily were not saddled with lots of long term commitments. Fast-forward to June 2025. The team is cooking with gas. Bo is back. Vlad is here forever. Kirk is a top 5 C in baseball again. Barger is a stud. Clement is a divine defender. There are tons of positive developments on the farm and prospects rising the ladder. There are signs of good MLB development from guys like Barger, Lukes, Y-Rod. The org can produce an elite reliever at will - Little, Flu, Fisher. The veteran starting pitchers are still themselves. Ross Atkins is googling how many World Series he needs to win to get a statue. Connorp and Grant barely post. My erectile dysfunction is 20% better. Wild.

Not to mention the waves of prospects climbing the ladder. Shrek and Flamingo are dunking AAA already. Ye Savage has his next start in AA - a few weeks of domination there and he can be the SP5 on the big team for the push.

Dude has played 16 games and already has 2 all-time catches and multiple other five star catches. Is he the best CF ever or is this just a heater? Offensively, he was good enough in the minors... he can probably scrape something approaching competence together in time even if it comes with a 35% K rate. He hit the ball 115.2 mph in AAA this year so he's not hopeless, that's a solid top end velo so worst case scenario he could be a guess hitter like Michael A Taylor

waves... the waves are here

Not anymore. A week ago I think Dingler was ahead of Kirk in fWAR. Carlos Narvaez is somehow at 2.5 fWAR and still ahead of Kirk but xwOBA says it's partly luck.

One more box to tick then he is a potential callup. If he dominates for several weeks at AA, why not?

Lame effort by Ernie. I hate the bunt there. You already have the lead...

Every pitching chance tonight by Schneider was fine and maybe optimal, lol. Wow Clase!

Did baseball solve Little? Just never swing...

Yesavage to AA

time is also not on Ernie's side as he is already 29 and his overall offensive profile is pretty fringe, so some minor skill loss could turn him into a bench player at best. this is anecdotal but it feels like the players with very high swing rates don't age as well. there is this funny archetype of MLB player we see now, where they live in AAA until their late 20s then debut at their physical peak for a few years of surprisingly good production before they turn into a pumpkin

They can have Joey Loperfido and Will Wagner!