John_Havok

Since being sent to Buffalo, Little has pitched 7 scoreless innings, struck out 12 and walked 4. Also, 3-0 He'll be the new closer by June

Its in the rulebook sir. Can't catch a ball with anything other than your glove or your bare hand. It's a dead ball in fair territory so... a hit.

In ST he was back up to touching 95. Not sure what he is at sitting at though

Just pull a John MacDonald and send Sosa himself back as the PTBNL. Is that still allowed?

Varsho please (Which of course means Gimenez is going deep)

Can't really be helped where they are in the standings given their injuries. There's only so much depth you can have before bending turns into breaking. So far, they've bent, but not broke which is encouraging. A decent 4 or 5 game winning streak or a winning 6-of-7 would help put the casuals at ease for sure. Are they below expectations? Sure. But the reality is, every team in the league has a 20 game stretch where they go 8-12 or 7-13 regardless of how great, good or bad they are. When it happens at the start of the season after coming as close as possible to a WS win, any faltering is going to be dissected to death like it means something that it probably doesn't Really need some BP consistency though. SP has been excellent. Offense is riding the BABIP/RISP train since the power hasn't really shown up yet. Defense has been uncharacteristically below expectations but not really concerned with that over the course of the long season.

Nimmala went oppo taco yesterday for his 3rd HR. Avridge not so hot but the power still there

Van is just humid and hot in the summer, ball doesnt fly as well. New Hampshire RF porch is 306 and only 353 to right centre. To say its lefty power friendly is an understatement. To put that in perspective, that's 8 feet shorter in RF and 43 feet shorter than Yankee Stadium's joke dimensions in the same spots.

He's already ahead of them by a level, but thats close enough lol

Wouldn't that be nice? Who would be their version of Craig Biggio's son? It really was about all 3 of them in the minors until Biggio shat the bed in the bigs by never swinging the bat.

Confirmed. April 16, 2026 SS Juan Sanchez assigned to Dunedin Blue Jays from DSL Blue Jays Red. the next dynamic duo taking shape

According to Gameday facts, Cease has faced 53 batters and not given up a single barreled ball

I'll take Sanchez tonight

Dunno what theyre feeding Javen Coleman in New Hampsire but...damn

April 8 versus Blowtani Springer (1) - mphenhef Varsho (1) Vlad (1) - Landry jesus (2) - Laika Kaz (2) - jonn Clement (3) Lukes (4)- John_Havok Gimenez (3) - Spanky Heineman (5) - Orgfiller Bench (10)

Minor league thing but... the AA Fisher Cats scored 10 runs in inning with only 1 hit and no defensive errors. BB BB WP K SF (1-2) BB BB BB (2-2) HBP (3-2) WP (4-2) BB HBP (5-2) WP (6-2) BB BB (7-2) WP (8-2) 1B (10-2) K

I can't believe you've done this. Now Gausman is gonna get hurt.

I think he was 75 pitches in the Dunedin start so... yeah he's close enough for a bulk role at minimum.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Sometimes... it rains. Think about that.

Thanks. So May 2 is the league start date this year, another month to go before box score hunting commences.

Bench

Speaking of Asians, anyone know how that Korean high schooler Seojun Moon looked in minor league camp?

My list of parks include Seattle, Minnesota, Toronto, White Sox stadium, Fenway and whatever the Giant's park is called now. As far as experience outside the stadium goes, like pre and post game, Fenway takes that and it's not even close but dead last by far on in-game experience. Seattle, Minnesota and White Sox have very nice parks. Chicago's is kinda... plain (not the right word but...) there's really nothing about it that stands out, but it does everything you want it to do.Seattle and Minnesota are nicer from an esthetic standpoint though. Toronto I was there before the recent renovations and the lid was closed, and the team sucked at the time, but it was easy to get in and out, view was fine from where I was in the TD Comfort Zone. Easy to get food and take a piss. Average experience. Probably would be very different now, or with the lid open or a packed house. San Francisco still takes the cake for me. Everything about watching that game was excellent. Views are incredible, people were nice, easy to get food, drinks, and get in and out even from the nosebleeds. Great walk around the stadium and the neighborhood, though still not even close to the former Yawkey Way (now Jersey Street).

while not having experienced old or new Yankee stadium, one key thing that developers need to consider is how to modernize new buildings but still keep the history of the old building as a focal point. Yankee stadium tried to do that with the monument park and some other things according to what I've read, but then they screwed the pooch by being allowed to just build using the same old dimensions, continuing the problem of RF being a joke. Like, building a "new" Fenway is about as hard a task as you could get. Rebuilding the Green Monster, pesky pole and the ridiculous dimensions of that field really should not be done, but everyone would cry if they didn't. At least Wrigley could fairly easily duplicate the ivy walls with a new stadium.

I'm a little more harsh on my take of Fenway, but ... yes. There's only so much lipstick you can put on a pig these days. Boston having a real modern stadium to play in, ditto the Cubs... would be actually amazing for both those franchises. Just don't grandfather in BS dimensions like they did with Yankee stadium because reasons.