Sorrow

We need someone in CF not named Pillar VS RHP. Get De Aza, call up Pompey. Pompey had much better at bats than Pillar has had the lost month.

Aww yiss. Pirates are still my NL team as well.

I like the idea of roboumps because you'd have the same strike zone for both pitchers. There have been tonnes of games this season across the league where that isn't the case.

Kevin Cash and apparently (though I can't find an article but I remember hearing it) Fasano said he could catch. It was on the rest of the staff there.

Most stairs are concrete for easy cleaning. The issue is that a lot of water tends to still stick to the concrete after they're hosed down.

Reed Johnson (.390 OBP), Gregg Zaun, Russ Adams and Eric Hinske. It was a nice, nice bench. It's a shame we only had 3 good starters that year and Burnett only made 21 starts. It really makes you wonder what might've been with 2007 if we could've had Lilly and Meche with Halladay and Burnett and one of McGowan, Marcum or Litsch who were all pretty good that year.

Wasn't it also so we could get whoever was DHing into the line up in interleague games? Hillenbrand at 3B, Glaus at SS and Overbay at 1B is how it went I think. Damn that 2006 team was good. The only hole in the line up was McDonald and Russ Adams off the bench.

Saunders or Bautista to the DL? I wouldn't be surprised to Saunders came back too early and rehurt himself, he's been playing scared.

Norris has been marginally better in my opinion. I have no issues with him going down if he still has dead arm. Let him get healthy and get back into form.

38 pitch second inning and a lack of command.

Lack of command and a 38 pitch second inning.

Lack of command and a 38 pitch second inning.

Did you always live in Europe or did you move there sometime during the old board?

I think he's been playing sore for a week or so, which is why Pillar has been in CF.

I was really surprised and impressed with Sanchez after the first. He got his hand on top of the ball, took a bit of velocity off and did a damn good job. He's going to take his lumps and I still expect him to end up as a reliever long term but it was nice to see that he did make the changes he needed to last night.

I'm sorry but it's f***ing ridiculous for our management to not DL Reyes and Bautista. Reyes has a f***ing fractured rib, it's not going to get better playing baseball. Bautista can't throw, who knows how serious the injury actually is. Now you're running a poor defender out at 1B who has a bad back and back to having 3 OF on the roster, there isn't any reason Bautista shouldn't be on the DL as well. This is just horrendous management from the top down.

I'm almost wondering if they might have him in LF because of a pulled muscle or something, just letting him play somewhere that he doesn't need to cover as much ground.

I'm really hoping Bautista either can play RF or we can DL him and bring someone up as Pillar playing everyday is not a pretty site. He's a fine 4th OF and someone you don't mind playing 60-70 games a season but not someone you'd want 130+ out of.

I'm going to look into it when I'm back home (currently in Nunavut for work and on mobile) so give me a few weeks.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/cleveland-goes-long-with-yan-gomes/ "Kevin Cash, after wrapping up his backup catching career in the majors, became an advanced scout for Toronto in 2012. On Oct. 31 of that same year — and just days before Cleveland and Toronto consummated their deal — Cash was hired to be the bullpen coach in Cleveland. Cash apparently gave a glowing report to general manager Chris Antonetti before the trade was made, which mlb.com’s Jordan Bastian explained late in 2012: “[Gomes] has spent most of his career behind the plate,” Antonetti said. “Toronto is an organization that is very deep, not only at the Major League level, but at the upper levels of the Minor Leagues, in catching. So Gomes did not have an opportunity to be a everyday catcher at every level. He had to earn his playing time and earn his at-bats, and he’s done that. “He’s got very good arm strength and he’s got soft hands. We have the benefit of Kevin Cash being on the staff. He’s very familiar with him from his time in Toronto and he really likes him behind the plate. Our professional scouts saw him in the Minor Leagues last year and really felt he’s got good, soft hands with a very strong arm with a good release.”"

Kevin Cash and Fasano both apparently spoke about it and said don't trade him because he is a good defensive catcher.

Sanchez reminds me so much of Drabek it isn't even funny.

Dealing with the government of Canada yes. They will ask the same question 6 or 7 times a day.

Bryan Price reacts how I want to react with my clients every single day. I agree with his general message.

No, that's not good enough.