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Who is babying him? I mean, other than Montoyo ridiculously pinch running for him a few times and sitting him when it was likely unnecessary, but even though I disagree with those moves, that's hardly "babying" him.

What a silly thing for a person to type. Pick a random player who is overperforming and compare them to a random player who is underperforming and that's supposed to be insightful in any way whatsoever?

10 games. Nothing.

I mean, he hit a single and he struck out once. He's had a better than expected season thus far with the bat (still sucks with the glove), but he's not exactly "the one who got away" or anything.

Nothing, he's had poor results over a small number of games.

Tepara really needed more time on his rehab assignment.

Truly, you are a seer of epic proportions.

Baseball is f***ing hard, you don't need to create some sort of "the media is creating too much pressure" to justify someone having a stretch of bad games. For the 4 games he played in April he had an OBP over .350, for the 5 games in May he's been shittier. I mean, we're talking about a really small sample size.

Well f***balls.

Teo made solid contact on that one.

Sanchez's curve is looking half decent tonight.

Pitches 1 and 2 weren't seriously f***ing painted in your view?

Alen Hanson cleared waivers and was sent to AAA in case anyone was worried that we'd lose our future superstar.

I thought there was zero chance we'd see him in the majors this year... Because of the aggressive promotion to AA (and SSS looks fantastic) I think there's an outside chance of a September callup.

What is this? Literally save all of your best painting pitches for when Vladdy is at the plate?

Tabby has "no problem" with that bunt attempt from Teo. Just thought you all should know that.

He's under control for like 7 years, right? About that long.

That may have been just barely a strike, but like, f***.

By the TD sign? Looks pretty good, but unless that's her dad with her, she's a pro.

Doesn't look like Berrios is fooling the hitters really so far. No results, but decent ABs.

Yeah, but it's not like he went from 0% pressure to 100% pressure, more like 85% to 100%. He's been dealing with hype, pressure, and scrutiny his whole life.

My point is how are you going to fill airtime beyond "I hear that all three are available for trade." And I hope it's not remotely valid (with the caveat that anyone is available for the right return...)

The only rumour is "they're available to be traded for", that's not a rumour that needs a discussion.

You don't think there was pressure on him to perform in the minors where he destroyed every baseball he even looked at?

I chose the last option, with the implied understanding that there is marked improvement every year. I want to see Stroman and Giles (and probably Smoak) extended rather than traded, but I also want to see Alford the f*** up here (even though he's sucking mightily in AAA right now, he sure as s*** wouldn't be worse than Brito or Hanson) and I want to see Hernandez, McKinney & Guriel getting at bats this year. Teo is still s*** in the field, but the eye test suggests he's getting better - still making some boneheaded plays, but improvement is improvement - and his walk rate is now 5th best on the team (2nd best if you cut out guys who have played fewer than half as many games as him), and you know his power is there, just needs to show up in games. McKinney has been hot garbage, but I don't have an issue having a long look at him before completely writing him off, and Guriel has been a friggin' beast in AAA since the demotion, so if he can get over the yips (and/or get some positional versatility) there might actually be a "there" there (and his BABIP is high, but not absurdly out of line with his career numbers) This wasn't going to be a contending year, so I'm super cool with jettisoning the guys who weren't going to contribute 2020 and beyond (Morales, Pillar, Martin) to see what we have, but I still think guys like the above who I wanted to extend have value to this team going forward, even if they're not 24 or whatever.