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That’s fine. Anything more than the NBA championship is already gravy. Lowry, Gasol, and Ibaka can probably play 1 more year at a high level. Siakam and OG will likely continue to improve

unfortunately HRs don’t count towards BABIP or he has a point

Wow Gurriel!! Another 3-hit effort

But this one was way worst: I can’t fault the fans, I’d take pictures too but don’t post this for thousands of people to see. We’re tracking the man like paparazzi

Kawhi staying just makes a lot of sense. The only reason he’d goto the Clippers is for family, but they all seem to have bought in to being Raptors fans now.

Breaking news: Uncle Dennis signed up for a Hudson’s bay credit card. What does it mean??

He’s either moving into a bigger house or packing his bags to San Diego. I’ll take the first one.

There’s photos of him at Home Depot buying boxes today. Honestly if he hated being here he would be in LA right now, why linger around? Canada loves him

Kawhi is staying

Sogard has 10 multi-hit games since May 29. We’re not talking about an April two week hot streak anymore. .300/.350/.480 is a great bat, over a 200 PA sample. There will be skepticism due to age, so his trade value won’t be great, but he can definitely fit in somebody’s lineup. And in the short term he can hit for a good team. If we could get back another Trent Thornton or even Forrest Wall I’ll take it

Here comes Merryweather.

Move the Yankees to AL Central while we’re at it. Swap them with Detroit or Kansas City or whatever.

We already know Vlad’s exit velos are elite. When that hit tool starts to adjust to the majors the ceiling is a 40+ HR bat that hits .330. Bats like that don’t come everyday. He has potential to put up franchise record numbers. That’s saying a lot cuz we’ve had some damn good hitters in the past. They’re both great prospects and I’m just happy with what we have with Vlad. And if Bo Bichette is anything close to Tatis we will be just fine.

Seven years of control is not a small amount of time, so much can happen before then like CBA changes. Like imagine trying to plan for 2019 in 2012, there’s just no way. That said, Bichette is nowhere near a finished product offensively and could use extra time down in Triple-A. If they decided to keep him down till next year there’s nothing wrong with that, so I’m genuinely surprised.

Interesting steamer projected Victor Robles .256/.318/.403, 87 wRC+ for 2019. He’s right around there. But the guy was still 21 last month, not everyone can hit the ground running like Juan Soto. Supposedly very solid defensively and has a better hit tool than Soto as well. The scouting was either too optimistic or he just wasn’t ready to get called yet, might need more seasoning. His triple-A numbers were pretty lacklustre compared to his A/AA, for such a highly-touted prospect. I’d think he got rushed.

So it’s pretty much confirmed that Bo Bichette will get called up this season if he settles in to triple-A and starts hitting. Reports from both Shi Davidi today on radio and Ben Wagner during broadcast. Reiterating reports from one-two weeks ago. I’ll paraphrase, but Shi said the organization was very impressed with Bichette during spring training (so were other people that watched him like Blair and MacArthur). Original plan to bring him up in 2020 started to change after spring training. He seems to be ahead of schedule in his development at shortstop and has potential to not only stick, but “be impactful defensively”. Bichette has been putting in double time in his fielding/throwing and has impressed coaches. If the bat is ready, he will get called this year. Does this mean Galvis gets traded or hits the bench? I’m honestly not sure. Bichette will play everyday though if he gets promoted. If I had to wager during spring, I’d thought he would be here April 2020, but that doesn’t appear to be the case anymore. This could of course just be a carrot for Bichette to work extra hard in triple-A, but I don’t think the org would make it this clear (and hyping up fans through media) unless they’re serious about it and has a realistic shot of happening. I estimated Biggio would be up before June (I pegged May 20 against Red Sox) when most people thought it was happening @All-Star break, he came up May 24. Bichette is more difficult to peg since it seems like everything depends on his performance. If I had to make an educated guess, it’s either somewhere @July 22 against Cleveland or like @August 8 against the Yankees. This is all assuming he is hitting and remains healthy though.

Ridiculous acrobatic catch by Riley Adams

Box Score for the MWL AS game: https://www.milb.com/gameday/mwl-west-all-stars-vs-mwl-east-all-stars/2019/06/18/583120#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=583120 Strong showing for Brodt, Winckowzki, and Johnson. Podkul and Gold also made an appearance. Game was tied and went into a sudden-death Home Run Derby. https://www.milb.com/milb/news/all-betts-are-on-at-midwest-all-star-game/c-308252338

I'd like to see him get an extended look. Alford is 25 and now has 650 PA in triple-A. I’m not a huge fan, but if there's any time to see what you have, this is the year to do it. If he's hot and hitting, find a chance to bring him up. Is Teo's wrist injury a real thing or is he coming back?

We just gotta remember, a typical prospect at Vlad’s age should be in Lansing/Dunedin right now. His numbers hitting out of the no. 2 spot has been good, he’s not going to pull batting title numbers in his rookie year at 20. He’s also facing most of these guys for the first time, and young hitters want to hit every borderline pitch. He’ll learn to pick his spots and lay off/eliminate certain pitches which will give him better counts. This will all happen with time.

It’s actually pretty impressive. I’m wondering if the Marlins would want him to secure their tank. They’d have to give us a very good offer though, guys with that much negative impact on both WAR and run differential are very hard to come by (that actually has a MLB track record and not some dude pulled from independent league)

He’s incredibly efficient. -1.7 bWAR in just 25.1 innings pitched. I’m not sure Richards can match that. If their goal is to chase Baltimore he’s doing a great job.