Brownie19

You could probably write a similar story about the Jays, but the Twins have been a mess this year. https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-twins-2018-has-been-a-mess/

All in all, I think that would be a pretty good haul for Happ and JD. I'd rather acquire position players than pitchers, but our pitching prospect are definitely a weakness and Burnes, Alzolay and Lange would should help. This also gives us an opportunity to discuss Brett Phillips....when he came over from Houston, he was striking out in the mid to high teens (in A and AA). As soon as he got to Milwaukee, he started striking out 30% of the time. Reminds me a lot of what Teoscar did as soon as he came to the Jays. Coincidence? or is there something to it?

I'm glad I don't follow twitter

Can anyone think of a more baffling demotion? Did the Rockies hire Dave Stewart?

I have no idea what was said - and don't really care, but I could see "spider monkey" being a name that the coaching staff refers to Stumpf by. That doesn't it's a nickname that Stumpf goes by on a regular basis. The example would be I work with a guy who's notoriously cheap. Co-worker may refer to him as "the cheapskate"....like "hey, get cheapskate to find you a deal on shoes - he gets a deal on EVERYTHING" or "cheapskate is going to review that plan".......but nobody calls him that to his face, nor is that a regular nickname for him - so he may have no idea that people refer to him as that. I've worked with a guy who co-workers and even Town staff referred to as "Tomato" because he was a red head who's face when red in the sun. I've also worked with a guy who's initials were M.C. and he was known to be super anal about everything so people called him MC Hammer, which morphed into "the Hammer". But they didn't know people called them that. I don't think there's a major issue with this type of behavior. Maybe it's a little insensitive. Christ - my nickname is "Brownie" and I remember being in LIDS with friends one day. It was just us, plus the LIDS employee, who was middle eastern. My buddy called from across the store to me "hey Brownie - what's that Jays hat cost" and the employee was like "are you talking to me?" I mean we all just burst into laughter and then explained to the guy that my nickname is Brownie. The oddest part is that Bosio refused to apologize. You'd think if it was a misunderstanding that he'd simply apologize, explain who he was talking about and they'd all move on.

1. Vlad 3. Bo 16. Jansen I hope to f*** his justification for such crazy rankings is that he's just returned from the future in his hot tub time machine...

Harris with a nice debut in AAA.

pre-season? no. Not per MLB.com It looks to me like we are taking a flyer on a guy who's shown some significant advancements over the first half of the 2018 season. Will he be able to sustain that development and/or will it carry over into the higher levels? Nobody knows. He's a lottery ticket - exactly what we should expect to get for someone like Steve Pearce.

+ Samad Taylor....

It's an incredible f***ing horrible idea sir. I said good day sir.

Barf. Couldn't they make him a pitcher or something? or did they try that?

Good for Jon - he's really earned it.

Jesus f***.

a straight steal? How many pitchers have stolen bases over the past 10 years (I'm talking legit straight steals)?

Oh my bad. I thought someone said yesterday he was allowed to get some rehab games in prior to his suspension being over (not sure where I thought those rehab games were going to be)

Pannone gets rehab starts in AA?

Dillon Maples has filthy stuff. If he throws strikes more consistently - look out

f*** I love this video. Brett was a legend.

Do you think what Buck said in his fangraphs interview was all just BS to try and show he's not a dinosaur?

Being traded to a contender sounds awful....

Pardinho pitched well. That's nice to see. Reese continues his hot streak.

WTF happened to Olerud?

Remember when we used to say this about Tepera?

wicked.

How did Borucki look? I just got in.