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Trent looking like good TT, tonight.

Elaborate, dummy!? Daylight Savings Time, lol.

Wow... why do you feel that way? It would be great for Canada, businesses, revenue, jobs, etc...

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Wat? I'm jelly of Buck, lol.

Tepera coming up Sunday. Davis was mentioned by Montoya as a Sept call up.

Hope the Jays bring their Lightsabers... God Help Us! GO JAYS GO!!!

The death, yeah, but there's an ongoing investigation against an employee, don't see that often.

Baez is so good at beisbol.

Relevant, in concerns of the Rays roster crunch... https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-40-man-situations-that-could-impact-trades/ 2. Tampa Bay Rays Current 40-Man Count: 42 Pending Free Agents: 3 (Travis d’Arnaud, Avisail Garcia, Eric Sogard) Must-Add Prospects: 4 (Vidal Brujan, Ronaldo Hernandez, Lucius Fox, Moises Gomez) Fringe Current 40-Man Members: 9 (Matt Duffy, Ji-Man Choi, Joe McCarthy, Jake Faria, Oliver Drake, Austin Pruitt, Chaz Roe, Mike Zunino, Guillermo Heredia) Possible-Add Prospects: 10 (Garrett Whitley, Chris Betts, Ryan Boldt, Resly Linares, Joel Peguero, Kean Wong, Matt Krook, Jake Cronenworth, Curtis Taylor, Roberto Alvarez) The Rays have already made this situation a little less crunchy with their recent moves, and they’ll naturally arrive at an acceptably rostered 39 players when the season ends. By December, some decisions will need to be made as there are four to six prospects to add, and some fringe 40-man types who are eligible for arbitration (Daniel Robertson, Matt Duffy, Chaz Roe, Mike Zunino, Guillermo Heredia); they can likely wait until March to make decisions on Ji-Man Choi and Jake Faria, who are out-of-options. Whitley, a tweener with big power and big K’s, who missed 2018 with a shoulder injury and is only in High-A, and Betts, a Low-A catcher with thump but an injury history, are both tough carries in the Rule 5 Draft, so we’d expect one or both of them, along with the rest of that 10-man possible-add list, to be left unprotected. Some clubs with less 40-man depth might protect those two to be sure to keep them, but Tampa Bay has lots of major league-quality depth to keep around on the 40-man in lieu of buying it with their meager payroll. We think the fringe 40-man members who will get bumped are Heredia, a fourth outfielder who’s a hair above replacement level and is entering arbitration, Zunino, who will be due $5 million-plus in arbitration and has a .537 OPS, and Roe, a 33-year old middle reliever with a Wiffle ball slider who’s due $2 million-plus in arbitration and has a 4.82 xFIP. The Rays could just non-tender their three arb cases and hold onto Pruitt, a 30-year-old finesse utility arm who’s out of options in 2020, until they sign a replacement for Zunino, sign their first free agent, or decide to protect Whitley or Betts. If the Rays want to make multiple additions to the 40-man in free agency, or protect both Betts and Whitley, they’ll have to cut some players who would draw trade interest. Wander Franco is also a strong candidate to be added to the roster during the 2020 season.

Where'd you hear they're from low A? I thought it was players from group A and a set of players in group B? Hmm... am I looking at this trade wrong all along? lol

Holy s***!

That kind of trauma could make one snap, feel so sorry for that guy, devastating.

I'm hearing Anthony Banda and Matthew Peguero

I'd be down with that, who's the other arm, smarty pants? Peguero or Taylor?

Aristides "THE PUNISHER" Aquino is breaking records every day, incredible.

Holy s***... this poor guy. Teammates mourn slayings of pitcher's family in Va. town Aug 29, 2019 KEELING, Va. (AP) Blake Bivens was inconsolable as the 24-year-old minor league pitcher flew from a road trip back to southern Virginia, where his wife, 1-year-old son and mother-in-law were slain. "It was awful," said Montgomery Biscuits manager Morgan Ensberg, who traveled with Bivens on Tuesday. "Blake is an incredibly strong man. He's an incredibly strong man, and he went through just a rotation of tearing up, and then he would shake and then he would just stare. "I didn't let him out of my sight." The 18-year-old brother of Bivens' wife has been charged with first-degree murder in the slayings, which have shocked his coaches, teammates and the community where his family lived. "You don't wish this on any community, any family," Pittsylvania County Sheriff Mike Taylor said. "We're a small community. It affects us all." Court documents released Thursday revealed new details in the slayings but did not explain what could have driven 18-year-old Matthew Bernard to allegedly kill his sister, Emily Bernard Bivens; his nephew, 14-month-old Cullen Bivens; and his mother, Joan Bernard. In Montgomery, the Biscuits - a Double-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays - painted "BIV" on the ground behind home plate before a game against Pensacola. They were to hold a moment of silence before the game, with another planned before the Rays' home game Friday against the Cleveland Indians. "Nobody's thinking about baseball," Ensberg said. Montgomery pitching coach R.C. Lichtenstein remembers pregame moments when Bivens would walk over to see his wife and hold Cullen. Biscuits pitcher Ryan Thompson said Bivens' family was on his mind "all the time." "His family was everything to him," said an emotional Thompson, who described Bivens as a close friend with a "hilarious" sense of humor. "He never lets the game get in the way of who he is as a human being. He's such a great guy, and something like this couldn't happen to a better human being," Thompson said. According to the complaint filed against Bernard, the teenager's rampage began Tuesday morning at a neighbor's house. Bernard punched the neighbor in the arm and then ran away, police said. The neighbor then heard gunshots at the house next door, police said. The neighbor drove to the house and found a woman's body in the driveway. Inside, she found the other two bodies. Officers found two victims with gunshot wounds to the head and rifle shell casings near all three bodies. A rifle was found in a wooded area behind the house and a sledgehammer with blood was found in the garage, the court documents said. The criminal complaint did not offer any motive for the killings, and authorities have declined to comment. After the bodies were discovered, a manhunt brought as many as 100 officers to Keeling, a tiny community near the North Carolina border. Bernard emerged naked from the woods about four hours later, running past TV cameras to a church parking lot, where he was recorded trying to choke a church caretaker. An officer used pepper spray and struck Bernard with a baton before he was captured, officials said. Bernard banged his head against the cage in a police vehicle after being taken into custody and was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said. He was released and was in jail Thursday, where he was being held without bail and kept on suicide watch, police said. A "celebration of life" service for the slain family members is planned for Saturday. A vigil was held at The River Church in Danville, Virginia, Wednesday night. Senior pastor Jackie Poe led those in attendance in prayer for the Bivens and Bernard families. Avery Stevens, pastor of Keeling Baptist Church, said he was in his office where he also works as an insurance agent when he saw the television coverage of Bernard's capture near his church. "This is a small, rural community, pretty quiet most of the time like most small, rural communities. But the fact of the matter is, it can happen anywhere, and right there at the doorstep," he said. "Pray for the family," he said. "Praying for the community. Praying for healing."

So much good with our prospects this season, very promising.

ftfy

FSL Awards handed out. 4 Dunedin players, although Cal Stevenson is now an Astro. https://www.milb.com/milb/news/trevor-larnach-tommy-romero-grab-top-florida-state-league-awards/c-310393454 NWL Awards handed out, too. Kloffenstein the lone Vancouver rep. https://www.milb.com/milb/news/blaine-crim-deyni-olivero-lead-nwl-all-stars/c-310397440

10 GO/FB, lol. 68 pitches to 42 strikes. FSL season is over due to Hurricane Dorian.

Hatch pitching well too... 5 IP 2H 2ER(2 Run Dinger) 0BB 10K Edit: Final line... 7 IP 3H 2ER 0BB 11K

Speedy's making life difficult for first overall.

lol