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DJ Wilson was activated for MB today, but not in the lineup.

I think there's a non zero chance we're going to a 6 man during August. I think we're playing like 53 games in 56 days or something.

Leaving that park alone should conceivably make him better on some level. He's been much better on the road anyway. Go ahead and grab him, I've lost any hope of adding someone actually good, since KB is hurt and we need our ML depth. Might as well add depth. Go ahead and grab Diekman too, I guess, and fire Duensing into the sun.

Is it possible he was much higher pre-injury?

why is this a thing that excited you Its actually an extremely legit reason. There's a Cuban prospect that might be good enough to be the top pick in the draft that's becoming available. And the O's have consistently dealt their IFA money away. You could acquire enough to get him. That said, the O's recently said that they're going to look towards signing these guys going forward.

Lavine mentioned us with some interesting guys in his article yesterday. Mentioned Archer, Bundy, and Duffy. All have some warts, but all are interesting on some level too. He also mentioned not necessarily having to deal off the ML roster. I could even see Chatwood being included in a Duffy trade.

I'm just glad it appears we're very serious about adding a starter. It seemed like we were concentrating too much on relievers, based on some of the articles.

I wonder if Morrow's arm actually fell off instead of just bicep tendinitis. It's his 3rd DL stint this year, going after a proven closer(just not this bastard) makes total sense for us.

Our main man Brennen is back tonight.

Hopefully we want nothing to do with that piece of horsefeathers, and it's just for leverage on others.

https://twitter.com/CarrieMuskat/status/1020407011777875970?s=19 Not giving him his own thread, but this was the pitcher that seemed to me, to possibly be our best pitching prospect, out of this last class. Dammit.

Roederer HR

Seriously. horsefeathers this horsefeathers.

Hes not useless. But, he's not tradeable right now.

Don't know, but he got put on the 7 Day DL today.

Any Jabari plays defense truthers out there are going to figure out that he doesnt, very quickly.

Toronto isn't getting past Boston or Philadelphia going forward. My guess is he gets traded to the Lakers within the week. Toronto gets picks and youngsters, starts their rebuild.

This was in 2016: https://twitter.com/beanbooper/status/1019428543934140416?s=21 Holy horsefeathers. How did this, in particular, not be found sooner? He can't even use his stupid ass excuse on this one.

When you find yourself disagreeing with EVERYONE, about EVERYTHING, it might be time to relook at your stances.

No, you're absolutely right. Literally ZERO reason to go further.

That's just the ebb and flow of a normal farm system. De La Cruz and Albertos have faded, but Alzolay hasn't. He's shutdown, but no surgery. He's just as big a prospect as was to start the year. And, Marquez hasn't been the only one to step up. Underwood and Clifton have reestablished themselves as prospects, and Steele's quick return from TJS has been a nice surprise. The biggest mover is probably James Norwood, where did he come from?!? I don't remember seeing him on any prospect list with his 5+ ERA in AA. Now he's throwing 97mph heaters in the Majors with Maddon pimping at every turn. Normal ebb and flow? Underwood and Clifton? Good lord. Our system has been a disappointment this year. Period. Duh, there's guys going to move up and down lists, thanks for that. In our case, the high upside types that we needed to have good years, have NOT for the most part. Those guys moving backwards hurts a bunch. Underwood is moving up why? What's he done? Clifton? He's had a decent season, but he's not done enough yet to where his season affects our system on any real level yet either. Hell, put him in the back of our top 10, if you want. Still means nothing, because the back of our top 10 sucks. Using MLB, because it's the 1st one that shows up..... 1 Alzolay- Value down, due to injury. 2. Ademan- Value down due to shitty season. 3. De La Cruz- Value way down, due to performance, then roids. 4. Albertos- Value down bigly, due to having no clue of how to throw a ball over the plate anymore. 5. Lange- Holding steady, doing what's expected, not breaking out though. 6. Little- Value down, extremely inconsistent and can't hold velo. 7. Hatch- Value down, doesn't seem to have control, nor have anything close to a put away pitch. 8. Caratini- Value steady? I guess? He's been good in AAA and has held his own mostly, in the majors. 9. Wilson- Can't hit, nor stay healthy. Value down. 10. Velazquez- Value down. South Bend was a disaster, going better in Eugene, but it's sad a .674 OPS gets that said..... Amaya has moved way up obviously. Bote has taken a legit move forward. As has Marquez. Anyone else moving up lists is doing it with marginal improvement or basically doing what's expected, while others fall on their asses. Our system has had a bad year so far. The guys moving downward were guys you could squint and see some of them in or near the top 100 by now. That's not been replaced by nearly enough positives. A lot of us thought our system could be back towards the 15-20 range at the end of this sesson. Instead, we're likely still in the 25-30 range.

So, the rumors about Lange stepping in a bear trap last night are true I guess... Lange is doing what was expected of him, Marquez is moving way up, when others have faltered.

Neither Bruzual or Ocampo are on my radar at all, but I think Ocampo had TJS last year.

So we drafted Mookie Betts (Nico) and Benintendi (Roederer). Nice I thought Davis was supposed to be getting the Mookie comp, given his performance on the mental skills testing? Nico can be taller Dustin Pedroia. I was happy enough with the Ian Kinsler comp.