Last year I saw Pete Rose sitting at a desk at the Mirage in Vegas waiting for people to come to him for autographs. There was no line. Apparently this is all he does. This fills me with so much joy.
I remember it bugging me because his hot starts was so slugging-bloated (his OBP wasn't bad, but it was kinda meh given the expectations, then that improved, but his slugging fell off) . This year seems a lot more sexily well-rounded.
I'm honestly not seeing anything in there beyond what we've been discussing/hoping for for a while now; it's still tolerating a lot of [expletive] for years in the hope this works out.
North, can you post something about pitch framing? I think we'd hear CubinNY's head explode. But nice breakdown; anything that makes my irrational disliking of Rizzo seem even more irrational is pretty great.
My seats were right by first and I was calling Rizzo "Tinyface" all game. I don't know whether to credit that or Bayside more for what's happening right now.
What? They don't have to be "impact bats" to be huge upgrades in our outfield. And given what our infield could be, guys like that could easily be enough to make this offense pretty good. We could be pretty good right now with a league average outfield. we really could. Nelson Cruz was just sitting there, waiting to take a 1 year deal!