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Bring Soler up

Soler's single came on a 7-pitch at-bat where he fell behind 0-2, and laid off two pitches in the dirt in between foul balls.

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I was going to do the "Russells my Jimmies" meme thing but then i was like wait thats racist

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Observations from one live viewing Alcantara, Baez and Bryant all obviously pass the eye test, but Baez is like on another planet entirely. Everything he does just screams "major leaguer." His first at bat was a rope to the RC gap even thought you could tell he didn't make great contact. Then he flied out to the track in center on another ball he didn't make great contact on. One of his Ks was a terrible call. On defense he had just one play that I remember, and it was a lazy hopper into the hole. He was playing on the grass, no joke, and the ball is just slowly chopped to his right. He took two or three easy steps and fielded it like he was taking throws in between innings. It almost looked unreal because any other short stop would be charging it. But he just casually stuck his glove out, and then fired a strike to Valaika, getting the guy by two or three steps. Everything he did appeared to be "this is a thing I have to do for a while in order to be in the majors." Not in a bad way, you could just tell he's the kind of guy that has to be challenged or he gets bored. Alcantara didn't get to make a play in the field, but he had two walks and a sharp single, and he was basically running at will, even though I don't think he was credited with a steal. You can tell the coaches just let him do what he feels like at this point. Bryant had a nice single, a walk and then took a tough K on a curve (right after Baez K'd looking on the same pitch. That pitcher was sharp, 95mph with a big curve.) and then struck out on a changeup in the dirt. At third he looked like a mess. He made one nice snag and throw, then missed a throw from the catcher on a steal, that cost Iowa the lead (and the game,) missed a diving catch on a Torreyes grounder (remember him?) that was probably 50/50, then made a nice catch on a chopper to his left, but sailed the throw and looked horrible doing it. Oh, Manny walked and stung a grounder to third, but the 3B made a nice catch and got him at first. He still looks pretty good.

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You're not crazy, I don't think. Castro already shows 20 HR power and is going to keep filling out. Russell is more likely actually "be" a shortstop 5 years from now. the possibilities are [expletive] endless

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lmao not being willing to include anyone good does not sound like a "big try" to me. http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer/jon-heyman/24608532/yankees-made-big-try-for-samardzija-finish-second

I like this

if russell comes up and immediately starts raking, i dont know what ill do

lol that clears up nothing Here I thought they were grooming Alcantara to be a Zobrist type... they're doing that for everyone. http://i.imgur.com/HuLuD.gif ahahhahahahhahahahahahhahahaha

Very good points. Like I said before, I'm probably being too hard on McKinney and maybe I'm a bit gunshy about lower level prospects after seeing so many burn out. A lot of his numbers dropping a lot in high A (granted, with some getting better) doesn't help either. Who the hell cares about McKinney? Would you have traded hammel and samardzija for Baez? Because Russell is that level of a prospect.

You, like usual, don't seem to have any clue what you're talking about

I would put Castro in LF before I traded him for cargo

I would not trade Castro for cargo straight up

I will be at the Iowa game, plz don't sit Baez and KB

If springer/correa would have done Stanton last year, Russell/alcantara should be enough a year later, even though that dumbo GM will ask for Bryant and baez

BA's midseason top 50 will have 2) Bryant, 5) Russell and 7) Baez. Holy [expletive] lmao

I literally can't believe Addison Russell is on our roster

When this first broke, there were rumors of a third team. Any chance Russell was headed to another team for minor league pitching, but that team pulled out and the Cubs said "[expletive] it we'll take russell"

Very similar, but Russell has more speed and less power projection.

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