Little Slide Rooter

Does whomever designed the Padres camo uniforms understand why a camouflage shirt with bright white pants defies the purpose of camouflage? Just saying.

Baez was removed as part of a mid-inning double switch. Javy recorded the last out of the bottom of the 6th and the pitcher spot was due 2nd in the bottom 7th.

And then McKinney is pulled for a PR after a 2B.

Javy was pulled as part of a mid inning double switch, so I don't know what to make of that.

Stepped away for a few innings, returned to Jonathan [expletive] Hererra where Bryant should be. Couldn't get to Twitter quick enough. Needless to say, I've never been so happy to hear about a guy vomiting in all my life.

With all that's been going on, I haven't even noticed that Almora's avg. is >.300 and OPS >.700.

Carlos Gomez just took a 96MPH to the helmet, and it looked worse than the one Segura took last week.

Why would anyone trade a 25 year old #1 starter making $512,000 with 3 arbitration years left? It doesn't matter whether you're contending or rebuilding when you have an asset that valuable, you don't trade him unless you're trying to make a deal for someone like Trout. Why? Because such a player would net a huge return and he is still just a young pitcher that could fall apart tomorrow. If you aren't good and you don't have the resources to get better in a hurry, it is at least worth considering. Yeah, there's no doubt they'd consider trading Gray, but it would probably take a lot more than the Cubs are willing to give up. If they could get 3-4 good, cheap, young players for their 1 good, cheap, young player...they do it 100 times out of 100 because they aren't going anywhere. Hypothetically, if anybody could make it happen, it's us. RF and an entire infield seemingly secured for the foreseeable future, we no longer have to be stingy with prospects. I'm not saying that we empty it out, but we have talent to spare. Would a package of: Edwards Schwarber Almora Vogelbach 1 of Villanueva/Alcantara 1 of Tseng/Underwood 1 of Cease/Steele/Stinnett 1 decent quality low level guy (Burks/Caratini/D. Torrez/Candelerio/Hanneman/etc) Maybe throw in 1-2 fringy, big league ready spare parts (Lake/Bruno/Andreoli/Beeler/Batista/Cooper/SCzur/whatever) or even Edwin Jackson, just as kind of a here, 'maybe you can make this thing work again' gesture. Be too much/too little to land Gray and Reddick? Or to make it sound less insane, it would essentially be: -Edwards, Schwarber, Villanueva/Mendy, Vogelbach for Gray -Almora, Tseng/Underwood, Cease/Steele/Stinett for for Reddick -1 more decent low level prospect and some maybe useful junk for a few months of Clippard

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Seeing as every day, there's a tweet about another team "exploring rotation depth." Surely, our guys have been on the phone with these guys about Wood and/or Jax.

Man, that Eugene rotation is going to be so intriguing but raw. De la Cruz would be the old man in the rotation after turning 20 in March. Jae Hoon Ha converting to pitcher?

Stop trying to analyze thread titles.

You're talking Billy Beane here, not Amaro. This is kind of ironic given Beane's weird ass trades recently and the heist we pulled on him last year compared to Amaro's allegedly huge Hamels demands. So basically I wasn't sure if your post meant that was too much or too little. Last summer in general was as uncharacteristic of Billy Beane as could be. But if there's one thing Billy can do, it's rebuild in a hurry. Like that Marcus Semien he got for Shark; he has a 1.4 WAR, and a .303/.348/.510 line to go with it. And he may have been one of the Sox top prospects, but a fringe top 100 guy, certainly not a guy one would have expected to bring back a front end starting pitcher. My point is that Billy's willing to do business without demanding you to empty the piggy bank.

I think he meant LaStella. I didn't even see that he was there. Sounds like the brief but forgettable Cubs career of Jonathan Herrera nears the end. I feel as though he's like Milton; he was cut a while ago, but nobody told him.

I'm more curious as to what becomes of Olt if/when he resurfaces. In a world where Baez and Castro are a part k the plan, probably Baez 3B, Bryant LF, which I believe was the plan before Javy was left for dead by far too many. Speaking of Javy, I know about the whole slowed approach at the plate, but have there been any further notes on how he's looking?

They're dead. After Billy's drunken splurge last summer, my guess is that he's going to go into sell mode sooner than later. And he has two pieces in particular that I have my eye on: Josh Reddick is killing it this year. He's 28 with one more year under team control. Tyler Clippard's always put up strong numbers, and this year's no different. 30 and a free agent after this year. So what does it cost? No, Billy, you're not getting Addison back.

If ever there were a game in which both teams deserved a win and a loss, it would be this.

Oh, what the [expletive]. Can I not turn away from a 10-5 lead without this [expletive] bullpen taking a [expletive] all over it? [expletive] every single one of them.

It's stuck to me how many "last time we were good" stats are from 2009 because I had largely relegated that season to the nightmare corners of my memory. Then I remember that it was just the year after an amazing season, so of course some of that would carry over, plus it ended up just being a "normal" bad season as opposed to what was to come. Before the dark times. Before...the Empire. Short answer: we were good, then went on a seemingly endless losing streak shortly after Aramis went down. We managed to claw our way into a 1st place tie in August, then immediately hit a downward spiral, which would last about 4 years.

In a nutshell, his draft report states great hitter and projects power if he bulks up, but his defensive tools were average at best.

Gonna be another one of those games, huh?

wearegoodagain

Bring on the RWI

Any particular reason you skipped: 1. Kris Bryant 3b Cubs 2. Byron Buxton of Twins 3. Addison Russell ss Cubs 4. Carlos Correa ss Astros 5. Corey Seager ss Dodgers Verdicts still out on all of them. But the same should be said for the '13 and '14 lists. This being said, I'm not sure why they're fixating on lists where most of the guys still have a chance (with one obvious exception,) when they could go back a few years and find that for every Joe Mauer , there's an Ian Stewart. For every Felix Hernandez, there's an Edwin Jackson.