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Kyle is gonna be fine

Throw enough horsefeathers against the wall, hopefully 2-3 stick. Yeah but less general - high pedigree, relatively high onus arms with louder tools like Estrada, Lange, and (relative to your typical Mexican prospect) Albertos are not something this org has actively gone after until extremely recent times. While true and exciting, they are still pitching prospects and more of them will die than not regardless of pedigree.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/calikusiolek/status/898231512792875008[/tweet] Pile these guys on, please! Throw enough horsefeathers against the wall, hopefully 2-3 stick.

He had good abs vs a RHP on Tuesday, but yeah that was a terrible AB last night.

Didn't we walk off on a PH suicide squeeze by Lester last year?

*Except vs LHP

That works

Let's walk this MF'er off

What the horsefeathers

The rational part of me knows a lot of RF probably don't even get to the point of getting a glove on that ball but the rapid reaction part of me thinks that's like the 3rd or so play recently where Heyward shouldve caught a ball but didn't

His velo is a lot better lately which allows for his slider to not be as great, it was bad tonight but as the 4th or 5th best relief pitcher he's fine.

Damn it, Hector

#FreeTheSeal

Lackey effective again, keep it up you big dumb animal

What the horsefeathers is this yokel doing

That guy wakes up salty with a dump in his pants

That was one of the worst slides I've ever seen by Lackey

I hope Lackey and Lester doubled down on their HR bet and Lester owes Lackey like a 100 acre ranch in Texas now for getting the 1st SB

Didn't see it anywhere, but my ESPN Fantasy thing/notification says Russell is dealing with plantar fasciitis and there's no timetable for a return

These sucks have somehow won 3 of their last 5 games, I have a feeling it is only the start of something like 7 of 11 and 15 of 20 type run coming up.

On the other hand, the Cubs play three times before the Brewers play again and could be up as much as 2.5 games before the Brewers play in Colorado. I think the Brewers upcoming West Coast trip is going to essentially end them for good

Lol, that's good. One a similar note, Danny Parkins irrationally annoys me. I don't know what it is but he just does.

I know I've said it before, even to you. His stuff just looks so pedestrian outside of a fast, fastball. He can't control the FB or control or command anything off-spead or with movement. I just don't see a light at the end of the tunnel for him being more than a slightly above replacement level relief pitcher, which fine we have like 3-4 guys who are really good. Like when Carl and Strop have gone bad before the nastiness of their stuff you can still see is there it's jus they get wild from time to time but the stuff still looks good. Wilson's stuff just isn't very good. I mean if anybody but Wilson gave up that fluky-ass double they'd probably get the benefit of the doubt but unfortunately Wilson hasn't earned that. But that was some horsefeathers. In on his hands - not many hitters are able to slice that pitch oppo down the line. The walk was bad but the rest of the inning was just about the worst possible outcomes for the contact that was made. It sucks. Duke laid out that the beauty in his fastball probably won't be detectable by the naked eye - being a rising fastball. But the whiff rate it induced surely means he has good stuff. He just hasn't worked out yet [emoji53] I obviously hope you're right, I want him to do well, and hopefully some of the numbers he's put up with Detroit start showing up with some positive regression here. Just don't like what my stupid, untrained, eyes have seen so far. Hopefully he gets some lower leverage opportunities soon to work things out. He hasn't exactly come in, in spots so far with margin for error. I thought last night would've been a good time to get him in to figure his horsefeathers out.

I know I've said it before, even to you. His stuff just looks so pedestrian outside of a fast, fastball. He can't control the FB or control or command anything off-spead or with movement. I just don't see a light at the end of the tunnel for him being more than a slightly above replacement level relief pitcher, which fine we have like 3-4 guys who are really good. Like when Carl and Strop have gone bad before the nastiness of the stuff you can still see is there it's jus they get wild from time to time but the stuff still looks good. Wilson's stuff just isn't very good. Also we brought Duensing is as like the last guy in the pen, if we have to cut him it only costs some money deal. We brought Wilson in to have another elite option at end of games/high leverage spots (or at least paid a price that reflects that).

You know they can't win every game, right?