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Also their arms are ticking time bombs so if they're anywhere near ready, you might as well get whatever innings you can out of them in the big leagues. Isn't there a counter-argument that pushing a top pitching prospect too fast could be detrimental since those innings in the big leagues could be so stressful? I mean I'm all for pushing talented pitching prospects when they're ready, but I don't agree with how the Marlins handled and promoted J. Fernandez. I mean it did work out, but I don't think that's the right approach for most pitching prospects. PS -- I really, really like how the Dodgers are handling J. Urias and limiting his innings/workload (even if it is costing them in the standings right now). I mean yeah you don't when to push a guy when he's not ready, whatever ready may mean (which can be a lot of things with pitchers). But if a guy has stuff capable of being in the majors I'm all for getting him to the majors as soon as possible because all pitchers have a shelf life/limited bullets. I'm not saying (don't think Raisin is either) just call a guy up and treat him like every other pitcher, you have to be cognizant about bringing him along. But you can groom a guy and be careful with him at the major league level too and still get useful innings out of him. I agree that with how Urias is being handled is pretty good and is a good example of what I think Raisin and I were talking about, he's a young guy who was pushed aggressively and is majors league capable so they are making sure to get bullets out of him now but also aren't just running him into the ground. The Cardinals have been pretty good at this too with starting guys in the bullpen early on then transition them to the rotation (Wainwright and Martinez being the biggest successes out of this) but even being careful like that has had blow ups, Wacha has been hurt on and off, Rosenthal could never make the switch (health being part of it) and now Reyes already blew out. So they were even careful and had blow ups but still got some use out of the arms before they hit their issues.

Maybe we found our Jonathan Holder

Brandon McCarthy separated his non throwing shoulder, even when their important arm is healthy they are still wrecking their arms.

It's a lot easier to probably scout and judge a pitcher is ready from the low levels than it is a hitter. If a pitchers stuff is good, it's good and is probably easier to scout/figure out if it can play at the ML level quicker than moving a hitter up at such a young age/low level.

Accuweather says there's chances for some pretty big storms in Denver tomorrow evening. Hopefully that happens and we get a rain out.

horsefeathers

Where the horsefeathers was that

LOL OMG JOE WEST

Score a run, idiots

I forgot Castro always hit the bag weird like that on close plays to 1B and always seemed to stop really quick and not really run through the bag

I wish he'd also stop trying to throw 100+ MPH to Rizzo on routine plays on throws to first

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I love watching Almora hit

I want to see him throw out one of these fans heckling him

This game should count for 10 wins

Grimm going down for Buchanan would be my guess If Heyward's hand/knuckle injury is enough to hold him out not hitting tonight maybe 10 Day DL him back to yesterday and get him back in a week and call someone up too.

Is Heyward hurt and I missed it? He hurt his knuckle(s) diving for a ball the other day I guess, they say it isn't serious. But you have to think it has to be bothering him quite a bit to not use him here.

Win this now you fools

Pen is still fine. At the moment they can go Duensing/Strop/Rondon/Davis to finish tomorrow and Davis would be the only one not on 2 days rest, and Davis was on 2 days rest today. Off day Thursday and a week from tomorrow too. So there's some light at the end of the tunnel with built in rest.

Take that Jeter

Yeah, after seeing that bump on the zoom in and him still squeezing his hand I feel like it could still be bad. You'd think the trainer could do a quick diagnosis on the field and generally be right there's no breaks. Hopefully it's just a bad bruise and 10-day DL at worst. I'd guess it's a good thing it's his forearm at least and not wrist like Lee.

Wade Davis is a golden god

I don't think Willy was actually mad at the call or saying anything to West. He just was pissed for missing that pitch, but of course West makes it about himself

Yeah, he really wasn't even close to beating it. I wonder if he slipped or something out of the box.

Terry Collins.... How do you prepare for a suspension?