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I'm pretty sure it's more of an organizational thing to do the bare minimum to hold runners on. Let them take a 1/4 chance of being out for one base, plus the catchers are picking someone off a base every 2 weeks on top of that.

I think that's a Chrome/Twitter problem. It happens to me on OS X but it's not consistent, the same post/tweet will be cut off and then 5 minutes later show up perfectly. Same with Twitter videos sometimes claiming that the browser doesn't support video playback or some such nonsense.

they must've heard me because they just did it again, probably out of spite

smh Altuve beating up on all these bad AL pitchers, can't get a single hit against an NL team

This rant has been a long time coming, but whoever runs the Eugene Twitter account needs to stop retweeting fans in groups of 50. I don't care whatever obnoxious hashtag you set up for it, not even people who live in Eugene think that's a good way to use a Twitter account.

Russell made that look a million times easier than it was

You're on like a 5 day run of non-stop tedious replies, maybe try not defaulting to snark for a few days.

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Has your opinion on Zastryzny changed, since his callup? Or thinking that he's going to be effective in a non starting role? Valuing readiness, I could see him being a borderline top 10 guy for some, if they think he's better suited out of the pen. As a Mizzou grad I'll forever be a Zastryzny fan, but I don't think my opinion of him has changed much. His MiLB performance paints the picture of a poor man's Travis Wood, and Wood has definitely had spells where he's been very effective as a swing man. That said, it's certainly possible that he could pick up a trick or two from Bosio to keep RH off his case, which would mean he could be a solid reliever if he continues to throw strikes like he has so far. He has thrown a bunch of cutters for what that's worth.

Brisket and deep dish are both great, we do not have to choose

That's fair, I heavily weight MLB readiness myself, especially for HS draftees or internationals(which just so happens to be all of DLC, Cease, and Clifton), so I get the wait and see approach. If he does start repeating that performance though, I think the positive outcome is similar to what you'd expect from any of those names(sans Cease, wildcard of wildcards).

Clifton and De La Cruz are in a different stratosphere than a guy like Kellogg. They both have higher than 6th starter upside. Paulino has much better stuff and has shown quite a bit of improvement from last year. I'm not an Underwood fan currently, but he's actually younger than Kellogg and has upside that Kellogg doesn't. Zastryzny is still going to be prospect eligible. I doubt he's ever a starter for us, but I'd say his chances are greater than Kellogg's are. Tseng is a pitchability type that is 2 levels ahead of Kellogg and is younger, plus put up as good as, or better of an A Ball season at 20, than Kellogg did this year. Those 7 are guys I'd definitely put ahead of Kellogg, along with the low level guys like Albertos, Manuel Rondon, maybe Erling Moreno, and a few drafted guys. Hatch, for sure, with a possibility on Miller, Clark, and Mekkes, depending on any reports that are interesting. We can agree to disagree, but I think you're making the same mistake as Law of overvaluing traditional stuff. To spin it in the opposite direction as Kellogg, I have no idea what to do with Cease, because I'm incredibly pessimistic on him being much of an MLB starter, but other teams will clearly value the velo enough to see if he can figure out how to hit the strike zone a few times every at bat. But more to the point, Clifton and De La Cruz might be better prospects(gun to my head I probably have both of them in front of Kellogg right now), but there isn't a huge gap between them and the Kelloggs of the world. That's part "there are no special pitchers", part "The Cubs have no special pitchers", and part "Kellogg is checking all the boxes of someone who can succeed without insane stuff".

He has an incredibly low bar to clear. Our pitching prospects right now are either bad, dead, both, or showing promise in short season ball. If I actually went down the list I probably wouldn't put Kellogg as the #2 SP in the system, but I'm sure not going to beat the drum for anyone in particular that he needs to be behind.

- I don't care if Maddon wins or not - The Dodgers definitely self-sabotaged themselves, but that's Friedman and Co's fault, not Roberts, so he deserves credit for navigating the minefield that his front office intentionally put in front of him for no good reason - Dusty will probably win despite being quite bad at his job because his predecessor was so bad/plexiglass effect

If Landon's statement is to be believed, after the Galaxy lost like 3 guys in a week(mainly Zardes for the year) they joked with him about coming back, and then after some thought he was like "well, okay"

Why on earth would you try to steal second with 2 outs and Carter at the plate? The odds of that stolen base not mattering are about 98%.

Edwards looks like Heyward's child sitting next to him

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Also the Cubs have the best interleague record in baseball. Even better than the AL teams who spent their interleague time playing all those NL teams, with their hitters that have polio and their pitchers who throw the ball the wrong direction.

I kinda want Mexico to put up a couple goals here and give Canada a puncher's chance at the hex

Having Klejstan, Nagbe, and Morris in case of injury/ineffectiveness is pretty nice too. Kinda funny how quickly defensive mid went from the one spot where we had real good depth to the biggest question mark. When you refuse in all situations to look at more than 2 guys for that role it gets tough, especially when those two have a combined age of like 70 You know it's bad when Klinsmann won't even give the German dual national a look.

Having Klejstan, Nagbe, and Morris in case of injury/ineffectiveness is pretty nice too. Kinda funny how quickly defensive mid went from the one spot where we had real good depth to the biggest question mark.

Pulisic is very good.

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