Going forward, would you rather have Loney, Hudson, and Soto(playing UT) or Teixeira, Hamilton, and hopefully Brandon Phillips(Iwamura or Aviles if not) What if Martinez was subbed in for Soto? Or Ethier for Hamilton?
you're leaving out wellemeyer, who was legitimately good last year and seems to be magically flourishing there, so i wouldn't write him off as "pray for rain." pineiro isn't good and boggs is terrible, but if carpenter comes back after the all star break that's four above-average starters. plus they do have a pretty good minor league system now and can make a trade if they're in contention. Wellemeyer's WHIP is 2, and Carpenter is quickly falling to Priordom levels of health.
I think the sentiment is that Fox is a streaky hitter who's borderline AL bench material, and while he's scorching hot some are hoping to ride that for some MLB productivity.
Cashner can't escape the 3rd without reaching his pitch count, but he leaves with a respectable 2.2 IP, 1 ER, 1 single, 1 BB, 2 K line. He also hit a batter and one man reached on an error by Castro(who now has 4 already).
Freeman and Pettigrew going in the Top 20 are just staggeringly bad picks. I'm now rooting for the Eagles to go Maclin, Moore, Coffman with their first 3 picks so they can be my favorite team.
FanGraphs is missing UZR data from his first full season at 2B, but in 4 other seasons he was a cumulative -10, with the most recent season being the worst at -15.
It's been humid in the mid to upper 80's the last two days in Columbia, I imagine it's pretty similar in StL. Was mainly wondering if it was raining/storming down there, I see they are calling for isolated storms all weekend. Ah, that I'm less help with, since I'm 2 hours west and we don't always get the same storms.
At the same time, the team would've been at a 24 man roster for two days and therefore been punished for the suspension. I wouldn't be surprised either way.