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Grant Kipp threw 4 innings where the only baserunner allowed was an error. That's great, but the fact that he only went 4 feels less great.

Another good outing for Naz Mule. Keep stacking those up my dude.

He's healthy enough to be back in CF and he appears to have gotten hit again, Kepley should be in Tennessee Tuesday night

The stuff models started kind of liking Thornton before his pat leave. But the preponderance of evidence is that he's the worst pitcher on the 40 man roster

Matt Shaw has 15 homeruns in 332 PAs since last year's ASB. 27 dong pace. 120 wRC+ over that time before today, so call it 122 right now? I'm not super confident with him against some tougher righties, but dude is good and lining up for an everydayish OFer job next year IMO.

I think it's more good than great on the surface (sits 95 it looks like), but coming from a 6'9" frame I presume it's top of the charts extension and such.

Yeah take advantage of him throwing strikes while it's happening. It could leave as quickly as it came.

Good lord what has gotten into Jace Beck??

Toronto's bullpen was already pretty shredded because of Max Scherzer getting scratched on Wednesday, so chasing Gausman like this is an especially big deal

Nico's pulling the ball less than last year, and he's hitting more line drives. This doesn't stand up to even light scrutiny.

Not quite as strong as last time but another very good outing from Will Sanders. We're like three more of these away from it being fair to wonder if he should be in the big league rotation

Honestly Strosnider is fun too I'm just all in on pitching

FWIW Alcantara and Dean are the two guys on the 40 man not in the Iowa lineup tonight

I'm actually okay with this. It's very hard to get him into games while Seiya's locked into DH, so in the immediate term he's basically wasting a roster spot. And even when he's healthy it's tough to give all three of him/Shaw/Pedro decent playing time. Given that A) Mo can actually get some valuable development at Iowa (not so much at the plate but behind it) and B) the struggles of the infield mean you want both Shaw and Pedro around, it makes sense he drew the short straw. Really curious who comes up in his place. Triantos just for pinch running?