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  1. Bertz
    Did he and Zach Davies pee in the same water fountain and switch bodies or something?
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    Morel excluding his Horsefeathers first two weeks is now at .225/.352/.438 with 5 SBs, 17 BBs, AND 18 Ks. The Southern League is so tough that's a 122 wRC+. And he still only has a .235 BABIP over that time (again though, it's much tougher to attribute BABIP swings to luck for minor leaguers. Davis is up to .250/.389/.386 with a 126 wRC+. The Ks are too high, but he's only been at it for 13 games (and he has not had K problems previously) Chase Strumpf is at .200/.302/.327 for an 81 wRC+. His K rate is similar to Brennen's. Unlike Brennen, his swing and miss has been an issue for a while. Still pretty early though, he's only got 14 AA games under his belt Amaya before we got hurt (do we know his issue yet?) was at .215/.406/.304 with 21 BBs and 22 Ks (117 wRC+). Zero power, but power is by far the streakiest hitter attribute, and it hasn't been an issue for him historically. All four guys have shown warts, but except for Amaya it's pretty aggressive for each guy to be at AA right now. I'd guess that at least two of these guys are at Iowa before the end of the season, and all four open up next season there.
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    Craig seems off. My guess is more warn out than anything too serious. Hopefully the offense explodes for a week or two to give him a week on his ass to rest his arm
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    Michael Hermosillo is on an incredible run with Iowa. He was hurt the first month, but in his limited time back he was at .389/.522/.722 BEFORE going 2/2 with a double and a walk so far tonight. I feel like this winter he was probably the most interesting of the AAA lottery tickets, so it's interesting to see him come out of the gate like this.
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    Woodruff getting knocked around with 5 runs in the first. @Coors is always a tough series no matter how bad the Rockies are in a given season
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    I assume Howard already being out of the game is a load management thing, but definitely a bit concerned
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    Should we be paying attention to Perlaza? He's holding up decently well at SB, he's still age appropriate, and he was a big $ IFA signing.
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    Spaeder is a horsefeathering clown. Yeah most of these seem pretty flimsy. Single season home and away splits? Like come on. From a lot of reporting from a lot of legit people it seems very likely the Yankees did something real bad in 2017, but the rest of these....
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    Here's the full set of dominos. I assume we're essentially getting a Stock-Abbott piggyback start?
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    He's only been recently stretched out, so he'll only go 3-4 innings. But he's apparently been sitting upper 90's throughout his appearances and was hitting 101 on the regular when he was still doing 1 inning stints. I don't expect a long term starter but he might be really fun in some sort of hybrid once through the order role (kinda like Keegan Thompson has held since he's come up).
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    I might try to make Serg!o a thing. If he and Wisdom are even sort of real, this offseason becomes much less scary. This would be our lineup going into the offseason: C - Willson 1B - Wisdom 2B - Sergio SS - Hoerner 3B - Bote LF - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ CF - Happ RF - Heyward Is that good? Horsefeathers no. But with ~$100M to spend this offseason, that's a solid enough base before you open up the checkbook. Especially since Iowa will likely have four real prospects in Davis, Amaya, Strumpf, and Morel.
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    I said this a few days ago, but given his age I'm probably going to buy into Alcantara pretty quick. His issue prior to this year was that he had zero power, it's looking increasingly like that's no longer the case. If he's got even adequate pop he does everything else enough that he's probably on the borderline of being a starter.
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    He's probably fine? I think he legitimately pitched bad in April, but has basically been himself plus a bunch of extra dongs since. Dongs are notoriously flukey and streaky. There are two things that give me a little pause though. First, because he's such a velocity outlier, the "rules" don't necessarily apply to him. Second, he's gotten less swing and miss in the zone than he normally does, even as he's pitched better since that Braves start. I wonder if that's a canary in the coalmine for a legitimate issue.
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    The post June schedule is starting to look lighter and lighter too. Between teams like he Dbacks confirming that they're awful, and teams like the Nats and Twins looking like they'll have sold off by the time we face them, there's very few tough out of division matchups left after the 4 games @ the Dodgers at the end of this month. Home and aways against the Phillies and White Sox, and the Giants @Wrigley. Eyeballing it I think that's it for the entire second half of the schedule.
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    That Nance curve all to strike out Dejong should be hung in the Louvre. Holy Horsefeathers.
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    Alcantara was doing awesome at Iowa, and is still just 24. I'll be a lot quicker to think he's real than Wisdom.
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    I like what he brings to the team, but Joc has a super douchey "The Oldest Brother from Home Improvement" vibe that I do not like
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    Christopher Morel, from 5/19 through yesterday: .214/.333/.414, 3 dongs, 14.3 BB%, 17.9 K%, 110 wRC+, .226 BABIP His first two weeks were hideously bad, and with a minor leaguer you can't simply say "BABIP=Luck" but I'm really picking up what Morel's putting down right now.
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    With his health history, it *might* be based on actual medical advice? Probably not, but it's not as black and white from the outside as like Sogard.
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    With Higgins behind the plate too, damn. I like how he was billed as being a very good hitter for a backup catcher, but possibly a bit of a disaster behind the plate. Instead he's got great framing numbers (in a minuscule sample) and has hit like he's wearing the Ted Mosby Sensory Deprivation goggles.
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    I believe a week or two ago Keith Law very explicitly said that the Cubs like Taylor, so this is starting to sound kind of real.
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