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    Curious what the roster move for Horton is. Obviously one of Rea/Brown is going to slide into the rotation and leaving an opening in the pen. Do you bring up Assad so you can continue doing the two long relievers thing? Do you bring up one of the vets to preempt their opt-out, even though none has really been amazing over the last month? Maybe Ethan Roberts, whose stuff appears all the way back and in tiny sample has been the best reliever at Iowa so far?
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    Cole Mathis clutch go ahead 9th inning dong, obviously following another Hartshorn walk
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    Also I know he gave up two dongs tonight but one of them looks like it was very much a product of the elements
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    GOOD LORD
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    “I had some tightness in my wrist. And then, you know, as the game went on, it started to move into my forearm. And so, I just wanted to err on the cautious side and really not try to hurt anything else….I just wanted to be smart about it. I’ve been in this spot before, and I’ve taken the other route where kept going and it ends up being worse. And so, I just tried to make a mature decision and end it there.” No promises on how it turns out but short of a hot day where you could buy a cramp this as good of an answer as you could ask for.
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    105 on a line. His one last night 101 with some loft. Dude is red hot right now.
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    Taking care not to overreact too aggressively to anything in the first week, but a Will Sanders whos sits 94 feels like he's clearly a top 10 guy in the system?
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    The wrist thing has me hopeful this is legitimately a forearm injury and not an elbow injury in disguise. 🤞
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    The MiLB app says this game got banged
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    If you want some copium, Wicks has had at least three IL stints for his forearm since he entered the org but his elbow hasn't popped yet. There is significant correlation on these things, but it's not 1:1.
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    Even if we dodge this bullet It's probably a conversation worth having that we do broadly need to get more comfortable with this stuff. More velo in the rotation is going to lead to more elbows popping. We all want to get more juice in the rotation but this is the price.
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    Hopefully this is an "abundance of caution" deal from a guy who's blown out his elbow before. But yeah we're on heighted TJ alert for the next few months regardless.
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    Despite being on the road and Cleveland being a playoff team this feels like a series you should take 2/3? Their offense sucks, we're getting the back half of their rotation, and they're not seeing Taillon.
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    I pounded the table for this for most of the offseason, that said I think the Matt Shaw situation materially changed things. Even when Seiya comes back, here's probably enough playing time for both of Shaw and Mo to play something approaching full time. Mo plays full time DH vs. RHP and Shaw plays DH-by-proxy against LHP and covers for non C/1B who needs a day off. Those last two bench spots are fighting for scraps. Conforto/Carlson pinch hitting for Shaw against tough split-heavy relievers, Carlson/Kingery getting a smattering of pinch running/defensive replacement work. I wouldn't want to have Kevin fight for scraps, and I don't want to pull back from Shaw or Mo unless they have lengthier struggles and prove we should pull back from them. What I would say is whatever modest expectations I had for Conforto and Carlson are dropping rapidly. I think after Seiya returns next week any future position player injuries I'd call up Alcantara. I also think that when we get to the summer if anyone has played themselves out of some playing time Kevin can potentially be up for good.
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    I'm not a mechanics guy and haven't seen the guy in 6 months but pretty sure that's a much different swing than last year
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    Hartshorn has not swung and missed a single time through 4 PAs
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    The circumatances are different with all the repeaters but I don't think the Pelican scored their 7th run of the season until like the second week of May last year so I'm liking this vibe shift.
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    Assad's velo was fantastic tonight. I'll be taking no further questions about his evening.
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    I've noticed it tends to do that with really high ones. Alcantara had a couple that statcast lost last year.
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    Annoyed Southisene is still at Myrtle vs. intrigued by him getting run at shortstop
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    Just generally not loving the infield decisions for MB and SB
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    He'd need to cut his groundball rate substantially without breaking anything else. Doesn't seem likely but at the rate he's developing....
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