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Wenceel gets a seeing eye single. That’ll buy him 10 more straight starts

https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/mlb-reporters-predict-dodgers-could-land-two-time-cy-young-winner-tarik-skubal-blockbuster-trade Robert Murray, another MLB reporter, then added "(Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew) Friedman could go out and get him. He ups a team's chances to win the World Series by a pretty big margin. You get two starts in that five-game series. Friedman gets him, that’s my prediction." Outfielders Josue De Paula, Zyhir Hope, Eduardo Quintero, and Mike Sirota are all top prospects. James Tibbs III has hit 11 home runs in 48 games in AAA with a .316/.424/.599 batting line. Alex Freeland has already shown flashes of being an above average player in the big leagues. Emil Morales has a .955 OPS in single-A as a shortstop. And Charles Davalan has looked impressive in high-A.

And they got Mookie Betts for Verdugo and have been laughing about it ever since.

The Dodgers draft better than any other team..... They can afford to give up prospect capital because they replenish it so well. They also don't need that many spaces to fill. They have big league ready players down on the farm. Eduardo Quintero might be the best of all their OF prospects and he's #3 on their list (Probably the guy I would want most out of the Dodgers but they won't deal him. Even though I'd rather have him over De Paula). Between Pages, Call and Tucker, the Dodgers might need 1, maybe 2 OF'rs. In there top 15 prospects, 8 are OF'rs. It is house money. And if they can deal two of the 8 to get a WS, it seems pretty brain dead to me.

That’s true for marginal type players. For top guys even short you can get a haul. In skubal case he is a difference maker with multiple starts in a short series. if your say the padres he can be the difference that get you passed the dodgers

You can't play every possible edge to win every game, and do player development at the same time. Hinch should be managing a rich team that buys fully finished product players. I love how he manages pitchers but I've come to question whether he is the manager you want on team that will have to always have a lot of young players coming up that need to play through their troubles and development. Hinch won't manage that way. He's too proud of his ability to push all the buttons.

I really like Melton. He will end up as my new favorite pitcher after Skubal is gone

Because the probabilities multiply with adjacent batters, offense gets bad by a higher order when you put really bad hitters in the lineup. If you send 3 guys to the plate in an inning with less than 300 OBP, you're chances of scoring are poor. If it's 3 guys with 250 OBPs it got worse by more than just 16.7%. You can't play good enough defense to make up for that. If it were one guy you were putting in a team what could score that would be on thing, but that 7-8-9-1 last game had no chance to do anything, they were just giving away half the innings in the game.

100 %..if you are losing then you should want to play the players who could benefit from playing and improve for the future. What happened to "we're going to develop at the major league level " ? Although I do not think Colt can play third base and Hinch seems to agree that doesn't men he couldn't maybe become passable there. Just put him there everyday and find out ( as you have said) because there is nothing to lose and nothing to gain playing Short. Remember Hinch is the same manager who chose not to play Issac Parades . He chose to play Goodrum all the time.

Perhaps they believe the difference in defense is so big that they don't care about the offensive difference.

I hope those who think the Tigers will get a prospect haul are right, but I am skeptical. I think teams value their top prospects more than they used to.

The Dodgers probably, and rightfully so, think they can win # 3 without Tarik Skubal but if they do trade Skubs I hope you are right and the return is excellent.

Dingler sets up a possible save to be blown.

Something to remember about free agency. The rumor is Detroit will sign international player, Isaac Bonga. 6'8" and an excellent wing defender. He won the best defender award in Eurobasket, which is a step-down from Euroleague. His shooting is good in Europe, but they use the 20'6" line which is even shorter than the NCAA. He didn't shoot well the last time he was in the NBA. But he was young then and didn't play much, so maybe he's improved. If the rumor is true, this will obviously eat into their cap space a bit. His NBA and international stats: https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bongais01.html https://www.basketball-reference.com/international/players/isaac-bonga-1.html

There is also a possibility that he was not actually involved, but needs to protect those who were because they have other dirt on him.

You think we'll win 62 games? 62-100? Well on our way. A finish of 42-67? We're 20-33 now...

the platoon thing has gone off the deep end - it's like they aren't even thinking about what they are doing. You want to go by the numbers, fine: Lets say Colt's OPS split is 250 - (and I'd wager it would be less than that if he playing everyday), and he is 800 against RHP - he's still a better option against a LHP than Short by 200 OPS points! Any strategy is only as good as the players you have to implement it. The guy on the team that may have the best contact skill right now on a team literally dying for it, and he can't stay in the lineup.

Hinch surely hates Colt Keith. Playing Zach Short just to show how much smarter he is than anyone else They are pretty much out of the playoff race...how about letting some of the 24 year old left handed hitters try hitting against left handed pitchers? Can it really be that much worse than letting Short or Jones get at bats?

Hinch doesn't want any talent in the first place. He wants to show he can win with scrubs so he can back up his belief that he is the smartest manager in the history of baseball. I think he needs garbage can lids

Why Hinch give the man some talent

More Zack Short...WHY?

"When healthy, Seabold has been pretty effective coming out of the pen, with a 3.45 ERA, 20.3% strikeout rate, and 7.2% walk rate over 15 2/3 innings."

That Trump was a serial abuser of children is already baked into the Epstein files equation, such that if that was all there was on Trump in those files, it could be dismissed with some form of "so what who didn't". So there has to be more than just that in the files implicating Trump, something worse than "merely" sexually abusing children on a serial basis, as though something worse than that is even possible. So I am now coming around to the idea that Trump was an executive principal in the operation. He ran the thing with Epstein from the top. Not the paperwork, of course—that would have been Epstein's job. Maybe more like procurement, dispatch, and disposal.

So are Jones and Wenceel