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Blair Calvo, SIRP Video Drafted: 23th Round, 2019 from Flagler College (COL) Age 27.0 Height 6′ 3″ Weight 195 Bat / Thr R / R FV 40 Tool Grades (Present/Future) Fastball Slider Command Sits/Tops 55/55 60/60 30/40 94-96 / 98 Calvo was a 23rd rounder out of Flagler College, a Division II school in St. Augustine, Florida. He took a circuitous route to get there, going from a Florida JUCO to rehabbing from TJ to transferring to Pitt and then to Flagler for his fifth season removed from high school. Calvo had a dominant foray into pro ball, striking out more than a batter per inning in a long relief role during his 2021 Low-A debut. As with Gavin Hollowell, the Rockies skipped Calvo over High-A and sent him to Hartford to start 2022, where he excelled in a single-inning role until the end of May. In his final May outing, Calvo’s heart began racing uncontrollably on the mound and he had to be taken to the hospital. He was dealing with a previously undiagnosed heart arrhythmia called ventricular tachycardia. Shelved for two months while he and his doctors decided how Calvo could safely proceed with a life that included baseball, he was back in August and picked up Fall League innings before the Rockies added him to the 40-man roster in the offseason. Calvo sits 94-96 mph (and peaks above that) with a plus-plus flashing slider in the 83-86 mph range. His arm is very whippy and Calvo’s stride home opens up his hips in a way that’s atypical of most pitchers, possibly creating some deception. His command is comfortably below average, but typical of a single-inning reliever. It’s most detrimental when Calvo goes through stretches where his slider doesn’t finish and is left hanging in the zone, but mostly he looks like a standard fastball/slider middle reliever who has carved a remarkable path on his way there.

I am thinking Haase might get traded for another team's bum (a platoon LH infielder or a platoon RH outfielder). Not much drop off to Knapp or Papierski; either would give Hinch the L/R match up he likes to use.

its KC, Minn, @ Tex, @ Col, Oak and Tor before AS break. 4 of 6 series they should do reasonably well in

against the "best" team in the division, take 3/4 and could have very well been a 4-game road sweep, which is really rare when they play good teams, they are going to look bad, but they are doing well against their peer group

don't know if Wentz gets pushed to BP when other guys come back, but he seems to be a solid piece

they have scored 7, 8, 5, 7, 6, 5 runs in the last six games - so, baby steps

Keith HRs again; I know Harris wants to wait until AS break to move him up; Keith has other plans

equaling Bill O'Reilly's $30M payout is the lowest she should accept

dfa'ing him gives them nothing i would be surprised if they got insurance on a 4.3M salary, especially as he had risk (physical and anxiety problems) in 2022 which would drive the price up add this: they have invested a lot of money and time and energy into developing his brother; no need to piss off Parker, current teammates, or future FA by treating him unkind

he was not a numbers guy; dismissive of stats; maybe there was friction with Fetter; but he seems to be a pretty goofy, friendly guy; again, it was a bad decision to not trade him; and it was a bad decision to downgrade to Shreve to save some of Ilitch's money

when his supporters hear about this, they will stop supporting him for sure

French is an interesting dude; nice guy for sure; but he childishly thinks that the GOP is about to have a come to Jesus moment (any day now!) when they realize, much to their shock and dismay, that Trump is a bad guy; he talks about a political party that does not exist anymore

the lollygaggers and the miscreants would understand that Harris means business and would start producing so they did not join Hinch on the next bus out of town to Loserville?

need to move the fences back

Miggy's been good of late; knee must not be barking

wtf is going on?

they seem to have a lot of injuries in the minors; no idea if they have more, or even less, than other teams. some of these names I have never seen before. kudos to them about being relatively transparent.

everything Harris says is probably 100% true and if Avila said these same things...

I suspect that the Bedminster details will come out at trial; we have literally seen the boxes being loaded/unloaded in NJ; so they had to either execute a warrant we don't know about, or have had a very good reason to think nothing there

he can play just about anywhere including SS, and works as a platoon partner with McKinstry, Maton or Keith

some interesting names here https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-trade-candidates-change-of-scenery-2023

7 weeks from tomorrow is the trade deadline. Harris has done well in his 3 trades: Jimenez-Malloy; Soto/Clemens-Maton/Vierling/Sands; Guzman-McKinstry. Dombrowski had a magical run of great trades, and at the start, I don't think he had much more to work with than what Harris has now, which is, not very much. Lorenzen – textbook trade deadline acquisition; SP who has experience as RP; expiring deal; reasonable $; having probably best year of his career; if they want him on the 2024 Tigers, then great, sign him this winter as FA ERod -hopefully off IL by 8/1; opting out so need to get something, literally anything, for him Boyd – very little value; you can hopefully trick a team into an Olson-type return? Lange-Foley-Vest – need to listen; hope for crazy offers McKinstry – this, right now, is the best he can perform, and if some team will pay a premium for that (Seattle?) you should sell high CBB - trading for another one would be great; but what value can Harris get trading away the 37th pick? Anyone else - cannot wait to see some of that world famous Scott Harris calculated risk in action

unnecessarily starting his clock immediately seems pointless

what a wonderful self-fulfilling prophecy: this team sucks bad, so it makes sense that we spent no money on free agents to improve it. how is that not the same argument that can be made this winter? we are not ready to spend because - you guessed it - the team sucks bad, in part because we spent no money on free agents to improve it. Harris has a 2023 payroll less than the major league average and is $13M less than last year when they had a historically bad offense. as a a fan, it is NOT my job to correctly identify the players that can help this team in free agency, the draft, through trades, Rule 5 draft or any other way. Harris and Co. are paid - literally - millions of dollars to do that. what would this team look like with Jean Segura, Wil Myers and Brian Anderson? I have no effing clue! solutions are NOT coming from the farm. Through 2024, Keith might be up as a major league starter. but everyone else (Malloy, Meadows, Jung, ...) looks like more of what we have a lot of (outside of Green and maybe Baez): 1-2 WAR bench, platoon, and complimentary guys. I also see you stopped referencing the Rangers pointless FA spending spree in the winter of 2021, now that they are in 1st place.