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Brieske and Foley both bringing serious heat in this one. Makes every thing else a lot easier.

He's under control, he's not expensive, he can plug holes, and some of the competition for backup IF that was once on the table has faded (Wenceel has been moved off IF, Kreidler's bat won't play even as utility) and now add the possibility that Baez might be done. I think they are relatively happy with McK and Ibanez as a utiity L/R pair - so I'll go a little further on the limb and predict he is a lock to be at ST. and make it double lock if Jung doesn't hit the rest of the way.

Zach has improved against breaking balls this season which has made his ABs more competitive.

could be the IL date on his MLB transaction page missed a back date. That's what I was going by. EDIT: BR says his last appearance was 6/30, so he could have been backdated to July 1 and there is your two days.

At various times they have decided to or not to carry 5 OFs. Since McKinstry and Ibanez can both go to LF when needed they don't *need* a 5th OF. If you figure that DH is split 100% of the time by Greene and Carpenter, maybe you want a 5th OF.

his IL date was July 3. 60 days is up Sept 1 = Sunday

Smyly's name came up because he is freely available for the cost of waiver pickup (depending on the Tigers waiver priority and who else is interested). So no real effort to acquire/trade required. And if someone better than that hit the waiver wire they should do their due diligence there as well.

Yeah, Wenceel doesn’t have a role other than insurance in case of Parker’s bat going South again. Greene and Parker are going to play against most LHP.

Has nothing to do with Smyly being an alum, he’s simply a better LHP than Wentz as of today and the cost is rounding error close to zero. unless they still have an idea Wentz is going to improve there is no reason to keep him since there are better options. If they do, they will.

Blues don't lie!

Smyly's OPS against for RH batters is 120 points less than Wentz. Drew is 35 but looking at his results he's not showing any signs of arm decay. it all comes down to a decision on whether Wentz has untapped upside. if you are going to end up cutting him next year at the end of ST then passing on a pickup like Smyly to protect Wentz is just dumb. If they still believe they are going to turn him into something then that's that.

Miller doing what Miller does.

Carp looking much less screwed up there!

There is a lot of role play in doing a TV broadcast. Think back to all the questions Sheppard would ask his color-man that he perfectly well already knew the answers to. They constantly need to create basis of for discussions they are having only for the listeners.

Royals now up 4-1 in the 7th

Pilar having a tough night.

How did we ever pine for Kreidler to be called up?

that's a tough catch. Vierling needs to take it. I don't think Torkelson was able to find the ball after he ran to the spot.

Vierling with a rare mistake on his throw.

Gotta try to spoil close pitches Spence....

Carpenter looking screwed up the last couple of days.

Vierling with another good catch. Without doubt this outfield contributes a lot to those good run prevention numbers.

Parker Meadows says "You just leave those barrels right here in this glove...."

well, that could have been worse.

basecket/crickball?