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Curious - he is listed as on rehab from the Mudhens rather than assigned to the FCL. Hard to believe they think he would ready to be at AAA in 30 days! I guess maybe just where the roster spot is right now....Or maybe he is too old to be assigned there?

Pacheco has been their Steady Eddie. Looks like he's had only one dry spell of about 0/15 but conversely he has only one game >2 hits.

Oh - I know that, but my point is that that isn't how it usually works with management. We know their team's performance wasn't Madden or Girardi's fault either, but in the real world that not how the cookie usually gets crumbled.

yeah - better fastball...

The thing with MiLB hitters is that you can look at all their results and metrics and even if they are good maybe still make predictions about which guys that are doing well in the minors still don't have the ability for majors (e.g. Carpenter). But it doesn't go the other way. A guy can look perfect in the minors and still hit a wall against the quality of MLB pitching he can't get over. Bottom line, you never really know what level a hitter is going to top out at.

I don't know anything about Coolbaugh as a coach, but he has come magic kind of aura around him politically because just in terms of the normal dynamics of team accountability, we have a hitting coach presiding over a bunch of hitters performing at once in a century poor levels and the only thing you get when Coolbaugh's name comes up is a shrug. Any number of Tiger hitting coaches as recently as Lloyd have been regularly roasted over teams that performed much closer to their expected norms than this one.

one player at Lakeland with 100AB and >800 OPS, Carlos Mendoza three players at WM four players at Erie, but one is 26, one is 27 and one no-one believes can level up ONE at Toledo, a 35 yr old journeyman catcher. as of today, that is it.

and Perez 2/3 3B for Madden. Did anyone see word about Colt Keith?

"J"obe of course. I type poorly enough on a keyboard. I'm hopeless on a phone..

Likewise and ditto.

I thought I heard it was Casey's camp that was resisting the idea of surgery since the diagnosis wasn't a definitive rupture but it was just radio chatter so it might have been off base.

Foul off his foot/leg

Why is Clemens on deck?

Think of all the energy the Blue Jays are wasting tonight.

At some point you have to question the prep the hitters are doing.

Meadows had his good game for this week. You want ….. more?

Well, there certainly are nights when a ‘participation’ trophy doesn’t look so bad.

Kobe throws 75 pitches tonight. 5IP 4H 1R 2BB 4K

Greene 2/3 tonight. Really having trouble finding ‘it’

Funny, the team playing on the scoreboard video is winning easy tonight

some guys rehab faster than others, but sure, if he had had the surgery the first week he was IL' he had a shot at being back during something during the 24 season, just as Turnbull could be back later this season. But at this point that possibility is probably lost.

I'm a little vague on this, but didn't they nick a nerve doing Bonderman's TO that created recovery problems? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else. In any case, the other thing that seems true is that Bonderman didn't want it bad enough. Which is fine, he doesn't owe going through the rigors of rehabbing to be an MLB pitcher to anyone, but if you don't want it bad enough you won't go through it and if you don't it's pointless to hang around.

Is MLB still doing 10 days for COVID or are they allowing 5 or 7?

that is exactly right. Traditionally, when some level of good faith is present, some kind of logical argument is generally presented on both sides and the debate ensues about what you believed about the premises, not that the argument itself was groundless or not even logical. Often enough neither side's premises are verifiable and all you get is a good talk. For instance Tater might have argued based on something Friedman said about a market and I might have argued - sure but that part of the economy is not an efficient market in the first place. That kind of discussion can still actually be constructive, driving each side to examine the soundness of the premises and their logic. But Tribal and cultural based politics is all about emotion. Truth, logic, premise all fall to the wayside because the brain is demanding to believe what makes it feel good. It's not about rationality, it's about dopamine. Now too be fully honest, most of us take positions based on their emotional/subliminal appeal, especially initially. But if you are willing to be honest and open yourself to argument, then at least some times you come to see that your initial position was a reaction born of the self-comfort mechanism and you are willing to confront yourself with the need to admit that the facts don't support what you would otherwise prefer to believe.