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Have complained a lot about Drew Hutchison in the past, but he has largely done the job in this latest stint. Credit where credit is due

Agreed.... would not be all that surprised if it's just Fulmer and Chafin at this point as well. For better or worse.

Maybe you're right, although at least around here, most seem realistic about what Fulmer/Chafin would return.

Fulmer and Chafin aren't likely to be long term options regardless, so they seem like the easiest to trade. Jimenez and Soto are a bit trickier. The price for Joe is rising, and they should be willing to walk away without the right deal with both of them.

Exactly. Even for the remainder of this year, as good as Fulmer and Chafin have been, I don't know that there's a massive drop off between them and slotting in Vest or Foley. The difference will come in replacing them, but yeah, I kinda operate from the place that Fetter will be able to work with guys to make them servicable

Depends on what can come of guys like Vest and Foley. If Foley pitches like he did last night, it might not be a huge drop off from Fulmer

If you can't beat em, trade for em lol

Does the Luis Castillo deal change any perspectives on Skubal or the idea of it? I would still keep him, and the Reds and Tigers situations aren't exactly parallel anyway, but while I dont think he would command the same haul that Castillo did because of how established Castillo is, I'm even more sure that he'd bring back a haul if he were to move. (At least for a competent GM anyway lol)

Ixnay on the Rays-ay tho

The irony of all of Trump's endorsements: eminently valuable, yet the guy couldn't pick of any of his endorsees out of a lineup lol

Agreed

It kind of is? Those are the expectations that you laid out. Obviously not. But looking at ridiculously small sample sizes (in this case, a single game) and drawing conclusions seems like a mistake to me. We are all concerned about Tork. He needs to turn it around. But can we at least give him 100 ABs before freaking out?

Soto passes his test. 4-2 W. Do the Jays bring one of our BP guys over before the end of the weekend?

Trader Jerry strikes...

Do they need Greene in the BP?

So if he doesn't go 2-4 with a walk and a homer every single game, he's a failure?

Fulmer passes his test tonight

It's the right thing to do, but he's been so solid these past few months. Even in his last outing he wasn't bad.

Soto scares me, but in general, I don't know that there's anyone bad in the bullpen at this moment...

Jimenez added to his trade value tonight... damn

Jason Foley's sinker has quietly become pretty nasty

Manoah not having the best night... damn

I know what AJ was trying to do, but he probably needed to call Garcia's day at the end of the 3rd inning