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I'm surprised how many of the pirates were lingering and forlornly looking on. Its a bit embarrassing but no one really remembers the people who got no-hit, its a team effort. Maybe they just have forgotten what happiness is and were staring longingly at players enjoying baseball?

Eloy is exactly enough of a clutz to hurt himself in a celebration omg

Sneaky buccos purposely put in a bad pitcher in the hopes that a long inning would disrupt Gio's timing

have you, idk, tried explaining it? lol

Moncadas the one who looks like he's needed a D sub lately

Errors don't matter now, so its fine if he drops it as long as he can get there early enough that it is clear he just dropped it

In the poster's defense, that ball wasn't actually hit Tim's way, he just managed to get to it anyway!

I've seen sea lions jump on to docks with about as much grace as EE showed on that head first slide

Did it though?

I meant during the review but now we REALLY have a break lol

While we have a break here: Jason and Stoney just agreed they think Sox fans should root for Twins to bet CLE every time this season to help guarantee the 2nd playoff spot. Maybe I am crazy, but if CLE wins the next two VS MIN and Sox sweep PIT, all three of us will have 12 losses. I think it is way too early to be giving up on rooting for the division title!

I try not to react to SSS But if EE hits into a DP here I am jumping on the "call up Vaughn" bandwagon

LOL TA7 bat flipping on walks, but it makes sense, since they are rarer than HRs for him

Somewhat speculative here, but it seems to me that both were sent down until now as punishment. Now that the punishment is over, CLE has decided separately(ish) of the COVID stuff that they don't want to bring Plesac back up. Maybe they prefer the guy they replaced him with, maybe its to keep him in bubble wrap for a trade, maybe its because they are squeezing another year of service time out of him (I think he was closer than Clevinger?), or maybe its some combination of these, but I don't think he is still down as punishment.

I think we, as White Sox fans in particular, are in no position to criticize either, since our players only started wearing masks after the MLB cracked down after outbreaks, and then they put up with them for all of a week before going back to basically no masks and no social distancing (at least from the camera shots I have seen). Our team needs to do better.

I'm well aware of what they did. I also think 25/30 teams in baseball would have been too chicken shit to do anything except criticize the players, and some might even have dug in and defended them. Cleveland stuck to their principles and suspended Clevinger for 10-20% of the starts he would normally get this year. We speculated that they might be done for the year but CLE never said that, and I don't see how you can criticize them for 'backing down" when they went further than maybe any other team would have. SPs will get 12 starts this year, 2 starts is not nothing.

completely voluntarily suspending one of your own best starting pitchers for 2 starts is definitely not nothing

I think he might agree with you

If we are going to win the division, I think we need to have at least a 2-3 game lead by the end of this 17 game stretch. We finish with 4 vs Twins, 3 at Reds, 4 at Cle, and 3 vs the Cubs, we are going to need a buffer heading into that slate. (BTW Cle finishes with 3 against Det and 3 against Pit so a real chance for a late surge by them)

In addition to gold glove defense at 2nd (and serviceable defense at the other IF spots), Yolmer Sanchez's average OPS+ over the last 3 years was 85, which is higher than the highest OPS+ Ryan Goins has ever put up in a single year. Assuming Yolmer hasn't forgotten how to play baseball, this is a clear upgrade. I don't want Yolmer as a starter, but Iove him as a utility player.

I think at some point in the thread Caulfield switched from talking about the teams most likely to make the WS next year to which young and up-and-coming/unproven teams (emphasis on the latter) could break out to make the WS next year. Its hard to tell though because Caulfield posts like he's taking shorthand notes of a meeting with himself.

I know personal examples rarely apply to major leaguers, but I will boldly plow on with one anyway. I've always had back issues that led to soreness and pain, but I could play through it. I"d be fine to start a season but by midseason it would be constant. I thought I was still playing at 100% through it, but once I managed to get rid of it I realized that I had developed a mental hitch. My first steps, my quick reaction moves, all of these were slowed because I was basically wincing in anticipation of the pain I was about to experience, and that bracing of my muscles creates a tension that is antithetical to quick movement. The pain itself wasn't that bad - if I focused on not tensing up I could probably make one play just as well as without the pain. But having that pain as a constant can really wear on you mentally and definitely have physical effects. But again, we're talking high school ball here so no access to all of the trainers and physical therapists and whatnot he has, so no clue if the experience transfers.

Ohhhhh so that's what everyone meant when they said Abreu would be leading the young Cubans? I'm down for this

Yeah I just realized I miscounted the days and he is eligible to start be called back up and start on Aug 30th vs KC. I think that is the best plan.