Jake

I feel like it's pretty well established that Moncada almost always overreacts to acute injuries (or pains you might say). Not dissimilar to his countryman, Alexei

criminally underused!

Kevan Smith does have an .850 OPS this year...

Fulmer has gotten whiffs on 7 of the 20 swings against him today.

Collins struck out in nearly half his plate appearances against lefties in AAA this year. For his development, it might be best to go ahead and let him try against them...but looks like contact will be a serious problem. Worth noting he did not have such an acute problem against lefties in AA last season although he was still clearly worse against them

Yoan entered the night with a .725 OPS from the right side. That'll do.

All things considered, a solid inning for Fulmer

Fielded a ball in the hole and threw it on the run, missing wide of first base by 10+ feet

Eloy had a nice run of defense going before that head-scratcher. Continues to struggle around the wall

This is all true and it would be interesting to see an attempt at accounting these things. That being said, I really do not believe the effects on academic budgets are very substantial and are on the order of fringe benefits. Of course, most of the university budget goes to purposes other than student instruction, so there's that... Also, must be nice to have At my institution, those revenues go to the private corporation that runs the parking ?

At my B1G uni, the money made by the sports programs stays within the athletic department. Now it saves the school from having to fund the athletics programs, and it may be the case that having the sports teams keeps alumni engaged to make donations, etc., but the revenue doesn't directly go to anything academic. Of course, the vast majority of D1 schools do not get enough athletic revenue to cover costs so tuition money ultimately funds the programs. This was the rationale behind UAB shutting down its football program, where the school paid $20 million to the athletic department to cover its budget deficit every year (although football is/was proportionally closer to covering its costs, the raw dollars are bigger than every other sport).

This is weird: Baseball Reference lists him at 5'7": https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=cesped001yoe This article in the NY Post calls him 6'1": https://nypost.com/2017/01/30/yoenis-cespedes-brother-is-an-intriguing-mystery-about-to-be-revealed/ This article in the NY Times calls him a "little shorter" than his brother, who they say is 5'10": https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/sports/baseball/yoelkis-cespedes-cuba-world-baseball-classic.html The Cuban sites I've looked at don't list height and weight. At any rate, the statistics sure don't make you feel great about his power although he's Babe Ruth compared to Yolbert Sanchez

This would make Sanchez close to the highest paid player in the class, I would think. I just don't see it...where's the upside? Does it not mean anything that he played terribly in the Cuban league?

Not often discussed, but if you buy into Statcast's xwOBA, Tatis Jr. has been ludicrously lucky so far this year.

5'7"

It's the yips

Usually you don't manage to give up that many hits when you have the yips

Boylen had the guys playing at a fast pace in that nice stretch of time that everyone was healthy. Boylen and Paxson have been saying all offseason they want a fast-paced offense focused on outside shooting.

Maybe I'm way off, but I wouldn't be surprised if the cost difference between Beverley and Brogdon is not all that large, at least per year.

Also from The Ringer:

Gafford was 86/91 on dunks, 182/224 (81%, 64% assisted) at the rim, 31/99 elsewhere inside the arc, and no three point attempts.

Gafford probably more like Tyson Chandler 2.0 than Portis 2.0