Jose Abreu

It's crazy. Everyone knows that the best hitter in the organization is Alcides Escobar.

No, anyone watching these last 5 games, as well as the first half of the season, knows that this is a low point and there's no way the team plays like this for the rest of the season.

Yikes

He's Cuban so he'll be the headliner coming back to us in the trade

Pretty meh trade. I've been reading online reaction and nobody seems to like it or dislike it. I'm in that boat as well. I actually liked Anisimov but it's nice to have some more flexibility

No way we get either of those guys without including Bummer, or perhaps more

Johnabiell Laureano home run. Another really interesting young OF.

0-0, 2 BB for Bailey. OBP up to .526, and he has far more PAs than the other guys who come close

This is so perplexing. You spent a lot of last season telling everyone that Giolito was interesting and may become something good, and props to you for that. Now he's having an all-star season, and as one of his "biggest fans" (which you kind of aren't, if this is your opinion on him), he's now "nothing more than a 3-4"? That's ridiculous, he isn't the 1.5 ERA guy he was in May but he also isn't suddenly a #4 pitcher. Long-term I think he's a very good #2 or low-end #1 but two bad starts (and really just two bad innings, if we're being honest) doesn't take a guy from future ace to #4.

We need a win, so naturally I decided to post tonight's game thread. Dylan Cease versus Glenn Sparkman.

I love all three of those. RHP Alex Colome and LHP Aaron Bummer to the Dodgers for RHP Dustin May and RHP Josiah Gray That's all I predict.

Robert singled again since the last update. Finished 2-5, BB, SO, 2 SB

He gets better with every promotion. At this rate he'll hit like .500/.750/1.250 in his first month in MLB

Yeah I’m cool with that. Wouldn’t mind seeing Collins at DH tonight though but oh well

But why would that person pretend that they were Zack Collins and claim they were going to Charlotte? What are the odds that person even knows who Zack Collins is? Why did this person look upset/angry? These questions need answers.

If Collins actually wasn't demoted, it bothers me that he isn't playing today. This is exactly the type of pitcher he profiles to be good against.

Ban Josh Nelson tweets

My point was that if he's Trout, the World Series banners will soften the blow of him leaving. Before anyone says Trout is ringless, Robert's supporting cast is going to be much, much better. That said, he won't be Trout, I'm just responding to the original poster. These would be great problems to have.

Not only that, but Abreu's 2014 season was MVP-caliber and I have no idea how anyone could argue that it's not also his best season overall

If Luis Robert becomes Mike Trout, I don't think any of us will care about his service time

Ha, I'm just not as active in game threads as I used to be and I'm assuming that's where your comments on Yolmer would be occurring. What I was more surprised by was the lack of threads about him in general. You wouldn't think that he has been an Engel-level hitter this year just by browsing the forum.

Bumping this because I'm pretty surprised nobody complains about Yolmer. Out of 156 qualified MLB hitters, Yolmer ranks 149th in wRC+ and 152nd in wOBA. He has a .630 OPS but receives daily at-bats. In 2018 and 2019, Adam Engel posted a 68 wRC+. Yolmer Sanchez has a 73 wRC+. He has literally been an Engel-level of terrible but he plays every day. I get that Rondon has been bad too, but there are definitely solutions. Once Tim is back, Leury can play 2B with Cordell in CF and Jay in RF, for example. I'm just so tired of having a black hole in the lineup every day, and I know he won't be our starter for long thanks to Madrigal, but in the meantime, having to watch him bat every day is excruciating.

He finished 13th in AL voting that year. He was good but I wouldn't call him an MVP candidate, so I don't think your point remains. Someone who finishes 4th in MVP voting is a candidate, not someone who never finishes better than 8th