Blackout Friday

Gameday is saying Fry is throwing 90mph changeup and an 89mph 4-seam fastball. Interesting arsenal he has going on. Really bucking the trends.

Player comps are fun, but I wouldn’t take them too seriously. And I think they can be unfair for a player as well.

I believe Bohm’s main question is his ability to stay at 3B whereas India’s is his lack of track record/legitimacy of power/blah results with wood bats.

Rightfully so

Christ that was a meatball

Yeah, I like Omar but he’s been terrible.

Thanks for this. It’ll be interesting to see what happens if/when he gets pushed to AA.

I agree the 3-5 could be in any order. Was going to say that myself, actually. Overall, solid list. My only question would be having Booker at 15. Is that simply him being on the old side for high-A? Other than a few glimpses in ST and scouting the stat line I don’t have a ton to go on, but from what I could see he looked like he might be interesting.

More weird you would single out a guy that isn’t in the lineup.

Most recently I’d say the Royals, and that goes back to the 70’s as well. The Yankees were a rival in the 50’s and early 60’s when they continuously beat out some good White Sox teams. The Indians were a rival in the 50’s as well for the same reason, and again in the 90’s when the Sox finished behind them every year. They still are because of the division.

Well obviously they won’t be the only ones forever. Once we win seven straight World Series’ there will be a whole generation of kids with those names. Yoan and Yolmer will be the new Mike and Matt. Obviously these kids will play baseball too. If you call your kid Jeeves, he’s gonna be a butler. You call him Eloy, he’s playing baseball. And some of these kids will make the bigs. It’s a numbers game. I’m just going to enjoy it while it lasts.

That must have been especially nice for Palka against his former franchise.

I‘m watching on a bit of delay, but I think that home run ball guy needs to get laid.

Seems like he’s been striking out less lately as well.

Wimpy seems to believe you win more games scoring one run than three runs.

This is kind of meaningless, really, but I was looking into it and once Eloy reaches the bigs we should have 4 players with first names that have never been shared by another big leaguer: Eloy, Yoan, Avisail, Yolmer. This pleases me.

I don’t put much stock into anything Law says. He lets his arrogance get in the way of his work.

I guess now Chicago-area senior citizens will be confused about the spelling of Daniel Palka’s last name.

Cano hasn’t typically been a huge BB% guy (especially in his younger days) and has posted below average K-rates for his career. Really, aside from being 2B’s with power they don’t have a ton in common. Their swings look alike, but that doesn’t have much to do with who they are as a player.

Yeah, he’s not going to do that. If he can cut the K% to the high 20’s that would be great, and he’s obviously never going to walk at that clip. The last guy to walk that much was probably Bonds (though Harper is there so far this year). You mentioned Rendon in your original post, and I assume the reason he isn’t mentioned as a potential FA signing is simply because he isn’t a free agent until the 2019/2020 offseason.

If he played for the Yankees it’s all you’d ever hear about. You hear so much about Judge, and rightfully so, but like you said not nearly as much about the superior Trout....and they’re the same age.

Looked to me like it was the late slide that got him, not the running.

Surprised it’s not Lyons in to turn Moncada around.

Thanks. I think it was Kiley at FG that wasn’t crazy about his defense either.

Missed it. Care to elaborate?