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3 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

Did they actually have time after the game to tell him before this was published? Was someone waiting in the tunnel with a plane ticket?

"Hey AJ, tough day, we all have those............now get lost"

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He seems to be done.

Reed was an absolute monster in college. Posted a 1200 ops with 23 homers his last year while also pitching over 100 innings with a 2 era.

His start until high A was promising but the higher he moved the more he started to strike out. He still has some pop (28 homers last year with astros AAA) and can take a walk but just not enough contact and it got even worse every time he was promoted.

I think one of his issues is he has a long swing. He would need to shorten it up but of course this isn't easy to do without losing power. Maybe he just isn't a great batspeed guy and needs the swing length to generate pop. With his good eye that works at lower levels were he can wait out the pitcher for a dickshot but when pitchers start to locate with velo and spin he is toast.

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Collins looked so bad last time here that I'm not sure that they'll want to call him back up despite his strong play since he was sent down. I assume they'd want to be able to get him more catching reps than he'll be able to get up here as well.

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1 minute ago, Jake said:

Collins looked so bad last time here that I'm not sure that they'll want to call him back up despite his strong play since he was sent down. I assume they'd want to be able to get him more catching reps than he'll be able to get up here as well.

Not to mention they face a lefty tomorrow (I think Sunday as well). But hey... the Sox (foolishly) did bring him up when they had to face like 7 lefties in a row so I wouldn't put it past them. 

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