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Mike Wright? Ouch!

Baseball’s a funny game. We spend 1.4M on Carter Young who played at D1 powerhouse Vanderbilt and he hasn’t looked too good so far in his pro career. A year later in the 20th round, we pick Vazquez from North Greenville University (sorry. Never heard of it), sign him for 30k and he puts up an .822 OPS at Delmarva. This year both Vazquez and Young are at Aberdeen and it’s not too difficult to guess which one is the better prospect. In 46 PA, Vazquez has 12 walks to 7 strikeouts and a .933 OPS. In addition, he’s stolen 7 bases in 8 tries. @Tony-OH also has said he’s a good defensive SS. 2023 draft. Etzel in the 10th. Vazquez in the 20th. Nice job, scouts.

That’s probably true and Elias said he also didn’t want to call him up if he wasn’t ready to be an everyday player. So ………. something to keep an eye on.

Maybe not so good that his front hip is almost in the first base dugout and he has to get fully extended just to reach a ball on the outside corner.

When you’re off balance and turned sideways, 75 mph looks pretty fast.

I agree. Last night was a step in the right direction but if I want to take the negative approach, he almost misplayed that line drive. He and Henderson were laughing about it because I think the ball hooked on him. As far as the 75mph, I believe it. He was reaching for it and it went off the bat. If your a pitcher, 75 mph, initially, still looks fast coming back at you but that ball would have lost steam pretty quickly. How fast do you think the liner Suarez caught the other night was? Don’t cheat. I’m going to look it up now. I’m guessing more than 75 but less than 90 but I think it was struck harder than Hollidays. Just checked. Taylor Ward hit his 95, so pretty hard but it basically found Suarez glove.

Hello! The guy who hit the ball, Rengifo, wound up on 2B because of the bobble and scored on the next single where the runner also advance to 2B because Kjerstad missed the first cutoff man. Two singles turned into doubles on consecutive plays. God forbid, O’Hearn did that. The pitchforks would be out. Let’s try and keep it real.

If he had to admit when he was wrong and he wouldn’t have time for all of the posts that are wrong. Vicious cycle.

Sure, let’s sit back and see how much patience Elias and Hyde have. I don’t think they have as much as you seem to think.

Just trying to keep it real here. The line drive off Moore was 75 mph and the SS would have easily fielded it if it had hit Moore. Holliday opening up, reaching for the ball on the outside corner and catches it off the end of the bat.

Not a good start. Bobbles a ball letting Rengifo take 2nd. Next play overthrows the first cutoff guy allowing runner to take 2nd. First AB, swings at first pitch fastball strike. Good. Then swings at high fastball and low breaking pitch neither close to being a strike. Bad. Not a problem. We got playoff version GRod tonight.

The same one that was 4th in baseball in runs scored last year? Their roster hasn’t had that much turnover. They might be off to a slow start but I wouldn’t describe them has having an offense that’s pretty bad.

Of course, Canning is a reverse splits guy because of his changeup and just like guys like Lugo were due for regression to the mean I’m weary that Canning and his 8 ERA are due to be on tonight.

That’s funny. If a person looked at your posts they’d say the same thing.

Why waste time changing a link I was never going to waste time clicking on? Progress. You’ve been wrong a thousand times and you finally made your first admission. Baby steps.