ShoelesJoe

Don't think Mayo is coming up unless an injury happens to one of our current starters. I hate to say it, but I see them letting Coby cook at AAA so he can put up ungodly stats down there, and then trade him at the deadline for pitching. An infield of Westy, Gunnar, Holliday, and Mountcastle / O'Hearn should be top three in the game if not number one. Mayo will probably be the odd man out.

By "surprisingly ok" I assume you mean his strike zone was predictably terrible, as opposed to being a complete and utter abomination. This was his last game behind the plate. Notice a pattern?

Ya, Kaiser was in his own world when it came to arrogance and incompetence. I remember a game (in Texas?) where he blew a call at 1st base early in the game and then instantly tossed Eddie Murray because Eddie looked at him wrong. It was no surprise that after the mass resignations Kaiser was one of the few who wasn't allowed to return. Everybody in the game wanted him gone. Same with Rich Garcia and Eric Gregg.

I think umpires right now are better at their jobs than at any time in the past. And I think a lot of that improvement has to do with replay. 20-30 years ago there were a dozen or more umps working MLB games who were as bad (and even more arrogant) as Angel Hernandez is today.

Every time there's a discussion about robot umps somebody who opposes an electronic strike zone brings up how we need to keep "the human element" in the game. I cannot emphasize enough how wrong headed this attitude is wrt umpires. The HUMAN ELEMENT of baseball involves the players and the coaches, not the umpires. Never the umpires. Not in a million years the umpires. The boys in blue are a necessary evil who's influence on the game should be minimized where ever and when ever possible. Minimized to the point of total elimination if feasible. That's why the players who do their jobs the best are celebrated, while the umpires who do their jobs the best are unknown and invisible.

It might be worth $500 million not to see Gunnar in pinstripes seven years from now.

Gunnar Henderson's splits through first 97 ABs of the season: Home -- .326 / .385 / .630 Away -- .294 / .362 / .667 Vs. LH -- .324 / .395 / .622 Vs. RH -- .300 / .358 / .667

10 Day IL.

Serious question -- how does a pitcher warm up in the bullpen for five or so minutes, then warm up on the mound for another minute, and once the batter steps into the box throw pitch after pitch after pitch nowhere near the strike zone? One of Ramirez' pitches actually hit grass fifteen feet in front of home plate, and may have been the wildest pitch I've seen in a decade. How does that happen?

You'd have to give me the name of the reliever before I could answer that question. If the guy is prime Mariano or Dennis Eckersley (or 2023 Félix Bautista) then I'd make that trade. But who's that guy right now?

2 HRs and 6 RBI tonight.

They appear to be seeing the change up out of his hand.

Santander!

Adley!

Nights like this make me wish we had more RH impact bats on the team. On a related note Coby Mayo hit his 6th HR in the first inning tonight.