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I agree with Will Clark, Chris Young, even Albert Pujols (but for different reasons than he stated). He needs to stay up. Every pitcher he's seen has said, "I'm not going to be the one you beat" and has pitched him like he was, well, Juan Soto for lack of a better comparison in this instance. So many pitches that have painted the corners inside, outside, up, down. He's really gotten a baptism by fire. So after 100+ plate appearances, reevaluate. I think he will have had something click in the next week and all of this hand-wringing will become history. If he's still struggling and then sent down, will he miss seeing ML pitching? Perhaps. But it's been noted that the Os farm system tries to indoctrinate good pitch selection habits before they're brought up. If he didn't have enough time to get that, it could be the one thing he'd gain that the ML just moves too fast for.

Interesting comparison to Bregman. I recall seeing him in BP at OPACY one night and he had a tablet with him that he'd check after every BP turn. We didn't have anything like that at the time and I was fascinated by it, but more relevant was the fact that he continued, after that initial struggle, to minutely monitor his swing every chance he got in an attempt to constantly improve.

Confess to letting out a small gasp when I saw the name as your handle, then thought nah, some new poster giving you tribute by taking the name I do keep this book handy for reference, in the scaled-down “shrine” room. The project sounds awesome!

Gunnar doing Gunnar things!

I love it when Palmer reacts off the bat. He always knows. I mean, it did sound awesome but still

Holy Smokes, through the marine layer! Yikes!

This is an Aberdeen camera angle.

That high FB he threw all night was great when they swung but far too often out of the zone. Was gonna catch up to him soon. Really pleased with these two outings. It was time to take him out.

Omg come on MASN

MLB Central put up a definition of the word this morning that matched Saturday’s situation perfectly. Almost made me wonder if they made it up. edit:c

What an amazing at bat.

I’m very excited to read this, he’s the guy I saw at Twin Lakes that caught my eye!

Thanks for pointing that out, just finished watching and would’ve skipped it

Haha love this title!

Love this result. Not sure my BP loves it.