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Frazier is who he is, a 1-2 WAR player. I'm fine with acknowledging that he was a bad use of 8M for a team with a lot of talented infielders. But people acted like we had given 8M to a Brandon Fahey level scrub and he's not.

I remember something Weams used to say when Manny was coming up. "This is what they look like." That popped into my head about Holliday tonight.

I'm rooting for him, but there's a 99.9% chance he goes the way of JD Mundy.

Cedric should be leading off every night regardless of the starter.

May Update Locks: 1. Jordan Westburg - [career .283/.365/.515 hitter in 504 AAA PAs] 2. Heston Kjerstad - [.284/.392/.612 in AA] On the Bubble: 3. Hudson Haskin - [hot start pre-injury: .391/.500/.652 in 56 PA in AAA, but with a .615 BABIP and 32.1% K] 4. Maverick Handley - [.222/.407/.267 in 59 PAs in AAA] 5. Jean Pinto - [2.50 ERA, 2.91 FIP in 18 IP in A+] Others notes on eligible guys: - I’m leaving Young, Brnovich, and Peek off until they pitch in games again. - Easton Lucas has a 1.59 ERA, 0.67 FIP, in just 5.2 IP in AA. - Xavier Moore has 8K in 3.2 IP in AA, but also has a 14.73 ERA - I can’t tell if Stiven Acevedo is eligible, but he’s had a decent start in Delmarva and is in Tony’s Top 30. Can’t imagine him being protected or drafted though, even if eligible. If I had to pick today, I'd protect all 5, but the 3 bubble guys have more to prove.

Bringing Hall, Stowers, and Ortiz up and down as needed is fine with me, but it's also a direct contradiction to Mike's "I bring them up to stay" spiel. I hope he's still working hard to swing a prospects for SP trade.

Westburg, Norby, Stowers, and Hall for Cease* and let's go get a championship. * I put very little thought into that proposal, but with an ace and healthy John Means, I think this team is a serious WS contender.

We should talk more about what a good player Cedric has become. Since 2021, only 21 position players have been more valuable per Fangraphs. He's ahead of guys like Devers, Guerrero Jr., Trout, Alonso, and Harper. Elite range in CF, elite baserunning, perfect leadoff hitter. It was only 4 years ago that he couldn't even hit AAA pitching, now he's been playing at an All-Star level for years.

Tremendous. He looks like Jim Edmonds here.

It's worth noting that Druw Jones is off to a rough start this year. Jacob Berry and Elijah Green have been bad as well. Termarr Johnson looked strong last year, but only just played his first game this year yesterday due to injury (and is primarily a 2B already). Kumar Rocker has been strong in his first 2 professional outings. Extremely early returns say Holliday was the right pick.

I disagree, I think he'll be back soon

Thanks Tony! Sounds like a #7-10 style spot starter like Spenser Watkins.

Agreed, though I think Kremer is another bad start away from getting demoted as well.

Yeah, I'm starting a Garrett Stallings thread. I think he's interesting. He's 25, was acquired in the Jose Iglesias trade. His numbers last year were horrific in the first half, but in the 2nd half (July on), he got hot and had a 3.52 ERA, 3.53 FIP, 9 K/9, 1.83 BB/9 in 69 IP in AA. In his 2 outings this year, he's picked up where he left off. 10 IP, 7 K, 0 BB, 1.80 ERA. Maybe he's just an org guy on a heater, but maybe he's figured something out. Of course, I only scout the stat lines, so maybe Tony or someone else can give more perspective. Reports I've read suggest he's a control guy with underwhelming stuff.

Hindsight is 20/20 but it makes sense to bring in a 96 sinker with guys on base and you need 2 outs.

Called it

The White Sox bullpen stinks, we can get them late

That's not what I heard. She clearly said Hyde was jealous of his hair.

It's nice to be here in a year where the club expects to win. 3 pages in a day debating the merits of a long man/spot starter. Love the passion from everyone.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/645/713/888.jpg Had no idea Tipper Gore was an Orioles fan.

Don't look at the Orioles' lineup today.

Here's a random tangent: Batting average is way down across the league since Gwynn played of course. To the degree that over the last 80 years, Luis Arraez has the highest BA+ (129) in baseball with a .318 career average, even higher than Tony Gwynn (128) with his .338 career average or Ted Williams (128) with his .344 career average. Okay, back to Holliday.

This is like when Ryan Flaherty left and hit .300 for the first week of the season and folks dragged DD and Buck for letting a guy who clearly had finally learned how to hit. Then, crickets when he came back to Earth and had a .590 OPS that year.

I didn't want to make a new thread for this, but I noticed Grenier wasn't on the bench in Norfolk's game last night. He played SS in Norfolk's game on Saturday and went 3-3 with 2BBs and a great play in the field. If you look at his player page here: https://www.milb.com/player/cadyn-grenier-663760 it says he's on the Voluntary Retired List. Did he have a great game and then leave on a high note like George Costanza?

Wow! A 17 run lead in the 8th turned into a save situation.