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Not to mention that the Padres upgrade Hosmer to Josh Bell as part of the deal.

You’re still being unnecessarily dramatic, even if you had bad luck with your car. Maybe one guy just really, really liked your Dodge Dart, who knows? The rest of the area is “sort of safe”? And why in the world would anyone just wander into a large tent on the side of the road? Is that you, Cito Gaston?

I don’t know exactly how many times O’Day entered a game with the bases loaded, nobody out, and struck out the side in order, but I seem to remember it happening at least twice.

I think I would have to find room in there for Darren O’Day.

I loved Todd Frohwirth and Hyun Soo Kim. As a high schooler I used to carry a Storm Davis rookie card (1983 Fleer) in my wallet for luck. It worked, too… I graduated!

Hey, Ubaldo has more career wins for the O's than Means or Dave Johnson. As the saying goes, "Why not?" Bring out Glenn Davis too, at this point it's all water over the harbor tunnel. I like that Mussina is attending.

That's a cool screen grab. Great read on the hit and a great dive.

Hays not only has a really good arm, he makes the most accurate throws of any of our outfielders.

Something telling in his stats: In '20 and '21 combined, his OPS when swinging at the first pitch was .952, and .748 when taking the first pitch. This year, his first-pitch swing OPS is .688, and .844 when he takes the first pitch. So either his first-pitch swing choices have gotten worse, or the other teams learned to start him off with junk (or both).

Just as a heads-up for those starved for baseball after the break: mlb.tv announced all games through Sunday can be watched free (excluding any Apple or Peacock exclusives) provided you have a registered mlb.com account.

The overall offensive drop across MLB is down 0.22 runs per game from last year. But if someone told me in April that our pitching staff would cut their runs allowed per game by this much (5.90 to 4.27) and without Means or G-Rod… I never would have believed it.

I have heard numerous announcers stumble over particular names (like Garceau trying to pronounce ‘Arauz’), but Encarnacion was really Thorne’s phonetic bugbear.

…but instead Britton brings in Ubaldo Encarnarcion (it was Encarnacion, but he legally changed his name once the Orioles re-hired Gary Thorne).

That’s a good point about IL play. Before that it was like seeing a collection of exotic animals most people had heard about but had rarely seen. “Ooh, it’s a wild Gwynn, shown in his natural habitat.”

I know the players need the break, but as a fan who isn’t 14 years old anymore, the All-Star Game and break is my least favorite time of the regular season. I just dread seeing “no games scheduled” in July. Once they made the outcome of the game meaningful to the regular season, it grew even more absurd.

Snell has proven he can get out major league hitters more often than not. I haven't seen that with any consistency from Zimmermann. Snell also gives up far less homers per 9 (career rate just under 1.00; Zimm is at 2.20). I would go for that deal.

I wonder if it’s one of those names where they insist it’s pronounced differently, even if there was no historical justification to ever do so. “It’s pronounced HEED”, they tell you, humorlessly. Like Rusty “Koontz”.

This is what I want to see, though. A team having fun together after years of abject misery (miserable for the fans, at least, even if few of them other than Mancini were there). Why not?

I have to think the winning streak might have complicated matters a bit for the FO. When they’re 35-44, dealing some guys before the deadline probably wouldn’t have caused many waves. But now, two games under .500 and drawing some more fan attention, there could be some backlash if people feel like they move in the wrong direction before the deadline (even if it’s for the greater good, or they’re able to land some better-than-expected prospects in return). I don’t think it will change their actions, but there’s certainly a little more scrutiny than there was a week ago.

I am legitimately annoyed that despite a full mlb.tv subscription I cannot watch the game today in the midst of the team’s longest winning streak. If it was on FOX or such, fine, but behind a paywall? Shove it, Peacock.

When Odor had a 3-2 count on him last night, two outs in the 9th, bases empty, down by two… that exact situation has come up 522 times in the last 118 years, and the home team only won 6 of those games. Pretty incredible.

I just can’t see landing a top 15 prospect for Santander — from any team. If we’re lucky we might get a fringe top 30 guy, that’s about it. In which case I would also be inclined to simply keep him.

Does he have value? Yes. Does he have much value? No. I like Santander, and he can really run into a ball now and then, but he has nearly 1,500 plate appearances and a career fWAR of 1.9. That’s not exactly enticing trade bait.

That’s an absurd accomplishment. Such a crazy win.

I love going back and revisiting the numbers and seeing whose reputation has held up over time (and whose hasn’t). Torrez is a good example, since back then any 20-game winner was automatically in Cy Young award contention. But you have guys like Jerry Koosman, worth more bWAR (and an identical ERA+) going 8-20 in 1977 than someone like Catfish Hunter with a 21-5 record just four years earlier. I always assumed Jim Palmer was a strikeout pitcher as a kid since I only saw the latter portion of his career, and his reputation and awards preceded him, but even he only had a K/9 rate of 5.0. Such a different era. And I am glad to have seen both of them for a better overall appreciation of the game and how it changes. I don’t love three true outcome style of baseball, but I will also agree I have no desire to see a return to a game where the Johnnie Lemasters and Duane Kuipers of the world can get 1,000+ games under their belts.