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Even if the doctors came to Hyde with the incredible news that every pitcher in the organization is miraculously healed and ready and available to pitch in the MLB immediately, I would still give Suarez at least another start or two. Let him pitch his way in - or out - of the bigs. But give him the chances after that performance.

Oh yeah, and in reality, there's no way everyone's going to be healed right away. Given how many we have on the IL, I think we'll see Suarez for a good while even if he falters.

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Wow, that was cool to watch on this. I put the view behind the pitcher but when the ball was hit, the camera followed he ball so I watched from Lopez's view as the CF flew to the ball, dove and caught it. This is really a cool way to watch the whole field.

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1 minute ago, spleen1015 said:

That wasn't him, buddy.

 

1 minute ago, spleen1015 said:

That wasn't him, buddy.

 

1 minute ago, Hallas said:

He caught that as the DH, he really is good

Whoops, just chalked it up to being him.  It was former OH man-crush Austin Martin.

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1 minute ago, Tony-OH said:

Wow, that was cool to watch on this. I put the view behind the pitcher but when the ball was hit, the camera followed he ball so I watched from Lopez's view as the CF flew to the ball, dove and caught it. This is really a cool way to watch the whole field.

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