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Ross called back up with Culpepper hitting the 10 day IL.

Just checking in... ugh. What is the point of Taylor Rogers? He's not going to be on the team next year and he's cooked. Why not give Raya or Jack Anderson an audition in the pen? Play your young players! Some of them might turn out to be good!

Geez, bad outing for Minter. So glad we traded for a rental player on a team with no hope of going on a playoff run.

The Jags put him on their PS and called him up to be QB2 yesterday. They are transitioning to Quinn Ewers to be QB2, so Mullens can be signed off their PS. I don't think the Vikings will nab him, Kyler shouldn't be out that long... and they still trust Brosmer for whatever reason. They were actually worried he'd get claimed on waivers.

They averaged 3.9 yards per play, worst of any game Week 1. Yes, even less than the Browns. 😗

Methinks it's time to give Raya a shot over Adams.

Some crazy high scoring games today... Bears and Panthers is a barn burner. Ravens and Bengals offenses are fully functional. As I said elsewhere, the Jets aren't as bad as usual - they're blowing out the Titans, who look like garbage at home.

https://x.com/mattschneidman/status/2099210470762639787 Unless there is some injury he picked up during warmups, Banks is a healthy scratch in year 2 of a 4 year $77M deal. Absolute disaster.

Gabby and Mendez are only going to start with the team if there are multiple injuries. They'd be up and playing now if there was any chance they'd be on the Opening Day roster next season.

Here is my depth chart preview vs the Packers. Reminder, this is PFF grades going back 3 years for every player, weighted more heavily towards the most recent season. Category is determined by the grade % vs the rest of their position group in the league.

People like to come up with reasons for why slumps happen, when it's just simply a matter of baseball that hitters will slump at times. Some claimed that the rumors about him getting traded to the Astros affected his play... or it might just be that some regression kicked in.

I don't know how good of a fielder Ross is, so perhaps I'm off, but my comments were made based on how the Twins used him - seems like they don't believe in him as a prospect. Fangraphs does have him as a top 30 prospect (#30) and a 55 fielder, so perhaps there is more upside there. Maybe they always planned to add him to the 40 man after the season was order to protect him from Rule 5, but I dunno... neither of these two are going to hit well enough to make an impact in the majors.

I don't know if Kriedler is getting DFA'd, he makes a lot of sense to retain as an utility bench bat who can play almost anywhere on the field really well. Ross is the one who is probably getting DFA'd at the end of the year, they didn't treat him like a prospect that needed ABs. If they really like him, it didn't make sense to add him to the 40 man roster when they could have held onto him through next year instead of risking him through waivers. The kid has over 1000 PAs at AA and was not very good over most the duration of that, which is probably why they don't see him as a prospect. In his few ABs in the bigs he's looked overmatched as well. Probably not much different than Fedko.

There's room for him, just simply DFA Rogers who has a 1.6 WHIP and is not going to be back next year. Or even option Adams. 6 starters has nothing to do with it.

Roden could easily play over Bell, Raya should be pitching in the majors and Rogers is incredibly easy to DFA.