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  1. Danchat
    Dang, 3 perfect innings from the bullpen. Didn't expect that.
  2. Danchat
    According to Fangraphs, Royce Lewis has been activated in Abel's spot and Prielipp hasn't been officially moved onto the roster yet.
  3. Danchat
    They earned their way to the majors, why shouldn't the prospects in AAA be allowed to earn their way to the majors likewise? Destroying AAA pitching isn't an indicator of MLB success, but you'll never find out what you have in prospects if you never promote them and give them a chance at the next level. Outman has had more than enough chances and while I haven't given up on Wallner based on his track record, he is actively harming the team with his play so I get why others are calling for him to be demoted.
  4. Danchat
    Roden is now over 500 PAs in his AAA career and has hit .316 with a .924 OPS. I'm not sure what else he could do to earn a promotion, he's ready for another shot in the majors.
  5. Danchat
    They've had to get nearly all of their rotation talent from trades, it's been telling that they needed to acquire several starters at the deadline to fill out the rotation and depth this season... despite the idea that there was supposedly a pitching pipeline in place here. Raya has now had over 100 innings at AAA with an ERA over 6. I'm sure we'll continue to see the "he's young" excuse used, but at some point he's gotta throw strikes. They need someone to eat innings, plain and simple. I highly doubt Rojas is going to be in the major leagues for more than a week, he needs to continue developing in the minors.
  6. Danchat
    Tate is going top 10, and recently it sounds like Tyson is going to go above 18, the odds are he goes top 10 now. Yup... and iDL. And now the Vikings look poised to go RB and iDL this season after they should have last year.
  7. Danchat
    Brutal. Injuries happen to every team, but it stinks that the rotation has lost Lopez and now Abel. Gotta hope he can avoid the surgery and get back to try building off his last two dynamite starts.
  8. Danchat
    He has 1 option, but I wouldn't be shocked if he is IL'd and his rehab stint is his reset.
  9. Danchat
    The defense continues to be brutal, but I don't know what's to be done about it other than getting new players. The Falvine regime failed to draft and develop any hitters that can field and we are reaping the results. How did Lee pass the smell test at AAA with how little range he has? The bullpen is unviable with the pieces they have, expecting Morris and Acton to close out a close game is not fair to them. It's a shame given how good the starters have been. It's frustrating with how unexpectedly well some of these hitters have been. Martin has been awesome, Larnach has been an OBP machine despite being a part-time player, and Bell has been worth every penny of his contract and then some.
  10. Danchat
    Just saw the highlight of Lee trying to steal home... it's incredible how slow he is, especially for a guy who somehow hasn't gotten moved off shortstop yet.
  11. Danchat
    Just wanted to share some of my draft resources with you guys: * My draft board - every year I do live predictions as the picks come in for Round 1, join me on the Google sheets page on draft day. * My Draft Simulator - my very own draft simulator coded from scratch! * Underdog has a new website for creating mock drafts and draft boards that are really slick (and involves no gambling/contests). I recommend you check that out. * Pro Football Network has a special draft simulator that lets you do live drafts with other random people online. Try giving it a shot! And here's my latest mock draft:
  12. Danchat
    Luis Arraez was probably the best chance of beating the strikeout record - his lowest with us was 29, but his 2024 Padres sample size of 524 PAs had only 18 Ks.
  13. Danchat
    To be clear, I was a fan of selling off at the deadline, I just wasn't a fan of the return of the bigger moves. Getting quality talent under cheap team control is enough for me to call it a win, at least the Jax and Duran trades so far. The Varland trade looks like a mistake and I'd undo that trade in a heartbeat even though I like Rojas (and I don't see how they're going to extract value out of Roden outside of trading him). I'm not sure how much factoring in the front office's refusal to fix the bullpen after the trade deadline should be factored in, depends if you grade it in a vacuum or not. The reality is the majority of relievers in the pen right now are not going to be on the team / in the MLB bullpen next year. It's certainly easier [cheaper] to find relievers than starters, but they have to make an actual attempt to sign and develop some.
  14. Danchat
    Don't worry, Wallner is primed to do it again!
  15. Danchat
    Yeah, he just returned from an injury and last year he was aggressively promoted to AAA. If he's going to be a starter then I'd think he needs to spend most the season in the minors working on that. He could be an electric reliever if they opt to move him to the pen...
  16. Danchat
    So much for the "Abel can't figure out how to pitch at the MLB Level" narrative... turns out like most players he just needed more time to figure it out. This is why you give young players a chance after they've dominated AAA. Of course it's still early and Abel could regress, but he looks the part. The Duran and Jax trades are sure looking good now... somebody give Pete Maki a raise! And whomever is the hitting coach sure got them to turn around after a dismal start to the year, they're raking against really good pitching. Good stuff!
  17. Danchat
    You might want to update the name of this thread... though I'd love to be facing Scherzer again.
  18. Danchat
    Just checking in... holy barnacles! These bats are on fire!!
  19. Danchat
    Doesn't feel so bad to lose a game like this after inexplicably sweeping a 4 game series against a team that should be better than us... but they can't let this start snowballing. He can't turn water into wine, and coming into today I've thought they have pitched above their talent level. Talent trumps whatever a bullpen coach can offer.
  20. Danchat
    Pepperidge Farm remembers that Twins Daily article that called Banda an elite reliever...
  21. Danchat
    Tigers are 0 for 11 in RISP situations... they're making us look good by comparison!
  22. Danchat
    It's incredible how they found somebody worse than DaShawn Kiersey to replace him... and they had to trade for him!
  23. Danchat
    Also helps that Steven Hajjar did diddly squat... trading from our pitching prospects hasn't burned us in a quite a while (helps that they rarely move them). Though randomly, I did notice that the Astros have a former farmhand in Kai-Wei Teng in their bullpen, who once upon a time was traded for Sam Dyson.
  24. Danchat
    Two challenges on the first 6 pitches of the game... Tigers already down to just one challenge left.
  25. Danchat
    The Rays acquired nothing other than not paying Odorizzi's arbitration salaries, as Jermaine Palacios never played in the majors for them. Hard to call that trade a win for Tampa when we got a serviceable starting pitcher and they got zero value in return.
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