Richie the Rally Goat

Bourbon is aged 4 years or more? What’s the target period here?

To the OP, it’s a silly nit-pick, but I’m going to do it anyways. Barrels is a hard hit stat that is right in line with the rest of his hard hit stats. Calling that out separately while also lumping other hard hit stats loses some credibility to an otherwise very good article. the comment about Lewis, like Buxton, aging like fine wine distilled the conversation extremely well. Buxton’s excellent hitting on rate stats have been in place since his age 25 season, it wasn’t until his 30s that health allowed the counting stats to catch up. Lewis has been far more inconsistent. I’m skeptical that Royce will age well. It’s great to see him on a heater, I look forward to him proving me wrong

2 catchers and 2 outfielders on the bench… no problems with roster construction on this team

Short people

The last 15 years

Is that allowed?

KC! woot!

I want to see Culpepper the everyday SS for a while in 2026. The other pieces of the puzzle depend on if it’s a September callup, a DFA (such as going down to 2 catchers) or injury. If I had my druthers Kreidler would be on the bench and Lee play third (in 2026) edit: reading back through the thread. Agreed, Houston isn’t coming up in 2026. Soonest 2half 2027. That would be an awesome problem to have. Step 1, stop carrying 3 catchers. Step 2, Houston if Houston gets to the bigs that fast it’s because he’s THE shortstop. Play him there and give KC run at 3b

My vote would be Lee

I see Shelty’s underpants

Double play would be nice

Got me there, had to look him up

We do have the Vanimal

The pen is better now than it was a week ago, and FAR better than when the season started. I’m much happier now