The oblique strain was pretty convenient to keep him down until the cut off date... And the excuse of him needing to field better. He may have had 1 game of rust... At AAA in 20 PAs he's batting .412 with a 1.324 OPS, including 2 moon shot HRs that left the stadium. Something's fishy.
The only reason to hold him back now is Super-2 status, right? We're several days past the cut off for gaining an extra year of control on him. That will be really lame if they hold him down until June. And probably cause for a lawsuit filed against the Blue Jays for keeping him down in AAA.
There's plenty of time to build for the future, in the future... At the time of the Pressly trade and heading into 2019, we knew the division is weak, and Cleveland isn't impossible to beat. We don't know what the division will look like in 2021/22/23 etc. I'm on your side in this debate Chief.
As far as I know the big Happy Chef statue is still alive and well in North Mankato! Though I haven't been back in a few years and things could have changed.
There are still Ground Round restaurants? That's a blast from the past... Haven't heard that name in 20 years after they closed their restaurant in Mankato.
I know your post is tongue in cheek, but it got me thinking... Do they shift Votto? I think he may be one of the few out there where opponents play him straight up.
I should have gone that route. It was a "one skillet dish" that was supposed to be carbonara chicken but the recipe I found made a strange tasting sauce. Not good.
Yeah it was a first time meal idea I saw on Pinterest... It was one of those "One pan dinners" that I thought would be slick so I wouldn't have to wash a bunch of pots and pans. Should have known the picture was too good to be true!
I made dinner last night for a hopeful significant other... And completely butchered it. The recipe on Pinterest looked easy enough, and the pictures online looked good! But it didn't turn out quite like the picture online... Anyone have a similar experience?
Pretty amazing stat I saw on Facebook... Joey Votto popped out to the 1B yesterday for the first time in his MLB career. It took him 6,828 plate appearances to get this result.
Seems like a convenient excuse to say the Twins wouldn't have had the same opportunity to extend him at those terms. Just like when others say you can't call a winner or loser on this trade, we can't definitively say Pressly wouldn't sign a 2/17.5 extension.
I didn't like the Pressly trade at the time it occurred, and I still don't like it today. However, it wouldn't be as big of an issue as it is if the Twins actually, you know, addressed the bullpen in free agency.