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Who? .576 Marwin? .460 Santana? Call-up.501 Cordero & move .650 Kike to 1B? I guess .758 Chavis is an option, but Dalbec has a better OPS than that over his last 11 games. Ockimey? Casas?

Updated AL Standings 43-26 CWS 43-27 OAK 43-27 TBR 42-27 BOS (1/2 behind TBR and 1 GB best AL record) 40-28 HOU 38-28 CLE 36-32 NYY (SEA, LAA & TOR all 1 game under .500) Friday's games: A's (Kapreielian)@ NYY (Taillon) Rays (Wacha) @ SEA (Kikuchi) CWS (Rodon) @ HOU (Garcia)

Kyle Seager singles in winning run. Rays lose 3rd straight.

SEA just tied the Rays in the bottom of the 9th. Man on 2nd and 3rd, one out.

Arroyo is not a hole. We need pitching, pitching, pitching and maybe a 1Bman or OF'er before 2B.

I don't see a big roster crunch. Ward won't need rule 5 protection. We lose ERod, Barnes, Ottavino, Marwin & Santana and only need 3 replacements: SP, RP, RP. (Two slots gained, there.) The 4-6 Rule 5 players or added FAs can replace any 4 from: Yacksel Rios Brandon Workman Matt Andriese (trade or don't enter arb) Connor Wong (trade?) Michael Chavis (trade?) Huson Potts (trade?) Phillips Valdez (trade?) Now, if Bloom wants to sign 5 free agents instead or 3 bigger ones, we might have a squeeze. Rule 5, this winter: Jecorrah Arnold Brayan Bello Cole Brannen Gary Calvo Marco Cardoso Pedro Castellanos Felix Cepeda Kole Cottam Kutter Crawford Ricardo Cubillan Osvaldo De La Rosa Tyler Dearden Jonathan Diaz Danny Diaz Jeter Downs Jarren Duran Tyler Esplin Durbin Feltman Ryan Fernandez Ryan Fitzgerald Antoni Flores Frank German Rio Gomez Devlin Granberg Gilberto Jimenez Jose Larez Dominic LoBrutto Bryan Lucas Charlie Madden Alan Marrero Elih Marrero Joan Martinez Alexander Montero Robinson Montero Oddanier Mosqueda Brendan Nail Brett Netzer Tanner Nishioka Kaleb Ort Yusniel Padron-Artiles Aaron Perry Beiker Pineda Antonio Police AJ Politi Ceddanne Rafaela Oscar Rangel Tyreque Reed Jesus Rosillo Yasel Santana Zach Schellinger Alex Scherff John Schreiber Gregori Segovia Chase Shugart Miguel Suero Jake Thompson Wilker Vargas Thaddeus Ward Grant Williams Josh Winckowski

He's certainly been injured much moresince joining the Yanks, but after his 150 games played in his second season with MIA, he had these game totals: 123 116 145 74 119 159 (Career high in year before trade) With NYY 158 18 23 (COVID Season) 47, so far in 2021

Yanks back up 5-4.

Yanks now down 4-3 in 5th. HOU over CWS 7-0 in 6th.

Constant injuries and maybe never a chance to get into a long groove. The 2 times he had over 601 PAs before going to NY, he led the league in HRs with 37 and 59.

Forget any factors about getting up with men on base or not, the #1 guy getting up to 150 more PAs than the #9 guy has to be significant. If we batted our 4 best hitters 6-9 and our worst 4 hitters 1-2-3-4, we're talking about swinging over 500 PAs from our best (.800-1.000) to our worst (.480-.680).

Sometimes it's also about which 9 to play.

They hardly ever even get into or finish 6, anymore. That being said, our starters rank 8th in IP, this year with 360.1 in 69 games. That's about 5 and a third per start, so I guess we've gone into the 6th quite often- just not lately.

Here are some example of players the Rays have acquired over the years, who end up having a career year or more with them. Please feel free to add more names. An equally long list could be complied of very good Rays players that were traded, sometimes in or before their prime, who went on to stink for their new teams, including Carl Crawford, Archer, Kazmir, Cobb, Odorizzi and now, apparently Blake Snell. Carlos Pena .789 in 7 seasons prior to TB 1.037 in 2007 (a year after playing for the Sox at .776) .871 in 2008 .893 in 2009 He dropped off after those 3 seasons (.723) with some being with the Rays. Jason Bartlett .702 with MN in 5 seasons (only one over .700) .879 the second year with the Rays in 2009 (.752 in 3 years.) .591 with the Padres after being traded to them for 4 prospects in 2010. Rafael Soriano 2.92/1.037 WHIP in 8 good seasons before TB 1.73/0.802 in one season with TB (2010) 2.94/1.215 in 2 years with the Yanks 3.15/1.181 in 2 yrs with WSH after NYY 3.13/1.206 total after leaving TB Steve Pearce .756 from 2007-2015 .729 w BAL in 2016 .908 w TB in 2016 .768 after leaving the Rays, although he did very well in 2018 TOR/BOS Logan Morrison (L0ts of 1Bmen do well in TB) .742 pre TB .813 w TBR '16-'17 .636 after TBR Tommy Pham .828 w STL pre TB .870 w TBR '18-'19 .695 after TB CJ Cron .756 LAA .816 TBR '18 .789 after Travis d'Arnaud .707 in 7 years with the Mets .783 in 2019 w Rays .813 w ATL after Last but not least, another ex Sox... Casey Kotchman .717 pre TB, including .572 w BOS in 2009 .800 w TBR in 2011 .589 after and out of baseball in 3 years after leaving (only age 30).

I'm rooting for your guys! Don't jinx this!

The guy with the .357 minor league OBP, which reminds me of Alew Hassan and his .383 minor league OBP that earned him 9 MLB PAs.

With 2 days off in the next 5 days, our starters can get some extra rest, or we can skip a start by someone and or allow Eovaldi to jump someone else's start. I'm not sure how much longer we can stick with some of these guys. At least we still get 4 or more IP for all but Perez's starts ... In reverse order: IP Runs (not ER) Pitcher 4.0 -6 Richards 4.0 -4 ERod 6.2 -0 Eovaldi 1.1 -5 Perez 5.0 -6 Pivetta 5.1 -4 Richards 4.2 -6 ERod 5.2 -5 Eovaldi 2.0 -6 Perez

I wasn't thinking of using either as an "opener" or a pitcher going after an "opener," but you are right about Gonsalves not being shelled recently.

I agree, and maybe we have some prospects that will blast their way into the top 100 or 150 in the next year or two- maybe even someone we wouldn't expect to do so. One reason we don't have many recently drafted and mostly untested draft picks in the top 100 rankings is because we have not drafted in the top 10 since Beni in 2015. Getting Casas at #26 in 2018 looks real good (props to DD for that.) We also got Duran in the 7th round, that year (#220). We got Houck at #24 in 2017, and he has not disappointed, but nobody else from that draft looks too promising, although there is still time for a surprise or two. Back 5 years ago, 2016, we had the 12th pick, which is not bad, and we took Groome. We traded our 3rd pick, Shaun Anderson) for Nunez. We drafted Dalbec in the 4th (#118), Shawaryn #148 and Nogosek #178. Back far enough to be able to at least partially judge: 2015: 7 Beni, 111 Matheny, 171 Lakins, 201 Ben Taylor, 231 Logan Allen 2014: 26 Chavis, 33 Kopeck (Ellsbury comp pick), 67 Sam Travis, 164 Ockimey The 2013 disaster: 7 T Ball, 45 Stanki, 81 Denney + nothing 2012: 24 Marrero, 31 Johnson, 37 Light, 151 Buttrey The Theo years: 2011: 19 Barnes, 26 Swihart, 36 Owens, 40 JBJ, 143 Noe Ramirez, 172 Betts 2010: 20 Vitek, 36 Brentz, 39 Ranaudo, 57 Workman,110 Coyle 2009: 28 Fuentes, 77 Alex Wilson 2008: 30 Kelly (traded with Rizzo for AGon), 45 B Price, 85 Fife, 108 Weiland, Westmoreland and Lava taken in 5th & 6th rounds, Vaz taken in 9th round. 2007: 55 Hagadone, 5th rd Middlebrooks, 6th Rizzo 2006: nothing until Masterson at #71 2005: 23 Ellsbury, 26 Hansen, 42 Buchholz, 45 Lowrie, 47 Bowden 2004: 2nd rd Pedey, 6th Meredith 2003: 1st David Murphy, 4th Papelbon Pre Theo 2002: 2nd Lester 2001: 2nd Shoppach

We have very little knowledge on who Leiter is as a person.

We really may end up needing a SP'er more than a new RP'er. Houck is not ready. Whitlock was never "stretched out." Seabold is on the IL. Ward & Mata had TJS. Gossett & Gonsalves are not on the 40 and have been shelled, recently. We could maybe get 2-3 innings from Whitlock, Sawamura, DHern and Andriese in some sort of pen or "opener" style game, but no long term fix, as of now. One has to think ERod is one big shelling away from an IL assignment- phantom or otherwise. OPS Against last 2 weeks: 1.129 Perez (.946 last 28 days) 1.123 Pivetta (.909 last 28 days) .978 Richards (.891 last 28 days) .849 ERod (.897 last 28) .793 Eovaldi (.744 in 28)

...and be noticed.

Yes, Taylor is a keeper, but he's also an example of a pitcher who struggled through 2020 and the start of his 2021 season and turned it around. I doubt Workman does what Taylor just did, but he has a good history and may not be any longer of a shot than Brennan or Ort. I wish we had Brasier ready for a look-see. What's up with Bazardo?

I guess I had bad pitching on my mind. Yes, last in BB's, 3rd in BA and T9th in OBP at .317. 3rd in SLG T3rd in OPS 3rd in runs scored