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Maybe he should switch to tennis.

Love doubles.

If his lifelong dream was to make it to the majors, and his name was added then removed from a major league spring training roster without an appearance....And thats the closest hes ever come to the majors (to date). Is his lifelong dream now fulfilled? These questions NEED answers.

I hear that the SD Padres affiliated AAA team has been employing those.

HAHAHA, does he get a ring now if we win?

Im rooting for you to be right, here.

They had to reteach Zion Williamson running fundamentals. Some dudes turn their knees out or their ankles in, some dudes just waddle. Casas runs poorly also.

look if I compare Luke Raleys June only OPS from 2 years ago , to Roman Anthonys projected OPS this season, then clearly the 2 are completely interchangeable.

Scrutinizing who gets to call themselves what or what country they get to represent never ends well. Have you ever been on the receiving end of that? I have.

sounds like you wouldnt call it a glaring weakness. Im with you FYI - not trying to be a jerk here, but the shorthand for same as above is '' (double apostrophe or single quotation marks) not "" (double quotation marks). I do like that you used it (next to Crawford) and its been a while since ive seen someone use that shorthand.

I sincerely hope, Kimmi, that you are "particularly interested" in eligibility due to wanting to celebrate diversity and not coming from a place of wanting more scrutiny of who gets to call themselves what or what countries/ethnicities people are allowed to claim/represent. Unfortunately, the way you phrased this, Im getting the gist that you are more interested in critiquing the nuances of the "rules" or maybe even the enforcement of them. Thats a pretty dark path and your comment made me uncomfortable. It seems like if one of your parents was born in a country (or one of their territories), you can play. Netherlands is getting good players out of Curacao and Aruba, 2 Dutch territories that are kind of independent but kind of still part of the Netherlands. It does not bother me. In fact, I think the diversity on the Netherlands team is cool. Like Jazz on Britain, another example. Bahamas isnt part of Britain today, but it was when Jazz Sr was born there. And Jazz's grandma was a Bahamian softball star for 30 years, and for most of that span the Bahamas was British territory. The fact that Jazz gets to play for Britain and add diversity to that team is cool. The rule is simply this, and it need not change: To represent a country/team in the WBC, you have to be invited to represent that country/team. If that invitation is made and the player accepts - you are on the team. Good enough for me.

How dare you. He said "very"

I have trouble locating a 12-6 in the show. I also cant tell if i even want to throw it for a strike catching the corner low and away or bury it in the dirt. That pitch gives me trouble with its utilization. I do love backdooring a more standard curveball (or slurve or sweeper) to lefties to start the count 0-1.

well, you had me at (in my) "very" (honest opinion). You had me at "very"

Cedanne , mayer, duran, contreras all look particularly primed to me. Even the guys with less than stellar stat lines like Abreu and Kc have hit a few line-outs.

I want to reiterate: we are looking strong guys.

The only solution here is to petition the league to up the active roster max to 30 and maybe have an extra DH lineup spot or 2. I want Masa, KC, Monasterio, Eaton, IKF, Ward, Castro, Romy, Wong all to have some kind of role and be successful! 30 may not even be enough. This spring has turned me into Kimmi. Everyone gets support! (no offense, Kimmi)

Im with you, but Eaton is catching too many stray bullets. Hes hit .305 last year + this spring

Right, Moon and Joe (and I guess Schilling) have said or implied that the teams that get the most starts out of their regular rotation will be the most successful ..... My point is that the construction of the team and the depth kind of matter and these high level nuggets of wisdom, while cute, generally overlook some nuance, such as: If you build a strong starting 5 and assume no injuries and then get hit with 2 big ones and now you have like unready prospects or career 5ERA journeyman off the scrap heap making a ton of starts - yeah, trouble. For sure. But in our case, Im not even sure who our top 5 SP even are. And Im not sure that the starters who start each of the first 5 games are our top 5 sp. Early may not be there for extra year of control games, but that doesnt necessarily mean that he isnt one of the top 5. That expression that Schilling said and Joe said was 100% true doesnt feel extremely true in our case, this year. Not every team is equally equipped to handle a SP injury. It effects some more than others. Im happy for our depth. But these high level nuggets of wisdom can be wise and cute and generally true - but they are also usually overly simplistic. If the team that got the most starts out of its sp rotation always won the most games, I woudl start the year with a 17 man SP rotation. Because even if i have 12 SP injuries, I still got 162 games started by guys who were included in my regular (out of the gate) rotation. So is that the cheat code or do these super high level "truisms" break down?

Yes, the pressure starts building once the games start counting agreed. But you dont go all in to win game 1 at the cost of the other 161. Roster battles usually continue into the season and guys get sent down for extra year of team control games and also due to who has options vs who doesnt....And then after you send these guys down who were sent down for unfair reasons, the roster battles still continue. Assessment continues.

That makes sense. But to moon/Joes point, we have great years when we get starts from our regular rotation....If Early has been anointed one of our best starting 5 but hes held back to gain an extra year of control.....it starts becoming murky to me which 5 are our "regular rotation" and if one is early.

The bench doesnt need to be ideal on March 5th, or even April 5th.

You strike me as someone who has been in management. Have you ever pushed your staff and then they responded well to it? You dont stop pushing them. YOu keep doing whats getting you (the manager) results. Management 101: you manage everyone differently , customized to how/what they respond to. Some people do best with the stick and some people do best with the carrot. Mayer got some stick/tough love, and he seems like a much better player for it.

I feel like right now, Tolle could be the third best closer in MLB.

Mayer is helping his case. They told him to bulk up, he did. Mayer did not come to spring looking like a guy who nursed a wrist injury all winter. He looks like a guy who got in better shape and worked hard. Hes looked good to me. Better than I thought he would. The truth is: we're looking pretty strong right now..