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Jimenez has a history that's enough to make you happy to have him become someone else's problem going forward. But if you had just dropped he and Soto in from Mars this season, you'd wonder why Joe wasn't closing. This is the kind of call that makes or breaks team building - which one of these guys is more likely to end up worthless in a season or two and which might be your all-star. Stat's will hardly help you here because the big question with Jimenez is which of many different pitchers he has been statistically is the one he will be in the future, the one who dominates or the the one who can't find the plate? Likewise with Soto - who is so dependent on his velo because the slider comes and goes. He may show up next ST and the triple digits may be gone. Jimenez' walk rate is probably too low to sustain, but where does he level out after seasons at 6.9 and 1.8? Soto lives so close to the edge it always feels like he might self-destruct permanently at any time.

If it too big for where a developer wants to put it, Taylor is all in for it. His dream seems to be to turn a town with no road or transportation net into Manhattan.

I guess I would call that a proximate cause. Whether it rises to the level of reason is another matter. 🙄

Petzold tweets that Fetter had recruited Anglin when he was at UM.

Anyone seen any reporting on how Vlad's litany of atrocities is playing in China? Is China allowing any coverage, is any of what they are allowing honest? Is Xi going doubling down with Vladdy or maybe looking for some distance from being his BFF?

Cameron and Carpenter are the only OFs listed on the Hen's roster as of now - well Robson is still listed but seems to be long gone.

well they got Josh Hader's hair anyway.

Do I hear Heavenly Choirs singing? ..no, just a little tinnitus.

If there were some way it was actually conceivable to build build a 90+ win team and then tweak it in any such manner that would materially change its probability of winning the WS it wouldn't be, but there isn't.

good running by Willi there.

dya think the relievers got together before this game and made a blood brother's pact to all look bad together?

SB, GO SF

13K and maybe we get extras to go even higher.

bottom line though, ungovernable country proves ungovernable. No doubt Afg is tragic. Plenty of doubt we were ever actually going to change that. If there is a fault, it's not enough exit visas provided. If you can't make the country good enough for the people, at least let as many of the good people out as you can.

got gas for $3.95 today. (well I cheated a little, had some Kroger points)

In the immortal worlds of Dandy Don, "Turn out the lights, this party's over...."

Fulmer's seems to be a good dude, maybe not the sharpest knife in the drawer....

shake off your catcher 3 times, give up a hit on 0-2 to load the bases

Looks like Fulmer doing the same.

word order in English is important. Skubal really came to the dugout after the screw-up at 2b and said "I'm tired of this shit". Hinch thought he said, "Shit, I'm tired", and took him out.

BR has him at -7 Rdrs. Go figure.

the irony is that it may well have been the US withdrawal that led Zawahri to let his guard down enough to be hit.

they were shifted to the left side. It was the 2b walking away with his back to the runner.

my bad, that was Schoop. I thought by the body style it was Harold, who is at 1b of course. Harold does go to sleep on plays though.....