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If Statcast is to be believed, Vierling has a bad jump and a great arm, which I believe suits him best for our smallish right field. His poor jump is also why he probably won't see much, if any, time in center. I would think Meadows would see some time in left when he is not DHing, perhaps splitting that with Baddoo if Akil makes it our of camp, and would see right field when Vierling is sitting against certain right handers. Maton played a few games at shortstop for the Phillies in 2021 and did poorly there, although it has been his primary position in the minors even into last year. Unless he absolutely dazzles in Lakeland while Baez collapses, I have trouble seeing Nick pushing Javy over to second. It's probably more likely Nick wins the second base job and pushes Schoop over the third which, really, I have trouble seeing even that. I think we are going to work Nick at third base for the most part to give him every chance to win that job, unless we pick up a more experienced third baseman in the interim which will allow us to stash Nick in Toledo for depth. We are not signing Correa. Not this winter, not ever.

If we’re playing a game today, maybe.

And now Silk is fundraising off it. That could definitely have been scripted. Or maybe already was.

Here’s a handy new investigation for this Congress to pursue.

I agree the objections in 2020 were in bad faith. Even if the 2016 Democratic objections were also based in bad faith, that does not excuse the 2020 republicans, and the sheer scale of the bad faith is what puts democracy on the hot seat in a way the 2016 objections did not.

You're right, it's not their fault per se. It's the system's fault, or more exactly, the fault of people who could make the decision but do not because they fear the system rolling over on top of them instead. And I agree that a member of Congress objecting to electoral votes during counting is not a crime. That's almost certainly not what the recommendation to pursue the four named congressional reps was for. Otherwise, they would have referred 147 reps to Justice, not four.

Because I felt like replying to someone else's post about Trayce Thompson. I'll bring it again in the future if I feel like it, too.

I don't think we need to give anyone a chance to act for us to reasonably conclude that they're gonna get away with it all, and the only thing they will have learned from this is what they need to do better next time, as well as what not to do, so how are we gonna stop them next time, since there won't be any precedent set by punishing them this time? And I'm being serious here, because the killers are in the House, so ... what? They're going to censure several sitting House members, expel them, indict them, and imprison them? That's basically the only way to get the message across that you simply can't fuck with our democracy like this, but do we really think that's gonna happen? Or is the lesson to simply beat them at the ballot box and everything will work out in the end?

Their only desire is to drain Washington of democracy, competence, and good government.

I don't care that he's not in the organization now, but god damn, man, he could have helped at the time when no one else was doing squat, 31 or not.

I have wondered about the Trayce Thompson situation because the whole thing was just so weird. Released by the Padres on May 14, signed by the worst-hitting-team-in-baseball Tigers on May 19, killing it in Toledo for a month (.299/.352/.639 in 25 games ) after killing it in El Paso (.316/.385/.860 in 16 games), and instead of being promoted to Detroit, gets sold by the worst-hitting-team-in-baseball Tigers to the Dodgers on June 20, for whom he goes on to crush it for the rest of the season (.268/.364/.537 in 70 games). It makes zero sense. What gave with that?

Right because to your point, one doesn’t have to be technically or technologically competent to blast a house from a tank or shoot a whole town of civilians into an open mass grave. Also to your point: if Ukraine does end up winning, we better keep them very close …

These are the same guys who because famous doing bad lip reading of NFL players like Peyton Manning at press conferences maybe six to eight years ago.

The public is tried of it as of now. Hopefully nothing new happens that re-energizes the right-leaning middle for the spat.

Assuming it all plays out the way we imagine we might, I agree to the degree that the blame for the obstruction can be successfully laid at the feet of the Republicans and not the Senate, the White House, or other Democratic-led institutions. Sure, it would be obvious to us where the problem lies, but remember that the hard right has an entire media ecosystem that influences tens of millions of voters, so the perception of blame wins the day over actual culpability. As for the fungibility of the debt ceiling, the idea that it’s there but not really there, we’ve gone through this threat before and they’ve always come up with a deal within a reasonable amount of time. So I don’t think we can really project what the effect of a hard fight over it that drags on for weeks, months, or a couple of years would look like—especially if the G-bonds people bought actually stop getting paid on.

I think the answer to that was probably no.

That's going to be the big difference: Soto has got a strong net under him in Philly.

He has the face of a guy who would beat the hell out of you just for the hell of it.

As a throw-in, we could have done a lot worse than Donny Sands. He’s shown really good plate discipline with some pop, and had a .413 on base at AAA Lehigh last year.

I was wondering whether and how Avila might have made this trade were he here. Since Dombrowski is on the other side, the trade might well have been made in the first place. I could see Avila sending Soto and either Klemens or Kreidler in exchange for Edmundo Sosa, Proven Major Leaguer, and a couple of flyer pitchers from down the system, perhaps someone like Jayden Astanista and … oh, I don’t know, maybe Mike Adams. OK, enough of that pointless speculation … we return you to your actual trade discussion already in progress …

Maybe the thing to take from the disparity is that a tweak might help him square up the ball more consistently. Vierling can be one of Brdar’s top projects this spring.

It’s a little weird how red Vierling’s average EV number is but how blue his barrel rate is. I’m not sure what to take from that. That poor jump and great arm screams right field.

Don’t tell Lee but Cody has gone all in on Statcast cards … 😉💀

Ok indeed