I'm totally on board with selling Riley high to get multiple multiple above average big league players. I think everyone would be on board with that.
Speaking only for myself, what I am not on board with is selling low for whatever big league players we can get for Riley because we hate that he doesn't shorten up his swing with two strikes.
Rangers crush Guardians in Cleveland, 7-3. And so, despite the Tigers coughing up the game in Boston by failing to take advantage of big threats in the first and fourth and ninth innings, and then giving up runs in each of the last three innings:
I get that it’s Aroldis Chapman throwing triple digits and all, but there were some pitches in the fat part that major league hitters should be able to do something with.
I don’t know where else he would have stayed—how can you come to Chicago for a first visit and not stay downtown—but Riot Fest is a looooong way from downtown. Easily a $50 Uber ride during Riot Fest, perhaps even more.
Man, Casey is getting the hell beaten out of him right now. We need a medium contact grounder right at somebody right now.
EDIT: Yeah, like that. Good.
OK, let’s try this again: We need five runs in the top of the fifth inning right now.