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Agreed - and love Starlin Castro as an individual and at the plate - but he doesn't have the motor in the field or on the bases to be Russell or seemingly Torres. Proved it again last night - Starlin is playing 2nd for the Fish - score tied 3-3 - Bryant on 3rd with go ahead run and 1 dead - a sharp 2 hopper is hit to him - he shuffles a couple steps before he releases the ball, throws wide and late. Bryant scores and Cubs go on to win the game. Torres, Russell, Gregorious, and certainly Baez have that throw off in one fluid motion and Bryant is dead meat at the plate. Yanks won big on that move especially when you figure they have Chapman back.

Lots of them, dude. He has all the makings of an all-star and has hit the street running. I still make that trade 100 times out of a hundred as we don't have a chance of winning the WS without Chapman I think it's a little too early to say Addison Russell has peaked at the plate at the tender age of 24. Had a substandard year last year and now Chili Davis has all those young guys trying to use more of the field when they're at the dish instead of focusing on launch angle which I support wholeheartedly. If Gleyber has 9+ RBI's in a WS before he's 23 we can certainly revisit the conversation. Defensively - Torres is a special talent, but I'll still keep Russell

Didn't like the 6 years when we did it and like it much less after we've had a chance to see how mentally weak he is. Heard Theo interviewed on why they chose Yu over Arrieta and he said "you take the guy who has the best stuff" if age, money, and all else is equal. Turns out they offered Jake 6@$20m and Yu signed for 6@$21m. The guy has 6+ often unhittable pitches when he can throw them - and the mental strength of a 6-year-old whose parents are in the middle of a bitter divorce. I'd rather attempt to help a guy with how to bolster his mental strength than attempt to teach a guy how to throw hi-90's with Yu's repertoire of pitches for sure. But they need to do something and quickly. If I was calling the shots - I'd find our currently unemployed old buddy John Lackey and make him a coach that is essentially Darvish's Siamese Twin with the explicit instructions to do whatever Lackey tells him to do - or else.

Bad break on deGrom bro. You guys have had way more than your share of crap luck and freakish injuries to SP's. On a side note ... we have an oriental guy we might consider parting with ...

List of bad choices: Day old fish Women that hang out in bowling alleys USC Quarterbacks That said - he's a country mile better than what we have or have had in a while.

We would schwanse up the grooming of a QB anyway ... again

Granted ... we would be trashing the first real opportunity to have a franchise QB that we've had in a while. But capturing the epic video of even the sparse few Jet fans in attendance in Tx could take a revamped Jets Draft Blunders to an Academy Award for short films and provide hours upon hour of entertainment.

C'mon out Gents! The weather should still be half-azz ok

I feel bad for Grimm and worse for the Royals who's pen was horrible enough without help from him. He's now sporting an 18.9 ERA and could only get 1 out tonight after letting in 6 earned including Granderson's 9th career Slam. One of the KC posters said it best .... Grimm indeed. Wish I would have thought of that one when he was our problem. But ... we have enough of our own issues and concerns in this young frostbitten campaign.

to play on a football field ...

Hey ... I'm currently without a consulting gig ... but I hit at least 3 meetings a week ...

Yeah .... and where's this one that symbolized the 2nd half of his career?

Not yet bro - but love me a little Ole Time Hockey - a Googling I will go ... Not bad - love Austin's decision to literally throw down

After I totally put The Maloik on Happ he finally got another RBI - 6 games and 17 strikeouts later. Chili has to stress some things other than launch angle on Ian and a couple of his teammates as the inability to drive in runs with RISP will keep this young team from a deep run again. My prediction of a marginal pen is eating sh!t too ... couldn't be happier.