homer

Probably a wash

Current pace: Grandal 35 HRs Moose 50 Yelich 59

CBS sports fantasy site does. Not sure I you can access it if you aren't in a league.

We're owed a few here from that crap Richie Sexson pole shot double. Is the dent still on the flag pole?

Feels like Verlander is going to strikeout like 13 in 7 innings and lose.

I think a better stat would be to see where the team ERA sat on June 12 of last season, if you want to make an apples to apples comparison. 3.53

Do we even need one is the best question I think. If we could get 4-5 guys putting up similar results and numbers to what Woodruff and Davies have done, that would be pretty great. Now if by "ace" you mean a guy with the confidence to take the ball in Game 7 of the NLCS and give you a chance to win ... I don't know. I'd like to think so. History would tell you, yes....yes we do. Look it up, past World Series winners have aces. It hasn't happened since 2005 that a team really had no one considered an ace...that is pretty bad and a long time ago. The 2015 Royals might have a weak case as one of those teams, but they had Cueto. He may have pitched poorly at times, but when it came to the World Series he threw a gem in Game 2 for the win. You pretty much have to hope and be an exception like the 2015 Royals...who had an absolutely ridiculous pen. One of which, sorry, we aren't even close to having. Wade Davis had a sub 1 ERA....almost impossible to fathom. Obviously having an ace makes your team better over the course of a season and a team with an ace is more likely to get to the playoffs but I wonder how much aces matter to WIN a world series? I guess it would mean looking at all the world series winners and seeing how their aces did. Last year, for example, Chris Sale didn't really pitch all that great in the World Series yet Boston still won. Houston's ace was Keuchel I guess. He wasn't very good in the WS either. Cubs had a great staff overall. Hendricks and Lester were sort of co-aces and pitched well in the world series. I'm not disagreeing with you just sort of thinking out loud. My theory is that you can't have any black holes on your staff more than you need a true ace but I could be wrong about that. Would need to look.

Yamamoto is starting for the Marlins tomorrow.

Man Grandal has been so good this year.

Fair enough

Well at least the Cubs are taking one on the chin too.

Make a commitment to get all the way through season 1 of GoT. Takes a bit to get all the families and characters straight.

I bet that felt good, Travis

This Astros AAA lineup stinks.

Didn't Sal Bando end up taking a bunch of guys that later turned out to be awesome for other teams? For one, I'm pretty sure the Brewers drafted Nomar Garciaparra out of high school I guess you could find a list of these types for every team in baseball.

I'm fired up for no reason other than there is a new scheme and a bunch of new players (on defense). At the very least, it will look different. The offense had gotten so darn stale that any change is welcomed by me.

I’d be for a trade of Barnes Williams, if no takers, DFA em, get Perdomo and Jackson on the potential shuttle. Jackson’s been great down below, but had a rough go of it first time around with the crew. Perdomo and Jackson cant be worse than Williams Barnes, and even if they are bad, at least it’s not the same ol same ol. With Nelson and the abundance of starter arms, don’t think the shuttle will be used quite as often moving forward. But if it does, it be nice to see arms not named Barnes Williams. In the interest of clarity, please either put a slash between the last names or use "or" so people don't think you're talking about some new guy named Barnes Williams. Thanks.

Trent is 1st in Southern League in OPS. 2nd place is 35 points behind him

HA. Now that is a funny joke. The cost for Clevinger would be even higher. If you are going for pie in the sky ideas, why not try for Lindor? [sarcasm]It would only cost Yelich, Hader, Hiura & Turang[/sarcasm]... In other words its not happening... Didn't think I needed to put that in blue.

Think I'd rather get Clevinger for cheap.

David Ortiz shot while at a club in the Dominican. Seems like he was targeted? Curious to see what this was all about. I believe his wife is a Wisconsin native.

This is your finest post.

I am just now noticing that I am using the same avatar as you. I will change mine post haste.

Brewers pull ahead of Cubs for now.

4 games in a row their D absolutely owned the Bucks. They had so much more poise in the 4th quarter in every tight game. They were better.