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At this point my pref list to win it all would be… DEN (love Jokic’s game and all he’s missing is the ring) MIA (would soften the blow of losing to them, be a great story, mean no BOS/PHI, and would rather Butler get his first ring than Curry/LBJ get their fifth) LAL (would be rad for Darvin Ham, plus a non-bubble ring for AD, also a fun story with the mid season re-tool) GSW (they aren’t BOS/PHI) BOS (Smart/Grant Williams are two of my least favorite players, but they aren’t Harden/Embiid) PHI (love watching James/Joel flop and flail their way out of the playoffs)

Their winning percentage is the highest in the division

Has put up a zero in seven of eight appearances now with a two run HR to Mike Trout the only blemish on his ERA so far.

He got picked off first to end the 7th inning so he either got pulled for injury, getting picked off, defensive replacement (he was playing LF), or to replace Voit.

Here’s that Jackson jack…

Brannon Jordan strikes out a pair over two scoreless frames to close out the Wisco victory and lower his ERA to 1.59 for the season. Nashville has Harrison - Perkins - Monasterio due up hoping to spark a walk off or at least extend it to extras trailing 4-3 bottom nine.

Luis Contreras records all five outs via K while Harold Chirino strikes out a pair in a scoreless 9th to secure the Shuckers win. Carolina also prevails 6-3 with a Guilarte sac fly accounting for the sixth run and Nick Merkel picking up the save with 3 IP | 1 ER | 3 H | 0 BB | 7 K

Nashville knotted up 2-2 top of 7th. Patrick Dorrian two run HR about it on offense. Caleb Boushley with a solid 5 IP | 1 ER | 5 H | 2 BB | 4 K

Chourio and Zavier Warren have joined Zamora in the bomb squad. 7-0 Biloxi bottom 7th.

Wisconsin up 10-6 top of the 6th with a pair of three run homers from Darrien Miller and Eduardo Garcia doing the heavy lifting. Corneille was cruising perfect through three and scoreless through four before giving up five in the fifth.

Carolina up 4-3 heading into bottom of the 8th. Guilarte (1-3, BB) has extended his on base streak, while Jace Avina (2-4, 2B) and Jadher Areinamo (3-4, 2B) have been the other standouts at the plate. Make that 5-3 with a Kalyan Nicasia HR. Tanner Shears lowers his season ERA to 0.75 with 2.1 scoreless frames.

Man, bummer about Rasmussen. He has been pretty nails since we dealt him for Adames with 250 IP of 70 ERA- | 78 FIP- shaking out to 7.2 rWAR | 5.6 fWAR for Tampa. For context, that is pretty much the same kind of production we’ve gotten from Freddy since 2021 at 263 IP of 75 ERA- | 75 FIP- shaking out to 7.4 rWAR | 6.8 fWAR.

Yet, no MLB team thought that small sample performance vs RHP (with alarming underlying indicators) was worth claiming Keston and his $2.2M salary.

On the flip side Seminairis had his best start of the year with 5 IP | 1 ER | 1 H | 2 BB | 7 K while Meeker closed it out with two more scoreless frames (1 H | 1 BB | 2 K) to bring his ERA down to 1.38 for the season.

It was a K happy night for the Sounds bullpen game with Tyson Miller (3 IP | 6 K), Clayton Andrews (2.2 IP | 4 K) and Jake Cousins (1.1 IP | 4 K) between the aforementioned Megill and opener Alex Claudio (1 IP | 2 K).

Looks like Tyler worked his way around some traffic tonight (8 H | 2 BB) allowing only 1 ER over 5.1 IP.

Not quite as eye popping as the debut, but Rudy has a nice follow up with 5 IP | 1 ER | 3 H | 0 BB | 2 K

01 Jackson Chourio [slow start, but still just 19 in AA with the highest upside in the system] 02 Sal Frelick03 Jeferson Quero04 Tyler Black [can see these guys in any order, really. Frelick the closest to MLB but currently injured and will likely never hit for much power, sounds like Quero has all the tools to be a plus defender behind the dish just a question of how the bat develops, Black the most well-rounded offensive profile in the system but still questions about the ultimate defensive home] 05 Jacob Misiorowksi06 Robert Gasser07 Carlos Rodriguez PITCHER08 Abner Uribe [have these four as the top pitchers in the system. Jacob's sky high ceiling puts him in the lead spot, Carlos has the better early season results but gave the edge to Gasser for now because he is a level up, and Abner at the end since he is reliever only but has the stuff for a high leverage role] 09 Daniel Guilarte 10 Eric Brown Jr. 11 Luis Lara 12 Freddy Zamora13 Matthew Wood 14 Luke Adams [next tier of position players for me. Guilarte, Lara, Wood and Adams off to encouraging starts, EBJ scuffling so far but plenty of time left, nice bounce back from Zamora in the early going.] 15 Justin Jarvis 16 Edwin Jimenez 17 Alexander Cornielle 18 Darrell Thompson 19 Clayton Andrews 20 Ethan Small [close it out with my favorites of the remaining pitchers in the system though there are definitely plenty of intriguing arms at the lower levels to keep an eye on as the season progresses with Tyler Wehrle (2.99 FIP), Alexander Vallecillo (3.21 FIP), Nate Peterson (3.24 FIP) and Patricio Aquino (3.89 FIP) at Carolina, plus Ryan Brady (2.03 FIP), Tyler Woessner (3.04 FIP) and a maybe finally healthy again Max Lazar (2.99 FIP) at Wisco. Also really like Harold Chirino, James Meeker and Ryan Middendorf among the upper level relievers]

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Metzinger just bombed another pair home, so now 6-2. Just a grand slam short of the team HR cycle.

Eric Brown Jr with his first A+ HR plus a Je’Von Ward three run jack have Wisco up 4-2 bottom of the third.

Mitchell hasn’t hit 130 ABs yet, but he has exceeded 45 days on the active roster at this point. Looks like MLB dropped him from their Top 30 org list. Turang/Wiemer will likely have graduated by the time votes are tabulated & list is published so I’ll prolly hold off on voting for them too, personally.

Ding Ding. Since the All Star Break of last year there are 101 pitchers with at least 80 IP. Here's where Burnes ranks in various categories over that stretch... 128 IP (7th) 25.3 K% (31st) 7.0 BB% (62nd) 1.05 HR9 (51st) 3.94 ERA (56th) 3.72 FIP (42nd) No one is giving up any kind of major haul for Burnes if he continues pitching like that from now through the deadline.

Another 10%-ish of the schedule is in the books and its been rough going here for NL Central clubs the last week or so with the Brewers just breaking a six game losing streak, the Cardinals just breaking an eight game losing streak, the Pirates in the midst of a seven game losing streak, while the Cubs had their own little 1-6 streak before the weekend and the Reds, well they played some games too. The projections are a little slower to react to chaos than the average fan, but they are starting to see the NLC as a little more interesting race than they did before the season started or after the first 10% of games played. Current computations... BPro MIL: 87 W | 75% Div | 79% PO CHI: 78 W | 9% Div | 14% PO STL: 77 W | 9% Div | 13% PO PIT: 76 W | 6% Div | 9% PO 538 MIL: 88 W | 61% Div | 74% PO CHI: 80 W | 18% Div | 33% PO PIT: 78 W | 12% Div | 25% PO STL: 75 W | 7% Div | 16% PO FanGraphs MIL: 86 W | 57% Div | 65% PO CHI: 80 W | 17% Div | 26% PO PIT: 79 W | 13% Div | 21% PO STL: 79 W | 13% Div | 20% PO I probably agree with the more evenly distributed FanGraphs spread the most at the moment, seems a little too early in the season still for the degree of confidence BPro is showing in the Brewers.

Cavaliers got bounced in the first round. Mitchell and Garland are kind of redundant as undersized guards while they don’t really have much at SF. Maybe a sign and trade around Middleton/Garland with other pieces added as needed?