Team Canada

Well, he's in A+ right now. I suppose when he gets promoted to AA (sometime this month) if he lights the world on fire there he'd be a candidate for postseason. But not the near future.

We'll see if this is a trend or an aberration, but Frelick sits for Bauers today.

Bauers in RF, Vaughn at 1B, I'm all about this lineup.

We don't need to spend 2 roster spots on pitchers that never pitch.

That sounds amazing until you look and see Luis Matos is hitting .351.

Agreed. A cap and floor doesn't necessarily fix the problem. It limits the range of options, but a more balanced local revenue share would provide a more level playing field. With a cap/floor, you're still going to have smaller markets sitting at the floor and the big markets at the cap. For NFL where basically everyone is operating right around the cap, is it just a function of it all being national broadcast arrangements so you can't have local TV deals, and thus every club has a similar amount of money?

Don't feed the troll. Feel free to use the ignore option.

You can make your point without such dripping sarcasm and derision. It's ok for someone to have a different approach in team building than you.

Yuck. In retrospect, hit Vaughn for Frelick and then let Hamilton do a squeeze. but Yeli comes through!

Well ok, at least Vaughn is PHing for someone.

Let's move on to today's game.

Source? Everyone does that. Everyone.

History means more to fans than a particular group of players. There really isn't much carryover between the past teams that really didn't like each other and these teams.

Patrick it is, same lineup as yesterday. I realize Mitchell hit a homer yesterday, but also Vaughn needs to play more than 1 out of 3 games. Can we just move Chourio to RF?

Fischer has now taken over the team OPS lead from Josh. That escalated quickly. Pratt 2 more hits, Lara yet another 3 hit game. At the same time, every time I ask myself why he hasn't been called up yet, I look down the box score and see Matos hitting .353/.921.