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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Is Scott Rolen a HOF candidate or does not reaching 400 HR's mean hall of pretty good?

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Intruder posted:

Hopefully Rolen is barred like all Cardinals should be

If we barred every player who played for a team with insufferable fans the place would be fuckin' empty.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Given that they could get a really good return, is there any chance of Freeman being traded?

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Can't wait for Stephen A Smith's take.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Poque posted:

They met Trump and got him to say "you're fired" and everybody laughed but then everybody stopped and stared at Miggy until he left

Well, he is a bad hombre...

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

Your Taint posted:

Check out @ManuclearBomb's Tweet: https://twitter.com/ManuclearBomb/status/880128437905747968?s=09

Is Almora giving a sly middle finger?

Holy poo poo it looks like he is. Ha!

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
A bit surprised Roberto Perez isn't on there, but he also doesn't play that often. If only he was a decent hitter.

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010

John Wilkes Booth posted:

You could really see the difference last season after the Sox ditched Flowers for Alex Avila and DIoner Navarro. Flowers also outhit both of them last year and I've just looked it up and he's hitting .331 this season??? What a goddamn mistake that was.

What is up with Flowers being really good all of the sudden? Is it a fluke or did he just bloom late?

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
I think he had to make adjustments because he was striking out a LOT last year. He was literally striking out every 2nd AB last year. Now he's K'ing every 3rd and half at bat, and he's also he's making way better contact. He's also walking every 6th PA, last year it was every 11th PA. That doesn't sound like a big difference in terms of K's, and he still strikes out a fair bit, but it's like going from being Rob Deer to Jim Thome.

Pitchers will probably adjust to him and he probably won't hit well over .300 every year, but if he can hit .270 to .300 and provide the power he does now, he'll be a force for a good long while.

El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Jun 29, 2017

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El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
Houston should be inquiring about people like Pat Neshek, Tommy Kahnle, and George Kontos. Relievers who are pitching well and playing for lovely teams.


I on the other hand, wish the Indians would get some dang help in the starting rotation. I do not like Trevor Bauer.

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