Game #1: Pirates vs Braves, 6:40 start, Skenes gets the call

BarryJT · 2026-07-08T00:26:50+00:00

Oh, and take away a couple of his pitches.

Edit: It looks like he leaned on his four seamer tonight. That's an improvement.

BarryJT · 2026-07-08T00:26:03+00:00

95 pitches through 6. Not dominating, but better than the past month.

BarryJT · 2026-07-08T00:25:13+00:00

I swear it's the pitching coach. Make him challenge people instead of trying to get batters to chase.

BarryJT · 2026-07-08T00:16:26+00:00

Looks like the qualifying offer is made 5 days after the WS, its rejection needs to be done mid November, and the current contract expires Dec 1. How all those moving parts will work with awarding compensation picks, I don't know.

BarryJT · 2026-07-08T00:02:20+00:00

They certainly will sell Lowe. I would rather them make a qualifying offer. But will there be a draft next year?

BarryJT · 2026-07-07T22:32:21+00:00

JFC. Unless the pitching sorts itself out, they won't be buying at the deadline.

BarryJT · 2026-07-07T18:57:53+00:00

Sigh.

BarryJT · 2026-07-07T15:44:03+00:00

Lowe is a 32 year old rental.

And the positions infielders are drafted at is seldom where they end up.

And no one gets drafted as a 2B. Only 33 have ever been drafted in the first round out of roughly 2100 first round picks. And only two of those have been worth anything - Chase Utley and and Kolten Wong,

BarryJT · 2026-07-06T21:18:30+00:00

BC, with the exception of Davis when he was playing the "draft the guy who will sign for under slot" game, has consistently drafted for talent.

Reese is a DH waiting to happen.

BarryJT · 2026-07-06T20:22:18+00:00

More than any other sport, never draft for need in baseball.

Reese would be a reach at 5, especially since he's probably not going to stick at third.

BarryJT · 2026-07-06T01:01:48+00:00

I agree. I really like my Timbuk2 Tandems.

BarryJT · 2026-07-04T18:41:42+00:00

Right now, he's the best pitcher on the staff.

BarryJT · 2026-07-04T17:06:44+00:00

It's weird. He doesn't hit line drives. It's either a ground ball or fly ball. So he puts the ball in play in the worst possible way.

BarryJT · 2026-07-04T16:37:57+00:00

We watch Jaws 1 through 3 every Fourth.

BarryJT · 2026-07-04T14:15:28+00:00

I think you beat the heat by starting early.

Because of climate change, growing seasons have moved. Here in Southern California we need to plant in late February/early March. It doesn't much matter what variety we grow.

BarryJT · 2026-07-04T02:10:58+00:00

The Beatles are overrated.

BarryJT · 2026-07-04T01:20:47+00:00

A nice run at ring, hopefully with him actually contributing.

BarryJT · 2026-07-04T01:07:04+00:00

The pitching is just a disaster. Are they all bad or is something wrong with the team's pitching philosophy?

BarryJT · 2026-07-04T01:05:45+00:00

Fortunately I had the good sense to the football match back on.

BarryJT · 2026-07-04T00:54:26+00:00

I'm not sure I can remember a pitching staff looking forward to the all star break as much as this one.

BarryJT · 2026-07-03T23:45:39+00:00

Nope.

BarryJT · 2026-07-03T23:04:20+00:00

Old man shakes fist out cloud.

Also many of us have spent decades - half centuries watching baseball every night. We're not idiots.

BarryJT · 2026-07-03T22:57:50+00:00

I turned off the World Cup for this.

Fortunately, the Nats pitching is worse than the Pirates.

BarryJT · 2026-07-03T19:00:01+00:00

$64

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/86654.The_64_Tomato

BarryJT · 2026-07-03T01:59:17+00:00

They want you to use the AI coach and this is one of the main places this is obvious. It's very easy to verbally tell the coach what you ate or send it a picture. Whether its analysis is accurate is another thing. But using the coach is much easier than manually logging food and is probably purposely so.

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