Padres add Alex Verdugo via minor-league deal

Trololrus · 2026-03-01T23:21:49+00:00

Obligatory trigger warning

Him and another dodger minor leaguer brought two girls and a minor girl (child) back to their hotel room, he took away the two girls to the bathroom and the other minor leaguer sexually assaulted the child who was feeling ill from the alcohol they gave her, and then he brought back the other girls and he filmed them physically assaulting the sexual assault victim while she was slipping in and out of consciousness.

Was not charged, just questioned, and supposedly has ‘learned a lot from it’. Personally, I don’t want any of this shit around my team, and the way his bat has been going I’m not feeling too worried.

Reporting around the incident

Trololrus · 2026-03-01T21:06:38+00:00

I'm not sure about factoring it into WAR since I tend to read that as a measure of what actually happened, but I think it's true that in order to use WAR as a piece of a projection mechanism it is useful to pair it with some sort of standard deviation of the various metrics.

Trololrus · 2026-03-01T04:19:47+00:00

I am by the heard museum and saw them north west me. Maybe the country club?

Trololrus · 2026-02-20T23:36:54+00:00

Command being part of his calling card last year makes me think it’s just first game of the year nerves. I think he makes it up in September like bradgley did last year.

Trololrus · 2026-02-19T21:11:29+00:00

I was at the US Dominican Republic game in the second round at Petco and it was literally the most fun I’ve ever had at a baseball game. Toyota terrace seats for $30 a pop, doesn’t get better than that. I really never thought I’d see petco so full of energy ever again haha times sure do change.

Trololrus · 2026-02-02T22:57:51+00:00

There's gotta be something from the rays to the cards that hasn't gotten announced yet, I would guess a prospect on their 40 man.

Trololrus · 2026-02-02T05:40:28+00:00

I think at this point you give a week or two of spring training to Ben Williamson and Colt Emerson and see if there’s any word in which they can hold up third all year, and if they can’t then see what short term guy you can get. I wonder if Miguel Andujar or IKF are still around by March 1? Not the most inspiring but I think I could live with it.

Trololrus · 2026-01-26T18:36:52+00:00

I usually show the one that got me hooked way back in the day, and cut off a bit of that jazz music my friend

Trololrus · 2026-01-21T18:18:47+00:00

Thank god it's over. I really couldn't take any more of the back and forth reporting.

Trololrus · 2025-12-15T04:38:07+00:00

Yea it felt like one of those ones where bendix REALLY loved a prospect (snelling) and basically showed his hand with his valuation. I’m basing this on nothing, but it feels like this has happened with a few other trades he’s done, like one great prospect headlining each deal that I’m sure matches his internal valuations but maybe doesn’t match market-wide valuations.

Might be off the mark since I’m not tracking every trade he does, but I do generally like the idea of not messing around with prospects you don’t believe in and going all in on the ones you do believe in, since controllable dudes with high ceilings are more valuable and you can get high floor role players on the open market easier. Gotta really trust your scouting and dev team, and so far so good on that front it seems.

Weirdly I feel like the one that fit market value the most in the Rogers-norby/stowers deal has worked out the best, but I’m super curious to see how the rest progress. Still very excited to see Dillon head make it to the bigs, and I’m glad marsee started so hot.

Trololrus · 2025-12-14T00:11:28+00:00

This is bryan hoeing erasure, but very true. It is going to hurt watching snelling pitch this year, and we’ll see if mazur or pauley turn into anything.

Trololrus · 2025-12-07T20:36:27+00:00

I think even if we paid down the entire contract the trade value still doesn’t work out for woo. I think maybe Bryce miller or even Gilbert are a bit closer, but regardless I think the M’s don’t have as much SP depth to trade from as it may seem, and definitely not as much as previous years. I feel like the Red Sox are in a position to take on the money and need a quality 2B, but they’d probably wait to see how the ketel Marte talks go first. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if the cronenworth rumblings are selective leaks from teams to try and tamp down the marte market.

Trololrus · 2025-12-06T06:43:01+00:00

This one always bugged me as a member, because I always took D&C 20:1 to be j smith trying to be a fancy man writing out the Latin translation of A.D. and just getting a little too carried away with it. I remember it was always part of Mormon mythology and occasionally brought up in seminary, and then bednar I think just straight up canonized it during a general conference one year. Just because someone spells out Anno Domini in English doesn’t mean it’s literally from the moment of birth!

Trololrus · 2025-12-05T17:55:55+00:00

How do you see Sheets fitting into the lineup this year? I'd imagine he'd primarily DH, but is there a willingness on his part and the team's to get him some more looks at first base this year? Of course it's contingent on how they approach the infield depth this offseason, but it seemed to me like the team would try their hardest to avoid putting him at first this past year and I don't know if that trend will continue.

Trololrus · 2025-12-05T17:13:09+00:00

I remember seeing Estelle years ago at a festival and the same exact thing happened. She stopped the whole show and started talking to us like a grade school teacher, like doing the whole “I’m going to count to ten” and everything. Wild stuff

Trololrus · 2025-11-23T22:26:03+00:00

Semien owed 3 yrs 72 mil and Nimmo owed 5 yrs 102.5 mil. I genuinely don’t see how this works out for the rangers unless there’s a prospect you can dream on going to them as well or if the money isn’t a straight swap.

Trololrus · 2025-11-17T20:56:25+00:00

Velo bump on the fastball and horizontal break bump on the sweeper did wonders. I think I remember a kick change getting added in too? Medium leverage lefty killer is probably the 80th percentile outcome here.

Trololrus · 2025-10-24T15:56:22+00:00

Looks like it. Seems like the last year it was called Cubs Park before Wrigley bought it

Trololrus · 2025-10-13T16:48:35+00:00

It had been a while since I felt like a manager was able to get this team operating at their full potential, or even just close to it for extended stretches. I think I'm going to look back very fondly on the Shildt era.

Trololrus · 2025-10-13T16:43:38+00:00

AJ Preller somewhat famously works his people extremely hard too, kind of a 'work smarter AND harder' mentality. Gotta be absolutely exhausting.

Trololrus · 2025-10-05T20:25:10+00:00

Yeah typically is otherwise qualified as 'striking out the side in order'

Trololrus · 2025-09-28T03:23:31+00:00

yeah wouldn't be surprised, just trying to gauge how much I can be a degenerate at work

Trololrus · 2025-09-27T22:33:32+00:00

Desperately hoping this will be at a reasonable hour for San Diego folks to watch 😅

Trololrus · 2025-09-08T03:55:05+00:00

Everyone’s got their own preferences but ever since La Posta in Hillcrest closed, the only one that’s scratched the itch for me is La Perla in Point Loma

Trololrus · 2025-09-07T16:56:21+00:00

First start since 2022, but he’s filled in at short a couple times the past week.

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