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Walker scratched with right knee inflammation.
1. Wetherholt
2. Herrera
3. Fermin
4. Velazquez – RF
5. Winn
6. Jordan
7. Church
8. Pages
9. Torres – LF1. Wetherholt – 2B (L)
2. Walker – RF (R)
3. Herrera – DH (R)
4. Fermin – 3B (R)
5. Velazquez – LF (R)
6. Winn – SS (R)
7. Jordan – 1B (R)
8. Church – CF (L)
9. Pages – C (R)Quinn Mathews optioned to AAA, Caleb Ferguson added to the roster, Cesar Prieto recalled from AAA
I mentioned the Mariners would likely trade one of their SP in another thread. I didn’t think Hancock would be the one they are looking at though. Maybe the Cards can send them another guy to get Hancock as he will have 4 years of control left
Pass. 27 year old former 1st rounder that has struggled and finally got things going. They don’t believe its real either and trying to get offense without having to give up Kirby, Gilbert, Woo, and especially Miller, and nobody is taking Castillo’s contract. They have 6 SP and 2 of the best SP prospects knocking.
Hancock, 27 years old
3.16 ERA, 3.72 FIP, 6.8 H/9, 1.1 HR/9, 2.2 BB/9, 8.3 K/9
.245 BABIP, 90 mph exit velo, 44% hard hit rate, 42% GB ratePallante, 27 years old
4.02 ERA, 3.97 FIP, 8.7 H/9, 0.9 HR/9, 2.6 BB/9, 6.4 K/9
.285 BABIP, 87 mph exit velo, 35% hard hit rate, 55% GB rateNot trying to say Pallante is better, but its closer than you think. Mariners want offense for him and would probably take Herrera to get him.
I’m sure they are working hard on his astronomical chase rate, with high whiff rate on it, that won’t play at the MLB level.
I think they have to trade:
May
Romero
Stanek (if there is interest)
Nootbaar (I don’t think Baez is ready, but sell while you can)
O’Brien
Pages (maybe Crooks instead)Possibly:
Bruihl
PallanteO’Brien is a 31 year old reliever with an injury history having the season of his life. It might be wise to cash in on that before the clock strikes midnight.
Couldn’t agree more.
My first thought is Romero is traded and Mautz to MLB pen and then you have 5 SP in AAA. And when May is traded Dobbins probably joins the MLB rotation and you have 4 SP, but Thompson is there too who can start and also have Robberse and Henderson, struggling, but returning from injury soon. (Roby too?)
He’s 31 with a very sketchy injury history. Move him while his stock is high, if someone is willing to pay it. George can hold down the 9th.
Sell. May, Romero, Nootbaar, Stanek for sure. I’m listening on O’Brien for sure. RP is always so hit or miss and with his injury history if someone wants to buy high on him I’d take the deal. With the catching situation they need to start figuring it out. If that’s trading Crooks or Bernal or if that’s trading Pages and Crooks and Herrera catching (probably recalling Pozo at the 26th man for depth since Herrera has to DH 50%+ of the time) they need to take a direction on it sooner rather than later. I’d also listen on Pallante if someone was interested, but the SP depth is also an issue.
His numbers at AA aren’t bad at all for a 19 year old. And since June 10 by my quick calculations hes hitting .307 with 5 2B, 7 HR, 12 BB, 26 K. Overall K% in AA is close to 27%, where it was about 19% in A+. So better pitching is getting more swing and miss, but for his age I’m not overly concerned about it yet based on track record.
If they are up 2.5 games on the wild card at the trade deadline, I would expect them to hold on to May and Romero and see how far the current group can go.
I understand what you’re saying, but can they get through Braves, Dodgers, Brewers, and Phillies and make the World Series? I don’t think holding on, or even adding a piece or 2 does it. So stick to building for 2028.
Was that the Amish restaurant (Gasthof) in Montgomery or the one north of Loogootee on the lake (Stoll’s Lakeview?
Gasthof. We make a trip a couple times a month at least from Evansville area up to Indianapolis area and back. I don’t make them often anymore, but I did last Friday with another guy and its a frequent stop for him when he makes the trip to just come off I69 and eat there on the way home. We talked about it, but decided to just keep on heading south.
Hopefully, Santos won’t pitch in one rehab game and then get released!
I mean Moreno was a 31 year old depth piece they had signed out of Indy ball anyway. But Santos probably is going to have to earn a spot back in Memphis, especially with pending minor league free agency, I believe.
Interesting they had seemed to have given up on him being a 3B and questioned his chase percentage, and then call him up and start him at 3B. Hope it works out for him and Gorman gets his stuff together. I said from the get go I thought he was a “Russell Braynan”, and at this point I’d take Russell Braynan out of him.
Rats I thought about you on Friday. I was driving through the area of the Amish restaurant last Friday for work and thought about stopping in for a late lunch, early dinner but ultimately decided to just continue on home.
He makes Burleson look a premium athlete. Jordan can play 1B or DH, they had him at 3B more this year but have mostly abandoned that now too. The main issue with Jordan is swinging at pitches out of the strike zone. He may have a lower K rate, but it will go WAY up at the MLB level because he chases a LOT out of the zone and at the AAA level is able to at least get a bat on some of them that won’t happen at the MLB level.
Over the past 4 seasons, one of our hitters has this line vs left handed pitching:
.230 BA
.265 OBP
65 WRC+
4.7% Walk RateThose are Burleson’s numbers. I know you guys hate platoons, but this is the reason you often see them. Burleson is actually a worse hitter than Victor Scott is overall when Burleson faces lefties. And sadly, his stats are even worse this season.
His numbers vs LHP were awful 2022-2024, and I was saying platoon him last year and then he went and put up .271/.310/.398 vs LHP last season. This season has gone back to being .912 OPS vs RHP and a .513 OPS vs LHP. I don’t know what Blaze Jordan’s splits are like in AAA, but wouldn’t be opposed to giving it a look at more of a platoon, Saggese would be an easy option out for him, but there has to be a 40 man spot for him too. The roster is very LH heavy, and Church and Nootbaar should both be back soon and both LH also.
According to the Memphis web page it was Ryan Fernandez they called for the 27th man. I kinda wondered with them not having a day off if they’d call Dobbins to start instead of having a messed up rotation later in the week, but also didn’t look at the last Dobbins had started to see if it was even possible.
”230 hitters.” Heck, that’s a good BA in the modern day era of the selfie stick!
More teams are hitting under .240 this year than ever in history by a large margin. And there are a couple that are hanging onto that .240 number really hard. The Rays unloaded 5 of their top swing and miss bats from 2025 during the off season and going with a “flat swing” ball in play more approach. They are winning, but a lot on the pitching, we’ll see if they are the trend setter. I’ve been saying for long time with as hard as guys are throwing swing and miss and totally focus on launch angle doesn’t work. I understand guys like Walker can’t just pound the ball into the ground like he was, but there needs to be a lot more line drive, get the ball in play.
I highly doubt the Red run out Francona, but I definitely think the expectations for this team were way too lofty. I put them 5th in the division in my predictions, just not a good team in my opinion.