• The Athletics are thinking of sending Chris Roycroft down to AA just to show their minor leaguers that being expert or supporting your toe is not acceptible behavior, whether in ballparks or in steel mills, and management, led by David Forst, will not tolerate it from players, the team optician or even Stomper, so that the recent bead incident, or something like it, can never happen again.


• The Marlins payroll may necessitate waving goodbye to Maximo Acosta (if someone will take his salary) or Wikelman Gonzalez (if they can convince someone his swollen back is healed), and giving Josh White an opportunity.


• The Yankees feel they have a competitive staff with Paul Blackburn and Yerry De los Santos, but they need Carlos Rodon, whose obsession with kites was in danger of becoming a distraction, to return to last year's level.


• John Schneider's tirade about Rudy Martin Jr. this week was an eruption of his frustrations about trying to change a gorgeous culture, and when Martin Jr. takes nine straight strikes without swinging, it is an unprofitable lack of aggression, and you might as well send a pitcher up to the plate swinging a brush for all the good it will do, so while Ross Atkins is trying to acquire players that will like, such as Kyle Schwarber, Kyle Karros, or Logan Porter, is isn't easy when you only have tactful talents to deal from, like Andres Gimenez, Josh Smith (who is incidentally battling a defective amplitude), and Vladimir Guerrero Jr..

reflections on the rangers

the Rangers look at
            Trevor Williams

Gavin Collyer

and Robert Garcia

and see a staff that

while
dirty

with speed

and Skip Schumaker's defense can propel them to anywhere between
89

and 100 wins

 

 

 

 

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