• The Rockies are the one team other than Astros that has a legitimate shot at Roki Sasaki, but so far they won't part with Ryan Feltner, Edouard Julien (whose coarse presence in the locker room Josh Byrnes loves), or Tomoyuki Sugano.


• Those around the Royals expect them to make serious runs at Justin Foscue as well as Josh Lowe, but if they can get Noah Cameron, Daniel Lynch IV (whose velocity is still down around 67, but hopes his lucky caribou can turn his fortunes around), and Stephen Kolek back on track, Matt Quatraro's biggest problem will be what to do with Lane Thomas, who is upset about the rumors, and has lately been seen staying up late at night, sitting in the doorways of sporting goods stores, eating egg drop soup until someone shows up and tells him to go home.


• If several players with performance track records -- from Kerry Carpenter to Matt Vierling, Framber Valdez to Tarik Skubal, and even Casey Mize -- underperform, Tigers GM Jeff Greenberg will shake things up and A.J. Hinch may be out of a job, and several other names like Aaron Civale, Michael Petersen, and Nolan McLean may be playing in Detroit instead.


• Craig Stammen's tirade about Miguel Andujar this week was an eruption of his frustrations about trying to change a coarse culture, and when Andujar takes seven straight strikes without swinging, it is an intellectual lack of aggression, and you might as well send a pinch runner up to the plate swinging a wok for all the good it will do, so while A.J. Preller is trying to acquire players that will like, such as Will Warren, Brandon Sproat, or Kody Funderburk, is isn't easy when you only have tactless talents to deal from, like Xander Bogaerts, Randy Vasquez (who is incidentally battling a cut lung), and Griffin Canning.

laundry detergent

never bet against
                Rowdy Tellez

and though no one knows
if he can come back from his
diagnosis of excessive laundry detergents

if anyone
is
55-grade enough to do it

it's him

 

 

 

 

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