7/19 Gameday Thread: Baseball For Lunch & Coffey For Dinner

Coffey is strong tonight. 5IP, 4H 1BB & 10K's - and no runs.

I wonder if it was a coincidence that Bloom missed the last three innings in Portland and returned right after the Fujinami trade leaked

Not sure if tweets still embed for everyone but his turn on this WooSox triple play tonight is something else. Link here if you need to click through.

3 walks, a solidly hit groundball out and a strike out swinging for Roman Anthony tonight

Not sure about exit velo but I'd really like to see him bring up that 1.5% walk rate. That would be less than half the rate of any qualified player in MLB. He's usually above 5% so I assume he gets there.

Rafael Sogard and Bobby are a really nice 2-3-4.

I am presuming that, barring a collapse in the next month and a half, Rafaela will be brought up in September, as a pinch-runner/late inning defensive replacement if nothing else.

He is such an interesting case. His lack of plate discipline continues to be a problem, yet he continues to produce offensively well enough that he is far far from a liability on that side of his game. I guess most here are assuming that his offense will collapse at the major league level because of that lack of discipline, but he seems to be maintaining himself well at AAA so far. If he keeps going at somewhere near what he is doing now, at some point don't we just have to gulp and give him some kind of shot in the majors? His defense would be an instant improvement right now, so that isn't holding him back. Thing is, CF isn't his spot to get a shot right now because of the domino effects on the roster/lineup. But at SS, now that's another story. He could handle short, Story could return and play 2B, and the infield instantly sorts itself out, with less strain on Story's arm.

I want to see Hunter Noll hype videos every time he draws a walk. He's got 6 homers and 1 walk in the last month so it's certainly the rarer commodity.