Looks like the Yankees starting pitcher from last night will be out a while.

Gattis takes a seat tonight, thankfully, for his sake as well as mine. I'm not sure I could watch that sad stick at the plate again tonight. Hopefully he gets it back, but the way he has looked he seems to be a long ways away from contributing. He is 83 AB's in with 33% strikeouts and an anemic .193 average. DH is the weakest stick in the line up and bats 7-9th - that makes no sense, it a freaking DH! Hopefully Hinch has seen enough to look for another answer at the DH spot.

If he plays we are essentially playing by National league rules while everyone else has one of their best hitters as a DH. Makes no sense to continue. Its the equivalent of using a 1st round NFL draft pick to grab a guy that is most likely a UDFA.

Great article on Gerrit Cole.

Interesting tidbit. Cole and yesterday's public enemy #1 were college teammates. Cole was taken #1 and Bauer #3...

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Cole went no. 1 overall to the Pirates, and Bauer went two spots later to Arizona. It was the first time college teammates had gone in the top three of the same draft since 1978, when Arizona State's Bob Horner and Hubie Brooks went first and third, and it hasn't happened since.

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The big change in Cole's game has been on his four-seam fastball, which is spinning slightly faster than it did last year, which is interesting but not the point. The point is, at least in the early going, opponents are slugging just .192 on Cole's fastball, down from .453 last year, and missing it about 50 percent more than they did last year. Bauer, incidentally, is currently beefing with several of Cole's teammates after he insinuated that the Astros' staffwide success is the result of doctoring the baseball. Cole's explanation, unsurprisingly, is more mundane.
"I'm trying to throw the best [fastball] I can," Cole said. "I'm trying to stay behind it better, stay on top of it, but also just use the four-seamer regularly."
That last part is the key. Last year, 16.48 percent of the pitches Cole threw were sinkers. This year, that number's down to 4.16. He's effectively junked his sinker, and is instead using the four-seamer as his only fastball, while relying a little more on his breaking pitches.

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Alright thats a bit different look at it. Springer at the DH and getting Stassi in there again

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Has Correa or Bregman had a DH stint at all this year?

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They have not.

Games started at DH:

Gattis - 22
Springer - 4
Yuli - 3
Altuve - 2
Fisher - 2
Reddick - 1

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MIDLAND - Yordan Alvarez hit two home runs and the Hooks racked up five more extra-base hits in an 8-3 victory over the RockHounds Wednesday afternoon at Security Bank Ballpark.

Corpus Christi is tied with San Antonio for the best record in the Texas League at 16-10.

Alvarez put the Hooks on the board with a two-run shot to left field in the first.

Midland answered right away, sending eight men to the plate in the home half for a 3-2 lead.

Taylor Jones started his four-hit day with a two-run single to left field in the third, pushing the Hooks back in front, 4-3.

Lorenzo Quintana made it 5-2 Corpus Christi with an RBI single in the fourth.
Meanwhile, Yoanys Quiala rebounded from a rocky first by retiring 13 of the final 14 men he faced.

Akeem Bostick earned the save, firing four innings of shutout ball.

Bostick and Quiala teamed to hold Midland to three singles over the final eight innings.

The Hooks salted the game by adding three markers over the final two innings. Josh Rojas' RBI triple highlighted a two-run eighth, and the ninth began with Alvarez's second opposite-field shot of the afternoon.

Alvarez, who is tied for the Texas League lead with 24 RBIs, also authored an outfield assist, throwing out Brett Siddall at home plate from left field in the sixth, maintaining what was a two-run lead at the time.

Texas A&M product Corbin Martin is slated to make his Double-A debut Thursday night for Corpus Christi. First pitch 7 p.m.

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How far away is Yordan Alvarez from getting a shot? Middle of next season?

Also, Corbin Martin's first start in Corpus is tomorrow night. I'll be interested to see if he continues his domination through the minors.

Any of you dudes going to the game tonight?

2020 is what I'd think. He's only just now getting into AA

Fisher in center... interesting

Oh man.. may be a long night for Keuchel

Soooo when does Keuchel get a DL stint for "hamstring discomfort"?

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Are Dallas' pitches as up in the zone as it looks on Gameday?

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No, but there's not a lot of movement. And the mistake to Stanton hung just a bit.

Something has to be physically wrong with Keuchel. Whatever it is, I hope he and the team docs/Strommie figure it out and get him back to good Keuchel. But personally, I've just about given up hope on him returning to the Keuchel we've expected.

I wonder if adding some muscle to his frame has affected him? He definitely has added some mass

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I'm gonna go ahead and blame the new forearm tats. He shoulda known that was bad juju.

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Very Mike Fiers-esque

Yeah this one was over after Stanton went yard

He is purposely trying to get the ball up to get more strike outs. Its not working.

Josh Reddick with a nice play/recovery. Thought judge hit it out. Was about to say ball game.

I'm sorry

But Keuchel gives up such weak contact non stop

It's remarkable how many of his bad innings only have one hard hit

Yeah that was an incredible double play by Reddick

Marisnick, Fisher, and Gattis are pretty much automatic outs/k's. Hard to watch.

Now that's ball game.