No Whitley...

Whitley has to be a team control thing.

I would think this is the ideal situation to get him up here and get some big league innings.

Whitley still isn't getting called up? I think that tells us a lot

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tjholley16 said:

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Whitley still isn't getting called up? I think that tells us a lot

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He still might, but if yesterday showed anything, it's that we desperately need bullpen help, and we'll likely need more after whoever starts Wednesday against the Dodgers gets ambushed. Plus, why would they send Whitley out there for his first start against the Dodgers? That could potentially ruin him mentally, and he doesn't exactly seem strong in that department.

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You could use Whitley in long relief like Peacock has been used. It can't hurt to get him 3 innings of work every 3-4 games. Especially given we might need a good long reliever

Here's my solution. If it ends up being bad between the teams the marlins played and Phillies played ... then it's contained to the Eastern divisions

Worst case: give that region the week and cancel the next 2 series for each of those teams. That way the East only misses 5-6 games and the other two regions don't.

The East will play a 54 game schedule and west/Central play 60

In the grand scheme of things it won't effect anything except the East gets a week of rest so early in the season that won't really have an impact on october.

This is the benefit of only playing teams in your division and your counter division this season. Outbreaks don't effect the other divisions

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Deluxe said:

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There's no better place than Twitter to narcissistically express to the world how right you were about your hot take

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I check it a lot for sports news and information, but I honestly think we would be much better off without it

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I got rid of my account a few months ago and haven't missed it. Had a limited number of sports/pop culture follows but became impossible to ignore the cesspool. Hope more and more people do the same. Plenty of other places to get information.

Players, coaches, people in the organization, and their family's also have to take some responsibility to reduce their exposure during the season too.

I think your plan works, but if people are just going out willy nilly without taking much personal precaution, I don't know how we'll make it through an entire season with any division.

Farmer1906 said:

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Want to know how health gets put first? You cancel the season. You hide in your house. You never go outside again or have anyone in again.

Or you can figure out a plan. Take precautions. Play and continue to live life.

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Hey more power to David Price if he wants to give up millions of $$ because he's scared of the virus. It's a choice he can make and while I completely disagree with it, no big deal

Deluxe said:

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CFTXAG10 said:

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There's no better place than Twitter to narcissistically express to the world how right you were about your hot take

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I check it a lot for sports news and information, but I honestly think we would be much better off without it

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I got rid of my account a few months ago and haven't missed it. Had a limited number of sports/pop culture follows but became impossible to ignore the cesspool. Hope more and more people do the same. Plenty of other places to get information.

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Yea, I unfollowed a crapload of accounts and deleted the app from my phone. A reminder that I actually have to purposefully login to read anything now instead of just clicking the logo. It has stopped me a few times.

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Farmer1906 said:

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Want to know how health gets put first? You cancel the season. You hide in your house. You never go outside again or have anyone in again.

Or you can figure out a plan. Take precautions. Play and continue to live life.

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Hey more power to David Price if he wants to give up millions of $$ because he's scared of the virus. It's a choice he can make and while I completely disagree with it, no big deal

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Except he likely isn't. I believe(maybe mistaken so much back and forth) the final agreement said players could opt out and still get their money.

Sucks for Kluber. I thought it was a smart signing for Arlington.

My guess he will be out at least 6 weeks. Not a common injury but does happen in pitchers.

Farmer1906 said:

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Sucks for Kluber. I thought it was a smart signing for Arlington.

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Yep. Maybe that risk is why the Indians were willing to sell him for seemingly pennies on the dollar.

Farmer1906 said:

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Sucks for Kluber. I thought it was a smart signing for Arlington.

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Was a trade, but yea...bad move. Generally, yesterday was a really bad day to be a pitcher.

Tanaka too after the got the line drive to the head.

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so the list of starting pitchers currently on the shelf in 2020 (due to a variety of reasons):

- Verlander
- Kershaw
- Strasburg
- Kluber
- Price
- Sale
- Stroman

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That's pretty damning evidence towards a correlation of injuries to these guys not getting regular work this entire spring/summer.

Did you really expect to come out and say 'Yeah I love it here. I don't wanna play anywhere else. I wanna retire an Astro'.

All part of the game/negotiation process.

With that said he was probably gone when they didn't get a deal done before the season started.

TED is back at DH

1. I don't love L, L back to back.
2. We benched the hottest hitter in baseball (mildly kidding)
3. Much prefer Bregs at 3.

My hunch is that we let Springer walk, use some of the saved short term $$ to retain Brantley and Yuli with tack on deals, and bookmark the longer term $$ for Correa or LMJ after 2021.