Estrellas defeated Escogido 11-4 yesterday. MIguel Sano was 1-for-3. The team was led in batting by Willy Vasquez, who was 3-for-5 with a triple. Dairon Blanco was 2-for-4. The win went to Aaron Leasher, who started and pitched five shutout innings, giving up two hits and two walks and striking out two.
There were no games in the Venezuelan League yesterday. I still do not have a report on the Caribes game Sunday--maybe it was rained out or something.
With profound sadness, the Padres announce that their Chairman and Owner Peter Seidler passed away today in San Diego. He will be dearly missed.
Padres payroll is going to look very different next season.
If only all franchise owners shared Seidler’s determination to assemble talent, even when paying for it at market rate. I didn’t agree with his unrelenting support of Preller, but I did appreciate his willingness to push hard for a winner for San Diego. May his family know solace.
Sonny Gray declines Twins’ qualifying offer.
By declining to accept the one-year deal worth $20.25 million, Gray ensures the Twins would receive a compensatory first-round draft pick if he signs with another team for more than $50 million.
I didn't know about that $50m part regarding QAs.
Well, I hope he comes back anyway.
His last 4 seasons, per fangraphs: $13.9m, $19.7m, $18.9m, and $42.3m.
The qualifying offer was fair. Sonny is betting on himself, which is equally fair.
The Brewers appear to be headed for a rebuild. Perhaps they can get Corbin Burnes as a consolation prize?
Sonny wants to test the market, but he's also said he liked Minnesota, so if they give him a fair shake...
I think the only way Sonny Gray re-signs with the Twins is if the market is suppressed (due to the TV mess around the league) and he signs a 1 year contract similar to the Correa contract a couple years ago. The Twins will not sign him to 4 years, as they already have Pablo tied up that long. We are reducing payroll, and they will not give up any payroll flexibility by signing Gray that long. Honestly, I am ok with that. I don't really want to sign him into his 38 year old season. I do hope they sign someone to join the rotation for a year or two this offseason. Not quite confident going in with Lopez, Ryan, Ober, Paddack and Varland. We need more depth, but I don't think we can afford to sign a #1 or #2 during the offseason. I would rather look at adding a stud at the trade deadline if we are looking like a contender.
There's a couple Japanese pitchers coming that I wouldn't mind them taking a chance on.
yeah, there's already too many standing in that line
The $50 million minimum is for the Twins to get a compensation pick after the first round. A deal under $50 million nets them a pick after competitive balance round B that happens between rounds two and three.
St. Cloud State is ranked #19 this week, one of just two Minnesota schools in the top 20 (The Gophers are #6). Wisconsin is sitting on top of the rankings this week.
Men and women both #1!
This CoC is now a Twolves game log. I want them to get this win.
Gobert was smothering Šarić as I typed that. Good times.
Draymond Green is such a piece of shit.
Anywhere else, and he would be handcuffed right now
It's mindboggling how much of a leash the NBA gives him. They just let him scream at refs all day long, repeated ejections for violent conduct. It's a joke that he's not on an escalating 5-, 10-, 15-game auto-suspension program. And at this point, he basically should get T'd up just for looking at the refs -- he's done enough to earn it.
i wish the MPLS photo bot account would move to Bluesky, but they're just sticking to Mastodon.
Bluesky is a lot newer so much less time for there to be code for its APIs. Mastodon is lot older, plus the place where developers went, so a lot of things support it.
That does remind me the Bluesky API isn't that hard. I meant to create an extremely simple WordPress plugin.
Buncha Draymond apologists on the Warriors feed.
Jaden shouldn't have been tossed, because Klay started that, but I'm shocked they tossed two warriors there considering the usual anti wolves bias.
I'm not excusing, but if you're tossing Klay, you're tossing McDaniels too. Neither should have been, of course.
That's probably fair. Though tossing Klay probably helps the Warriors...
I think if Draymond doesn't Draymond, than Klay and Jaden probably both would not have been tossed. He is the human escalator.
Yeah, I switched to the Wolves feed during that.
huh.
Lol, there is no universe where Looney can guard Gobert.
Wiggins being annoying in the most annoying way.
At least he's terrible at basketball
GSW with the weird Monty Python uniforms again.
Man, Kyle Anderson has been... Less than ideal
But that rebound!
KAT's having a half.
He might be pretty good at this basketball thing
My Wolves awareness comes mostly from this site…I feel like there is an inconsistent assessment on KAT and I’m not sure where he’s landed.
He was laughably bad against the Celtics, but he's otherwise playing the best defense of his career right now and he's the same incredibly efficient offensive force as always.
He's ceding the offense to Ant when they're both in the floor, but doing a phenomenal job defending on the wing. It helps that he no longer has to anchor the paint where he always found himself straying and getting out of position.
He, Rudy and Naz do seem to be meshing well together.
KAT still makes too many dumb plays, IMO (and Jim Pete's). His shooting hasn't been great so far this year and his assist rate per-36 is way down, as is his Box Plus/Minus. But his turnovers and fouls are down too. All small samples, I suppose.
Estrellas defeated Escogido 11-4 yesterday. MIguel Sano was 1-for-3. The team was led in batting by Willy Vasquez, who was 3-for-5 with a triple. Dairon Blanco was 2-for-4. The win went to Aaron Leasher, who started and pitched five shutout innings, giving up two hits and two walks and striking out two.
There were no games in the Venezuelan League yesterday. I still do not have a report on the Caribes game Sunday--maybe it was rained out or something.
Padres payroll is going to look very different next season.
If only all franchise owners shared Seidler’s determination to assemble talent, even when paying for it at market rate. I didn’t agree with his unrelenting support of Preller, but I did appreciate his willingness to push hard for a winner for San Diego. May his family know solace.
Sonny Gray declines Twins’ qualifying offer.
I didn't know about that $50m part regarding QAs.
Well, I hope he comes back anyway.
His last 4 seasons, per fangraphs: $13.9m, $19.7m, $18.9m, and $42.3m.
The qualifying offer was fair. Sonny is betting on himself, which is equally fair.
The Brewers appear to be headed for a rebuild. Perhaps they can get Corbin Burnes as a consolation prize?
Sonny wants to test the market, but he's also said he liked Minnesota, so if they give him a fair shake...
I think the only way Sonny Gray re-signs with the Twins is if the market is suppressed (due to the TV mess around the league) and he signs a 1 year contract similar to the Correa contract a couple years ago. The Twins will not sign him to 4 years, as they already have Pablo tied up that long. We are reducing payroll, and they will not give up any payroll flexibility by signing Gray that long. Honestly, I am ok with that. I don't really want to sign him into his 38 year old season. I do hope they sign someone to join the rotation for a year or two this offseason. Not quite confident going in with Lopez, Ryan, Ober, Paddack and Varland. We need more depth, but I don't think we can afford to sign a #1 or #2 during the offseason. I would rather look at adding a stud at the trade deadline if we are looking like a contender.
There's a couple Japanese pitchers coming that I wouldn't mind them taking a chance on.
yeah, there's already too many standing in that line
The $50 million minimum is for the Twins to get a compensation pick after the first round. A deal under $50 million nets them a pick after competitive balance round B that happens between rounds two and three.
Baldelli finishes a distant fourth in MOY.
St. Cloud State is ranked #19 this week, one of just two Minnesota schools in the top 20 (The Gophers are #6). Wisconsin is sitting on top of the rankings this week.
Men and women both #1!
This CoC is now a Twolves game log. I want them to get this win.
Gobert was smothering Šarić as I typed that. Good times.
Draymond Green is such a piece of shit.
Anywhere else, and he would be handcuffed right now
It's mindboggling how much of a leash the NBA gives him. They just let him scream at refs all day long, repeated ejections for violent conduct. It's a joke that he's not on an escalating 5-, 10-, 15-game auto-suspension program. And at this point, he basically should get T'd up just for looking at the refs -- he's done enough to earn it.
OMFG!
this is the only account on Twitter that matters.
How does that get topped? He/She may have to retire after that one.
yeah, you ask that, and then a new one comes along that leaves us shaking our heads more. Savant
I wish I could see things like this without having to go to Twitter.
He's also on Instagram.
Also Bluesky
Mirrored on Mastodon
@ArtButSports
i wish the MPLS photo bot account would move to Bluesky, but they're just sticking to Mastodon.
Bluesky is a lot newer so much less time for there to be code for its APIs. Mastodon is lot older, plus the place where developers went, so a lot of things support it.
That does remind me the Bluesky API isn't that hard. I meant to create an extremely simple WordPress plugin.
Buncha Draymond apologists on the Warriors feed.
Jaden shouldn't have been tossed, because Klay started that, but I'm shocked they tossed two warriors there considering the usual anti wolves bias.
I'm not excusing, but if you're tossing Klay, you're tossing McDaniels too. Neither should have been, of course.
That's probably fair. Though tossing Klay probably helps the Warriors...
I think if Draymond doesn't Draymond, than Klay and Jaden probably both would not have been tossed. He is the human escalator.
Yeah, I switched to the Wolves feed during that.
huh.
Lol, there is no universe where Looney can guard Gobert.
Wiggins being annoying in the most annoying way.
At least he's terrible at basketball
GSW with the weird Monty Python uniforms again.
Man, Kyle Anderson has been... Less than ideal
But that rebound!
KAT's having a half.
He might be pretty good at this basketball thing
My Wolves awareness comes mostly from this site…I feel like there is an inconsistent assessment on KAT and I’m not sure where he’s landed.
He was laughably bad against the Celtics, but he's otherwise playing the best defense of his career right now and he's the same incredibly efficient offensive force as always.
He's ceding the offense to Ant when they're both in the floor, but doing a phenomenal job defending on the wing. It helps that he no longer has to anchor the paint where he always found himself straying and getting out of position.
He, Rudy and Naz do seem to be meshing well together.
KAT still makes too many dumb plays, IMO (and Jim Pete's). His shooting hasn't been great so far this year and his assist rate per-36 is way down, as is his Box Plus/Minus. But his turnovers and fouls are down too. All small samples, I suppose.
Just wait until we trade for Wemby!
Chris Paul trying to shoot over Gobert is fun.
KAT!
KAT!
Seven game winning streak feels pretty good.
the last 7 game win streak was 20 years ago!