This week in baseball blogs…
- Adkins On Sports delves into Luis Castillo’s early season excellence.
- Chin Music Baseball highlights Castillo and six other pitchers with surging strikeout rates.
- The Dugout opines that Cody Bellinger could be on the fast track to becoming MLB’s second-best player.
- Foul Territory wonders why anyone would pitch to Mike Trout.
- Fish Stripes makes a case for the Marlins to option struggling outfielder Lewis Brinson to the minors.
- BaseballProspectJournal.com shares a first-round mock draft.
- Chipalatta checks in on the projected AL superpowers.
- Rox Pile looks ahead to the trade deadline for the Rockies.
- Notes from the Sally scouts Braves pitching prospects Trey Riley and Victor Vodnik.
- Joker Mag notes the adversity Julio Urias has overcome.
- Pinstripe Alley lauds the Yankees’ starting pitching.
- Everything Bluebirds argues that the Blue Jays’ rebuild appears “far ahead of schedule.”
- Call to the Pen compares the Phillies and Mets.
- A’s Farm runs down the top-performing pitching prospects in Oakland’s system.
- Mets Daddy agrees with MLB’s decision to suspend Jacob Rhame.
- Baseball Rabbi (podcast) discusses Domingo Santana, Boston’s 1975-80 outfield, and other topics.
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It takes a blog to point out Brinson should go down?
They need to change their
name to Captain Obvious!
Why can’t people start talking about some great players having fantastic seasons so far? Alfaro, Matt Boyd, Marco Gonzales, Rosario and Polanco… there are some great stories out there… instead we get updates on Yankees.
It’s simple: the [baseball] media is controlled by people who are Yankees fans. It’s really that simple.
ChiSoxCity…… You forgot to mention that the Earth is flat and the Moon is a hologram.
Cat I thought the moon was made out of cheese.
Haha
Yankees giving you and ChiSoxCity night tremors again Melchie. Don’t you know the Yankees make the carousel go round!
Why would anyone pitch to Trout? The guy has 0 protection.
Agreed. But I don’t know what idiot wrote that blog post. Package Trout AND Simmons AND eat a bunch of Trout’s contract to get prospects?! That’s someone who doesn’t understand how baseball works.
Everything Bluebird: Was the rebuild ahead of schedule in 2003? How about 2009? 2012? This Blue Jays rebuild is dragging along and they are nowhere close to being ahead of schedule. They have no pitching depth. That puts them behind schedule right off the bat.
Don’t be such a negative Nelly.
Did you even read the blog? The link is right there…
They are not ahead of schedule. To even contemplate writing anything regarding that idea is ridiculous. No pitching depth. That starts and ends the stupidity of his blog. No outfield depth. That just scratches the surface.
Nice to see the rebuild going so well. Especially when you look at what the teams that seem like they’ve been rebuilding for a decade and realize theyre almost in the exact same stages.