June Game Thread

[Nick]

Hopefully Cooper and Ramirez can keep up their current good run and solidify themselves for the rest of the season. If so we'd have 4 spots locked up for next season. Move Cooper to 1st, Ramirez mans one of the outfield slots. Anderson mans either a corner OF or 3B. Alfaro at C of course. Then you have to think once Castro moves on, 2nd Base is Diaz's for sure. Center Field is the absolute key to the organization. Can Harrison or Brinson figure it out? One of them has got to be manning CF next year I would think. Probably more Harrison since in my mind Brinson's had his chance and utterly failed. Brinson probably will get one more 2-3 month run this year out there in Center playing for his major league life. If lou can find a way to make his Rendon and Didi pipe dream happen, we could maybe go from historically bad offensively to average.

[lou]

Alfaro was, continues to be, and will be a good option at catcher moving forward. He’s an every day guy. His power tool is quite nice actually. Some of you are not taking into account how bad the position is right now in the sport. Alfaro is the least of our problems. Of our position players at the big league level right now, he’s easily the most intriguing player.

I agree. He might be the best position player in the organization today. Anderson is really his only competition though at the moment. Still, two solid pieces is more than fine.

[fish16]

Hopefully Cooper and Ramirez can keep up their current good run and solidify themselves for the rest of the season. If so we'd have 4 spots locked up for next season. Move Cooper to 1st, Ramirez mans one of the outfield slots. Anderson mans either a corner OF or 3B. Alfaro at C of course. Then you have to think once Castro moves on, 2nd Base is Soto's for sure. Center Field is the absolute key to the organization. Can Harrison or Brinson figure it out? One of them has got to be manning CF next year I would think. Probably more Harrison since in my mind Brinson's had his chance and utterly failed. Brinson probably will get one more 2-3 month run this year out there in Center playing for his major league life. If lou can find a way to make his Rendon and Didi pipe dream happen, we could maybe go from historically bad offensively to average.

If cooper and ramirez are above average long term options, that is absolutely enormous to our future. That would make C, 1b, 2b im sure you meant Diaz and not Soto, 3b, and a corner OF is already locked down for next year. 2 good free agent signings, a big time prospect hopefully being drafted tonight, another likely good hitting prospect in next years draft, and then you have brinson and monte as toss ups at this point with good potential. With our pitching, thats not nearly the trainwreck that people want to make it out to be. That's a long way to go at this point though. The past month has been incredibly encouraging at both the major and minor league level.

Hopefully we add a stud tonight too.

[Nick]

If cooper and ramirez are above average long term options, that is absolutely enormous to our future. That would make C, 1b, 2b im sure you meant Diaz and not Soto, 3b, and a corner OF is already locked down for next year. 2 good free agent signings, a big time prospect hopefully being drafted tonight, another likely good hitting prospect in next years draft, and then you have brinson and monte as toss ups at this point with good potential. With our pitching, thats not nearly the trainwreck that people want to make it out to be. That's a long way to go at this point though. The past month has been incredibly encouraging at both the major and minor league level.

Hopefully we add a stud tonight too.

I think I'm just wishing we had Soto.

[fish16]

I think I'm just wishing we had Soto.

would have loved if we took that damn soto offer for JT when we had the chance.

[Namaste]

I think when it’s all said and done, we will have BURIED the Phillies in the JT deal.

Like an anti-Yelich deal.

[Namaste]

Why is Jorge Alfaro batting 7th?

[tjfla]

I think when it’s all said and done, we will have BURIED the Phillies in the JT deal.

Like an anti-Yelich deal.

Probably could have gotten more if didnt ask for Will Stewart

[lou]

Why is Jorge Alfaro batting 7th?

I think it's stranger Riddle is starting in RF.

I mean, I want to give Riddle a real shot versus RHP and see if they get a positive platoon split this year, but wut?

I'd have batted them:

Anderson
Ramirez
Cooper
Alfaro
Castro
Rojas
Riddle
Granderson

Let the ones we care about hit first.

[fish16]

Why are we still playing Rojas everyday? If we want to see riddles bat then let him play ss. Rojas can’t hit his way out of a wet paper bag and really never has been able to. He’s also over 30. I don’t understand this fascination we have with him. Let him play the super utility role and play riddle everyday if we really want to see him. It’s not like we still have these huge black holes in every outfield position anymore with cooper and Ramirez hitting well

[fish16]

Back to back homers for coop and Anderson after a previous Castro homer in the first. Best hitting team in the league???

[fish16]

Harold Ramirez is an absolutely phenomenal find. Him, smith and cooper are just great moves by the front office

[Nick]

This is fun.

[fish16]

This is fun.

Harold Ramirez has been an absolute sparkplug since coming up. The team is on fire right now, which is fun enough, but especially after watching the lineup the first month. And don’t look now but we’re close to having all 5 starters with pretty fantastic eras even though the fips indicate some of it isn’t sustainable

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Also, this isn’t saying much, but this team has the best future out of any south Florida team right now, although the panthers are right there with us given how their offseason will look in a few weeks

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This means we won the Yelich trade right?

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A 12-0 game makes studying for the bar so much more enjoyable. This turnaround from the lineup since the first month has been truly unbelievable

[Namaste]

Cooper has 4 hits tonight and it’s still the top of the 5th.