I hate the cardinals
ICYMI: @Yadimolina04 has a tight-knit relationship with this baseball: https://t.co/j48zIP3Kht pic.twitter.com/qROVlarMZq
â Cut4 (@Cut4) April 7, 2017
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Because I can't sleep, here are some Korean cartoon's depictions of Eric Thames. Don't ask me about the contexts of each. pic.twitter.com/L4dlKs8e4O
â Sung Min Kim (@sung_minkim) April 19, 2017
Are *you people watching Brockmire? ****ing fantastic.
El-Typhoon-Bong posted:Are *you people watching Brockmire? ****ing fantastic.
Love it......love the writing and especially him. Funny, funny show.
Brockmire is very funny but the baseball skill level of actors playing the players is laughable.
Thames...match made in heaven.
Shaw with a 3 run HR in the first.
cardinal fans should not be allowed in seats next to Front Row Amy
Hopefully she's the highlight of their trip.
Only a 1 day hiatus for Thames. 
Bambi's Bombers?
Counsell's Crushers
Let's hope Barnes never wakes up from this dream he is living in front of us.
RHP Matt Garza will come off the 10-day disabled list and make his season debut on Monday against the Reds. LHP Tommy Milone to the bullpen.
â Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) April 21, 2017
OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis has been designated for assignment. LHP Brent Suter recalled from Triple-A @skysox.
â Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) April 21, 2017
Well, thanks Kirk. (Because we had to have Kirk, we don't have Miguel Diaz)
Cubs intimating that Thames hot start is suspicious.
Oh, his body changed. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight
Bad Willy came back
My brother and I were just talking about when bad Wiley was going to show himself
FTDB
Anderson with another decent pitching effort and nothing to show for it. Bullpen has been a little shaky; no big surprise there.
And defense. Villar have never been great, but Santana has been bad in the OF (he's been pretty damn unluck with the stick too, he's smoked some balls right at guys more times than I can count).
Thames is better defensively than Carter was.
Stearns seems determined to have a strong defense. Villar is gone if he starts to produce numbers like last year.
At least Villar is getting on base now
Why not call up Brinson? Because it would be stupid short term thinking.
Packdog posted:Cubs intimating that Thames hot start is suspicious.
I would bet he's clean, but maybe the test they did last week will prove me wrong.
I think what's more likely going on is that teams have a scouting report on Thames based on his 684 plate appearances in MLB in 2011-2012. In those plate appearances he walked 38 times and struck out 175 times. In 71 plate appearances this year, he's walked 11 times. So if you extrapolate that out to 684 plate appearances he'd walk 106 times (or 3 times as much as he did before). That's the difference - he's not getting himself out as much swinging at crap. He's striking out a little less (but still a lot) but seeing more pitches per at-bat which gives him more chances to crush a mistake pitch. This is exactly what this article by ESPN says - he is much more disciplined at the plate.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/...-crushing-second-act
He's been a terror so far because teams were still pitching to him like he was the old free-swinging Thames. Once teams get a book on the "new" Thames they'll figure out a way to get him out more often and he'll regress to the mean. He'll likely still be a 30 HR a year type guy which is a good return for what they signed him for.
