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Ross Striping came to us from the Dodgers back at the end of August 2020 in exchange for Kendall Williams and Ryan Noda. Kendall is pitching in A-ball for the Dodgers, and Noda is playing at...

Kevin Gausman was our big free agent signing back last November. He got five years and $110 million. He came off a great year with the Giants, with a 2.81 ERA in 192 innings. He had 227 strikeouts...

Timing is all important. José Berríos has a terrific start, and his name is next in our report cards. Yesterday Berríos got us 18 outs, 13 by strikeout. As much as Crash Davis tells us that...

We started the batters’ report cards with an easy one, so we should start the pitchers with an easy one. 37 starts into his MLB career he has an 18-6 record. Win-loss records are largely...

Teoscar Hernandez had a lovely start to the season. Seven games in, he had a .316/.435/.526 batting line. Then he hit the IL with an oblique strain. He ended up missing 23 games. He had a rough...

Lourdes Gurriel, as always it seems, started slow and then heated up. Actually this year he had two bad weeks, then started to hit and then had a terrible May. He hit just .189/.277/.257 in May....

Matt Chapman came to us from the A’s for Gunnar Hoglund, Zach Logue, Kevin Smith and Kirby Snead. So far the trad hasn’t worked out for the A’s: Smith hit .180/.216/.302 in 47 games before being...

Bo Bichette isn’t having the season we’d like to see. He is a streak hitter, but he hasn’t had a long good streak yet. I’m hoping it will happen soon. Bo’s getting on base 30% of the time, so it...

We are hitting the mid-point of the season tonight, so it is time we did our mid-season report cards. Let’s start with an easy one. Alejandro Kirk is having a terrific season. He’s played in 70 of...