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Yes, happy birthday, J.R.!

32 has never looked so good.

Thanks, GAYLORD and HB!

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Carlos Santana says he's sought advice from Manny Ramirez on dealing with his approaching free agency.

Happy Birthday J.R.

Ditto J R, Hillbilly says you are 32 but I know better...you are only 28!

Actually, I'm 20 on the Celsius scale!

LOL: I will use that line in 2 years!

skimming through recent posts:

Another nice thing is that Nunez steals bases. Would be nice to add that element

It's not all due to Rajai Davis' departure but this year's team is way less active on the bases, other than Zimmer. That has really disappointed me. Are all the incumbents down in steal tries this year? I'll take a look when I have a chance if no one gets to it first.

Happy 20th then J.R.!

civ ollilavad wrote:skimming through recent posts:

Another nice thing is that Nunez steals bases. Would be nice to add that element

It's not all due to Rajai Davis' departure but this year's team is way less active on the bases, other than Zimmer. That has really disappointed me. Are all the incumbents down in steal tries this year? I'll take a look when I have a chance if no one gets to it first.

I agree, for whatever reason this year's team is far less aggressive on the bases. Guess it's contagious.

That said, this year's team probably has more firepower too - so that may be an influence as well.

A nice surprise is Brantley stealing - on the other side why not Lindor?

remember way back when Kipnis was among the league's top basestealers?

Jerry Crasnick from ESPN is reporting the Indians are trying to acquire Justin Wilson from Tigers. He said it won't be easy prying him from division foe though, as the Indians were after JD Martinez too but Detroit shipped him to Arizona in NL.

I've read that we have been after Brad Hand, lefty reliever from Padres too, so they must not expect Logan back anytime soon.

they obviously were not excited with that they saw in Tyler Olson in two outings, and Crockett has been a disappointment despite decent AAA numbers.

Want to give the Tigers Naquin? I suppose that's not enough. But I wouldn't dig too deep for a second lefty out of the pen. Looking back at the 1995 team, we were not bad with Jim Poole as the second lefty behind Assenmacher. In 97 it looks like the undistinguished Alvin Morman was lefty no. 2. Agreed neither team won the Series, but I wouldn't give up a lot to get a Poole equivalent. Of course, he was not especially distinguished in the series, losing game 6, so a little better would be worthwhile.

If they gave up Tyler Naquin for a 6th or 7th inning lefty set up guy then they're nuts. Naquin can be a really good every day player who is under control a long time.

I'd be shopping guys like Gonzalez who has no home. Chang, Chisenhall, Urshela. One of our many minor league starting pitchers having good season. And Minor league relievers.

Can anyone say, "Brian Giles?"