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If this somehow ends with us knocking out the Phillies in the first round of the playoffs I am never going to stop laughing. It won't be a pleasant laugh, but I will be laughing.

That's a fun BB-Ref page. I particularly enjoy the .292 slugging percentage at AAA.

I wonder if he would have been a bigger deal back when online stathead types were championing high-walk, high-OBP, low-power minor league prospects like Jackie Rexrode. Everyone has kind of soured on that archetype.

Judging by the A's these last few years I wouldn't take this for granted.

Yes, much like the herpes one gets from having sex with Cy's mother, this error keeps flaring up.

"Lucas Erceg" definitely feels an auto-generated videogame name.

Man, I could have paid the signing bonuses for Hackman and Kroeger combined out of my savings.

I don't know Cijntje from Adam, but these write-ups are not terribly encouraging. "He's an ambidextrous pitcher, which is really cool, but MLB teams probably won't let him do that in the pros. But if he can focus entirely on throwing with just his right hand then maybe he'll develop to the...

When did Enscheff take over this account?

The best thing you can say about Hernandez is that no one ever accused him of being biased against one team or another, because he so consistently screwed over every team.

That also seems very likely.

I could certainly see Freeman glide-pathing to retirement with a few seasons where he looks like Mark Grace. He's the kind of guy who can always put bat to ball, and guys who can do that and have good eyes will always be able to draw a fair number of walks, even without power. That won't be...

Is it really that hard to say, "You know, I thought it was the right call at the time. Romero made a difficult pitch, Luis tried his best, and it kind of backfired on us. It happens?"

Tasty.

Huh. That's...huh.

Bill had several sock puppets, but it was OK, because Bill himself was a sock puppet for Metaphysicist. Who was, himself, a sock puppet for Julio3000.

Horacio Ramirez was one of those guys about whom we would get into knock down, drag out fights with Bill Shanks. Bill really didn't like talk about Horacio's K/BB ratios.

You know, it's funny, I've never really lamented the Wainwright-Drew trade too much. It was objectively terrible, of course, but Drew was so good in 2004. It was a genuine thrill to watch him that year, and I'm glad I had that opportunity.

I wish there was some word to describe the unpleasant experience of watching Aaron Bummer pitch.

I was 13 years old at the time of the trade, but I think there might have been a sense that Dye was a really raw young player who wouldn't have the chance to fully develop on a stacked roster with World Series aspirations every year. Tucker was older, a bit more polished, a bit more seasoned...