We start a series with the Orioles today. Baltimore is 8-1 this month, which hasn’t moved them out of last in the AL East, but they are only averaging 3.7 runs per game this month. The pitching has been great, 2.36 ERA this month.
Tonight’s lineup. Schneider gets to play for the second day in a row….If he homers again, he might get to play three games in row. Weirdly, Gimenez is playing short and Clement is playing second. Maybe something to do with the broken finger in his had making it harder to throw.
We get Scherzer and Bieber after Bissitt’s start today.
Anthony Satander was 1 for 3 with two walk and a home run with the Bisons yesterday. He’s batting second and DHing for them again today.
Keegan Matheson has a story about the Jays signing Alejandro Kirk as an international free agent. He got $30,000, which is very little for an international free agent. It is a good read.
“This is not the typical player. It’s not the typical body,” Tinnish remembers Decillis telling him. “If we sign this guy, player development is going to have a lot of questions. But I’m telling you, this guy can hit, he makes the game look easy, he slows things down, he’s got a really good swing. He can hit, he can hit, he can hit.”
All along, Kirk was on a revenge tour. He’d heard what everyone had said along the way, and yes, it’s hard to miss the comments in those early prospect profiles. One memorable prospect ranking gave Kirk a “body comp” of Chris Farley. Kirk held on to some of this and held on to the fact only one team liked him. Even as Kirk stunned the baseball world in 2020 and made the leap from High-A to the big leagues, he held on to it, but then one day, he stopped.
