General Sports Water Cooler

we need to do better than vargas

vargas isn't bad but his numbers wouldn't be as good in camden obviously. he's pitched well for seattle the past two years but he's very, very HR prone.

23 HR allowed in 19 starts.

We shouldn't take someone just because they are cheap. That sounds like a great idea so we can watch him get shelled in Camden. Basically a poor man's Guthrie

Same. I'd certainly take him for virtually nothing, but it seems like a why bother move.

Weiter's jersey and Palmer statue to boot, good work!

Listen, if he can give us 6 innings/4 runs consistently it would actually be a big improvement to our rotation. But no way i would give anything up for it.

Well done! Going on Saturday, pretty pumped for the Palmer statue replica.

it was a lot of how attendance is up, what they've done to get it up, how they've competed with the 18th salary in the majors, if they're buyers...etc... business show, but was cool to see DD on there and getting some good pub.

Dan Connolly

Here's Dan Duquette on the highly unlikely scenario of dealing either Dylan Bundy or Manny Machado for second-half reinforcements. He's not saying "untouchable," but that's implied: “They can be really good major leaguers for a really long time,” Duquette said of the duo. “That’s the way I look at it. I don’t know that we want to send them to another ballclub for two months or 10 starts of a pitcher. I don’t think that’s the kind of trade we’d want to make. But we want to advance our team in the pennant race.”

Zach Britton: 7 IP, 4 hits, 6 strikeouts

Xavier Avery has been optioned to Norfolk.