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Just a morning conversation thread, really.  Not that there's much point since the Shout Box became The Monster That Ate Cleveland er, SSI.

Which raises a baffling question.  If the Shout Box is that peachy keen, so peachy keen in fact that it can obviate the very blog it is on ... and that being the best sports blog extant ... why don't we see this Shout Box all over the interwebs?

With a resigned air, the Editor's Choice shouts from last night:

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IcebreakerX: M's strike zone fun! https://twitter.com/MarinersUmp

And that's just what it is, "strike zone fun."  In the sense that it's fun to think about the kid who kicked your butt in the third grade.  But yeah.  Thanks Ice.  Please do link us up again whenever it looks good.

The strike zone has been maddening this series.  Is that a general tendency in NL-AL games?  But Dr. D has to admit, when he saw James Shields' name on the probables, he wrote this one off.  His fear of James Shields knows no bounds.  What his ERA is after a couple starts, I don't care.  If the Mariners are going up against James Shields, I'm staying home.

Under the circumstances, the M's put up a tremendous struggle.  Okay, back to tasks of non-Shields magnitude.  The Red Sox rotation appears to be badly lacking in James Shieldses. 

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D.J. Peterson and Bryce Harper

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Lots of noise about Morrison being entrenched.  But!, it says here, the leash can't be real long.  A month's worth of .189 hitting from LoMo and we've got a different convo.  The M's have promoted blue-chippers who had considerably fewer than D.J.'s 700-800 minors hacks.

For most people, "Major League Ready" means you have ripped it up in AAA.  That'll do for me too.  But Jack Zduriencik is confident in his own scouting eye, and if he thinks Kyle Seager or Mike Zunino are capable of "learning in the big leagues," then they're in there.  I think that's cool.  Quiet, hardcore self-confidence is the basis of charisma.  And you know Jack can light up a room ;- )

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Scouts from Omsk to Tomsk have swoooooned over D.J. Peterson's swing.  You can see some BP at this Shannon Drayer link.  Again, it's not like you want to write a $60M check based on batting practice, but ... ML teams do :- ) so why can't we write four bullet points?

As a matter o' fact we can, Cubby.

  • "Unhurried" Robinson Cano type feel.  "In the moment" as he accelerates
  • Rate of acceleration, on launch, is above average
  • Has the powerful G-Moneyball hands
  • #36 is totally inconsiderate
  • I bet you Keith likes his knee action

Just a coupla BP swings.  He does look like .350 standin' still, though.  

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