On the T"Rum"bo
While the season has been abysmal for the Rum Runners during this maiden voyage under new President of Baseball Operations, Brent Brown the whole season has not been a loss.
Management was successful in trading higher price players away for younger talent and prospects along with draft picks. Some of those players in Lance McCullers, Jr, Addison Russell, Jace Peterson and Derek Law will have already made it to the big club, while others such as Reynaldo Lopez, Blake Snell and Trey Mancini will have to wait until their September call-up and likely eventual promotion for good in 2018.
A bright spot among few is Mark Trumbo who elected to return to Chicago after testing the waters in the Free-Agent Market and he leads MSB in Home runs at 37 and RBI's at 84. Clearly he enjoys smashing balls over the green monster in Fenway Park. Trumbo was asked after a recent loss on the road to Brooklyn how he felt about leading MSB in those HR's and RBI's? "Well it's a great feat, driving in runs is my job. It's never a good thing to have more long balls than team victories at this point in the season after 97 games. The club has only won 30, but we've played better as of late and we've got help on the way and I'm looking a little bit towards 2018 as I'm not going anywhere."
The team has struggled to score runs at times as the supporting cast around Trumbo is young and still learning. The pitching needs improvement and management ensures the team leaders that they are doing what they can and have been discussing trades to improve the roster in all ways possible.
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