Reds OF Rece Hinds has splurted out of the big league gate like catsup that’s been sitting upside down on a warm summer’s day or a chocolate bar in the hands of a toddler on that same summer day. They’re having a picnic, maybe, and listening to the Cincinnati Reds game because this is the 1970’s in middle America we’re talking about now through the power of sentences. In that era, a guy like Rece Hinds might hang around on the strength of 30 home run thump with the sort of off-the-bus skills that played well in those days, but which I mean he looks good getting off the bus, or sitting on the plane, or taking batting practice on the field. It’s hard to predict how free swingers will react to advanced scouting, but everything we’ve seen so far suggests pitchers will figure out they don’t have to throw strikes against Hinds, and that’ll put the squeeze back in the bottle real quick, as the kids say. Hinds struck out 38.4 percent of the time in 77 Triple-A games this year in part because he can’t catch up to the high cheese, and he can’t lay off the sauce down and out. Ingest at your own risk. 

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You know an article is going to be really, really good when there are two colons in the title. Don’t you wish you had two colons? Imagine how productive you’d be? Live every day like it’s Fiber Friday, friends. No really — apparently fiber lowers your cholesterol. You want to stick it to big pharma? Then coat that steak in Benefiber. Your cookout friends will never know! 

Now, this double-coloned article is part of a series that’s kind of new. I basically made up the idea on the spot when Razzeditor Truss was like, “Sell me the next Die Hard or we’re trading you to RotoWire for an AI bot named Frankie FastFingers.” And although that decision to keep me instead of the AI bot will likely lead to the economic collapse of Razzball, I’d like to say that my advice hasn’t been all that awful. Let’s recap some of our favorite add/drops and see how I’m doing in my new role. Also Marmos has been killing it as the new Top 100 Starters writer — that man has passion and eventually he’ll have Photoshop skills as well. 

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