stats of Lucas Sims in 2019 won’t exactly wow you. A 4.04 ERA is nice enough in a ‘2015-2018 Cincinnati Reds pitcher’ sort of way, but is hardly inspiring, as is his 1.33 WHIP. That said, a dive a tad deeper shows that Sims has, in fact, been largely impressive for AAA Louisville this year in a way you’d hope to see from a former 1st round draftee. If you pinpoint his April 26th start against the Norfolk Tides, for instance, you’ll see a thorough shellacking, one where he allowed 6 ER in just 1.1 IP. It was bad, it was gross, it was the kind of blow-up that most every pitcher will slog through at least once a season https://www.crfanshop.com/jesse-winker-jersey. It’s the work that Sims has done both before and after that start that has earned him a promotion to the Reds, as the club announced late last night.RHP Lucas Sims is expected to be promoted from Triple-A Louisville to start tomorrow night’s game vs. Pittsburgh. #Reds pic.twitter.com/nnCgZJ8ZuZ— Cincinnati Reds May 28, 2019In his 4 starts prior to that Norfolk debacle, he sported a 3.15 ERA with a dominant 34/6 K/BB in his 20 IP. In the 4 games post-Norfolk, it’s been much of the same - a 2.74 ERA across 23 IP, with a rock solid 28/7 K/BB in that span. All told, it appears the shoulder issues that ended his 2018 campaign prematurely haven’t derailed what he’s been able to accomplish, in large part, at the AAA level, and there absolutely was no more deserving member of the 40-man roster to get the call for tonight’s start, as the doubleheader yesterday has thrown a minor wrench into the overall Cincinnati rotational plans.Frankly, I’m still irrationally high on Sims’ potential, especially given that he just turned 25 years old earlier this month. Getting to see him work his groovy breaking ball with Derek Johnson’s magic is something that I don’t anticipate we’ll see for long beyond tonight’s start, but I do still hold out hope it’ll be simply the start of something. Also down in Louisville, prospect Brian O’Grady has been on some kind of power run of late, and the slugger credits a swing tweak courtesy of Hall of Famer Barry Larkin for his surge https://www.crfanshop.com/cesar-cedeno-jersey, as MiLB.com’s Brian Stultz reported. As the lead picture in that story also reveals, O’Grady’s mustache game is growing, too.While Sims will join the Cincinnati rotation today (for a time), the hope is still that lefty Alex Wood will at some point in the future, too. As MLB.com’s Mark Sheldon reported, Wood is going to rejoin the Reds for the time being to begin ramping up his rehab work, with the idea that he’ll be able to go out on a rehab assignment in the minors in the near future beginning to finally be a real one. Obviously, Wood’s a great talent, but the Cincinnati rotation hasn’t exactly sputtered without him, so it’ll sure be interesting to see how the Reds juggle his eventual return alongside the ever-nearing July trade deadline Cincinnati Reds Hoodies.In other news, the MLB Draft is less than a week away, and The Athletic’s fleet of baseball writers served us up a full 1st round Mock Draft. They weren’t serving as their own GMs of the teams they cover, per se, but rather were trying to anticipate what the teams themselves might do with their primary selections next week. C. Trent Rosecrans seems to be hearing what most Reds fans have heard lately, too, that lefty Nick Lodolo from TCU at #7 overall appears to be the most likely prospect to be picked by Cincinnati, even though the Reds would love if one of the projected top 6 picks slips to them somehow.For a bit more on Lodolo, here’s MLB.com’s draft profile of him in video form. As they note, he was the highest unsigned draftee from the 2016 draft class, as he spurned the Pittsburgh Pirates to head to college instead...just in case you needed any additional reason to like the kid.Finally, the Reds have alternated wins and losses for 11 consecutive games, as Former Fearless Leader Joel Luckhaupt relayed earlier on Twitter dot com. This team has obviously seemed to start clicking more offensively of late, but that still hasn’t translated into a string of victories that their overall play suggests probably should’ve happened by now, so hopefully that’s something they can change beginning as early as...today, perhaps?
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Elden Ring Players Are At A War With AFK Rune Farmers
Elden Ring has a new strategy for farming Elden Ring Runes that focuses on getting into seemingly inaccessible parts of the map until your opponent dies or loses interest and leaves. Players who would like a classic PvP fight are discovering new ways to fight back. The results are fun and shocking, but will they be enough to stem the tide of Elden Ring's latest exploit?
There are few things gamers enjoy more than not playing, but still being rewarded for it. AFK farms are very popular and Elden Ring, it turns out, is not exempt from. There are a lot of players who have been nabbed into PvP invasions where their opponents are MIA, and it's pissing them off. Many players are hopeful that developer FromSoftware will fix the flaw However, some players are making matters their own hands.
So how does Elden Ring's most recent AFK rune farm operate? The most well-known variant involves heading toward the First Step spawn where the game begins, and going towards another cliff. Then, by using their mount Torrent players are able to double jump to an even lower ledge. They then utilize Furlcalling Finger Remedy followed by Taunter's Tongue in order to lure enemies into their game. They also maintain their White Cipher Ring turned on to summon hunters to fight for their cause. In the end, most players either) quit because they are unable to find the AFK famer,) die trying to reach them from the edge of the cliff or) die by one of the allied hunters.
Another method of attack involves using Torrent to climb the highest building in the Site of Grace. Since mounts cannot be summoned until PvP battles begin which makes them unreachable by anyone else. For additional security, some AFK rune farmers also like to use the Mimic Veil in order to turn into an object that opponents cannot auto-target to secure. As one would expect, YouTube is already flush with videos called things like "NEW 100 MILLION RUNE AFK FARM IN ELDEN RING!" and propagators of this technique claim they've managed to produce more than a million runes per hour. Others suggest that the rate even at extremely high amounts, is around 100,000. But free runes is free runes, and every day more and more players are seeking to get theirs.
As the game is becoming more famous and more well-known, there are ways to combat it. In the Elden Ring Subreddit has been filling up with brief clips of players employing creative new strategies to kill those AFK farmers. One method is to leap off the cliff , and using the Agheel's Fire in mid-air in order to change into dragons to kill them while coming downwards. It's also possible to employ ballistas in order to throw them off the edge or kill them outright. It is also possible to use the Hand of Malenia katana has also been successful. Due to its long length and unique swinging animations players can utilize it to get to the ledge by themselves, without the need for Torrent.
As GamesRader points out the effect of these new strategies is that in some cases , it's actually the AFK farmers that are being used for farming. "With my Dragon Breath strat and the physick , I'm keeping all the souls , and you don't need to be taking them out each when I die, after having killed the person who was hosting it," wrote one player on the subreddit. "Have 50+ rune arcs just this morning from my assaults there are many people trying this exploit and you'll be able to fill your inventory with arcs , if you'd like."
Others have begun thinking about thinking outside of the box. "I've been doing AFK'ing with these guys," wrote another player on the subreddit. "I throw on a good movie or some humorous YouTube videos and wait till I feel the sound of my free Rune Arc to elden ring items buy." Elden Ring players are not committed if they aren't.