DOB with the hard hitting form of journalism Bowman can only dream of between his pulled pork fantasies
he should consider himself lucky they're allowing him to fly. he should be forced to drive himself for what he has done
Snit has done all he can to keep the games close with this roster he has been given. There is only so much an all-time great manager like Snit can do with what he has been given to work with. Not getting Fabolous Freddie signed should have been a firing on the spot for AA. What a fuck up that has turned out to be.
I’m old enough to remember all the Organization defenders saying the Kimbrel move was just a courtesy because he wanted to retire a Brave and was done
Not letting Kimbrel have a couple appearances to figure it out but still giving Montero work is a choice.
We bunted Mike, who has actually shown signs of life, to get Ozzie and Verdugo up there with RISP. And shockingly, Ozzie pops up to the infield! genius!
Verdugo is like when Lester wouldn’t throw over to first in terms of not swinging at strikes down the middle
Just cut Verdugo and bring up the AAAA Rodriguez guy from Gwinnett. Just try something else. Anything else. For fuck sake you shitstains do SOMETHING
Watched the first 3 innings and could tell where this was headed and turned it off. Sounds like the right call
Good job Ronald. Sorry you are the new Mike Trout with your merry band of dingleberries all around you.
Sale is gonna throw 140 pitches tonight and if anybody tries to pull him he’s gonna stab them with a rusty shank
I always think this while reading the thread and think we are losing like 6-0 then I go check the score and we are winning.
We are 14-21 since May 1 Offense wRC+ - #21 (+94) Off WAR - #21 (-10.0) Avg - #19 (.241) OBP - #16 (.316) SLG - #20 (.378) K Rate - #18 (22.6%) BB Rate - #9 (9.0%) Baserun WAR - #20 (-1.1) Defensive WAR - #2 (+7.4) Starting Pitching Pitching WAR - #8 (+3.6) xFIP - #5 (3.29) K/9 - #3 (9.59) BB/9 - #14 (2.83) HR/9 - #5 (0.93) Left on Base % - #13 (76.3%) Relief Pitching Pitching WAR - #24 (0.00) xFIP - #9 (3.84) K/9 - #7 (9.14) BB/9 - #18 (3.75) HR/9 - #21 (1.06) Left on Base % - #10 (74.2%) TLDR - Starting Pitching and Defense are championship quality. Hitting and Relief Pitching are 15 games under .500 quality. And the relief pitchings biggest issue by far is giving up home runs (shocker). They leave people on base, strike guys out, are roughly league average in walks. But they give up so many homers that it destroys the margin.
HR/9 Rate for Relievers with at least 5 IP since May 1st (out of 288) #20 - Scott Blewett (2.84) #31 - Pierce Johnson (2.25) #62 - Dylan Lee (1.62) #95 - Raisel Iglesias (1.29) #144 - Rafael Montero (0.77) #288 - Aaron Bummer (0.00) #288 - Enyel De Los Santos (0.00) #288 - Daysbel Hernandez (0.00)
Its crazy that our bullpen sucks after all the work AA put into addressing that glaring weakness in the offseason (yes, I am going to beat this horse into a bloody pulp)
Since we aren’t making the playoffs it’s time to sit Ozuna and let his hip heal so we can trade him and let Murphy/Baldwin DH.