8/6: The Defending Champs (Big Game Jon) vs DB's Nationals (Fedde), 1:20 CT, CSN-C, TBS

[Little Slide Rooter]

Is Carl Edwards officially 2017's Mark Guthrie/ Latroy Hawkins/Bob Howry/David Patton/Will Ohman/John Grabow/James Russell/Brian Schlitter/Justin Grimm?

[CaliforniaRaisin]

let the record show that edwards started sucking ass as soon as i got in that argument about the bullpen being good

 

I especially thought you'd know that bullpen are fickle.

[Little Slide Rooter]

Is Carl Edwards officially 2017's Mark Guthrie/ Latroy Hawkins/Bob Howry/David Patton/Will Ohman/John Grabow/James Russell/Brian Schlitter/Justin Grimm?

[David]

He's a horsefeathering loser. He needs to be DFA'ed so Joe will stop using him

 

this might be a tad much

[David]

let the record show that edwards started sucking ass as soon as i got in that argument about the bullpen being good

 

I especially thought you'd know that bullpen are fickle.

 

i do know that and it was a key part of my argument against giving up anything of value for a non-elite reliever

[Brian]

Somehow we lost both "Willson Contreras games"

 

might be time to go Edwards Fan

[Gmoney08]

Edwards is still likely a stud in a bad stretch right now. The pitch selection is what Im most pissed about. Idk if itd Willy, CJ or Bosio but throw the [expletive] fastball.

 

Its the 2nd time hes refused to throw the FB and the slider killed him.

[Gmoney08]

Is Carl Edwards officially 2017's Mark Guthrie/ Latroy Hawkins/Bob Howry/David Patton/Will Ohman/John Grabow/James Russell/Brian Schlitter/Justin Grimm?

 

Wasnt he dynamite most the year?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

let the record show that edwards started sucking ass as soon as i got in that argument about the bullpen being good

 

I especially thought you'd know that bullpen are fickle.

 

i do know that and it was a key part of my argument against giving up anything of value for a non-elite reliever

 

wait, you're going to use Edwards imploding as justification for NOT upgrading the bullpen at the deadline?

[TruffleShuffle]

Edwards is still likely a stud in a bad stretch right now. The pitch selection is what Im most pissed about. Idk if itd Willy, CJ or Bosio but throw the [expletive] fastball.

 

Its the 2nd time hes refused to throw the FB and the slider killed him.

 

he's not throwing the fastball because he doesn't know where it's going when it leaves his hand.

[ScrubMD]

At least Edwards knows that Maddon still believes in him, and that's the important thing.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

A pretty disappointing weekend. Facing Roark, Jackson and Fredde was really fortunate but the club just couldn't quite take advantage.

[Schwarber Fan]

Somehow we lost both "Willson Contreras games"

 

might be time to go Edwards Fan

 

Work is not yet done with Schwarber.

[weis21]

hindsight is 20/20 but pulling montgomery when he did was really horsefeathering dumb. he's not a loogy

[David]

 

I especially thought you'd know that bullpen are fickle.

 

i do know that and it was a key part of my argument against giving up anything of value for a non-elite reliever

 

wait, you're going to use Edwards imploding as justification for NOT upgrading the bullpen at the deadline?

 

when did i say that?

 

i'm saying trading for someone who isn't aroldis chapman or andrew miller-like isn't going to do much in the way of bringing you certainty either way

 

what if we had traded for someone else's CJ

 

Justin Wilson could easily give us a few terrible high leverage innings since he isn't that tier of reliever either. at the time of that argument, CJ could've been seen as just as good/better

 

i don't really care that we got him bc we didn't give up anything worth a damn and he is good(and we also got avila so whatever) mind you (not to mention the implosion of CJ now means wilson is probably our second best reliever). he's just not great enough to be above the whole " ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ relievers" thing

Edited August 6, 2017 by David

[weis21]

also, i horsefeathering hate TBS broadcasts

[weis21]

ron darling: the glove is a key piece of his deception. it hides the ball.

 

oh, ok then

[Agony and Ivy]

He's a horsefeathering loser. He needs to be DFA'ed so Joe will stop using him

 

this might be a tad much

 

I dunno, having a reliever with no clue where the ball is going is a bad thing, but having a manager that has some undying faith in that guy is a bad thing. The minors aren't going to fix him. He needs to be moved back to the garbage time role, but Joe loves him. If this was Rondon the last two years, Joe has LaStella pitching before giving him a chance like today

[ScrubMD]

hindsight is 20/20 but pulling montgomery when he did was really horsefeathering dumb. he's not a loogy

 

Doesn't take hindsight to know putting Edwards in there was going to end poorly.

[Bryants Disco Ball]

hindsight is 20/20 but pulling montgomery when he did was really horsefeathering dumb. he's not a loogy

 

Baseball can be so fascinating. Montgomery got a K to start the inning, and then Harper made such soft contact but still got on. I wish Harper wouldn't have gotten on. Things could have been different.

[abuck1220]

using my Edwards there isn't like "seemingly questionable but actually defendable for X, Y, Z reasons and maddon is quite shrewd if you think about it." it's just like comically obviously and blatantly stupid.

[Gmoney08]

Edwards is still likely a stud in a bad stretch right now. The pitch selection is what Im most pissed about. Idk if itd Willy, CJ or Bosio but throw the [expletive] fastball.

 

Its the 2nd time hes refused to throw the FB and the slider killed him.

 

he's not throwing the fastball because he doesn't know where it's going when it leaves his hand.

 

To me he is being even more wild with the slider. In the Cards game he repeatedly missed with the slider while his FB was overpowering them.

[weis21]

using my Edwards there isn't like "seemingly questionable but actually defendable for X, Y, Z reasons and maddon is quite shrewd if you think about it." it's just like comically obviously and blatantly stupid.

[David]

using my Edwards there isn't like "seemingly questionable but actually defendable for X, Y, Z reasons and maddon is quite shrewd if you think about it." it's just like comically obviously and blatantly stupid.

 

he's right

[David]

this is one of the more annoying losses of the year