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  1. mul21
    Ohtani's body is breaking down already. No way he ever does 50/50 again.
  2. mul21
    I haven't read the whole game thread and I'm sure it was dissected ad nauseum during the game, but I was in the stands and was shocked to see Boyd come out for the 8th and then shocked again to see that he wasn't pulled after a not particularly competitive walk to the leadoff hitter. I thought it was reasonable to give him the first guy in the 8th because of the lefty lefty matchup and I could see a righty warming up in the pen, but once that walk happens, he absolutely had no business still being in the game.
  3. mul21
    That's pretty much exactly what I proposed earlier.......
  4. mul21
    Stephenson HR was on a 91.1 mph pitch Myers was on a 90.9 mph pitch Looks like the others were on off speed pitches
  5. mul21
    It dropped significantly throughout the start if I recall correctly. The announcers even commented on it early and then later he was sitting more 91 and getting shelled.
  6. mul21
    Sure, but his performances are 2 sides of a coin and it's pretty easy to tell which one you're getting just based on velocity alone in each start. He's got the talent to give you 7 shutout innings but he can also get shelled and give up a half dozen gopher balls in 3 innings if he's not right.
  7. mul21
    Shota is my real concern and if you can get 4 innings from him and then 4 from Civale, I'd call that a win. Especially if you can tell him ahead of time to air it out since we know his success is so dependent on that extra tick of velo. Boyd is generally fine unless his location is way off and he's missing badly arm side. Peterson is what he is, you're going to get some solid outings and some clunkers like you do with almost any 5th starter out there.
  8. mul21
    Man, they're pretty optimistic about what they think they can charge for group/suite tickets. I also left this message for them at the end.
  9. mul21
    I know this has been a topic of discussion, so here’s Passan’s take:
  10. mul21
    Take the AI slop somewhere else.
  11. mul21
    This is just dumb. You have 2 starters in Holmes and Gausman who are likely to give you excellent starts in the playoffs, you have a top 3 offense and the top defense in baseball, all they have to do is cobble together a functioning bullpen from guys who have demonstrated they can be very good in the recent past. Are they the favorites to win it all or even get to the WS? No, definitely not, but thinking this team is dead in the water is believing that the 10 game losing streak in May is who they are. I hate losing to the Brewers as much as the next guy, but for all their success since 2018, what exactly do they have to show for it? The Cubs almost took them out in the DS last year with less pitching than they have now.
  12. mul21
    What? Those are amazing!
  13. mul21
    I'd agree with you if they weren't playing the Brewers, but if there's any slim hope of actually pulling out the division, every one of these games counts double and they have to do everything they can to win them. Having an extra arm available starting tonight helps too if they want to be really aggressive.
  14. mul21
    Birdsell too assuming he's back from TJS.
  15. mul21
    What does this mean? They plan on bringing him back if he clears waivers?
  16. mul21
    That's not how these waivers work. He isn't getting released. The Reds put him on waivers in the hope someone claims him and they save some money. If they aren't going to save money, there's no point in letting him go.
  17. mul21
    Arenado was running like a 60 year old between first and second on that play.
  18. mul21
    Baseball is gonna baseball. Two consecutive weak contact hits cost them the game and it took weird spin and a bounce off first base to do it. The EVs on those were 62 and 83. Hard to get too mad about things like that.
  19. mul21
    As noted during the broadcast by Boog and JD, Kelly was throwing almost a full 2 mph harder than he has all year, so the Cubs weren't seeing the same guy who has the 5+ ERA on the season last night.
  20. mul21
    Civale really bailed them out yesterday after Shota's poor performance. Pretty rare to have the entire pen save one guy available the next day after only getting 2 IP from the starter.
  21. mul21
    Kirby horsefeathers the bed in the first inning yesterday and was out after 3.1 against the Brewers. He threw almost 40 pitches in the first and they hit at least 3 five hoppers that went for hits. It was infuriating to watch in person.
  22. mul21
    Fortunately for him, his MAGA ass probably doesn't have much brain function to lose.
  23. mul21
    Honestly, that's one of the few reasons I would actually buy. That horsefeathers is a powerful drug that melts people's brains.
  24. mul21
    Tolle should get the AL award just because he's hilarious.
  25. mul21
    Kenny Lofton definitely came to mind for me, but the BA he carried most of his career is probably 40 points higher than what Kepley can hope to do. Some of that is skill, some of that is just the way the game is today. If you look at Lofton's 2002 season where he went .261 .350 .414 .763 with 11 HRs, that seems like a reasonable expectation to me.
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