At one point in late June 2008, he led the NL in strikeouts (or was really close, I can't remember exactly), which I just thought was completely insane as a reliever at that point of the season.
The guy who has 7 home runs in 90 PAs after 10 in the previous 947? Sure? I don't think it's a hot take to say you'd rather have LaStella's April over Descalso's, but I remain pretty confident that we'll have the better player going forward. And it's not like Descalso has been a scrub either. He's had a pretty good go of it so far.
3 of them were because we played in 3 home openers, all outdoors, and they have the auto-day off after those. The rest I'm just assuming was the schedule makers trolling us.
This isn’t an example of what you are saying but I do remember the Brewers blowing a bases loaded 0 out situation in like the 13th inning of a 2016 game but the Cubs ended up winning The Travis Wood escape. It did occur to me as that last inning was playing out
I was thinking the same. Anyone who's good defensively at SS should be even better at 2B, even more so if his only real defensive weakness is the arm. Russell should be at 2B if they're going to make us watch him at all.
I seem to recall Dexter may have dropped one for St. Louis, but that's ok And I think Soriano did once, too, for us. Soriano definitely did, which I think precipitated him getting rid of it.