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Narrator- “it wasn’t mental.”

Over the last calendar year (roughly, July 26 last year to now) Almora is at .238/.274/.350 with a 62 wRC+. Keep starting this horsefeathers and rostering him on the 25-man, assholes. Also way to reward him and not send a message for that 9th inning horsefeathers up last night.

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Score 1 run, idiots

Cishek has pitched in 4 of the 5 games since the break

They’ve been incredibly sloppy mentally for over a year now.

That catch earlier had almost a 50% catch probability. He pimped it.

Send his bum ass down

Hopefully this GB finds a hole

Walk it off, assholes

Bote is a good low ball hitter, why isn’t he facing Hughes here??? All Hughes throws is balls from the thighs and down.

You know if Rizzo tries to avoid that successfully and Dietrich fields it and misses the tag they call Rizzo out of the base path. What a dumb rule.

Eloy got hurt again and Cease is getting beat up by the Royals

I’m fine letting some team dream on him being a starting caliber catcher and selling highish. He has a career 87 wRC+, he’s most likely a career backup. Dude he didn't have nearly enough career PA to give a horsefeathers about that number. I mean that's ridiculous. 260 PA. He is killing it according to xwoba so hes earned that line. And he has shown some of the best plate discipline on the team as well with his zswing-oswing. Maybe some holes are being poked now but it's too early to write him off and not believe he can make the adjustments. As a prospect he put up solid lines at every level that he had a decent sample, including 2 stints at AAA with a 3/4/5 slash line. I'm actually surprised you're so willing to write him off when he doesnt have huge red flags but you pined for Happ to get a shot even when he had an 80 wRC+ with a 30+ Krate in the supercharged PCL this year. Steamer and zips even like him over Happ, FWIW I certainly was wrong on Vic going in to the year, I wanted a backup C (ironically Maldonado was top of the list) and Vic has been really good and I hope he continues to do well. But Vic's value will probably never be higher and with Willy his path to playing time will be limited (assuming this really is a 10 day injury thing for him). If a team wants to pay up for Vic thinking he's a full time starter I'm not against moving him, I wouldn't just trade him to trade him. That was really my point, the answer to what Vic really is probably falls somewhere between what he's been for his career and what he's been this year. And I more wanted Happ to get a shot because of who he'd be taking ABs over (Almora, Descalso, Russell, Zagunis, etc). I also don't think the answer to improving the offense is giving Vic more catching time and putting WIlly in the OF, if we're going to do the 3 catcher thing.

Carl is pretty much ready to come back, iirc, I think he’s scheduled to go in Iowa tomorrow. Would assume he’s up Soon.

Wonder if they were talking something like Monty, Vic, Happ, Amaya and some other prospects for Whit and Maldonado.

I’m fine letting some team dream on him being a starting caliber catcher and selling highish. He has a career 87 wRC+, he’s most likely a career backup.

Something has to be up. Either Willy is more hurt than missing only 10 days, which with Gryzlo maybe he is, or else Vic almost has to be close to being moved. We have 3 off days in the next 14 days, they could’ve just called up Davis and let Vic start pretty much every game if it was only 10 days without Willy. For as bad and low valued as Monty has been, trading him for just a rental backup C seems selling ridiculously low.

This roster is so flawed (but fixable). No excuse for Vic ever hitting 5th, Bote horsefeathering sucks at 3B and shouldn’t be pushing KB to RF, the defense is sloppy and dumb and then drunky Joe using the garbage relievers in a 1 run game with wind out and off the break/blowout games that everyone is plenty rested and we have off the next 2 Thursdays and 2 weeks from today. No excuse not to get aggressive with the pen the next ~3 weeks.

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He has a 115 wRC+ so yeah he’s been just plain good. That’s the same wRC+ as Lindor and within 1 point of Harper and Story.

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The regression monster is so close to creeping up on Kintzler. Hopefully he can keep managing contact, somehow, for another 3-4 months.