Transmogrified Tiger
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this is unquestionably maddon's biggest blind spot regarding obvious stuff good managers can do to give teams an advantage. i'd love to hear his reasoning. lost us the game, too. maybe this is why theo decided he had to build a super bullpen. give joe so many good pitchers he uses someone good in that spot by accident. He didn't even do the 'well I tried to steal an inning but now there's a runner in scoring position so we'll bring in a better reliever to shut things down' that normally happens. Not great. -
had two relievers who strike out over 35% of hitters in the pen, used neither
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I can see the logic for running for Rizzo but boy I really hate using relievers that aren't your very best in this spot. Not having Rondon or Strop in the game here is bad bad bad. If you give up a run you lose, it's more important than a save situation!
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Now do the odds of Rizzo getting another at bat that matters.
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Well, if they are giving it to him, and someone walks, it takes away the force at third? Yeah, he beat Frazier to the base.
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Is Carl Edwards Jr. actually the unholy spawn of Oil Can Boyd and Gumby? My column:
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oh that 1-1 pitch was one to drive to LCF
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http://i.imgur.com/TZTwshU.png
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something real satisfying about hearing the muffled 'SWING!' from the crowd on a pitch that misses by a yard
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looks like Grimm did some bullpen math after watching Nathan yesterday and hearing the Chapman news today
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Rizzo has a .363 wOBA against LHP this year Bring in a lefty reliever and you're still basically facing Evan Longoria
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It was a no doubter but less of a no doubter than I thought tracking it off the bat
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what I'm trying to say is if your buddy brought Todd Frazier to your slow pitch game because you needed an extra guy, and you saw him take a few warmup swings, you'd hit him 7th, tops
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Todd Frazier is kinda a low key Hunter Pence when it comes to his physical mechanics leading to inexplicable success
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sure
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that is a guy who has many times played pickup basketball in oversized jean shorts
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I was being sincere. He said we are part of the problem when it comes to DV and athletes. And he was vocal in his disdain for the organization to pick him up. Which is totally cool. But then doesn't he himself enable by continuing to support the team? Chap being faceless to him doesn't change the fact that he is on this team. Let your voice be heard by tuning out until he's gone. She. And the post says you're part of the problem if you're trying to excuse or downplay Chapman's actions.
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no matter
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did Adam Eaton get visited by the Monstars before today's game
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Contreras is Cespedes if Cespedes didn't play like a disinterested loaf half the time and also could play some catcher
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Willson, touch the base. It's literally that simple.
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It could be better, but could be far worse, so above average. He's apologizing for his actions with the active 'sorry' and not for their effect or interpretation on or by others, that's the important thing in these cases, because again, they are all 100% empty talk. The problem is he's not apologizing at all for his actions, but for his lack of better judgement (and for that, and that alone, is he truly sorry) I realize that I've brought this upon myself, but the separation you're making between his 'judgment' and his 'actions' is perplexing. They're inextricable. But I'll leave it with again reiterating that any apology is not going to come across as 100% sincere, one because it probably isn't, and two because even if it was it can't be in this medium. No statement, statement, statement with different words, it's going to be criticized as insincere no matter what. Given that curve, it avoided some of the worst problems that come with these apologies, so it's pretty good for what it is. Chapman was and remains not a good person, and people remain justified in not liking his acquisition.
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Really? He apologized for a lack of judgement, not for what he did. That's a classic no apologies apology. It's garbage. It could be better, but could be far worse, so above average. He's apologizing for his actions with the active 'sorry' and not for their effect or interpretation on or by others, that's the important thing in these cases, because again, they are all 100% empty talk.
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i mean the yankees still ridiculously have miller and betances, but we're up there It's tough to have a 7-8-9 as good as Strop/Rondon/Chapman, especially if you toss in Edwards's emergence I think it's a fair argument to make. There's a handful of teams with really good pairings that could make an argument, the Orioles, Dodgers, inexplicably the Marlins, etc.
