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Is there any benefit to doing it earlier?

A very 2023 Bellinger game

I’m obsessed with shota

I’m in love with Shota

Because he fractured his left arm in a pretty nasty catchers interference.

I don’t disagree with the overall frustration, but a ton of that is just the modern version of baseball. League average is .239. For as much of the season as this slump has seemed to occupy, we’re three points below average. having said that, nothing about this dudes numbers predicted this, and I just turned the game on right after the belli home run to watch him dotting edges all over the place. Very frustrating.

It's 6:40 central, which, if I remember correctly, has been the normal start time while school is still going on (and the weather is a little colder). Believe in a few weeks the start times get moved back 20-30 minutes.

Yeah maybe you go mastro there but this could also be the offensive version of counsell not chasing wins…if you’re going to lean on Amaya more and more, you do whatever you can to give him full days off.

Colton brewer, please begin warming up. You’re going to want to get really loose.

Well this got dumb in a hurry

I think in a five man rotation, normal rest time is four days, so would assume 'throw day' would have been yesterday in that hypothetical. Doubt that actually happened, but I would guess they would like to use him in a multi-inning role and would be hesitant to put him in that spot tonight without being fully recovered from a start. Would guess he's available in some sort of Cubs up 9-7 going into the 6th situation but would like to avoid him. Having said that, know Steele is limited and so maybe that is the plan for tonight. A little interesting in that in theory switching Shota and Steele in this series would have kept Brown on his normal schedule to piggyback Steele, while Shota would have still been on 4 days rest....but I guess that shows how much they value the ability to give Shota that extra day.

Looking at the bullpen situation going into the series: Neris - 22 pitches on Saturday, one day of rest Leiter - 20 pitches on Saturday, one day of rest Almonte - 19 pitches yesterday, two days off prior to that Palencia - 12 pitches yesterday, two days off prior to that Adbert - 32 pitches on Friday, two days of rest but probably not in consideration for high leverage at the moment Brown - threw 89 on Thursday, so on three days rest, would imagine he's off limits today given bigger picture concerns, and then hopefully into a high leverage role behind Shota and Wes after that Lovelady - 15 pitches Friday, weekend off, could see some work here with Arraez as their leadoff hitter and Cronenworth as their 3 hitter (and Tatis between them at 2/25 against LHP this year) Brewer - 24 pitches Friday, weekend off, assume if he survives the roster movements he's in mop up duty Keegan - 16 pitches Saturday, one day of rest - not sure where he falls here in that you probably can't use him for too long if things go sideways, but probably not a high leverage guy either Their bullpen is in pretty good shape, everyone besides Brito and Kolek should be available tonight, Suarez hasn't pitched since Wednesday. The Musgrove replacement looks very bad and homer-y and you'd really hope that even worst case scenario with the Darvish/Cease games, we can avoid a sweep with Shota against him.

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Yeah that makes sense to me. Though then again, they could be sitting there thinking he threw 78 innings last year and has struggled with command and pitchers, by nature, tend to break a lot. It's a good move to bank on a turnaround and pick up a top 100 prospect in July. But he gets forearm tightness between now and then and you're left with nothing.

Since the beginning of 2023, he has a 2.37 ERA in 91 innings, with a 2.65 FIP. He's always walk heavy, but gets a lot of Ks and groundballs, far from a lottery ticket. I mean, he led baseball in reliever fWAR last year.

lol lead off walk horsefeathers unreal

By striking out and then fisting a ball into shallow center

Ok hunter

Would anyone like to bet on the outcome of the game? I’ll say we win. $5

It was weird with Contreras’ reaction too. Like he wasn’t sure if it was going to be fair or foul and then tauchman just stood in his spot for 5 seconds

Agreed. @Bertz is there a pitching version? I assume it’s basically just FIP driven

Not great. But…better than it has been.

How about PCAs first career walk. Or first career GS

Lol. ‘How can I make six of the first seven guys reaching base negative’

7 walks in 7.1 AAA innings. Probably not the guy to solve our 3rd worst bullpen walk rate in baseball issue.