squally1313
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I love the idea of Ohtani and Alonso so much, but I'm a little terrified at the idea of the money for those signings/trades coming from Stroman and/or Hendricks being gone and then using all our financial resources on two offensive players. Next year counts as part of the window too, and going into it with Jordan Wicks as the #2 starter is pretty concerning.
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Is 'Ohtani' the missing word there?
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Yeah I don't think you really want to be making injuries/consistency part of your pro-Bellinger argument. Cody has missed 31 games this year, Alonso came up in 2019 and has missed 24 games in his career. We've got about 2.5 months of elite offensive performance from Cody in the last 3 years (at 6/30 this year he was carrying a .266/.329/.451 line, good for a 107 wRC). Alonso has never been below 120, throw out 2020 and he's never been below 130. He's had one month below 100 wRC month in the last three years. There are arguments to be made for Cody, but this one isn't it.
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If you set the cutoff point right after the sweep of the giants, then yeah, sure, 2-4, not great! 1-1 on the road with two pitchers from the 3-5 range of our rotation? Not as bad. But slice it up however you want. And yes, the Rockies are terrible. But they’re also 30-39 at home vs 22-53 on the road. Coors is weird, not going to turn this into something it’s not. never said they looked good tonight. 9 runs in two games against bad pitching in coors isn’t really acceptable. Part of that is bad luck (see how many hard hit balls they had yesterday), part of that is bad ABs at bad times, part of that is bad decisions (stop giving them outs on the bases). I expect they’ll win tomorrow because they’re better and because they’ve been really good at winning series lately. Which is all you can reasonably expect from a road series. If they don’t, different conversation.
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The cubs are like, optimistically, a 90 win team, right? The cubs have played 13 games this month, a vast majority of them against contending teams, 7 home/6 road, and gone 7-6. Which is an 87 win pace. It’s just…baseball? It’s a flawed team, this isn’t 2015-2017. We’re doing what we need to do to throw our hat in the ring at the end of the month. but I guess you could also just do the 5 game sample size and say things are terrible.
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A 56 mph check swing bloop away from maybe going for a road sweep tomorrow
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Great AB
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Seems odd to me to throw wesneski here in a seemingly one inning spot when he would be one of the two dudes who could go multiple innings tomorrow if taillon blows up
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Morel is apparently trying to reenact Javy’s debut, so might need to get it to extras before he can help. Just have PCA do it.
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That is a preposterous catch
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Lol what
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Can’t be too mad about it, that swing brings back so many good memories
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Well that was quick
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Swanson has been really encouraging. Need more than 2 runs, giving up 4 through 5 with a back of the rotation starter here isn’t some huge disaster.
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There is absolutely no evidence that boxberger will provide anything of value this year, but….someone’s got to pitch I guess.
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I’m so tired of basepath outs.
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Yeah I've been a little surprised by how Little has basically been invisible since his (solid, I think?) debut a week ago or whatever. And will be a little annoyed if he immediately throws Boxberger into a high leverage situation. Hopefully he's just here to be a body until Stroman is ready in a few days.
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Last annoying post of the night, probably. Go score 14 runs tomorrow, idiots.
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Well 5-6-7 is a little better. Bottom 8 must have happened while I was focused on MNF.
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We're really rolling with Smyly against 2-3-4 huh
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Hope you guys enjoyed that 4 minutes of happiness. Now everyone resume their normal positions.
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Gomes should have been getting all the credit Tauchman got all summer. Team can fight, man.
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Look I'm on record as saying Cuas sucks. He does. But the implication is that we're leaving some shutdown pitcher in the pen that is capable of getting 7 outs and we just don't have that. Like, how dare David Ross not go to Drew horsefeathers Smyly against a righty. Is that what all the anger is really about?
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This could get really fun.....
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Lol I could have sworn this was a quote that other people have cited here, but I can't find anything definitive. If a manager has a good bullpen, he's going to look good. If he has a bad bullpen, he's going to look bad. He has a bad bullpen. That's not on him.