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Yeah I mean, I don't know. He doesn't walk guys. Basically just pounding the zone with mid 90s fastballs and hanging curves. Better than letting him get ahead?
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It wasn't even a DP situation, not sure what I was thinking, working at like 20% efficiency here apparently.
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Kyle Tucker do not ground into a 4-6-3/3-6-3 challenge
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This is a bad take, they should be able to flex out of the pitch clock in situations like this.
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monkeys paw on 'oh, you wanted to completely avoid any sort of extended losing streak?'
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Eh. I'm much more inclined to believe that what we've seen since July 1 from Boyd and Horton is indicative of future performance than I am on the hitting side.
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Yep, once he missed the hanging curve you could pretty much tell how that was going to end up.
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We should sign Scherzer next year, with PCA in center he might win the Cy Young again.
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Since July 1, Boyd and Horton have been top 10 pitchers in baseball. If we can somehow find a way to keep them healthy, those two and Shota can stand up to any other rotation in October.
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I mean, to be clear, he's a career 97 wRC against one and 96 wRC against the other, so I think he's a clear step back from any of the normal options. Ultimately I think today is a 'PCA needs a break' day, but I do think unless we get 1st half PCA back we should consider Castro starting in center against all LHP, so I'm a bit against the idea of giving PCA more time off than that.
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Yeah, stats back that up for this year. In 2024 it was flipped, and career wise he's basically the exact same against both. I'm obviously lingering too long on this, but his value to me was his ability to play everywhere in a world where we had three catchers, a short side 1B platoon, and a glorified pinch runner. Going forward I would prefer the plan to be that he rotates around 3B, 2B, SS (or 2B while Nico plays SS), and CF, with Caissie getting time in the corners and DH. Shaw, Dansby, Nico are all good/better against LHP, PCA is clearly worse, using your Castro for PCA day against a RHP seems suboptimal. But also, yes, to everyone elses point, PCA has been terrible, so maybe it's more just that.
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Didn't we get Castro specifically as a guy that could hit LHP? Or have I had that backwards the whole time. I feel like you could parse his stats in different ways to make him seem good in all situations but ultimately he adds up to basically league average.
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PCA is almost certainly natural a ginger, no?
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Castro starting for PCA against a righty when he could just give him a break on Sunday against the lefty starter we face then is very dumb
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complaining about lineup construction is generally dumb that being said, this is a dumb lineup
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Realistically they probably are.
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I actually thought about this a little bit in the earlier Caissie conversation. Say we go 5-4 over today, Pittsburgh, and the Brewers series. That puts us at 73-55 with 34 games left, .500 record the rest of the year, which is conservative, gets us to 90 wins. Getting knocked out of the playoffs would require the Reds to go 27-13 or the Cardinals to go 30-10, which I don't think either team has in them. I wouldn't necessarily call it 'coasting', but we might not be pedal to the metal if we come out of the Brewers series without a realistic shot at the division, and keeping the guys fresh, especially on the pitching side but offensively too, could be a priority.
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.381 OBP, 118 wRC in August Seiya Suzuki?
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I'm willing to buy the logic that you shouldn't automatically assume a 300-400 PA adjustment period of terrible hitting. I'm not willing to buy the logic that current Owen Caissie is a better hitter than current Seiya Suzuki.
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Minor league stats are not the same as major league stats, come on guys. Seiya's slump has been bad, but there's only one way out of it and if we thought Owen Caissie was better than Seiya's YTD 116 wRC against RHP (138 in 2024!), then he should have been up months ago.
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Eh, Verlander signed a one year deal at age 42 needing 38 more wins to get to 300. Even the most delusional people wouldn't think there's a path there.
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I understand that in order to reach that level of elite talent you need to be somewhat insane/manically competitive, but it kinda blows my mind that Scherzer and Verlander are just out there stumbling through clearly diminished production when they really don't have anything left to prove or accomplish. Just go home to your $350m/$400m career earnings and your supermodel wives and do nothing for the rest of your lives.
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Caissie deserves the call up and there’s value added to his career progression just by being on the big league roster, spending 6 weeks with the cubs coaches and successful veteran outfielders, etc. Caissie is absolutely the 5th best option to start games for a team that is, at least theoretically, fighting for a playoff spot, and his role should be treated as such. Matt Shaw gave you defense and baserunning and also we had zero other options. This is not the case here. Kyle Tucker won’t hit the ball harder because the cubs benched Suzuki for a prospect, that’s not a real thing. Play your good four outfielders, give Caissie a start a week, let him play in blowouts, and tell him to be ready for a bad righty reliever (and even then, who are you taking out for his AB).
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Going back to the trade deadline discussion, guess who has the worst wRC of anyone with at least 40 PAs (negative 20) since the deadline? 3/38 with 2 walks and 1 home run in 10 games.
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Eh. He knows better than I do, obviously, but like, I can't imagine Hector Rondon felt very good about the Chapman trade. Or that Matt Shaw would have loved a Suarez deal, guys like Colin Rea or Horton loving another couple starters being added. If you've played four months with a team and you're in contention, you'd almost think you'd want to prove that you don't need anyone else. But ultimately, I don't think there's anything to a 'shot in the arm' or whatever. Suzuki isn't a shell of himself because we didn't trade for Charlie Morton. PCA isn't flailing at LHP breaking balls because we didn't get a new closer. Just play better.
