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Everything posted by squally1313
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Yep. We tried it once, let him hit.
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You could make an argument that for a two inning sample, Happ/Tucker/Castro wouldn't be worse than Turner. But also, if that were the case we'd probably have seen it at some point.
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Suzuki is objectively the better hitter but Turner King at half the rate he does against LHP has me torn on this decision.
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Turner for Busch I'd assume here. Maybe Suzuki?
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I've got 23rd per FG. And 14th in wRC. So mediocre and unlucky, but not terrible. But also not trending in the right direction.
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ok go score two. or six.
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christ that was the one thing you couldn't let happen
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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?
