Laika

Data probably says the starters should come out then and Charlie is just being a good boy and following orders

Managerial incompetence to even use Romano Made even worse by letting him face Marsh when it was clear Romano had NOTHING

Three beautiful pitches by Strip

Yeah but I don't even think he needed to dive. I dunno.

Seemed like it

Take him out. Now.

Was there any update on Suzuki?

Romano is NOT an Ironman. His stuff falls off when he's hurt sick or tired.

He did. Zero cutters last few starts. Wow. April 29 = first game without throwing the cutter. He was bad that game but good in the subsequent games. Since dropping his cutter: 3.33 ERA 3.39 FIP 11.47 K/9 4.81 BB/9 0.74 HR/9 That includes the April 29th stinker. And has one HOU game and two NYY games...

wait did Kikuchi completely drop his cutter?

Yeah it's like Kawhi in Toronto It's fine with me if it works

I'm just happy Jano is moving up

Yeah I think you're right there's no discretion on a basic GRD

Wicky sucked

Probably that wOBA hasn't been rescaled to the offensive environment

I don't get it She says three run double Seems like she just doesn't know the umpire discretion aspect for the runner on first

Tommy Pham is f***ing nuts Remember he got stabbed two seasons ago?

Production was amateur Video quality was good Hunter Pence was fun Meh, all things considered it was annoying and I even have apple TV That I could not last channel to other sports games was annoying as f***

Trading Buxton for Gilbert is HORRIBLE how the f*** did jim not accept

isn't he a righty Winker is the lefty

Jokes on you, I've never even swung a bat

connorp, carlos, and L54 lining up to reply to me and thank each other's posts the new darrels

SO funny that it was going in anyway though 100% that was going to trickle in on its own he basically kicked it on the goal line

I'm not glossing over their struggles at all. I am just illustrating in really a rather irrefutable way (IMO) that your premise for how to fix them is flawed. Like, woefully flawed. Let's recap: - Teoscar, Bo, and Vlad are already doing what you want them to do to a fault and they would probably be significantly better hitters if they instead tried to pull the ball more often. - Jansen and Springer are already doing what you DON'T WANT THE TEAM TO DO and they are having great results - Even Espinal is having great results by making a process change that is the precise opposite of what you are preaching; he is intentionally trying to hit the ball harder to the pull side and it's working - Kirk is already an all fields hitter - Matt Chapman is probably physically incapable of transforming into the player you want him to be because of his uppercut swing. I think the shortest path to success for him is just to get in front a bit more so he has less FBs to CF and more to LF. A lot of the RISP numbers are just noise, luck, and nerves from younger players. Like, they have a .204 BABIP with RISP, a big chunk of that is just bad luck. They need to be better with RISP but most of what needs changing is just between the ears. Trying to ham-fist approach changes onto previously successful hitters is how you break a team. They need to relax. If by "stop trying to hit home runs" for you means "calm down" then sure they need to calm down but this is a team of sluggers and they should absolutely be trying to send baseballs into orbit please and thanks.

MLB ranks: K% - 14th (as in, 14th lowest) BB% - 19th (as in, 19th lowest) BABIP - 26th Hard hit% - 5th Oppo% - 10th GB% - 11th If the team was truly a bunch of "one dimensional hackers" who should be trying to "go the other way or up the middle instead of trying to pull the ball" more then the numbers would NOT look like this. Seriously, do you f***ing dorks even look at Fangraphs before you type this stuff? In fact, you could argue that the PROBLEM is that guys like Bo and Vladdy are NOT TRYING TO PULL THE f***ING BASEBALL ENOUGH WHERE IS CITO GASTON STOP TRYING TO BE PERFECT HITTERS WHO CAN AIM BALLS THE OTHER WAY INTO THE GAPS AND HIT .330!!!!! JUST PULL THE BALL FOR HOME RUNS YOU HAVE MASSIVE POWER AND MASSIVE BAT SPEED LOOK AT WHAT DANNY JANSEN IS DOING WHO ARE THE TWO BEST REGULAR HITTERS ON THE TEAM? GEORGE AND DANNY WHO HAS THE HIGHEST PULL% OF REGULARS ON THE TEAM? GEORGE AND MOTHER f***ING DANNY I SWEAR TO f***ING GOD I AM GOING TO SNAP AND BAN ALL OF YOU DEAR MATT CHAPMAN - GET THE f*** OUT IN FRONT AND PULL YOUR FLY BALLS. STOP HITTING THEM TO CENTREFIELD YOU f***ING MORON DEAR VLADIMIR GUERRERO JR, AND TEOSCAR HERNANDEZ, AND BO BICHETTE - START ELEVATING THE BALL MORE YOU f***ING IDIOTS