There is very little functional difference between a 4 run lead and a 3 run lead. Teams should use their best relievers. There was no way of knowing that today's game would present a save opportunity. Save opportunity bullpen management is stupid anyway.
I don't think it matters. Storen yesterday and Osuna today - what would the difference be?
Why the f*** would you let Happ face Chris Young? Just terrible managing.
The strategy there that Gibbons employed was basically - well, maybe this SP will get lucky for another inning.
Clay "don't call me Buttholez" Buchholz is dealing.... except not really.
Weird things going on with the team offense so far this year. And the core is hitting just fine!
I like the trade for both of you. I feel like which side I would take would depend on what side of the bed I woke up on. I just disagreed with Dinger saying that it doesn't make him much worse this year because I think it probably will.
A) risk + delay + big payoff
immediacy + 2016 push + life boating away from the SS Felix as fast as possible
Oh, I do. I think there will be a clear demarcation between Felix and Bum by season end, and Alex Gordon is the type of player that is pretty underrated in most fantasy leagues (even our OBP leagues, somewhat surprisingly).
+1
But this is Dinger finally making moves with his team age in mind. The trade looks like something I would do. Actually I probably would do it. Pollock is so good and it's all about core hitters.
Losing Bumgarner also doesn't drop him out of the playoff picture or anything, and the h2h playoffs are entirely luck anyway. All you need to do is finish in the top 8 with a) a viable, full roster and the best possible core for next year!
Absolutely. 9 BB and 3 K's is bonkers in 9 games. He also went 2/4 so that OPS is up near .800 now. Probably well over the league average.
I think the Eastern League is pretty tough to hit in too, and he's one of the youngest guys in AA.
Aaron Sanchez hasn't gotten a lot of swinging strikes the last two games. He doesn't have a history of getting swinging strikes. To explain away a lack of swinging strikes as some correctable combination of pitch usage + the other team's game plan is just confirmation bias, probably.
You have to be careful about connecting the dots like this with such a small sample size. Putting a bunch of things together in a narrative like this isn't necessarily productive or constructive and it can actually be misleading.
Still an odd number of called strikes for Sanchez, and a weird lack of whiffs. Only 6 whiffs today. 7 the game prior. In game one he had like, 16 whiffs or something like that.
I DUNNO WHAT TO THINK ABOUT AARON SANCHEZ AND IT BUGS ME
It's impossible to find perfect comps for a guy like Sanchez, lol. His tools are too extreme. Maybe at his max ceiling he gets less whiffs than Liriano but more groundballs.
But the overall skill set is kind of the same. I mean Liriano has had entire seasons where he couldn't find the strike zone. Sanchez will never have plus command. Maybe prime Justin Masterson is a better comparison.
He'll be his own unique guy though, whatever he becomes. But to be clear I still don't expect him to be a #2/3. I'd be happy with a guy that can last this entire season as any type of viable SP right now.