saskjayfan

Fire all 8 of the hitting coaches. Danny Jansen is the new player/coach.

So I guess the guys on the board should say goodbye?

91st percentile in sprint speed, 93rd percentile in strike out rate. If they are insistent on keeping Schneider as the manager, they should at least arm him with the necessary resources to succeed. The baseball managers for dummies book is only 19.99 at indigo.

If this was the 9th inning fine. It's the 7th. Seriously, fire Schneider after the game. He has zero feel for the game of baseball.

why the f*** are they putting the bunt on with clement who almost never strikes out and is extremely tough to double up. f*** off schneider.

3 up 3 down and we hurt one of their players.....pretty solid half inning.

I don't get the laughing and the active cheering against Manoah. It's all about confidence. Once some struggles hit in the 3rd he just lost command of the slider. The stuff is still there to be really good. It's all about slider execution for me with Manoah.

The slider was the problem. They kept calling it. Should have used the fastball more. It's all confidence.

Are you trying to be a play by play guy? We're all watching the game.

definitely not a wise play, but looking at it in hindsight he might not have scored on that weak bloop by IKF if he had still been at second.

It's almost time for some to concede that Babe's just a good baseball player..lol

He looks great..lol

holy delayed reaction. Off the crack of the bat I'm like that's gone, and then utter silence and I'm like oh is that an out. Was it off the end of the bat and then the camera turns and it's a mile gone. That might have been the worst home run call in history..lol

I'm the eternal optimist. Pre-drinking in anticipation of disappointment probably plays a factor.

He deserved a hit his last AB. Hit it hard. Guys go through slumps. Biggio is very streaky. Hard to argue against Schneider.

He put a good swing on it. It was off the end of the bat. Right on time.

Danny needs to hit a slump. He's going to be too expensive if he keeps this up. I'd extend him.

If he only goes 6 it's pins and needles time though...lol

see we can score runs. We just need our opposition to play terrible defense on a nightly basis.

He's been good in 2 of the last 3. April was his spring training essentially. Has last start wasn't just good or solid. His slider was utterly dominant. It didn't look like that last year. His velocity is up this year too. It's not like they had a bunch of great options for tomorrow. I'd have brought Manoah up too.

Keegan just said on Twitter than Manoah is in the clubhouse in Washington.

Beyond the obvious physical day off, Vlad could use the mental days off too. I agree. Give him some time off. It's hard to do when you're below .500.

Obviously we don't know what's going on and you could be correct. My comment stems from a comment made by Turner who said "what if" in response to what's the problem a week ago. What if it's a slider. Guys are caught between pitches. That and we've steadily gotten worse for a couple years now offensively. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. Whatever caused George Springer to take a 90 mph fastball in a 1-1 count right down the middle has to change. If its more analytics, not less so be it. My thoughts are truly wild speculation of a frustrated fan. I fully admit it..lol. I think if Joey Votto retired and immediately became our hitting coach tomorrow and tried to get players to do all the things he did as a hitter that it would fail spectacularly. All players have different strengths and some aren't capable of doing the things Votto did in his career. My hypothesis is our organization is well versed in identifying what good hitters do to be successful and are trying to mold or fix players rather than playing to their strengths. I could be completely off base. Whatever we are doing it isn't working. That's the obvious thing. The solution is a sphynx riddle.

George Springer took a 90 mph fastball from a lefty right down the middle. Middle, middle! No swing. They are playing paper, scissors rock with these pitchers. Pre game meetings going over a million scenarios. Well in the pre game meeting he was suppose to throw me a slider in that count. Seriously. Look for a pitch, adjust to what comes. Trust your eyes and your natural athletic ability. Swing and miss might go up a tick, but the problem isn't the swing and miss. It's missing pitches you should do damage on. Bo, Vlad and Springer were all great in training. Granted there are all types of pitchers, some not major leaguers. The vast majority of pitchers they faced in spring were major leaguers. There's not scouting reports or pre game meetings. You go out and trust your eyes and hit the ball. 4 f***ing hitting coaches. How many little mechanical adjustments are these guys making on a day to day basis? You need to tinker and make adjustments but there's too many voices. Fire 3 of these guys and have one consistent voice. Implementing minor mechanical adjustments takes times. These guys aren't hitting and will literally try anything to break out and they have way too many voices in the room. The bulk of failure is mental right now. That's down to process in place. That flows from Atkins down to Schneider to the staff and the players. A strong manager might step in and change the process. Schneider clearly isn't that guy. We aren't getting rid of Atkins. We probably need to get rid of Schneider and bring in a strong manager with experience and give him some autonomy. There was a report from a reporter last week that Terry francona's health was improving dramatically and he stated a desire to get back into managing. Just saying.

This team is wound way too tight. Playing not to lose. To much thinking on every pitch at the plate. Like how the hell are guys taking 90 mph fastballs from corbin right down the middle of the plate and not even swinging. If I was running this team, I'd tell the boys to go out on the town, get drunk, sleep in. No pre game meetings tomorrow. We're not even going over what the pitcher features. See the ball, trust your eyes, hit it.