Terminator

Has the creator of a GDT ever been banned mid game before? Whoever makes the next one has to get banned.

Awful AB by Grichuk. The last pitch wasn't even close it almost bounced off the plate.

Ok it's clear he just wants it at this point. I voted no but feel free BTS.

I'm horrible at following the the board drama so I could be wrong but it's certainly not between me and anyone else.

The genius of Montoyo's lineup construction continues. Puts a career 67 wRC+ hitter vs LHP in at leadoff and he draws a walk to start off the game. lol

Once the roster settles I wonder which position player will get the call. Gurriel is an obvious answer and I wouldn't be surprised to see Law stick with another arm being sent down. Also wouldn't be surprised to see anyone with options be shuffled up and down as we use openers/bullpen games to fill that 5th spot for a while.

I'm trying to think of someone worse over the past 10 years or so and I can't.

Of course, glad to see Hanson gone. But I think tomorrow is going to be a bullpen game or there will be an opener or something. A 3 man bench and an 8 man pen for the weekend is a good move.

We just pointlessly scream at each other for hours on end and tend to all get along in the main baseball forum. I don't think any of us have let it spill outside of that s*** hole thread before.

Geezus Montoyo. I think picking out of a hat might produce a better lineup.

Who's the narc?

Our OF is so bad. Concerned about it and the rotation moving forward.

He was good for the 2.5 seasons prior to this one too.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this or not but I did not expect that Matthew Boyd would ever turn into a solid starting pitcher.

So April is in the can, do we know anything more about the team? I think it's a little better than I thought it would be but we have a ton of black holes that are going to prevent us from contending for WC2. Things I liked: -Stroman looks good and I'm digging the pitch usage. -Rowdy Tellez is proving me wrong. He actually looks like a useful player and should provide surplus value, at least until he hits arb. -Danny Jansen's D looks really solid. Arm is probably just ok but his framing is currently 6th in the league. His bat should get going but this guy could be a Top 5-10 Catcher if it does. -In addition to DJ, there's a lot to like on defense. Teoscar's D looks much improved to me and DRS has him at +4. I know it's a SSS and he's made a gaffe or two but I'd just leave him in LF from now on and see if the improvement is real. Galvis and Drury are + defensively. Vlad Jr. looks like he can stick at 3rd, at least until he balloons up to 280. In Urena's short amount of time here he looks like a wizard. Could be an ok backup INF. Things I don't: -Montoyo doesn't appear to be a progressive Rays-type of manager to me and seems to be a clear downgrade from Gibby. -McKinney looks like crap and it's hard to pull any data to suggest he's going to be good. His exit velo is toward the very bottom of the league. -Too many zeros on the team. Hanson, Brito, Luciano (special circumstances aside), McKinney are weighing us down. -Bullpen outside of Giles, Gaviglio and Pannone looks pretty bad and one of the latter two is going to probably going to have to help in the rotation. What does everyone else think?

It does seem like he's getting squeezed early in the count and is starting out in a hole. Part of it is the pitchers hitting their spots but the umps are doing him no favors either.

Gotta dump the guy. He's killing us.

Good point about sitting him vs. a lefty. Should have at least DH'd him.

The spineless Montoyo will do nothing about Aaron Sanchez's post-game comments! Watch!

FTFY cf

Geezus I thought when he said the team's play was "f***ing embarrassing" he was including himself so I had no problem with it really. But he wasn't. He actually thinks he played fine and everyone else sucked? What a clown.

We'll see how much of a day off it is when Alen Hanson comes up to bat in the top of the 9th

Haha great example. Nice find.

This is from a Pirates fan on Reddit: