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Our hitters getting ready to face Boston pitching:

I think it's fine to make an apology in light of that being captured on camera, but I am totally in agreement that by no means did he intend to make a Nazi salute or believe that he is a Nazi because he made a joking gesture which he didn't realize was the Nazi salute. The man does not need to be fired or even disciplined further than issuing an apology as he did.

You haven't been paying much attention around the league, have you? lol

Taking The Bad Guy up on his second proposal. TBG to confirm.

Look, you may have not enjoyed the adventures of Teoscar in the outfield, Bo and Biggio occasionally botching a routine grounder, or Vlad struggling to keep himself balanced due to his weight. Just consider yourself lucky we don't have to witness this on a daily basis. https://bdata-producedclips.mlb.com/730e95ab-deea-4122-9b70-2c881bba10f5.mp4

For what it's worth, Freddie Freeman's HR had an xBA of 0.050, so talk about getting the s*** end of the stick for Nate. That ball had no business going out but I guess there was a lot of wind that night.

I wonder if in the Austin Martin circlejerk that was happening around these parts anyone noticed that he's 5 days younger than Vlad Jr. The guy who just got drafted and we're all excited to become our 3B/CF of the future is 5 days younger than the generational talent potential slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. who will have had enough time to struggle and make adjustments at the highest level of baseball by the time the former debuts and still be his contemporary.

Holy f*** can you stop freaking out after a 10 game sample size? We're not the Yankees right now and 21 year old Vlad is not a bust after one season's worth of PAs. Thus far we've faced the #1 pitching staff in the league last season (Tampa), the #18 one in Atlanta who threw out a slew of young talented pitchers, and the #5 pitching staff who despite missing out on some of their top pitchers still featured an appearance from HoF Max Scherzer. Unless you expected this offense to be the Yankees offense it's not that hard to imagine struggling after that.

Hire Ray Searage? The guy who couldn't get anything out of Gerrit Cole and Tyler Glasnow? Yeah he made 35 year old AJ Burnett good again and turned around low 30s JA Happ, but is that really the kind of pitching coach we want to develop guys like Nate Pearson? Does Pete Walker suck because Marcus Stroman and Aaron Sanchez are uncoachable douches? Does he not get some credit for Sanchez's one outlier good year, or Osuna turning into a star closer fresh out of A+? Romano, Kay, Hatch, Thornton, Borucki all look like young serviceable pitchers, with most of them being fringy prospects to start with, does Pete Walker get no credit in that? What about Dolis looking better in his last couple of appearances after beginning the year looking like he would be outmatched by AAA hitting? MAYBE PETE WALKER FIXED HIM. The truth is we know nothing about how much impact the major league coaching staff has had on these players, we can see that our manager consistently makes questionable/bad decisions so that's someone I can agree probably has to go. As for windmill Rivera, yeah he's awful at sending runners, but we've seen improvements on defense from Bichette and Biggio after being declared below average defenders in the minors. Not sure who works with the outfielders but that coach has made Teoscar look less terrible and Gurriel go from having the yips to playing a passable LF with few reps. How much is that on the coaching staff and how much is it on the players themselves to improve? People are making reactionary claims after the huge sample size of 10 games in a shitshow of a season (we're only 4-6 btw lol, after facing good teams like Tampa and Atlanta with the reigning WS champs mixed in there) where the Marlins are currently leading the NL East by a landslide. Everyone needs to calm the f*** down.

We're looking to acquire at least a couple more picks, preferably at least one of which is upcoming, for a future one.

Lol @ moving Jose Garcia after anointing him a top 10 pick earlier in the draft. You're not fooling anyone Jim.

Montoyo with the 4D chess saving Teoscar for a high leverage pinch hit situation.

Gurriel has a couple of sexy swings in this game. Just going with the pitch, love how he sat back on that one.

This is probably the best Dolis has looked. Better command, fastball touching 96 with a good slider and splitter.

Toussaint's stuff is really damn good.

Yeah this fact is pretty inexcusable.

Wait for the pitchingninja overlays and I'm sure they'll show that he's tunneling his pitches well which is why they're swinging at a lot of balls out of the zone.

Unfortunately for us Toussaint looks locked in and his stuff is excellent. Our best bet is gonna be to hope he starts missing often.

Not sure if Buck realizes that Pearson missed badly with a changeup up and not a fastball, which is probably why it went so far in the first place.

He sure crushed that meatball.

Holy f*** Bo, that was tattooed.

Toussaint is 24 years old, a top prospect and has all of 77 career innings in the MLB. His MLB K rate is 10.24 K/9. This isn't some random junk baller, it's a guy with great stuff who usually has trouble locating it and is in fact not having trouble locating it, thus succeeding.

You're trying pretty hard to justify your Toussaint drop bro. It's okay to admit you made a mistake and let a good one go.

That was f***ing dominant.

That man had a family Nate. Rip Johan Camargo.