Brownie19

remember who you're talking to.

He just guesses up there. No idea.

Benintendi's 5'10 180 lbs. Did they hold Baty back like they do with HS football players?

Hope we see Large's K% continue to drop into the low 20's or high teens - but yeah - I'm starting to get excited about him as well.

I think the need for a mental break outweighed the option of getting him in v. a lefty.

At least Derek Law's pitching well in AAA

He should have used the 24 hour rule. I can't image he's stupid enough not to acknowledge that the defense has bailed him out many times when he's walking 4 or 5 guys in an outing. He's just blowing off seam - but there's no emotional intelligence here.

He's a huge dude (6'4 225 lbs) - let's hope he continues to develop well.

Nice - his numbers in A+ have been pretty sexy this year. What's his defense like?

It should be the later. More often than not, an Owner can't be looking for a GM that specialize in short term gain.

Yeah hey ump - I just got my BB/9 below 6, but most of those are competitive walks. How about you give me the corner more. I was good in 2016.

Buck "Sanchez just made about as good of a play as you'll see a pitcher make. Most pitchers would have thrown this ball to 1st base". WTF is that Buck? you're s***.

Nate Pearson has been promoted to AA.

Can't let Sanchez pitch around Calhoun because Sanchez has no control.....so you intentionally walk him to load the bases.....so Sanchez can walk the next guy....because he has no control. Feels like we're going in circles fellas.

If you can't get Pujols out at this point in his career - you should quit baseball.

The Toronto teams are pissing me off tonight.

What in the f*** was that Hanson? And how do you not throw him out at 2nd?

Yes I do. Imagine if Sano was healthy and didn't suck. Any change he comes back and produces again?

Ok that's fair. He has consistently been awful in March/April....which is kind of odd. I don't think there's a lot of consistency in splits by month.

I guess if all we expect is for him to be a league average bat. I think his new contract suggests the hope that he'll be 10-20% above average.

Yeah but there's a trend league wide to throw more and more breaking balls. Good hitters have adjusted and stopped swinging at them. I guess you could argue that Grichuk's always see a ton of breaking balls off the plate because everyone knows he can't layoff...and so you shouldn't expect much change. That could be true (is there somewhere you can see the pitch types against for hitters?). What's also changed though is the use of high fastballs. He seems to like those too and we all know that usage has spiked to counter the launch angle revolution.

If only Dillon Maples could throw strikes. He throws that slider 60+% of the time...might might explain his 10+ BB%.

oh sorry - I don't care about new thread / existing thread discussion. I probably agree with you - dump it in here. My point is that I think he has a point.

He's not saying those bigger issues are all on Charlie - instead noting that instead of picking on the small stuff - maybe we should be looking at some of the bigger issues that are developing. I don't think he's wrong. From what I've seen and more importantly heard from Charlie - I do question whether he has the proper mindset to lead this team forward. While he seems like a great guy, he seems to have a very old school mentality - one I hope doesn't propagate through the team and organization and set us back. We've read articles from other organizations who didn't fully embrace the advances statistics until very recently (Barnhart talks about how the previous Reds staff didn't embrace it here - https://blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes-tucker-barnhart-is-embracing-data-because-now-he-can/). It appears the organization that were behind the trend were generally unsuccessful. The FO has seemingly embraced players who hit the ball hard, but have no patience or approach at the plate. They obviously felt there was value to be had with that type of player. The recent increase in high fastballs and more breaking balls out of the zone may expose this type of player (even more) - rendering those players useless. It appears there are some flaws in the system that need to be addressed.....ones that are significantly more important than whether Charlie is pinch running for Vladdy.

The project systems haven't factored in the increased use of breaking balls outside of the zone across baseball. That, combined with Grichuk's inability to take a breaking ball off the plate means he's f***ed.