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  1. HokieRif
    It might not be his decision…
  2. HokieRif
    Admittedly I wasn’t able to watch anything this weekend except for the last couple innings on Saturday. The results that mattered the most were the ones we expected with a three-game sweep… but the way it was accomplished does not instill confidence. as for this quote: ”In Oakland, Farmer looked like a guy ready to flush that first half. (Careful about that though.) ”
  3. HokieRif
    I get what he's saying. Dear Falvine - TRADE. HIM. NOW.... get something in return. He's already made some statements that indicate he questions how things are being run, now he's talking about possible retirement. He's a FA at the end of the season and you are NOT getting him back next year unless you drop some insane cash on him. And lets be honest - your last couple of big-splash contracts haven't exactly worked out as you have hoped they would.
  4. HokieRif
    Furious typing mistake on my part - he’s performing 4.9 fWAR below his projected 5.9 fWAR. That’s how I’m getting to him performing roughly 2.5x worse than the others relative to their projections. whatever the case - he’s having a miserable season and is being way overpaid for what he is delivering on the field.
  5. HokieRif
    Correa is performing -4.9 in fWAR. The others are -2. He's under performing almost 2.5 as bad as everyone else on the list. Correa is also making $33.3M this year... The others (Abreu $19.5M, Anderson $12.5M, and Hernandez $10M) aren't sniffing that kind of money. When you take the performance and couple that with the extreme amount he's being paid for what we get, he's absolutely the LVP on this list.
  6. HokieRif
    I'm not calling a hit on anyone. I was making a point about the topic of Popkins needing to be relieved of his coaching duties having been reiterated over and over again. If anyone has a sound argument for why he needs to retain his position I would love to hear it.
  7. HokieRif
    I’ve got nothing to add to what has already been said… except Im sick of the Popkins thread
  8. HokieRif
    Not career ending, but he never regained his form while still in Minnesota.... although his worst offensive years would probably be leading this year's team in all the good statistical categories.
  9. HokieRif
    Morneau was doing fine until he got the concussion in 2010
  10. HokieRif
    Chick-Fil-A for pre-game meals, and washed down with a Sunjoy.
  11. HokieRif
    I’m taking the last week with a grain of salt. The hitting has improved but right now the improved hitting is a statistical outlier in this season. Will it continue and prove the first half was a slump? Or will it regress back to the mean? The Baltimore series result was important, but it’s not lost in me how few runs we scored in games 2 and 3. Our recent sweep against the Royals is something we should have done. In fact, just about every MLB team not based in Oakland should be walking into a series against KC expecting to sweep. I’ll take it, but again it should be expected, and it’s not like we flexed and beat them by 10 runs each night. i will be watching (yea, actually watching on tv) the Baltimore series this weekend. Taking at least 2 is important, I don’t want a loss on Sunday, and I need to see a collection of solid ABs up and down the lineup. If those things happen then I can start to cautiously adjust my 2nd half expectations.
  12. HokieRif
    *sigh* are we just unlucky? Or do we have enough circumstantial evidence with our medical and training staff to indicate there is a systemic problem? Just like we have with our hitting struggles and Popkins, there just seems to be an overwhelming amount of data that should statistically rule all these injuries and DL stints as coincidence.
  13. HokieRif
    I had a whole write up I was putting together and I just didn't feel like finishing because I was going in loops. Is BA the worst? I dont think so. Is it the best? Nope. Should it be used as part of the equation when determining a player's effectiveness? Absolutely. If I'm Rocco and I dont have a choice to send Gallo anywhere then I'm looking at it like this. - If the opposing team is starting a player that doesn't give up a lot of home runs, and we need to play small ball, then I'm sitting Gallo. - On the opposite side, if they opposing pitcher is having recent HR struggles then Gallo is going to be in the lineup, preferably behind someone that has a very high OPS.
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    Nothing scathing about that article. That's just truth. The great thing about baseball is we have stats out the you-know-what, and right now all of the offensive stats are god awful, with the common denominator being Popkins. He's in over his head, the tactics aren't working, and he's personally accountable for wrecking the trade value of every single hitter acquired this offseason and several team veterans that are now having career-worst seasons. .... and then a thought entered my head... maybe Falvey is tanking this on purpose... and he's the modern day version of this:
  16. HokieRif
    At this point the only games that are getting my attention are the mid-week afternoon games. Spending time in the evenings to watch this team play is a horrible way to invest my time right now. As for the players... Buxton is just off. He needs to do what Lopez is done and take a mental health break. His decision to try and score on a ball hit to the left side yesterday is something you get washed out of your head in little league, but he did it any way. I could complain about every other position player except for 4 - Jeffers, Lewis, Castro, and Kirilloff. At least those four are trying.
  17. HokieRif
    And now for something from me with a thought behind it. Each player should know the opponents pitching staff tendencies, strengths, and weaknesses. Instead of us trying to put our strength up against their weakness, put our strength against their strength. Forgot about a mistake pitch - go up their looking for their best stuff, narrow it down to a section of the plate that they tend towards, and put a freaking bat on it. Crazy **** tends to happen when you put a ball in play, even if contact isn’t great. Get into a bad count? Get defensive and focus even more on contact, expect a pitch they punch you out on, and adjust.
  18. HokieRif
    Woohoo! Shots fired by the rookie, and I’m loving it!!!
  19. HokieRif
    He deserves it. What's surprising is that he's right around the total IP that most of the other saves leaders are at (low-30's) and he's got less than half the # of saves as the league leader (Romano @ 23). With the way the all-star game is managed I think he may need to be our selected representative if we dont get anyone else voted in. We sure as hell wont get a position player voted on to the roster.
  20. HokieRif
    I was hopeful coming into the season, but that was quickly tempered after the first series to open the year against KC and the lack of run production. The pitching has lived-up to expectations and when they are on we can compete with anyone in MLB. For me its just frustrating to have pitching that is more than capable and have it paired with an offense that can only do one thing consistently - strike out. Couple that with players we KNOW can hit that aren't (Buxton, Kepler, Gallo, Solano, Farmer, Correa)... Just imagine if that collection was each hitting .250 (Farmer and Solano right now are the only 2) - .250 is still a sad number, but it would be a massive improvement of where we are right now.
  21. HokieRif
    We aren’t out of the woods with Buxton. If anything those blasts were 3 mistakes that he connect on. 3 HRs doesn’t make up for the last month-ish of futility, swinging at balls out of the strike zone, and staring at strike 3. You could easily swap Gallo’s name in here for Buck and only have to edit out the HRs. Good to see a sign of life from Kepler, but still a lot of work to do. Lewis - please stay healthy
  22. HokieRif
    I need a refresher. Kepler's contract was for 5 years and concludes at the end of this season, with a club option (@ $10M) for an additional season, right? Based on my non-existent experience as a GM, isn't this about waiting for another team to lose a key player and now needing bench strength which will then start the trade engine? This would easily be a rental for whoever would pick him up, but if all we get back in return in a couple AA prospects then its worth the deal. We add a couple to the roster in the minors, Wallner slides up, and we've turned the page.
  23. HokieRif
    The fact that our hitting is so bad that we're even considering putting Maeda in to bat is a new low 😁
  24. HokieRif
    When it comes to durability those two names have no business being in the same sentence together. It took a terminal disease for which there is no cure to force Mantle out of the lineup. Whereas Buck, if he sneezes wrong, is on the DL for 15 days.
  25. HokieRif
    Not worried about Correa taking a swing at Ryan… There’s only a .219 chance he would actually connect in a way that’s meaningful.
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