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  1. Greglw3
    Yes they should let Gallo go, it was another J.A. Happ/SHoemaker failed experiment and don’t look now but Andrew Stevenson is hitting .321/.395/889 with 26 stolen bases right now at St. Paul.
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    Don't forget Chris Williams at AAA and Andrew Stevenson, Matt Wallner plus DaShawn Kiersey. I’m old enough to remember a struggling Orioles team that called up two speedy rookies and gave them full reign. And Al Bumbry and Rich Coggins both hit in the .330s and everything changed.
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    Something got mixed up, I’ve long had trouble with lag times and freezes with this editor. My argument, which I tried to erase, was probably not directed at anything you said. You probably don’t agree but my only point was to agree with whoever said they believe in batting average, In my lifetime, I’ve seen .388 and .189 and I like the .388 guy quite a bit better. I wish they’d release the .189 guy. I never saw the post about nerds.
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    Actually very intellectual and the opposite of the They've done it twice. Rod Carew and Luis Arraez!
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    Front Office Malpractice. Ever since 2019. Horrendous player evaluation judgement. That’s why we have so many players with absurdly low batting averages. Kepler .189, Gallo .188! What front office comes out of the offseason with the conviction that they have assets in 2 of the most important offense positions in LF and RF in Gallo and Kepler when all the signs pointed to poor offense from both. But not this poor! I think it was today’s game where in addition to that FO induced debacle, there were three players with .205, .206, .207. A grand recipe for low scoring and an absolutely putrid offense. And guess what, in true Happ-Shoemaker fashion, they don’t seem to have the slightest urgency to do anything about it. I suffered under the Clavin Griffith mass cheapness induced exodus of staggeringly talented players in the 70s and early 80s so I must be tough enough to endure this.
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    If .202, now .196, is league average, then I’m the King of Funk. I don’t value the new SABR stats, especially because OPS+ favors those who hit with a bit of power and undervalues a guy like Luis Arraez. .196 now. I guarantee you They won’t win anything with that player taking up one of the prime offense spots. Plyers that should play over him are the .260 - .270 or higher hitters like Farmer, Castro, Solano. They started 7 guys <= .226 yesterday and scored no runs. The idea should be to chip away at the 7 poor hitters and get 2,3,4 more hitters that are content to good hitters. I also think Gallo has hurt the cause with his long slumps devoid of homers and full of strikeouts.
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    Agree, that doesn’t get talked about much but is important.
  9. Greglw3
    Kepler's hitting .202 for the season and has carried low batting averages from 2020-2023. How does that warrant being ahead of Wallner? Kepler makes an out ~ 8 times in every 10 AB! Yuk.
  10. Greglw3
    I think a full go with Lewis, Wallner and Julien would beef up the offense.
  11. Greglw3
    I didn’t know anything about him shooting his gf or choking her. Just commenting on him being third best option if they got him. I wonder why KC signed him?
  12. Greglw3
    I completely agree with you, I was thinking those two and Rocco’s poor handling of them has cost the team around 7 wins. Time for a big shake up.
  13. Greglw3
    Shake it up! Never change a winning game, always change a losing game (old tennis quote)
  14. Greglw3
    I like the idea of Maeda as a reliever! I’ve lost confidence in Jax. I also like the idea of bringing up Balazovic as a reliever. I like Henriquez from watching him late last season. Thielbar would be a big boost. Personally I’d pursue a trade, maybe for Chapman. I’d send Jax to AAA but they’re not gonna do that. So how about Duran, Lopez, Chapman, Maeda, Stewart, Moran (or Funderburk - no relation to former power hitting Twin Mark Funderburk), Balazovic and Henriquez?
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    I’d love to have Chapman now!
  16. Greglw3
    That is a good point. Wouldn’t want to lose Juien, Lewis or Wallner. One position of depth is 3B with Farmer, Lewis, Severino, Miranda. May be time to bring up Balazovic for now.
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    It's really kind of striking. I was just looking at a ranking that had Jax and Pagan 4, 5 and they are at best mediocre but leaning more toward poor. It’s becoming the AAA tryout show for a team that has the talent otherwise to win a WS. Big miscalculation in not addressing the bullpen at all through free agency or trade in the offseason. It’s heartbreaking.
  18. Greglw3
    I don’t think those boos were directed toward Correa. While they surprised me, I think the maybe 1,000 fans that booed were doing so more out of frustration that, for the umpteenth time, we have an "absolutely should score in this situation" point in the game and collectively at the last couple of hitters but not just Correa, those fans snapped. At the team. For being horrible wasters of bases loaded situations and other "should score" situations. Correa just happened to be the one up to bat when the dream of scoring when expectations were high were once again dashed. That being said, he needs to, and I believe will start hitting and be an offensive asset. Thoughts of possible unwellness in Correa now, do float in the back of my mind. But how could he play defense like that if not healthy?
  19. Greglw3
    I'd advance the names of Jim Leyland and Joe Maddon. Just my personal opinion. I think they were both great managers when left to manage without interference (Maddon)
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    You're speaking as if a knowledgeable baseball person can’t think he’s a below average manager. My opinion is in isoation not affected by any other person. Both can be true in certain situations.
  21. Greglw3
    Through my years following baseball, I’ve never heard of a tired pitcher that only gave up 1 hit. It’s always been when the pitcher starts getting hit, you know he’s done. Terry Francona and Jim Leyland would routinely let their best pitchers throw 115-120 pitches. I think the other writer was right about Jax. He kicked away a game recently when he was obviously struggling mightily, missing badly and consistently with his slider. A good manager doesn’t sit passively in the dugout while the game quite predictably goes down the tubes. He gets Jax out of there. Other examples are Rocco leaving in Martin Perez to give up about 8 straight hits and 8-10 runs, last year I think it was Ryan he left in for 10 runs.
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    Nick Gordon 2021 OPS+ 2022 OPS+ 113 [443 PA] 2023 OPS+ -24 Max Kepler 2021 OPS+ 98 2022 OPS+ 93 2023 OPS+ 81 Trevor Larnach 2021 OPS+ 88 2022 OPS+ 104 2023 OPS+ 100 Joey Gallo 2021 OPS+ 93 2022 OPS+ 79 2023 OPS+ 193 One statement is true: Of all the full seasons listed above, the highest OPS+ of all was Nick Gordon. Another truth is that OOTP had Nick Gordon rated as a 70 in LF using the 20-80. I’d go with an outfield of Gordon, Taylor and Gallo and give Lewis and Martin and Wallner their chance to break in as warranted.
  23. Greglw3
    The FO consciously chose not to address the bullpen problem. Now they and we are paying for it.
  24. Greglw3
    That's a far leap in logic. He hasn’t had 20 good outings or even probably 5 since he’s been here. He’s been horrible, probably even worse that Ron Davis. And he was, is and probably will be the reliever with the most HR/9 IP in baseball history.
  25. Greglw3
    Some of that is because WAR overvalues defense (especially with a Flyball staff) but it doesn’t matter. Michael A. Taylor was a brilliant acquisition. I agree the most significant. Even his batting average last year was higher than Buxton by 30 points and Kepler by 27 points and yes batting average does matter. Just ask Luis Arraez or Rod Carew!
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