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  1. h2oface
    Agreed. Thankfully, Kinley is now DFAd. Track records are nice, but that is just history, at this point. The Cards wanted no part of Lynn back, or Duke, and they seem to always have some pretty good pitching... pretty savvy. Nobody else seemed to want Morrison either. The track records almost make it worse to me, like Morales a couple years ago. They cost millions more, and need to perform, especially at the beginning of their stay on a new team, if they want fan support. And because of their salaries, the FO and management is locked in and even slower than usual to move on if needed. The career year by Morrison seemed to be an outlier, and he is regressing to his norm and worse. At least they were signed on the cheap, considering what they wanted. So..... one could even say, for 2018, they are all shaping up as colossal whiffs...... which doesn't mean that they can't right their year, but so far, I hear the howl of the wind. I hope they find it soon. We need them too, desperately.
  2. h2oface
    12, 13, 13 and 11 = 49 hits given up in 35 innings by the 4 pitching staffs, today (yesterday much better). Lucky to go 2-2. This is a very disturbing trend all through the system. Strikeout rates that don't account for total batters faced can be really non-representative of what is going on. here is the Cedar Rapids box link http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2018_04_25_burafx_cedafx_1&t=g_box&sid=milb
  3. h2oface
    Morrison, Lynn, and Duke aren't shaping up as colossal whiffs, too? The shaping for Kinley is done, and the shaping for the others is still suffering in progress. Oh, did I mention Rodney?
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    Why would we want a pitcher that a contending team didn’t want ???? Really???? Roster limits, the rules of service time and options. Hundreds of players each season move around that the teams would have rather kept in the system if the rules allowed. Hundreds. Of course they take Bard back, if they can. We didn't get rid of him, he was taken from the Twins, by the rules.
  5. h2oface
    Bard was used for much more significant times in games than Kinley, and only had one bad outing that they should have pulled him after he finally got out of the inning, but they ran him out there again, and Boston crushed him, and they let it happen. It was the game Ohtani got his blister, and got tagged, too. Until then, for something like 5 or6 games and 8 innings, Bard was very good! Very good. The difference is that the Angels made a decisive move, and decided that a roster spot was not worth having taken up by an experiment. Kinley has never been good. Talent? It hasn't translated to anything but hope. It seems very ego driven to me right now, and foolish, (also foolish to ever had taken him with all things considered, and he is too old, in my opinion) to keep wasting a roster spot for a pipe dream. Nick Burdi is on the 60 day DL for the Pirates, and hasn't had a single bad outing all year!
  6. h2oface
    I still can't believe what this FO let go or made available in the rule 5 to keep this guy. So much for pitching experts.
  7. h2oface
    Rochester .... didn't I read somewhere how they had veteran leadership and were going to be good?
  8. h2oface
    I love a bunt into the shift. Easy pickin's, even for a slower runner. But this one in the first inning? If it is game 7 of a playoff, and you just want to get a run in in the first, no problem. But this was not the case in game one of the 4 game at the beginning of the year. Too bad it didn't work, and Mauer got a single instead of a sac bunt.
  9. h2oface
    Joe has gone 3 for 23 in the last six games, and dropped .114 in average. But I agree, why worry, eh?
  10. h2oface
    I don't see it that way. It is all part of the whole process. At the time the FO tried to sneak Chargois off the 40-man, they could have let Kinley be returned, already, to make the needed space. So they did still choose Kinley over another system player on the edge of the show. Chargois was not the only choice available to make space. Note: didn't see the other replies until after I posted this.
  11. h2oface
    I totally agree. Perplexing, especially after Tampa Bay.
  12. h2oface
    Odorizzi is tossing meatballs. Just watch the highlight videos and see that the ones tagged were right is sweet spots, if not middle zone, and not near the catcher's target. 2 more of his 14 walks in 26 innings scored. Castro's body language on Stanton's homer is priceless. I am more frustrated with his performance than the expected results of the rest of the pen. Kinley? What a waste. Time to cut bait on an experiment that never should have been and that continues to hurt this team. Another game with one run? Could have been a pitcher's gem by the Twins and still a loss with that kind of support.
  13. h2oface
    Ignoring/minimalizing/discounting the hits/hot streak, (I like it when Mauer singles, too - I like all hits), short or temporary as it might or might not be. Period. No reason to argue away the hits. You can if you like. Nobody said he was a great hitter. Just he was hot. If someone is 4-4 one day.... they had a hot bat. If a manager is smart enough to see it and use it while it is smoking, they win. More annoying than woke, mindful, transparency, authentic, narrative......or pronouncing the silent t in often and adding an extra syllable in real-a-tor or ath-a-lete? (shudders)
  14. h2oface
    Nobody, including LaMarre himself, is thinking this will last forever, or even that much longer, perhaps! But it is happening now, and the balls hit are falling in. To waste it is unevolved management. People won't be slumping forever, either (hope hope). If players get butthurt by sitting when they suck, they need to grow up and be part of a team.
  15. h2oface
    Now there is some alternative facts for you.
  16. h2oface
    I must be blind then. I watched the same replays. I couldn't tell if he was up against the bag, or just next to it. Very close up next to it, for sure. It is obvious to me that he couldn't tell if he had touched it, felt it, or he wouldn't have tried to retouch it! He missed the bag. He should have clearly stepped on the edge, then there would have been no question. Duke beat the runner there, and needed to complete the play. It is similar to the replays of whether there is space between the tip of the toe and the three point line in basketball. Duke needs to step on the base, not try to nuzzle up next to it! For this game to come down to the failures of Lynn, Rodney, and Duke is all on them, and the manager that put them in, or left them in, the game at the time(s) he did, when he had better options.
  17. h2oface
    The decisions Molitor is making are definitely based on hope instead of savvy, and not on attention to who is reliable right now. That is on him, in my book.
  18. h2oface
    Totally agree. We have a closer that gives up hits to the tune of around a .350 BA against, and he keeps running the guy out there, with Reed shining! Rodney, Lynn, and Duke. Walks walks, walks. Hit batter scores, walks score. So much for a front office that are pitching experts. There is a reason the Cards were done with Duke and Lynn. And Grossman in the outfield again? Thanks MOY. What a waste of a great comeback. It was in the bag. And Archer.... not the Archer of last year. He has been horrible.
  19. h2oface
    Sad when the option at DH is someone that is currently just as horrible, eh? But Grossman said he only needed 10 ABs in spring training. The plan of having Grossman in the outfield is very flawed. It makes the team much weaker. The plan of giving him at bats at DH, not so good either. But this is a minor league recap thread......
  20. h2oface
    I guess that makes his arrival to the Show a bit of a non-event. He will arrive and fail? I will remember to take it off my calendar.
  21. h2oface
    And what exactly did the Minnesota Twins do in the game to get attention? Not much. Mostly nothing.
  22. h2oface
    Oh..... interesting that Berrios couldn't start opening day, to make sure he could pitch in PR. It doesn't really matter, true. But Odorizzi could start both! He got the opener of both the season and PR. Best to just adjust as needed, instead of try too plan to far ahead.
  23. h2oface
    It drives me nuts when we bring in a reliever, and the first thing they do in less than 5 pitches is give up 2 hits and an inherited runner scores. THAT'S NOT HOW YOU SPELL RELIEF!
  24. h2oface
    Grossman is just Gross when he plays the outfield.
  25. h2oface
    Bard just came in to relieve Otani to start the third after he was pulled after 2 and 66 pitches and behind 3-0, and the honeymoon is over. 4 hits and a HBP, 3 of the hits homers, and he gave up 5 earned in his inning. ERA now up to 5.79.
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