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  1. h2oface
    More inherited runs for Hildenberger. Did you really think the other night was going to be the norm?
  2. h2oface
    Our bullpen wouldn't be so used IF THEY WOULD JUST GET OUTS WHEN THEY COME IN THE GAME!
  3. h2oface
    Add those 2/2 inherited runs to the other days 3/3 (april 5) for Harper....... at least he looked good last night... and he gave all the bad stats to Gibson and Odorizzi, so he still looks good... unless you think about what relief really is.....
  4. h2oface
    NOW Kepler takes with no Buxton on base! Virtually the same first pitch, too. 94 mph 4 seamer on the middle outside edge. 6 o-fers again tonight so far, to match last night's 6. Is/was a 5-11 Jays team pitching really that good?
  5. h2oface
    And catchers call for that all the time. I never understand why. Seems very intuitive to me to not shift to the pull side and then pitch outside.
  6. h2oface
    Seems like Astudillo is about 1 for his last 15 to 20 or so.
  7. h2oface
    How is it assessed that the umpires are calling it wrong or right? Oh.... that's right... the tech. So the tech is the standard. That could be used anytime, immediately if not sooner. Instead of getting humans to guess better, we could just use the thing that checks them. Hmmmmmm. Plus, how does one know that umpires even review the game and see how many mistakes had been made. I have read more than one report that they don't, and despise that the fans get to see how wrong they are, and take the same pompous stance that is often exhibited on the field.
  8. h2oface
    Instead.... Duffey can be our savior.
  9. h2oface
    Vasquez replaced by Duffey. He got one outing, and at the wrong time to put him in the game. He was horrible, but he shouldn't even have been put in the game with the bases loaded for his first and only MLB appearance. Now Duffey. A proven commodity, eh?
  10. h2oface
    ??? I guess I didn't communicate well. Of course not. It is 10 years over due that the balls and strikes need to be called by tech. I wan't necessarily responding to the poster, as much as consistency. Many like to say things like "The umpire is calling it consistently...... the same for both teams." Consistently wrong, perhaps. Something a computer will not do. I think the rest of my comments show that I am advocating changing to machines calling balls and strikes. I understood that spycake was saying it was OK for an umpire to call basically the same located pitch two different things just to even things out, which I think would be horrible.
  11. h2oface
    The line is with umpires. Players are the human element. Umpires are only part of the game because there was no other means. There is now. Umpires are the inhuman element, taking away a perfect strike from a pitcher or a perfect take from a batter. It is the close ones each player deserves the most, as that is were the biggest skills lie. Umpires take away the human element of the players talents unjustly.
  12. h2oface
    Well.... there goes the consistency angle, no? And changing the strike zone just to get home to dinner perhaps? Hurry a game through bad weather? That's what the protocol was/is for little league. And some judges in courts. I hope that isn't happening in professional baseball...... or high school or college for that matter.
  13. h2oface
    Ah. Consistency. Even is it is consistently wrong? Where else can you get away with consistently wrong. I can't think of one, except maybe in politics. Make the player adjust daily to a strike zone that is being modified by a person that isn't supposed to modify it? I hate that game. It only happens with humans doing the best they can (unless they have a grudge), and not with tech.
  14. h2oface
    The excercise only involves called strikes. No one needs an umpire if the ball is swung at, unless it is to enforce the rule properly (instead of guessing as at this too) that there was actually a swing or not. Any wrong call is too many. But many times the umpire is just wrong the whole game at different parts of the zone, and many times by NOT microns, but 4 inches and more. And when it is with the bases loaded and two outs ...... it affects the game drastically. Human error is for the players, not the umpires. Especially since there has been a better real time option for over 10 years. Hey, it's not their fault. They are Human with a very poor site angle, and are just making a best guess. And for a catcher to try to have a skill to cheat the game/umpire/pitch with the whole pitch framing crap..... baseball's version of the flop in BB or soccer...... is not in the spirit of the rules or the game.
  15. h2oface
    May. Or better yet, if he was going to use Harper and Mejia.... how about letting Perez go out for the 7th with a short leash and only 86 pitches. Harper could also have gone two innings - gone out in the 8th with the same short leash. If Mejia had shut them down (or Harper if he went two and did).... was he going to bring someone - May, Hildenberger, Rodgers, Parker - in for the 9th, right? Probably? It was so obvious to me that Mejia was going to blow the game after that pitch 2 feet outside to Grichuk (and that is not hindsight... I said it and called it in real time right after the pitch earlier in the thread). We only needed 6 outs! With a two run lead. Mejia is for eating innings in mop up until he shows different. I can't cry about GMs at game time. The man in the dugout is responsible for making the choices with who he has. This was a game to win, and put in the pocket because they all count. What would you have done? Make better choices to win with what you have, or go with a hope and a lesser option and do what Baldelli did? One can't complain about the lack of talent on the team in the pen during the game from the dugout. I would hope a manager would to try to win the games that are clearly winnable by using his best options.....especially with as few as 6 outs needed. There will be plenty of throw aways to give the go-to's days off. Hell, it's only a couple weeks into April!
  16. h2oface
    6 o-fers, a blowpen, and a manager mis-managing. Felt a little like 2016.
  17. h2oface
    Now that made me laugh!
  18. h2oface
    He has pitched. Sessions. He should be rested and ready. Sooooo give 'em a break when they pitch too often .... and when they don't pitch? When are they going to be responsible?
  19. h2oface
    Nothing like taking it out on the ump when you have just made your own calls to blow the game. Seriously... Cron was swinging.... Baldelli a bit childish.
  20. h2oface
    Seems it is better to be traded for, than come up through the ranks to get playing time on this team.
  21. h2oface
    still 6 o-fers by Twins bats.
  22. h2oface
    ...but you CAN use them when you have a two run lead in the 8th.... especially in APRIL!
  23. h2oface
    Anyone but Mejia at that point. Had a chance after the double. Instead..... throw away a game. It was just so obvious. And I made the call right after the 2 foot outside pitch. Was I wrong?
  24. h2oface
    Sure..... just throw the game away now? Can't believe they left Mejia in there.
  25. h2oface
    gotta yank him already. just have to, unfortunately.
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