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  1. h2oface
    What? This is the best out of Royce Lewis? If it is Bader's doing, keep him away from Lewis!!! 😇
  2. h2oface
    Managing by letting them manage themselves. Managing by not managing. I guess Baldelli truly isn't needed. Maybe somebody else should be making the lineups and pinch hitting and bullpen decisions, eh? Maybe then Correa would be ready for the season when it actually starts, instead of taking a month or two. Maybe he actually needs some managing to be ready at the start of the season. Maybe then they team wouldn't sleep walk through the first month + of the season at 13-20, and at least play .500 ball so when they win 13 in a row they are actually at least 13 games above .500 instead 6 (and now 5 after back to normal and 4-5 since). Maybe.
  3. h2oface
    What a waste have rehabbed Wallner with St. Paul. Even more of a waste to not recognize it by last week and have him up to play in Tampa's minor league home field. Is he even in Seattle? I am sure we could use him there. Process my .......... And Crash Gasper? Just can't get it to translate. A shame, really.
  4. h2oface
    Julien can take his stoic 'watch called third stikes' to Korea or Japan. Miranda? Too bad about the injuries. But he sure could hit when he was young. 26 is not young. It's prime time.
  5. h2oface
    It's an illusion. I am certain he said he doesn't do slumps. It must not be a slump. That might be even more troubling. It's hard as a fan to be an under .500 team since the 13 game streak. Seems we have wasted a hot Wallner. Seems like the muscles work the same whether you play in AAA or MLB. Same legs, same bases to run. Same swinging motion. No problem to play a day and sit a day and be available to PH. Bader sits and isn't even on the IL. I mean, it's not like he would be damaging himself or the team to get worked in on the better maintained MLB fields instead of minor league fields...... oh, wait.......
  6. h2oface
    He is also out of the inning if he helped himself and fielded his position for the double play instead of Mead's batted ball going through the infield and putting a runner on second and first. Would it have been a great play? Probably. Funderburk had time to squat out of the way. Maybe he thought Correa would be right behind second, and forgot it was a right handed batter...... Routine for Maddux or Kaat or Drysdale - because they actually fielded their position. All that righty/lefty crap that took Topa out of the game (needed 2 outs from lefty/righty/lefty), and before the 3 fly balls to forever embarrass Larnach, three righthanded batters in a row and now Baldelli Ball is trapped with the lefty on the mound and didn't want to burn another pitcher being behind by one run? Even the first lefty got a hit off Funderburk, though. Watching the bottom of the 8th over again..... I hope Larnach just couldn't see well, because that was some amazingly poor defense. That was an awful turn of events. I bet Larnach wakes up with nightmares and hot sweats all night.
  7. h2oface
    There goes the all important "run differential" and "power ranking". But seriously, this is also a product of the righty/lefty religion. It starts at the plate, and then it results in the moving around of the defense. They want "flexible" defensive players, because they substitute hot batters for the righty/lefty sacred strategy, and the defense suffers. Sure, they can play there, but the ones they move around are less than MLB average almost everywhere they play because of it, Did I check that? No. But it sure seems that way. That was a depressing game, and now 3-4 in last 7 games. Can't even hit Littell........ currently Lewis is a huge liability.
  8. h2oface
    No runs scored again while on the mound, but he gets credit for them. He was "deGrom'ed" did I spell that rite?
  9. h2oface
    Be thankful that Kirilloff retired
  10. h2oface
    Damn. Losing record in last 7 games. Will be 3-4. Streak of good breaks and good play is absolutely over.
  11. h2oface
    Did you spell that right?
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    Pretty cheap way to try to win a game, all in all.
  14. h2oface
    Clemens has been clutch and hitting, so pull him for McCusker. Baldelli ball at its finest. And Clemens is 1-4 against lefties this year, with two walks. Best pull him for the righty/lefty religion. No regard to defense, I guess.
  15. h2oface
    .500 team in the last six games. Only 3 hits off Littell. I hope things aren't back to normal. Stewart has only basically had one really good run in MLB. That was the 27.2 innings in 28 games with the sparkling .068 era for the Twins in 2023. 2017 for the Dodgers was good, 34.1 innings at 3.41 era in 14 games, 4 started. The rest of his career...... pretty pedestrian to bad. The one season is looking like a real outlier, other that not being able to stay on the field way too often. The Twins sure think he will be a savior again.
  16. h2oface
    Two inherited runners. Two inherited runners scored. Immediately.
  17. h2oface
    Slow reaction and then just fell over as he stepped. Sure looked like he stumbled to me, You would think that is a range Correa would normally have.
  18. h2oface
    Shhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! Shut up already, Cody. 😇 Do you really want to give other teams information that reduces the upcoming trade value? Best case scenario - Paddack continues to roll, and saves any tanking until after the trade.
  19. h2oface
    Sure. It has to be called one way or another. In a world that "the umpire is always right", usually comprised of some past umpires (not all, because many past umpires know that they were guessing the best they could) too proud of themselves to admit that a tie can happen but they have to call it one way or the other............sure. But that doesn't mean it wasn't a tie in reality. The tie goes to the runner was an old little league standard, said here a joke. But it was a suggestion in several umpiring courses that I took at different (lower and non-professional) levels through the years. And the proof was posted of the plate umpire calling the two pitches strikes that were in almost the exact location, and weren't even very close to being strikes.
  20. h2oface
    The righty/lefty religion. Batting Lewis and Bride 4 and 5? Lewis is 0-17 again. If the righties can't hit, no need not to give hotter lefties a shot at the same handed pitcher.
  21. h2oface
    Except Castro's fielding is inadequate no matter where he plays. And last year was his peak at the plate. (I see the future 😇 )
  22. h2oface
    Lewis is looking more and more like Danny Valencia. One half season splash, and downhill from there. He needs to be sent to St. Paul tomorrow, but Bride to replace him? Miranda? Amazing this team is winning as much as they are. Clemens a real surprise and help. This team has to hit. 3-2 against KC and Cleveland. 3 hits today. And Duran can't put them down without contact. On an 0-2 pitch.
  23. h2oface
    It dropped out of zone. He shouldn't be able to hit that pitch. But he did. Contact against Duran.
  24. h2oface
    So much contact against Duran. It may be fouls, or weak contact, or whatever, but the bats touch his balls. And the pitches are moving. Mysterious to me.
  25. h2oface
    Say what? How about calling obvious balls strikes? As I said....... same location to different handed batters giving strikes to both team's pitchers.
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