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  1. I love everything about what Royce Lewis did that game. Keep having fun kid.
  2. Anyone who stayed up have any extra observations on Adams?
  3. This is essentially spring training for him. In a few weeks let's see where he stands.
  4. It's been awesome to see. At this point, let's just hope the train keeps rolling.
  5. I don't think enough was said in this thread that our bullpen did a pretty good job giving us a chance. We're quick to rip them when they blow a game, but with how bad Berrios was we only had a shot because the bullpen held down a big chunk of the game.
  6. I had no idea Smeltzer was performing like that, wow! That is some good info and really encouraging.
  7. I have no issue with most of this. However, MOST of this season he has been reliable for this team. Hell, I don't think it's hyperbole to say he came in and bailed us out of several losses in April. He was getting thrown into a ridiculous number of high leverage situations too. (He leads all of baseball in having had 19 inherited runners) Edit: He only really cost us the Toronto game. 3 of the 5 inherited runners scored in NY when we were already down 6-1. We rallied a bit to make it look closer. He's been brutal in May so far and you're right - when he's brutal - stop putting him into anything resembling a high leverage situation. He's streaky, so ride him when he's hot and bury him when he's not. What I take issue with is the idea he wasn't good in April. He absolutely was.
  8. Is this argument for real? Dude made 13 appearances in March/April with a 1.93 ERA. Yeah, I'm going to look past a couple rough patches and say that, by and large, he's been pretty good for us. Especially given how high leverage the situations were he was being used in. He's struggling hard right now, but that's also a problem we've seen from him. He seems to be a bit streaky. Hence why he shouldn't be considered one of our top relievers.
  9. You lose some from time to time. Hildy has been pretty damn good all year. That said, I'm not sure I like Baldelli's decision to bring him in, that should be May there. Or Parker. Or whomever your best reliever is.
  10. A player's value is not the same as their trade value. I wasn't arguing he would reap some kind of huge trade reward, merely that people keep throwing out the idea that he's an easily replaced player. He's not. He's not great, but he has value. Players of value, especially those that can play a decent to good shortstop, are not easily obtained.
  11. Some perspective: Adrianza was 28th among shortstops last year with an 82 wRC+. He was 27th by OPS. 31st in WAR. People talk about him like he's a trash heap player. He's not. It's the nature of the depth of middle infielders in the bigs, but people lose sight of that methinks.
  12. Merely because another team did it is not good enough for me to try the same thing. Especially since Marwin had Bregman and Altuve flanking him as opposed to Schoop and Sano. I'm sure they will play him there a bit, but Adrianza was a .680 OPS player with a pretty good glove at SS. As hard as it may be to accept, this makes him a valuable player. As in, above average for what most teams have on their bench for SS. It ain't gonna be him they send packing. At least not until they think Gordon is viable.
  13. It's Cave and then probably Romero. Or some other dude from the pen. Adrianza is this team's backup SS. He's not going anywhere. (Though he's been pretty bad so far, that's for sure)
  14. I hope he keeps this up. I'll gladly eat that delicious crow. And this might be the first sign that this FO can take analytics and deliver high end production by mining opportunities from struggling players. That's a very good sign.
  15. My Odorizzi doubt is looking stupider by the day. And I'm fine with that. Also, Mitch Garver continues to call brilliant performances. I want the man behind the dish 75% of the time please.
  16. I'm encouraged, but I'm far from sold on this group. I'm sold on Berrios though - he's a Game 1 playoff starter.
  17. Sometimes you hit a buzzsaw. It happens, get 'em tomorrow.
  18. I was looking after your comment and Lewis isn't alone. Tucker and Senzel are struggling too. It's probably Rodgers for Colorado. He's raking in AAA and was 10th on MLB's top 100. Wander Franco has superstar written all over him too it seems.
  19. Last year Boston went 16-3 against Baltimore, 15-4 against Toronto, and 11-2 against the Royals/Tigers. Take that record (42-9) out of their overall record and they went 66-45. Still a good team, clearly, but not as gawdy. So, yeah, pound the bad teams.
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