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  1. HerbieFan
    Great read Nick! I'll 1,000% agree on Gallo and take it a step further and say he should be cut loose. I'm going to disagree with you on Keuchel's "luck" today. I don't know if I've ever seen a guy give up more soft-contact hits in a five-inning stint. At the very least he was better than an ailing Ryan has been recently.
  2. HerbieFan
    I sure hope Ryan is legit dinged up cuz these last seven starts were....concerning
  3. HerbieFan
    The highest ranking being #9 says all you need know. Adding a bat isn't going to make any difference unless the players already in house start to perform. With the FO's recent trade history I wouldn't want them to make a trade now. Let's be honest, this team is going nowhere...even if they win the pathetic AL Central. Heck, if they aren't going to re-sign Sonny Gray I wouldn't be against them trading him at the deadline. I also see no reason to continue trotting Joey Gallo out there either. I liked the signing...signed him at the low end of his possible outcomes and he's delivered just that. I'd prefer to see what Larnach or Wallner can do if they would just play them everyday...time to find out what the kids can do.
  4. HerbieFan
    Hindsight is ALWAYS 20/20. But I feel like we could have this type of discussion about virtually every bat currently on the 26-man.
  5. HerbieFan
    The season is like a broken record.....
  6. HerbieFan
    Nick, you summed it up when you said Kiriloff is the only one to live up to expectations. That's an organizational failure. All of their major additions are on pace for career-high strike out rates. Only hitters over .800 OPS are Kiriloff and Jeffers and they really haven't gotten enough at bats for that to be an encouragement. Can all of this possibly be a coincidence?
  7. HerbieFan
    Whatever the organizational approach is, the pathetic OPS numbers from the lineup on a nightly basis say it isn't working.
  8. HerbieFan
    Agree. Agree 100%. Agree 100% with all of it. Especially the thought that not having DH at bats for the likes of Correa, Gallo, Polanco may play a role in keeping them healthy.
  9. HerbieFan
    Jeffers continues to play/hit like he has, Vazquez becomes the 1B to Jeffers' 1A. It's an overpay for that at 10 million but still leaves the club in a really good position. I suspect a 60/40 split going forward may benefit Vazquez as well.
  10. HerbieFan
    I know with the offense struggling, people lament the loss of Arraez, but how's the Pablo Lopez trade looking now? A top 3 of Lopez, Gray and Ryan is still good enough to lead the staff to a division championship.
  11. HerbieFan
    37 games is no longer a small sample size. This offense and the offensive approach, with the strikeouts, lack of hard contact and inability to hit WRISP, is officially a problem.
  12. HerbieFan
    When Gallo was signed, the assumption, I think, was that AK would play 1B and Gallo would man a corner OF spot. I thought Larnach was headed to AAA to rebound from a mostly lost season due to injury. If Kiriloff is ready, and Larnach looks like he could use a "reset" I honestly don't know what they're waiting for.
  13. HerbieFan
    The trade is water under the bridge. Moving forward, maybe Mahle should just start throwing left handed :)
  14. HerbieFan
    What feels different to me is the quality at the top...namely Pablo Lopez, Sonny Gray and Joe Ryan. Ryan is a different pitcher...shut down the Yankees, two bat at bats against Houston but otherwise shut them down. Hopefully the lineup can get healthy and make up for some of the "bad days" the rotation has down the road.
  15. HerbieFan
    Ummmm....No
  16. HerbieFan
    Geez, it's April 13. Trevor Megill has proven that being able to throw 100 mph darts won't get big league hitters out without command and secondary pitches. Alcala missed almost an entire year. It should surprise no one that there are some command and velocity issues in the first two weeks. I'm not a big fan of using him for multiple innings, but I'm more than willing to give him some mid-to-low leverage innings to let improve in both issues.
  17. HerbieFan
    Agree. Nice to have guys who can take veteran at bats in the lineup in the case of injuries. Speaking of which....Kepler, Polanco, Correa, Gallo, Kiriloff......sure hope the new guy gets some things figured out and can get these guys healthy, and keep the rest of the roster healthy as well.
  18. HerbieFan
    Seems to me once Polanco is ready Castro gets optioned and Gordon becomes that "extra" outfielder
  19. HerbieFan
    We get way too worked up about what the Opening Day roster looks like. In a month it'll look different. Couple weeks after that, it'll look different again.....
  20. HerbieFan
    Blackout rules for mlb.tv might not be THE stupidest thing in professional sports but it's right up there. Let's see....your sport is losing popularity. So....let's make it HARDER for fans to see their team play. Genius.
  21. HerbieFan
    Griffin Jax really is a great story. Calling my shot....Cole Sands or Josh Winder are the next BP arm they develop
  22. HerbieFan
    With the prospect capital traded away for Gray and Mahle it seems like they should extend at least one of them. Otherwise, it seems like they kind of gave those prospects away for next to nothing.
  23. HerbieFan
    To me....IMO he screams first baseman.
  24. HerbieFan
    Agree with you Cody in that Sands makes the most sense to move to the bullpen now. It'd be interesting to see how much velo he could gain and how he'd fair as a 2-pitch, or maybe 3-pitch bullpen guy.
  25. HerbieFan
    I think the path is pretty clear for 2023. He's headed to St. Paul as a starter. Any more injury or production issues and he moves permanently to the bullpen to see if that's a better role for him....both in terms of health and the success he does or does not have.
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