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  1. USAFChief
    Dinner for Chief and Mrs Chief tonight will be: a shared ribeye on the grill, baked squash, stuffed shells, a salad from the garden, black box pinot noir. perhaps some Schwan's ice cream for desert.
  2. USAFChief
    Good start for Gibby. 4 seamers.
  3. USAFChief
    I wouldn't move him for Realmuto, either. But there are no guarantees with minor leaguers.
  4. USAFChief
    potentially passing. Lewis hasn't gotten out of A ball yet.
  5. USAFChief
    perhaps adding players in the meantime will help with being in contention by August.
  6. USAFChief
    Go get Realmuto. No half steps. I don't think Garver is a regular MLB catcher.
  7. USAFChief
    Perceptions are hard to change. Morrison hasn't been awful recently. He was awful for the first couple weeks of the season. Last 28 days for Morrison: .266/.356/.481. 4 HR, 11 RBI, 12 RS. Slightly higher the last 14 days. By comparison, Mauer the last 28 days: .241/.359/.299. 3 XBH and 4 RBI in a month. woof.
  8. USAFChief
    Gordon: yes. Now. Wade: meh...who sits? I don’t think he helps much. Give up what it takes to acquire Realmuto. Or maybe Lucroy. Pray for a Sano storm.
  9. USAFChief
    i doubt Morrison playing first is about Morrison.
  10. USAFChief
    He's actually looked pretty good, IMO. Smalley likes his D according to last night's broadcast.
  11. USAFChief
    Morrison got off to a terrible start, but since May 1st: .279/.367/.488 Even his OBP of .294 for the year is a little misleading, as it's his batting average that is driving that number.
  12. USAFChief
    Now she is upset with me because I had her sign a binding agreement stating that if she declined her own dessert she gives up any claims to mine. Can you PM me a copy of that agreement? Asking for a friend.
  13. USAFChief
    I would actually have gone with Hughes to start the 9th. You're already playing with house money, so to speak, on the road trip. Your bullpen is gassed. You don't have any good RH options anyway, and there's a decent chance the game is going to go extras and you'll use him anyway. Maybe he gets shelled and you send a message to your front office that if you put someone in my pen, you're forcing my hand. Just roll the dice, don't put any more innings on the rest of your pen, and hope for the best with Hughes. At the least, he's unlikely to be wild and issue a bunch of walks.
  14. USAFChief
    And I think this is where the limits of something like statcast shows up, determining hit probability based solely on exit velocity and launch angle. The ball was directly in the right center gap, didn't have a great deal of hang time, short hopped the wall, and neither outfielder came anywhere close to catching it. There is no way that ball is a hit only 43 percent of the time.
  15. USAFChief
    http://www.startribune.com/adrianza-s-baserunning-duke-s-breaking-ball-and-dozier-s-first-pitch-hacking/482508382/ Adrianza simply has to score on a double to the wall on which he was running on the pitch. Bad baserunning is the only possible explanation.
  16. USAFChief
    Tough loss, but nice road trip. The DP would have been a really tough turn, but here’s where Dozier’s weak arm probably made the difference. And I think Adrianza HAS to run the bases better and score on that double.
  17. USAFChief
    In the old “you’ll win X games, lose Y games, and it’s the other Z games that make the difference,” saw, last night was definitely in the Z category. Nice win. Garver is bad behind the plate, but he’s sure had a knack for big hits so far.
  18. USAFChief
    I’ll say the same as I said last year...the way too frequent inability to punish pitches that should be punished is much more concerning to me than the tendency to swing and miss on pitches out of the zone.
  19. USAFChief
    I can't get behind that, Hosken. At the least, it shouldn't have been. He was missing, over the plate. Curveball command was especially bad, but even too many FBs were right in the whomp 'em zone.
  20. USAFChief
    Even if we do go to robo umpires, there will be calls people dispute.
  21. USAFChief
    There were a couple missed calls in the first inning. He got plenty of calls on, or just off, the edge of the zone as the night went on. Don't blame the umpire for Berrios' struggles.
  22. USAFChief
    I thought he was fine last night but the missed calls seemed to get in his head, and the mature Angels hitters just seemed to be waiting on a couple of those breaking pitches. I thought he was really bad last night, particularly on location. He left quite a few pitches right in the middle of the zone. The curve to Kinsler was particularly awful. A hanger of the first order.
  23. USAFChief
    Let him rehab with the Twins. He needs PAs, and he can get them with the Twins as easily as with Rochester. Besides, I don't want Grossman in the OF any more than absolutely necessary.
  24. USAFChief
    A day off...maybe. But no manager anywhere is sitting Dozier for Petit.
  25. USAFChief
    Berrios looks awful.
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