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  1. Even as "just" a hitter Ohtani is worth a QO. Harper had the surgery after the WS last year and was back on May 2nd and Ohtani was back as a DH by May 7th the season after his first TJ surgery. LA is 12 GB in their division and 10.5 GB in the wild card. With Trout headed back to the IL and all the other injuries, I think Ohtani will be shut down in the next week or so, depending on the next MRI results, and have the surgery so he's ready early next season. Yes the timing is bad for his checkbook, but he will still sign a $350 - $400 MM contract either this off-season or next.
  2. Well, they made a trade just for the sake of making a trade, and, as hard to believe as it is, Floro has been just as bad as Lopez was/is. Unless you go by FIP, but that's a different argument.
  3. Making a trade just for the sake of making a trade is bad business. The biggest disappointments are; in-game decision making, daily line-ups/get away day line-ups and poor execution of fundamentals by the players. Bullpen blow ups happen, but become more frequent with misuse.
  4. And a .365 K rate, which is on the rise as he's K'd at .423 rate his last 7. He is Gallo 2.0.
  5. You give it that long? I'm thinking September...
  6. Clutching the agony of defeat from the thrill of victory since 2019...
  7. Sort of a problem for the staff as a whole....
  8. The only strike call out of the zone so far was strike 3 to Wallner, but, yes, so far everything on the edges has been called a strike.
  9. Buxton, Kirilloff and Castro are givens once eligible to return, with Luplow being sent out. I think the toughest call is if/when Gordon is ready - he is out of options - but I guess I can see Wallner getting sent down again.
  10. Maybe the networks should just shut the strike zone box off on the broadcasts so we fans can just watch the game. If you want to see the most accurate strike zone box graphic, check out Baseball Savant's illustrator function.
  11. Analytics has a place in the game, dating back to at least the early 70's, but sometimes the flow of the game has to be taken into consideration. PHing for a RH batter who is 2-3 when the other team brings in a tough RHP, and vice versa, is not always the correct call. Same with pitching, if the SP is coasting through 6 or 7, give him 1 or 2 batters into the next inning to see if he's still got it. Sometimes the gut overrules the spreadsheet, sometimes not. But sometimes you gotta let it play out.
  12. Figured the Twins would take 2 of 3, just figured it would be Friday & Saturday. And sure didn't see 6.1 perfect innings out of Keuchel, not even against Pittsburgh.
  13. I think he needs a handful of games in AAA to get his timing down and get game reps in CF.
  14. OBP & SLG to name a couple. All rate stats are based on minimum number of PA or IP. Very soon there will be very, very few qualifiers for ERA (which modern stat heads don't care about anyway) as most MLB starters are 5 and done, and with the 5 man (and maybe soon 6 man) rotations most don't get 30 starts a season. Last season for example, there were 45 MLB pitchers who qualified for the ERA title, 1.5 per team.
  15. Duran only threw two 4 seamers (according to Gameday), the rest were curveballs and splitters. Gave up the hit/error on a hanging curve. But he escaped with no damage done, hopefully a mental re-set. Hopefully for Jax as well.
  16. Thanks, watching on Gameday, says Farmer still LF
  17. And now starts Rocco's nightly substitution insanity.
  18. Would probably have been a better idea....
  19. It wasn't pretty, but 6 shut out innings from Lopez.
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