Houston won today. Twins down by 2 games. No band-aid will fix this but an 8-1 run. Until they lose 2 I'm on board. Then it's breathe easy, a fun year, wait til next year, let's see Kepler, etc. And in a week it's over. Start warming up the stove.
Thank you for the analysis, Nick. Perkins can't be trusted until he proves that he can be trusted. So continue pitching him in low-to-mid-leverage situations to find out where he's at it. The time of year is too important.
Not necessarily relevant (is that a problem?), the original illustration for "cow jumped over the moon" makes complete sense!!http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19177/19177-h/images/img008.jpg
I wonder if a different hitting coach could get through to Dozier about going with the pitch, that is, sometimes to the opposite field? Trade em? Trade in Bruno?
Very unlikely. But win one game, then another, and another ... take care of business, etc. The chips will fall. That said, this team is not set up to go 10-3, I wouldn't think.
Possibly true, but he is brutal defensively. And baseball is played on both sides of the field. I guess he would have to be permanent DH to be on any ML team.