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  1. Aggies7
    Yep, that was my home for many years. The view is one of the best in the minors
  2. Aggies7
    Error wasn’t his fault, but he gave up the homer to hicks. His numbers the last month are poor to average at best. And lots of hard contact too
  3. Aggies7
    I worked for their AAA team for almost ten years, but left before this current crop came through. So I always take these gut wrenching losses harder. LOTS of yankee fans here. I work with many
  4. Aggies7
    Unfortunately, it looks like it has officially turned to midnight on Joe smith. It was a good story and he was the double play ball machine early on, but I would think his days of high leverage situations are about over. Unless by necessity
  5. Aggies7
    What did they do that makes you disagree? The defense collapsed which directly led to at least two runs. One baserunner. Worked no counts. Zero effective relief. I would HOPE that we won’t still be starting people like bundy and sands by then, which will greatly help. But will still probably have a weak bullpen
  6. Aggies7
    Full on fetal position after the gallo homer to start the 5th against bundy and the subsequent missed strike 3/homer allowed by cotton. One single baserunner after that
  7. Aggies7
    I’m too high for this
  8. Aggies7
    And 4 GIDP for the Yankees. Those RISP numbers have been reversed in seemingly 90% of the Yankees/twins games
  9. Aggies7
    7/24/2015 twins 10, Yankees 1 5/9/1998 twins 8, Yankees 1 8/8/1997 twins 9, Yankees 1 7/14/1995 twins 11, Yankees 4 5/18/1994 twins 13, Yankees 5 it hasn’t happened a lot, is what I’m getting at. Kind of funny 4 of those scores came in the mid 90s when the Yankees were in their dynasty and the twins were terrible. Baseball is funny
  10. Aggies7
    They had a golden opportunity to build some cushion when they had two weeks of Detroit and KC. But they dropped the ball. If Cleveland or the white Sox ever get it together, they’ll surpass us. You can’t absorb this much time lost.
  11. Aggies7
    Also, archer needs to go as far as possible tomorrow, if he’s doing passably well. Has to. Throw the computer and excel sheets aside for a night. We can’t have another 4 inning or less start.
  12. Aggies7
    It would have been the shock of all time had this turned out any differently considering the starting pitcher situation. If arraez is out, I’m afraid there might be a full on tailspin. You just can’t have all these injuries and guys missing time without it catching up to you. Byron should really be IL’d. Things aren’t great, sports fans.
  13. Aggies7
    I didn’t say he “never” lets starters go deeper but his bias is towards pulling early. If the organizational philosophy is to pull guys early, then it must be a pretty loose mandate because he’s gone against the grain before. A new manager wouldn’t have to be “drastically” different. We’re talking letting guys go another inning or two here, not trying for complete games
  14. Aggies7
    They apparently aren’t that serious about wanting things run a certain way since literally the same exact pitcher has been allowed to go deeper into games. And rocco hasn’t been fired which is apparently the barometer for you. If it’s up to his discretion on when to pull guys based on velocity etc then who’s to say another manager wouldn’t be different? You can still make decisions that aren’t on a spreadsheet. “Complain about the right stuff” sounds a lot like “don’t criticize the manager”
  15. Aggies7
    You said it’s not fair to criticize the manager here, which is an absurd claim as is unless the FO is calling down to the dugout to tell him what to do, in game. So is it his call or not? Is he going to get scolded if he lets a guy go another inning? He’s let a lot of starters see the lineup the third time and he hasn’t been fired yet.. doesn’t that “go against the philosophy”?
  16. Aggies7
    Having watched this bullpen all year, I’m always going to be ok with giving the starter a chance to go further. The only time I can think of where it was obvious a starter should have been yanked was the bundy game in Baltimore when it was clear he had nothing and Rocco tried to squeeze another inning out of him after the twins crawled back into the game
  17. Aggies7
    Ok, so you can’t, got it. Interesting that the pitcher in question has been allowed to go 6 before. But this organizational strategy you claim exists must have just kicked in yesterday I guess
  18. Aggies7
    Can you source this claim?
  19. Aggies7
    The angst is because we simply don’t have enough reliable relievers to continually get us 4-5 innings every single game. It’s unreasonable to continue to pull starters before they even START the 5th inning. Rocco’s plans assume that every reliever is going to get the job done cleanly and no one is going to be injured. Asking 4 or 5 mostly shaky relievers to do their job is asking for trouble. My god, starting pitchers have been “going around the order 3 times” for 100 years, now all of a sudden they can’t figure it out anymore. The red flag pitch count used to be 100 and now it’s…70? Then when you do bring in relievers, everyone just has an inning regardless of how many pitches they throw? Jax threw 9 pitches and couldn’t go another?
  20. Aggies7
    Good argument here, I can’t disagree
  21. Aggies7
    Two inning outings is a weird way to use your best reliever IMO. If he needs two days off after that, you kinda set yourself up for failure when your bullpen is so lean. Like, who’s another good 8/9 inning option right now? I’d like to have him available for 9th inning save situations only. But that requires 1) starters going longer 2) other relievers stepping up
  22. Aggies7
    Hey these dudes are in the major leagues for a reason. Yeah the guys with the best stuff should get the highest leverage situations but if you’re not going to ask even 5 innings from the starter, then some of these less proven guys are going to need to see action, sometimes against the better hitters. Otherwise you’re just leaning on a guy or two to do ALL the heavy lifting and you run the risk of burning them out.
  23. Aggies7
    It is true that he was already warming so it may have been too late to change course. But again, the fewer innings you have to get out of a weak bullpen the better. I’ll take a smeltzer for the third time through the order over MOST of our bullpen guys. The trick should be trying to get to the 9th without using duran, especially if we’re concerned about innings
  24. Aggies7
    Aren’t we supposed to be watching how many innings duran has? Why use him for TWO innings of a 5 run game? And smith has been shaky shaky shaky for about a month now. Rocco manages the pitching staff like we have an all star loaded bullpen. There’s a steep drop off after duran. Rocco should be trying to get as many innings out of his starters as possible, not yanking them because they reach the magical third time through the order
  25. Aggies7
    Rocco tried his darndest to manage us into a loss. Thankfully the offense covered for him
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