i'll get flamed for saying this, but I don't think we are a very mentally tough team. or even physically at this point. someone is held out every game with a "mild" whatever. maybe that's just modern baseball or whatever. hitting with RISP is a mental thing as much as physical. so is making big pitches. just seem like an overall meek club
Literally every move imaginable in baseball history has worked before, but I’d rather go with some form of Rogers, Duffy, alcala or Robles over a third inning of dobnak. Tomorrow’s DH has two 7 inning games. And both starters routinely pitch into the 6th
Much of that 91 team had a ring already. This bunch (and that’s management as well as players) need to win a single playoff game before we compare them to a world champ
I think it’s a fair question to ask why we used a long reliever into the 8th inning of a tie game coming off an off day. Maybe nothing would have been different but why did we need to try and get 3 innings out of him?
So many players had career years in 2019 offensively, I think it skewed our expectations. Polanco, garver, Kepler, sano...just not the same since. Throw in auto out cave and below avg austudillo and I guess 6-6 is to be expected