Turnbull is just another lost Tiger, brought to you by Scott Harris. He keeps having disputes with players on the team and regardless of how affordable they are, he cuts them. Candelario was the first, and Detroit is still waiting for a full time 3B two years later. Turnbull said he was still injured and Harris said no. So instead of keeping him in the Tigers pitching depth, Turnbull was non tendered. Instead, Flaherty cost $14MM when Turnbull was projected at $2.5MM.
FYI, I don’t serve truckers, and since you don’t know “everyone,” you have no idea about my relationships with family, friends, and clients of my six-figure-per-year business built from scratch.
The more you say, the more foolish you look.
It’s wiser to keep your meathole shut and let the world think you’re a fool than to open it, spew your stupidity, and confirm those thoughts.
But you’re obviously too much of fool to be taken seriously, and your opinions are of no consequence to me, so keep opening your mouth and inserting your foot for all I care.
A little friendly advice: Get out of your mom’s basement and maybe try to get a job. If you make your own money, you might be less of a fartknocker.
See, he made me need to correct myself for not thinking the order would get to him again in the last time up for BOS...
He had to add that 2 rbi double in the bottom 8th. Make it 5 of 15 in the last 4 games a clean .333 avg, with two hits today, single/double, plus his sac bunt, 2 runs scored, and 3 rbis.
To me hw looked overmatched from his first at bat. Pressing way too hard in front of family in friends. It must be so difficult to be labeled 'can't' miss' with the expectation you're gonna rip it up from the get go. Kudos to Balt for sending him back down to regain his confidence!
@DarkSide830: Lots of pitchers look good in ST because they’re ahead of hitters early on, and they’re not facing other teams’ best players in exhibition games.
Another hit by Dalbec today. I hope they don't s3nd him down. He is hitting .174 in the pasr 7 games before today.
He is slow starter as it is, but he is warming up. Let him play. At least he provides really good defense at 2st and 3rd, and can play some OF and 2nb if needed.
Puig had trade value at the 2019 trade deadline. Lest you forget Reds fans on here in 2019 wanted them to extend him. Cleveland were the ones that wanted him in the trade. Not Cincy. Guys with trade value can't be salary offsets. Period.
And absolutely no one cares about Bauer throwing the ball over the fence when Tito took him out of that last start.
Puig didn't lose all his trade value in two months. Cincinnati needed to offset part of Bauers salary and was sick of Puigs antics. If he had had any trade value, Puig would have signed with a MLB club.
Bauer, already having lost most of his welcome in Cleveland, lost what remained when he heaved a ball over the roof in Cleveland. The trade, long discussed, was consummated immediately afterwards.
It didn't matter how good Bauer was before or after, he was personna non grata in Cleveland. Cleveland just figured it out before the rest of MLB.
Thats not revisionist at all. Thats exactly how it went down.
I applude this addition of Cooper to the roster- This guy appears to play with a lot of heart.
I hope Dalbec figures it out as I believe hes a quality guy who works hard & possesses the tools to play in the show.
Imagine signing Brandon Belt to be your platoon DH. It's hard enough in most cases to justify tying up a roster spot in a pure DH let alone a platoon DH....
it doesn't matter, Liberal writers can post/tweet/write whatever they like with no consequences....They just simply ignore it when they're wrong and it freaking works! lol...Everyone else should take notice on the 'how-to' honestly haha
True- I believe Nike or whoever is responsible could have come up with more intrinsically appealing design utilizing the Blue & Yellow colors to honor the 2013 Boston Marathon victims.
The current unis are hideous & are second to the Padres in terms of unprofessional looking uniforms.
Doesn’t matter, Braves and Dodgers are most likely gonna get a one week BYE at the end of the season and go ice cold while all the teams that play consistently stay hot.
Can you please provide some stats that prove what you're saying? I only see three holds and no blown saves at ESPN. Show me a number on some website which supports the claim that he "blows every close game".
The “metric I trust” is my eyeballs, which tell me he is considerably improved at third over the past year. He has excellent range, has improved his throwing mechanics and is playing confidently, which is not some a computer can tell you. Perhaps the writers on this site would be well-served by getting out from behind the numbers and actually watching players/teams they don’t typically (the Phillies don’t generate many clicks on this site) as well as tapping into their fanbase sentiment to get an on-the-ground feel for how a player is playing. For example, Bohm is much better at third now than he is at first. If the writer had watched either of the two games in which he started there last week when Harper was on paternity leave, he would have seen how uncomfortable he was there. But, I’m guessing the writer did not do that.
IMO, it's still too early to tell. I have no problem with the decision to extend, other than it being for 5 years. I don't like that length, but, not knowing the details, that might not even be a legitimate criticism.
They got a very good performance from him last season, and I doubt he'll continue to be as bad as he's been so far this year. I think he'll turn it around. With the dearth of pitching, if he's good year next season, SD getting 3 good years, will think extending him was a success.
My wife and I were at the game when he was injured. He had delivered a pitch, got the ball back from the catcher, grimaced, walked off the rubber, screamed, and 'Gronk-spiked" the ball into the ground. He then walked off the field into the dugout. I have never seen anything quite like it. We assumed he was hurt by the way he acted, but there were no outward signs of any issues, including that last pitch.
He knew when he threw the last pitch that someone had happened to his elbow. Hope he comes back from it.
The “long toss” experiment needs to come to an end. Dr. Griffith perform surgery on my son’s shoulder due to labrum tear. He said that long toss is contributing a rise in shoulder/elbow injuries.
Fwiw..the boston city connect colors are what they are to pay homage to those who died and were injured in the 2013 boston marathon bombing..the colors have to do with the city not the team name
The Dodgers revolving door bullpen approach continues. It's common to refer to this constant churning as bringing in fresh arms, as if they've been keeping them on ice in the minors. The reality is it's more an effort to play a hot hand and shave some innings of use off the relievers who stick around. Whether this works or not, that's another question.
Seemed the logical move based on available players, skills, and he’s game ready. Belt would require weeks. Walsh isn’t all that good at this stage, etc.
The author is a Jays fan. I don’t think he was out of bounds. The odds for minor leaguers to be productive big leaguers is slim and even slimmer when they lose their first two years to injury.
The fact Dalbec can play third or first and has power, he should stay.Be a late inning Defensive sub.Unless we want to see Devers or Casas make an error to lose a game.I absolutely don't know why he struggles so bad in the Majors.Maybe some of the former players on here can tell me.He must have been good to get to that level.If the Red Sox don't want him trade him to a team that would play him.Hard to make adjustments when you had been 0 for,Bench or sent down.Dalbec over the years has played pretty much every position.Is he worse than Valdez?Better defensively and about the same hitting.
Yea it sucks as a fan. Realistically they should sell off anything they can get value for this deadline to really kick start a rebuild but with the money spent on rogers center the past 2 seasons along with Dunedin being upgraded to apparently the best training center and payroll at record levels thus year and last; ownership surely is banking on attendance being top 10 in the league for the next 2 seasons and a few playoff series aswell
You made a salient point last year about scouts and development guys, saying they’re a lot like top tier players. Not a lot to go around and not every team is blessed with a staff that can turn players around, however quickly
It’s not that I’m a Haines supporter. Or Shelton. Or Marin. It’s just that a great deal of mechanics should have been sound before arrival. Plate discipline, approach, situational knowledge—things you learn early on
We can debate the efficiency of the scouting department until the cows come home. The great failure here continues to be within the system first and foremost. Again, you can’t get blood from a stone
Good hitters work on their craft year round. And they have their own instructors. How many of the current Pirates could you say LOOK like they’ve made strides in their hitting since day 1 at the MLB level? In fact, name one
I understand your point about pitchers late in close games. I differ from TheMan3 in that I don’t see Bednar as elite anymore. Hitters adjust. The book on each pitcher becomes well known
(I will say that given Chapman’s propensity to walk batters, well, no way I’m throwing him anymore). But where an elite reliever is concerned I’d stand by my original thinking above
125 articles that you have to scroll through before finding the Pirates. Sheesh. My thumb is sore
For the cost, purely cash considerations, this was a move breslow *had* to make.
All that said, i'll be disappointed not to see if dalbec wasn't turning the page after hitting in 3 straight games.
I think grinding out at the MLB level could pay dividends with regular, everyday ABs for him. Not only was his line skewed by a handful of bad outcomes before being sent down just after the start of the year, but, I think a bit of tinkering with his swing at the mlb level were in order - and may have been getting made.
If you look at his results, 3 things stand out to me -
1) *no* infield fly out on balls in play at the mlb level. Not one.
2) correspondingly, almost 2/3 of his balls in play were ground balls, while his line drive percentage also dropped well into the single digits percentage wise.
3) not only had he not barreled up any pitches, hit average launch angle was a *negative* number.
Put it all together and Bobby had been swinging over the top of pitches, and failing to elevate. If they worked to get him to change up his mechanics to bring the bat through the slightly lower than he had been, you'd start to see the line drives that helped propell a chunk of his hitting, and, hopefully elevate some to improve the launch angle.
Perhaps we won't see it, maybe we will. All depends on the corresponding moves and who plays where and when.
I don't care who pitches. I wouldn't even have a closer or setup man. I would pitch whoever whenever based on matchups. Bednar is supposed to be your best. Might not be a save opportunity for 2 3 days or week who knows. Pitch whoever in the 10th just as long as it's not Contreras Ortiz.
Most relievers do best 1 inning at a time. They are simply better and can pitch again the next day. Most have roles 1 inning or multiple.
Can't score runs because their best bats are only average or slightly above. Runs come from hrs and their only 2 30 hr potential guys are awful this season.
Roster full of strike out guys who hitting coach can't improve. Then you sign Taylor an insane k guy. Then Cutch is k at insane rate.
Pirates probably believe in if you want to hire the best talent you have to give them enough time before you fire them. Who are you going to find during the season? I dunno. I would have fired him in 2023. Actually I would have never hired him. If I took over right now I would fire him and force Shelton to be hitting coach. Or have a open audition of former players looking to get into coaching.
Of the IF bench bats, you almost need to break it down like this: Reyes should be safe as he's out of options and has the most versatility which Cora values most. You'd want to say one of hamilton/valdez go down due to being redundant - they both play up the middle, which Reyes also does, but aren't so much corner IFers. Valdez *did* have a good bit of 3B as a minor leaguer in Hou, but, hasn't played there for a long time now, and, Boston hasn't used him there yet.
Cora probably prefers sending dalbec down, but, with Raffy still having been banged up you almost have to keep dalbec up a little while.
I'm inclined to think Hamilton goes down first, then if Raffy proves healthy with the knee you see dalbec sent down when grissom comes up.
Off (was never on) the Dalbec train, but have to look at it realistically. Dalbec is by far, the best defensive 1b/3b on the roster, lack of a bat or not. Hamilton lacks both a glove and bat. Valdez's bat has been sorely lacking for 2 full weeks. They could play Reyes at 2b until Grissom returns soon.
Btw...these Red Sox yellow City Connect uni's with the blue hats are total vomit. Almost as bad as the White Sox and Rockies. But absolutely nothing will top the insanely bad fashion choice of the Padres.
Service time manipulation certainly happens across baseball but if anything the Nationals are often criticized for rushing their prospects. Victor Robles and Luis Garcia, to name a couple on the current team, who many Nats fans think should have been given more development time. And CJ Abrams has been on the big league team since coming over from the Padres' system at age 21.
Cooper was only with the Cubs for a short time, but his demeanor and effort were top-notch. I'm not sold on swapping him for Mervis but the Red Sox got a Pro, and a good guy.
Wisdom is lucky he can play 3B and 1B else he would have been DFA'd instead of Cooper. Cooper will be a significant improvement over Dalbec, that's for sure.
I don't know how cutch is feeling. I would play hot players every game. Baseball must be much harder at mlb level because I always found it non tiring and easy on the body.
"Barriera is still only 20 years old, of course, so there’s plenty of time for him to get on track even if it’ll be a while before he returns to the mound."
"Dalbec is being optioned"....1B should be one of the easier positions to fill and Dalbec is not a Major League prospect by any definition, so why keep up the pretense by keeping him in your system?....Dalbec has gotten almost 1000 plate appearances and this guy wouldn't have gotten even 200 PAs on the Redsox of 8+ years ago. Dalbec is
proof positive that the Redsox owners are asleep at the wheel, because one phone call replaces Dalbec with a MUCH better player(Cron or Cooper or even Dominic Smith and Luke Voit).
I don't think Irvin or Kremer are good enough to be guaranteed starting jobs on a World Series caliber team. Not sure about Means either but he looked ok last year. Maybe piggyback some guys but sometimes that doesn't work??
I've had issues with his toughness and ability to play through what appear to be minor injuries such as the bruised bone last year. I still feel that he should have played through it. Hip surgery, tearing a muscle are understandable set backs and both have long-term impacts. With each surgery it just becomes more difficult to come back and be the player that you once were. At this point it is what it is, potential lost. If this year's spending is any indication of what the future holds, I dont see the Angel's spending big on free agents any longer. This contract might be a turning point for the organization and how it moves forward in the future.
I hope Drew Smith is out the rest of the season. We can finally have some hope of a long winning streak now. Hes the absolute worst there is. Blows every close game. His ERA is low because he allows the inherited runners to score, hes done this for years. I'd get rid of him right now if I was the GM. Hes no good
Turnbull is just another lost Tiger, brought to you by Scott Harris. He keeps having disputes with players on the team and regardless of how affordable they are, he cuts them. Candelario was the first, and Detroit is still waiting for a full time 3B two years later. Turnbull said he was still injured and Harris said no. So instead of keeping him in the Tigers pitching depth, Turnbull was non tendered. Instead, Flaherty cost $14MM when Turnbull was projected at $2.5MM.
You starting this again?
FYI, I don’t serve truckers, and since you don’t know “everyone,” you have no idea about my relationships with family, friends, and clients of my six-figure-per-year business built from scratch.
The more you say, the more foolish you look.
It’s wiser to keep your meathole shut and let the world think you’re a fool than to open it, spew your stupidity, and confirm those thoughts.
But you’re obviously too much of fool to be taken seriously, and your opinions are of no consequence to me, so keep opening your mouth and inserting your foot for all I care.
A little friendly advice: Get out of your mom’s basement and maybe try to get a job. If you make your own money, you might be less of a fartknocker.
And he just has to walk across the field.
Is that a pubic hair on your Coke?
I know a fairly recent Cy Young winner they could sign for the league minimum…
I know a fairly recent Cy Young winner they could sign for the league minimum…
The O’Malley curse
See, he made me need to correct myself for not thinking the order would get to him again in the last time up for BOS...
He had to add that 2 rbi double in the bottom 8th. Make it 5 of 15 in the last 4 games a clean .333 avg, with two hits today, single/double, plus his sac bunt, 2 runs scored, and 3 rbis.
The O’Malley curse
@Unclemike1526 That is called collusion and is expressly forbidden by the CBA.
Caleb Ferguson
@InsertWittyName Because he can't get more than that.
Swing and a very, very big miss
To me hw looked overmatched from his first at bat. Pressing way too hard in front of family in friends. It must be so difficult to be labeled 'can't' miss' with the expectation you're gonna rip it up from the get go. Kudos to Balt for sending him back down to regain his confidence!
Umm. Not that you could tell by today.. sheesh
Sold as property.
Not just his 4th hit in 4 straight games, but, he also put down the sac bunt that set up the sac fly bringing home a run as well.
That's 4 for 14 in that stretch,
.286 ba
Hmm... Devers at DH, dalbec at 3rd, and Cooper at 1st? Nah, too much to hope for.
@DarkSide830: Lots of pitchers look good in ST because they’re ahead of hitters early on, and they’re not facing other teams’ best players in exhibition games.
When Brown rejoins the BP full time and if they can get Neris and Alzolay straightened out, that pen is gonna look pretty strong.
Another hit by Dalbec today. I hope they don't s3nd him down. He is hitting .174 in the pasr 7 games before today.
He is slow starter as it is, but he is warming up. Let him play. At least he provides really good defense at 2st and 3rd, and can play some OF and 2nb if needed.
She has a mean change up
Puig had trade value at the 2019 trade deadline. Lest you forget Reds fans on here in 2019 wanted them to extend him. Cleveland were the ones that wanted him in the trade. Not Cincy. Guys with trade value can't be salary offsets. Period.
And absolutely no one cares about Bauer throwing the ball over the fence when Tito took him out of that last start.
Good move.
Puig didn't lose all his trade value in two months. Cincinnati needed to offset part of Bauers salary and was sick of Puigs antics. If he had had any trade value, Puig would have signed with a MLB club.
Bauer, already having lost most of his welcome in Cleveland, lost what remained when he heaved a ball over the roof in Cleveland. The trade, long discussed, was consummated immediately afterwards.
It didn't matter how good Bauer was before or after, he was personna non grata in Cleveland. Cleveland just figured it out before the rest of MLB.
Thats not revisionist at all. Thats exactly how it went down.
Gallo has never been a hitter. He is someone who gets on base with some pop in his bat.
I personally am not a fan of his. I can see where he provides value for the right team though.
My favorite
Cooper jumped out of a plane decades ago. If this Cooper can disappear with a sack of money he will have DB's blessing
I applude this addition of Cooper to the roster- This guy appears to play with a lot of heart.
I hope Dalbec figures it out as I believe hes a quality guy who works hard & possesses the tools to play in the show.
Imagine signing Brandon Belt to be your platoon DH. It's hard enough in most cases to justify tying up a roster spot in a pure DH let alone a platoon DH....
it doesn't matter, Liberal writers can post/tweet/write whatever they like with no consequences....They just simply ignore it when they're wrong and it freaking works! lol...Everyone else should take notice on the 'how-to' honestly haha
True- I believe Nike or whoever is responsible could have come up with more intrinsically appealing design utilizing the Blue & Yellow colors to honor the 2013 Boston Marathon victims.
The current unis are hideous & are second to the Padres in terms of unprofessional looking uniforms.
Doesn’t matter, Braves and Dodgers are most likely gonna get a one week BYE at the end of the season and go ice cold while all the teams that play consistently stay hot.
Nabil crushed it 1st time around picking up that win. Stay hot !
Can you please provide some stats that prove what you're saying? I only see three holds and no blown saves at ESPN. Show me a number on some website which supports the claim that he "blows every close game".
The “metric I trust” is my eyeballs, which tell me he is considerably improved at third over the past year. He has excellent range, has improved his throwing mechanics and is playing confidently, which is not some a computer can tell you. Perhaps the writers on this site would be well-served by getting out from behind the numbers and actually watching players/teams they don’t typically (the Phillies don’t generate many clicks on this site) as well as tapping into their fanbase sentiment to get an on-the-ground feel for how a player is playing. For example, Bohm is much better at third now than he is at first. If the writer had watched either of the two games in which he started there last week when Harper was on paternity leave, he would have seen how uncomfortable he was there. But, I’m guessing the writer did not do that.
I heard from my sisters uncle that it’s really short toss that’s the problem
IMO, it's still too early to tell. I have no problem with the decision to extend, other than it being for 5 years. I don't like that length, but, not knowing the details, that might not even be a legitimate criticism.
They got a very good performance from him last season, and I doubt he'll continue to be as bad as he's been so far this year. I think he'll turn it around. With the dearth of pitching, if he's good year next season, SD getting 3 good years, will think extending him was a success.
My wife and I were at the game when he was injured. He had delivered a pitch, got the ball back from the catcher, grimaced, walked off the rubber, screamed, and 'Gronk-spiked" the ball into the ground. He then walked off the field into the dugout. I have never seen anything quite like it. We assumed he was hurt by the way he acted, but there were no outward signs of any issues, including that last pitch.
He knew when he threw the last pitch that someone had happened to his elbow. Hope he comes back from it.
The “long toss” experiment needs to come to an end. Dr. Griffith perform surgery on my son’s shoulder due to labrum tear. He said that long toss is contributing a rise in shoulder/elbow injuries.
Only Gallo at the plate can make Russell Branyan look like a prime Albert Pujols
Just calling up a kid doesn’t help the kids development, that just isn’t how it works in baseball
Datashark with the data snark
Same odds as Giancarlo Stanton hitting the IL at some point this summer tbh
VERY GOOD
🙂 🙂 🙂
PHJ: Yes. Those are the colors of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
weartested.org/adidas-boston-marathon-2013-apparel
When he gets a large order like a school field trio or Bachelorette party he calls out the Grand Salami truck
What a wimpy comment!
Fwiw..the boston city connect colors are what they are to pay homage to those who died and were injured in the 2013 boston marathon bombing..the colors have to do with the city not the team name
You are correct Murphy. Jays and Shapiro/Atkins will fumble the rebuild a second time. Not good.
I’d gladly give you a bottle Tuesday for a Glasnow.
The Dodgers revolving door bullpen approach continues. It's common to refer to this constant churning as bringing in fresh arms, as if they've been keeping them on ice in the minors. The reality is it's more an effort to play a hot hand and shave some innings of use off the relievers who stick around. Whether this works or not, that's another question.
Seemed the logical move based on available players, skills, and he’s game ready. Belt would require weeks. Walsh isn’t all that good at this stage, etc.
The author is a Jays fan. I don’t think he was out of bounds. The odds for minor leaguers to be productive big leaguers is slim and even slimmer when they lose their first two years to injury.
Anything is possible but don’t get your hopes up
Glasnow*
If you get rid of him it proves that defense isn't a priority.Hitting is.
The fact Dalbec can play third or first and has power, he should stay.Be a late inning Defensive sub.Unless we want to see Devers or Casas make an error to lose a game.I absolutely don't know why he struggles so bad in the Majors.Maybe some of the former players on here can tell me.He must have been good to get to that level.If the Red Sox don't want him trade him to a team that would play him.Hard to make adjustments when you had been 0 for,Bench or sent down.Dalbec over the years has played pretty much every position.Is he worse than Valdez?Better defensively and about the same hitting.
Yea it sucks as a fan. Realistically they should sell off anything they can get value for this deadline to really kick start a rebuild but with the money spent on rogers center the past 2 seasons along with Dunedin being upgraded to apparently the best training center and payroll at record levels thus year and last; ownership surely is banking on attendance being top 10 in the league for the next 2 seasons and a few playoff series aswell
*Glasnow
Two words: Tyler Glasnow
Non-tender him. Won't be worth the salary next year.
You made a salient point last year about scouts and development guys, saying they’re a lot like top tier players. Not a lot to go around and not every team is blessed with a staff that can turn players around, however quickly
It’s not that I’m a Haines supporter. Or Shelton. Or Marin. It’s just that a great deal of mechanics should have been sound before arrival. Plate discipline, approach, situational knowledge—things you learn early on
We can debate the efficiency of the scouting department until the cows come home. The great failure here continues to be within the system first and foremost. Again, you can’t get blood from a stone
Good hitters work on their craft year round. And they have their own instructors. How many of the current Pirates could you say LOOK like they’ve made strides in their hitting since day 1 at the MLB level? In fact, name one
I understand your point about pitchers late in close games. I differ from TheMan3 in that I don’t see Bednar as elite anymore. Hitters adjust. The book on each pitcher becomes well known
(I will say that given Chapman’s propensity to walk batters, well, no way I’m throwing him anymore). But where an elite reliever is concerned I’d stand by my original thinking above
125 articles that you have to scroll through before finding the Pirates. Sheesh. My thumb is sore
For the cost, purely cash considerations, this was a move breslow *had* to make.
All that said, i'll be disappointed not to see if dalbec wasn't turning the page after hitting in 3 straight games.
I think grinding out at the MLB level could pay dividends with regular, everyday ABs for him. Not only was his line skewed by a handful of bad outcomes before being sent down just after the start of the year, but, I think a bit of tinkering with his swing at the mlb level were in order - and may have been getting made.
If you look at his results, 3 things stand out to me -
1) *no* infield fly out on balls in play at the mlb level. Not one.
2) correspondingly, almost 2/3 of his balls in play were ground balls, while his line drive percentage also dropped well into the single digits percentage wise.
3) not only had he not barreled up any pitches, hit average launch angle was a *negative* number.
Put it all together and Bobby had been swinging over the top of pitches, and failing to elevate. If they worked to get him to change up his mechanics to bring the bat through the slightly lower than he had been, you'd start to see the line drives that helped propell a chunk of his hitting, and, hopefully elevate some to improve the launch angle.
Perhaps we won't see it, maybe we will. All depends on the corresponding moves and who plays where and when.
The Red Sux went Wokey...now they are Brokey...
He's not with the team, he was DFA earlier in the week. But I guess he could show up in time to play in Sunday's game, which would be interesting.
I disagree with you here, Dream
Williams has an average based on a handful of at bats. He’s the quintessential punch-and-Judy hitter.
FULL THROTTLE BABY!!!!!!!!!!
I think Blue Baron is dumber, personally. Sorry, most people don’t grow out of a good fart joke, which again proves you are an insufferable turd.
I don’t care how many truckers you service in your area. Congrats on the extensive client list, still doesn’t prove everyone doesn’t hate you.
That would be like adding a hofer compared to dalbec
But Wendle got what he got, so that’s how he was valued by the open market.
Dalbec? RH "bat"? More like a baton. He swirls it around and hits nothing but air.
I don't care who pitches. I wouldn't even have a closer or setup man. I would pitch whoever whenever based on matchups. Bednar is supposed to be your best. Might not be a save opportunity for 2 3 days or week who knows. Pitch whoever in the 10th just as long as it's not Contreras Ortiz.
Most relievers do best 1 inning at a time. They are simply better and can pitch again the next day. Most have roles 1 inning or multiple.
Can't score runs because their best bats are only average or slightly above. Runs come from hrs and their only 2 30 hr potential guys are awful this season.
Roster full of strike out guys who hitting coach can't improve. Then you sign Taylor an insane k guy. Then Cutch is k at insane rate.
Pirates probably believe in if you want to hire the best talent you have to give them enough time before you fire them. Who are you going to find during the season? I dunno. I would have fired him in 2023. Actually I would have never hired him. If I took over right now I would fire him and force Shelton to be hitting coach. Or have a open audition of former players looking to get into coaching.
@FartCopter: Says the guy with the dumbest username on here.
Toilet humor, seriously? How old are you, 11?
Not that it’s any of your business, but I do just fine in my area, especially with my 250+ clients.
Here’s an idea, if you dislike what I have to say, then don’t read my comments and don’t reply.
Self-inflicted problem solved.
Good point, all good prospects. Maybe they have a sour taste in their mouth.
Of the IF bench bats, you almost need to break it down like this: Reyes should be safe as he's out of options and has the most versatility which Cora values most. You'd want to say one of hamilton/valdez go down due to being redundant - they both play up the middle, which Reyes also does, but aren't so much corner IFers. Valdez *did* have a good bit of 3B as a minor leaguer in Hou, but, hasn't played there for a long time now, and, Boston hasn't used him there yet.
Cora probably prefers sending dalbec down, but, with Raffy still having been banged up you almost have to keep dalbec up a little while.
I'm inclined to think Hamilton goes down first, then if Raffy proves healthy with the knee you see dalbec sent down when grissom comes up.
I heard he was driving a Salami truck now. Using it to bat the mozzarella cheese balls around.
Off (was never on) the Dalbec train, but have to look at it realistically. Dalbec is by far, the best defensive 1b/3b on the roster, lack of a bat or not. Hamilton lacks both a glove and bat. Valdez's bat has been sorely lacking for 2 full weeks. They could play Reyes at 2b until Grissom returns soon.
Gonna add him to my fantasy team asap. Dudes gonna rake in that ballpark. 30 home runs at least.
"Yellow City Connect...are total vomit"...I concur, because you cannot be the Boston "Red Sox" without some form of "red" somewhere on your uniforms.
Dalbec's ability to play 3B and serve as a RH bat off the bench might give him an edge over Hamilton
"Cooper will be hitting. 256 with an OBP of .311"...You do realize that batting line is a MASSIVE upgrade over Dalbec, who's batting virtually .000?
Btw...these Red Sox yellow City Connect uni's with the blue hats are total vomit. Almost as bad as the White Sox and Rockies. But absolutely nothing will top the insanely bad fashion choice of the Padres.
Hamilton will likely be optioned when Vaughan Grissom makes his Red Sox debut which might come as early as Tuesday.
Service time manipulation certainly happens across baseball but if anything the Nationals are often criticized for rushing their prospects. Victor Robles and Luis Garcia, to name a couple on the current team, who many Nats fans think should have been given more development time. And CJ Abrams has been on the big league team since coming over from the Padres' system at age 21.
Always funny to me when a guy gets traded in the middle of a series. "Head on over to the other dugout, Garrett!"
Looks like a good move and he is only making $1.75M this year.
Cooper will be hitting .256 with an OBP of .311 in a month.
Cooper was only with the Cubs for a short time, but his demeanor and effort were top-notch. I'm not sold on swapping him for Mervis but the Red Sox got a Pro, and a good guy.
Wisdom is lucky he can play 3B and 1B else he would have been DFA'd instead of Cooper. Cooper will be a significant improvement over Dalbec, that's for sure.
I did, and they threw in the negative jab at the start, didn't need to add it altogether.
I don't know how cutch is feeling. I would play hot players every game. Baseball must be much harder at mlb level because I always found it non tiring and easy on the body.
"Better than Dalbec"...Being "better than Dalbec" is a very low bar to clear, but you are most certainly right.
"Barriera is still only 20 years old, of course, so there’s plenty of time for him to get on track even if it’ll be a while before he returns to the mound."
Did you even read the article?
Should be Dalbec since Cooper predominantly plays 1B but he can also play some OF in a pinch.
Makes zero sense…. The team isn’t built to win they are in developing / “building” mode call up a kid…. Why we continue to suck
"Dalbec is being optioned"....1B should be one of the easier positions to fill and Dalbec is not a Major League prospect by any definition, so why keep up the pretense by keeping him in your system?....Dalbec has gotten almost 1000 plate appearances and this guy wouldn't have gotten even 200 PAs on the Redsox of 8+ years ago. Dalbec is
proof positive that the Redsox owners are asleep at the wheel, because one phone call replaces Dalbec with a MUCH better player(Cron or Cooper or even Dominic Smith and Luke Voit).
I like this
I don't think Irvin or Kremer are good enough to be guaranteed starting jobs on a World Series caliber team. Not sure about Means either but he looked ok last year. Maybe piggyback some guys but sometimes that doesn't work??
I've had issues with his toughness and ability to play through what appear to be minor injuries such as the bruised bone last year. I still feel that he should have played through it. Hip surgery, tearing a muscle are understandable set backs and both have long-term impacts. With each surgery it just becomes more difficult to come back and be the player that you once were. At this point it is what it is, potential lost. If this year's spending is any indication of what the future holds, I dont see the Angel's spending big on free agents any longer. This contract might be a turning point for the organization and how it moves forward in the future.
Good deal for the Sox. Better than Dalbec.
He can flex to the outfield too. Nice move.
Right, that's what the storm said
I hope Drew Smith is out the rest of the season. We can finally have some hope of a long winning streak now. Hes the absolute worst there is. Blows every close game. His ERA is low because he allows the inherited runners to score, hes done this for years. I'd get rid of him right now if I was the GM. Hes no good