We win 2 in a row and immediately go back to a disastrous shitshow home game featuring humiliating defense, a wasted good start, and another injury to a key player.
4/15 Borel's Million Dalbecs
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He's made good contact today and swung at strikes. He'll be okay I think.
It's a shame because the D was great while Crawford was in the game. Offense is just incomplete right now.
I know one injury to Story can't explain everything but right now it just feels like so many guys on this roster I don't want them to hit it to.
Thanks for finding this. I'm surprised it's only 26 and we're middle of the pack.
There was only one truly bad thing there.
1) Casas gets his glove on a groundball. Check. Weird outcome - deflection.
2) Valdez is tracking the same groundball. Check. Weird outcome - deflection moves it behind him.
3) Abreu was coming in and got to the ball. Check.
4) Abreu assesses a play at 2nd, where Hamilton is there to cover. Check.
5) The bad thing is the throw into the IF dirt as the runner was arriving.
6) Hamilton does not field it cleanly, and Casas was there to assist.
Okay, I'm going to follow DOB's advice and take a nap. Hope to watch the miracle comeback recap later.
At what point do you consider a minor leaguer like Nick Sogard for 2B/SS? Someone to at least catch the ball on routine plays such as just now.
I was making lunch, but I was pretty sure what happened. Spouse kept saying he has a concussion, and I kept saying, not necessarily in this guy's case.
Anyway, he needs to be a DH. What a shame, I'll really miss Masa.
My worry is that we should be 12-6 given the pitching we have had, and when that fades we will be in trouble.
Valdez: .116
Rafaela .160
You could be Willie Mays in center but if you don't hit .200 you are pretty useless. SSS and all of that, and Rafaela did hit the ball hard. Still, it is worrying.
Valdez: .116
Rafaela .160
You could be Willie Mays in center but if you don't hit .200 you are pretty useless. SSS and all of that, and Rafaela did hit the ball hard. Still, it is worrying.
Catching a throw from the outfield seems like a foreign concept to our infielders.
The only clean connection between an outfielder and an infielder today involved two skulls.
The only clean connection between an outfielder and an infielder today involved two skulls.
Losing Story does seem to have destabilized the entire infield. At this point they are playing tight and scared. Layering that on top of no talent is a bad recipe.
TC and Jim Rice had a good discussion yesterday when talking about the team's defensive issues, most notably Hamilton at SS saying that Hamilton is not a major league SS and the MLB is not a developmental league.
The stench emanating from this team? Indeed.
Masa didn't even run. Yuck.
Be alive, Captain Canada.
Hey, he knows the odds are slim that two players would collide? Why waste the breath?
