July 10, 20241 yr Will they ever even attempt at making Marsh an everyday player? To me he looks the part at the plate, and he’s good enough in the outfield. At this point, I’m trusting him over Rojas, Pache, Castellanos, and even Stott. I understand he struggles with left-handed pitching, but if they don’t let him take his lumps, how will he ever improve?
July 10, 20241 yr Just now, hputenis said: Will they ever even attempt at making Marsh an everyday player? To me he looks the part at the plate, and he’s good enough in the outfield. At this point, I’m trusting him over Rojas, Pache, Castellanos, and even Stott. I understand he struggles with left-handed pitching, but if they don’t let him take his lumps, how will he ever improve? The irritating part about it is like if he can’t hit lefties and you let him do it for half the season you would know at the deadline that he can’t do it and it’s likely not happening after 2 years of working with him. The fact that they won’t let him hit lefties after two years of working on it with him signals they think he might have maxed out at being a platoon player. He is going to be 27 in December and entering his six year next year. Usually you don’t start hitting lefties randomly in year 6 when you haven’t really shown you could do it at a marginal level for the first five years you were in the league.
July 10, 20241 yr Just now, Bwestbrook36 said: Pulled Harper now too. I think they are just playing it safe with these guys Ohtani got pulled too.
July 10, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, hputenis said: Will they ever even attempt at making Marsh an everyday player? To me he looks the part at the plate, and he’s good enough in the outfield. At this point, I’m trusting him over Rojas, Pache, Castellanos, and even Stott. I understand he struggles with left-handed pitching, but if they don’t let him take his lumps, how will he ever improve? I like Marsh in CF more than the Phillies do. His bat just looks different if he can play CF at a high level than it does as a corner OF. There were some weird metrics I saw that labeled him as one of the rangier OFs in all of baseball, but I realize he’s considered a merely adequate CF. Generally speaking, if you want to add pop to your outfield, it’s a lot easier to do it at the corners. CFs with big bats are pricey.
July 10, 20241 yr This team can play like the greatest team in the league and then less than 24 hours later they play like they haven’t won a game all year long. I wish they had more consistency playing like this
July 10, 20241 yr The increasing use of position players on the mound in blowouts is interesting on so many levels. For one, it does seem to make sense to trade the miniscule chance of a win for rest for your bullpen arms. Beyond that…the position players that play are still professional baseball players. They still have big arms. They could be winding up and throwing 80-85. Part is that they are preserving their own arms and body by throwing 50. But it also speaks to the delicate timing for hitters. These guys get more outs throwing 45-50 than they would grooving meatballs at 80.
July 10, 20241 yr 36 minutes ago, RoadToHell said: This team can play like the greatest team in the league and then less than 24 hours later they play like they haven’t won a game all year long. I wish they had more consistency playing like this Dude. They have the best record in the sport, how much more consistency would you like from a baseball team? Also helps when two of your top 3 hitters return to the lineup.
July 10, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: The irritating part about it is like if he can’t hit lefties and you let him do it for half the season you would know at the deadline that he can’t do it and it’s likely not happening after 2 years of working with him. The fact that they won’t let him hit lefties after two years of working on it with him signals they think he might have maxed out at being a platoon player. He is going to be 27 in December and entering his six year next year. Usually you don’t start hitting lefties randomly in year 6 when you haven’t really shown you could do it at a marginal level for the first five years you were in the league. Id still rather deal with Marsh against lefties than Pache against anyone.
July 10, 20241 yr 52 minutes ago, RoadToHell said: This team can play like the greatest team in the league and then less than 24 hours later they play like they haven’t won a game all year long. I wish they had more consistency playing like this Your negativity is borderline ridiculous, and that is coming from me so you should think about it
July 10, 20241 yr 54 minutes ago, RoadToHell said: This team can play like the greatest team in the league and then less than 24 hours later they play like they haven’t won a game all year long. I wish they had more consistency playing like this Isn't that every team ever? A really good baseball team will win 100 games, which means they lose 62 games. That's like an NFL team going 10-6 in a 16-game season, which we consider just pretty good.
July 10, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said: Id still rather deal with Marsh against lefties than Pache against anyone. It makes more sense to just let marsh play against lefties if Pache is going to be this bad. You might as well let marsh see if he can hit or cant hit lefties. The sample size so far says he cannot but maybe if you give him a bigger sample size he comes around. Never getting a full answer if you just don’t let him do it consistently
July 10, 20241 yr 8 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Sounds like ok news, not good news... Don't like seeing that it has been an issue for a few starts now.
July 10, 20241 yr 21 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said: Sounds like ok news, not good news... Don't like seeing that it has been an issue for a few starts now. Something has been off with him lately, does not seem himself completely
July 10, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Joe Shades 73 said: Your negativity is borderline ridiculous, and that is coming from me so you should think about it Neither of you are on my level
July 10, 20241 yr 15 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said: Good. F the Dodgers. What they get for buying literally every baseball player on the planet.
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