June 17, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:Why did they remove Abel after 77 pitches?Analytics I guess, such nonsense
June 17, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, eagle45 said:How did Abel look?Very good actually. His one "bad inning” was mostly because of a missed strike three pitch by the umpire that would have ended the inning.
June 17, 20251 yr 7 hours ago, Joe Shades 73 said:Analytics I guess, such nonsenseProbably but after the 2nd inning he retired 9 of the next 10 batters and he really settled in.
June 17, 20251 yr Would you rather have Abel or Nola in the rotation? I know it's a small sample size with Abel but I feel like he'll be a solid rotation piece for some team. I feel like DD is setting up to trade him and it kinda sucks because I feel like Nola is already trending down and we're stuck with him because of that horrible long contract.
June 17, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, John Blutarski said:Would you rather have Abel or Nola in the rotation? I know it's a small sample size with Abel but I feel like he'll be a solid rotation piece for some team. I feel like DD is setting up to trade him and it kinda sucks because I feel like Nola is already trending down and we're stuck with him because of that horrible long contract.Abel cause i want out of that nola contract. He’s already breaking down. Frankly they should want to keep Ranger or Abel. When wheeler retires after 2027, basically have an even more declined and aging nola, Sanchez and painter. Possibly Luzardo if he extends or doesn’t leave in free agency next year. if you deal Abel, let Ranger walk and Luzardo leaves as well you got massive holes. Better off paying either Ranger or luzardo and keeping Abel
June 17, 20251 yr Pretty much the entire area is probably saying inappropriate comments to you now, Rob. He needs to go.
June 18, 20251 yr Disappointing Luzardo start. 5 innings, 4 runs and 10 baserunners. I think its time to be concerned with him. Of course, the inning should have been over had the 1st base ump called strike 3 on a checked swing. Then, Graceful Kepler butchers a flyball costing them another run. Oh, and Tanner Banks stinks.
June 18, 20251 yr 12 minutes ago, vsptroops said:Ef this bullpen man. Wow.Bullpen blows but this team still can’t hit consistently. It’s why they have like 3-4 good games then a week and a half where they couldn’t hit a ball off a tee ball stand Add on Kepler’s inept fielding
June 18, 20251 yr Just now, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:Bullpen blows but this team still can’t hit consistently. It’s why they have like 3-4 good games then a week and a half where they couldn’t hit a ball off a tee ball standAdd on Kepler’s inept fieldingIt's funny how Ruben Amaro always brags about Keplers fielding. WTF games is he watching?
June 18, 20251 yr 4 minutes ago, vsptroops said:It's funny how Ruben Amaro always brags about Keplers fielding. WTF games is he watching?Honestly they should have marsh in LF. He’s an above average LF. If he hits like he has then he’s fine. I doubt he continues to hit at this pace. The issue is Kepler is redundant if marsh. LH and LF. Except he is worse then marsh besides more power. They needed and still need a RH LF/CF.
June 18, 20251 yr 54 minutes ago, vsptroops said:Disappointing Luzardo start. 5 innings, 4 runs and 10 baserunners. I think it’s time to be concerned with him. Of course, the inning should have been over had the 1st base ump called strike 3 on a checked swing. Then, Graceful Kepler butchers a flyball costing them another run. Oh, and Tanner Banks stinks.Topper should never have sent him back out in the 6th. He had something like 91 pitches at that point. He should have absolutely been removed after the first walk in the 6th.
June 18, 20251 yr 24 minutes ago, Blazehound said:Topper should never have sent him back out in the 6th. He had something like 91 pitches at that point. He should have absolutely been removed after the first walk in the 6th.I’m guessing Thomson kept him in there is because the bullpen is so bad that they can’t use strahm and kerkering everyday and Romano has been awful on back to back days. As much as I want to blame Thomson, I think that came down to he hoped Luzardo could give him one extra inning because the bullpen is so bad because Dombrowski did such a Fing awful job.
June 18, 20251 yr 3 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:I sure glad Robby T's feelings put him on the bench. That guy can't get fired fast enough.
June 18, 20251 yr 1 hour ago, vsptroops said:It's funny how Ruben Amaro always brags about Keplers fielding. WTF games is he watching?He is arsekissing Dombrowski so that when DD goes to Nashville for the new expansion team that is coming he will be the GM
June 18, 20251 yr My thoughts on the Castellanos situation:In general, I do not like sub-ing out an every day player for a marginal fielding upgrade in the 8th or 9th inning of a game. It's one thing if you have a Pat Burrell or Schwarber in left and you are covering a major weakness for the last inning, but Castellanos is OK. Baseball is a highly mental, confidence based sport. I don't like the message it sends to your every day player....and the guy coming in off the bench cold, even if they are a plus fielder, is far more likely to make a mental error in that situation. (And Rojas, as talented as he is in the outfield, is not immune to those). I think you should just stick with your every day guy.Even if a player disagrees with a decision, they have to respect it. Yell at the manager in his office, but in any work or team-based profession, you need to respect the chain of command when you are in a live fire situation. Castellanos didn't do that. Thomson called him out on it. He probably didn't want to do that. Thomson isn't really the most narcissistic or thin skinned guy. He had to. The way he addressed it was brief, without posturing...he dismissed it and said it was over they move forward.Castellanos screwed up twice. When asked about it, he could have even said he disagreed with the substitution, but apologized for how he handled it and expressed the same desire to move on. That would have ended the whole thing. Instead, he gave it legs with how he responded.
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