July 2, 20251 yr Just now, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:This would be his best year except for the fact since he went to the bullpen, his ERA is close to five. And they’re paying $18 million for him to be a bullpen arm that gets brought into blowoutsYup, hard to believe this is actually his best year so far. What a terrible contract by DD and no matter what happens Walker is not going anywhere making that coin.
July 2, 20251 yr I brought this up last year from like London onward it was like this. They’d have 2 games in a row good or 3 of 4 with RISP. Then a 10 game stretch where they couldn’t hit a ball off a t ball stand with risp besides a game.outside of the Friday vs Atlanta GM 1 Houston: 0-7GM 2 Houston: 1-5GM 3 Houston: 0-0 (sac fly)Gm 1 Atlanta: 5-11Gm 2 Atlanta: 1-5Gm 3 Atlanta: 0-7Gm 1 padres: 2-9Gm 2 padres: 0-111-45 (.244). W/o Friday it’s 6-34 (.176)
July 2, 20251 yr 14 minutes ago, RoadToHell said:12 hits what the hell happened why only 4 runs?Can’t hit well enough with risp
July 2, 20251 yr 8 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:Can’t hit well enough with rispOh ok same ol same ol
July 2, 20251 yr 2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:0-2 with Risp…No idea how a team can continually be so bad, but keep the hitting coach.
July 2, 20251 yr Just now, Diehardfan said:No idea how a team can continually be so bad, but keep the hitting coach.And they got rid of Milt but keep this bum
July 2, 20251 yr 4 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:No idea how a team can continually be so bad, but keep the hitting coach.I’m actually surprised they didn’t make a move in the offseason to do it. Just to shake things up. It’s cause Dombrowski looks at the stats and says he’s doing a good job but when you watch them you know they aren’t matching nearly as consistently as the stats indicate
July 2, 20251 yr I'm at the point that I would rather a pitcher bat than Stott. He is absolutely putrid. Offers nothing offensively. 1st and 3rd with 1 out- how about a safety squeeze? Try to generate a run somehow instead of doing the same old same old. Guess bunting/ safety squeezes aren't hip and cool anymore- at least to the analytic dorks that have efed up this game. Granted, Thomson could call it, but he doesn't have the stones to go against his analytic overlords.
July 2, 20251 yr 12 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:Yup this feels like a 2-0 type lossNice reverse jinx
July 2, 20251 yr Mick Abel is an interesting one. He turns 24 in a month. Young, still time to iron things out, sure. But also getting close to time to declare what he’s going to be.He was the #2 prospect in the organization for FOUR straight years and was essentially tagged with an untouchable label for multiple consecutive trade deadlines.Then he falls off the rails last year. Then cleans it up in AAA this spring. Then an electric debut in the majors. Honestly, he was incredible for 2 starts and has been bad ever since. He had one other low earned run start where he was consistently pitching to hard contact.Not sure what they have in him or what they should do with him. Trade value has probably slipped away. Unless 2 starters go down, he’s not going to be in the October rotation.Abel probably has…what…4 starts before Nola is back? Give him those starts to prove he belongs. If he keeps trending south, option him to AAA and tighten him up as a 1 inning guy to see if he can help in the pen. If he shows too much promise to do that, then great. But otherwise I’d try to transition him into October bullpen help.
July 3, 20251 yr Sanchez is getting ahead in every count and he’s hardly thrown a good pitch to hit. Masterclass in dancing around the edges of the strike zone. Every pitch is hitting the lines of the on screen box. So so annoying for hitters.
July 3, 20251 yr 21 minutes ago, eagle45 said:Mick Abel is an interesting one. He turns 24 in a month. Young, still time to iron things out, sure. But also getting close to time to declare what he’s going to be.He was the #2 prospect in the organization for FOUR straight years and was essentially tagged with an untouchable label for multiple consecutive trade deadlines.Then he falls off the rails last year. Then cleans it up in AAA this spring. Then an electric debut in the majors. Honestly, he was incredible for 2 starts and has been bad ever since. He had one other low earned run start where he was consistently pitching to hard contact.Not sure what they have in him or what they should do with him. Trade value has probably slipped away. Unless 2 starters go down, he’s not going to be in the October rotation.Abel probably has…what…4 starts before Nola is back? Give him those starts to prove he belongs. If he keeps trending south, option him to AAA and tighten him up as a 1 inning guy to see if he can help in the pen. If he shows too much promise to do that, then great. But otherwise I’d try to transition him into October bullpen help.Tbh i think he has a start before the all star break with how the Phillies are off the next two Thursdays. if he’s bad again then i think you might get painter for his start after the AS break.
July 3, 20251 yr 1 minute ago, eagle45 said:Sanchez is getting ahead in every count and he’s hardly thrown a good pitch to hit. Masterclass in dancing around the edges of the strike zone. Every pitch is hitting the lines of the on screen box. So so annoying for hitters.Amazing with Sanchez is control has gotten so so so elite. In the minors that was the thing he struggled with like Abel
July 3, 20251 yr 15 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:Tbh i think he has a start before the all star break with how the Phillies are off the next two Thursdays. if he’s bad again then i think you might get painter for his start after the AS break.I want to give Abel every chance to prove he’s going to be the real deal. He’s got the frame and easy stuff of a front line starter.But hes not valuable enough in a trade. And hes too far off and too unreliable to be protected in the big league rotation. So I don’t think hes above a tinkering look as a reliever in AAA. It’s not a good step in a pitchers development, but they aren’t helping the team by just sending him to start games in AAA indefinitely again.
July 3, 20251 yr 30 minutes ago, eagle45 said:I want to give Abel every chance to prove he’s going to be the real deal. He’s got the frame and easy stuff of a front line starter.But hes not valuable enough in a trade. And hes too far off and too unreliable to be protected in the big league rotation. So I don’t think hes above a tinkering look as a reliever in AAA. It’s not a good step in a pitchers development, but they aren’t helping the team by just sending him to start games in AAA indefinitely again.I think the issue is his command issue has come back his last couple starts. If it happens again i don’t think it’s helping him to just let him go out there and not have it. Plus they’ve been looking for a reason to try and bring up painter but don’t have the rotation spot. i think they tried to move him to being a reliever then back to the rotation. Imo i think he’s likely better long term as a RP. I think more he throws day to day he might learn better command and his stuff is good enough to be a back end of the bullpen guy.
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