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Cool Hand Lucroy
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Weimer is not ready. You have to let him play today, I get it, but I am counting the days until maybe Mitchell gets another shot. Hard to complain about this team so far. Really hope our injury luck improves later in the season. -
Yankees (Gil) vs Brewers (Rea): 4/26/24, 7:10pm
Cool Hand Lucroy replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
Banking these wins with all the pitching injuries is so important, provided guys can start getting healthy. Don't know how they've managed a 17-8 start against a genuinely difficult schedule. Lot of scrap to this club in the early going. Gotta love that. One of these days, you probably just have to punt because you need to save some BP innings. But Uribe and Payamps both got the day off yesterday, so that's a start. If Ross can give you 6, you can go Viera, Uribe, Payamps, and feel okay. -
The bat flip. Knew he got it.
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There is always something joyful about morning baseball, even more than afternoon baseball. Get a split, and you're thrilled with a 5-2 road trip, heading into a tough week.
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Yeah, there are some really cool game theory questions going on in terms of all these individual choices. Essentially, this is an unregulated free market right now, which means it's fun as heck to study from a theoretical perspective but also maybe helps fans see that markets are usually regulated for a reason, as there are clear downsides.
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Uribe really has to learn to throw strikes.
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Even if this holds, a great outing from Myers will be the biggest takeaway from this one for me. We need to cover innings and find some guys who can get outs, even if it's 3-4 innings at a time. And Koenig pitched pretty well too.
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This is amazing. I mean, it's bad, but it's hilarious and maybe makes Cutch the all-time, Brewer-killer leader. I don't think I can remember another player that's reduced our win probability by as much as Cutch. Pujols, maybe? David Freese?
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Due for one of these. Still time, but this looked like the least promising pitching matchup on paper.
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I mean, we've definitely hit the Wild West point here. In the next few years, there will probably be a legal framework and maybe some sort of collective bargaining, but, until then, there will be constant roster churn. Honestly, for football, this system makes some sort of sense. The health risks are SO high (and, with CTE, filled with so many unknowns) that players should be looking to max out on as much short-term cash as they can. Other sports? Not so much. But it's football's world, and everyone else is just living in it. As a basketball program, you just have to expect to have to re-recruit your entire roster every year. Maybe you can target guys you think you can keep because of their makeup or history or whatever, but that's Chuckie, and you never know who's going to offer life-changing money for a one-year commitment. Unless the cash dries up (which it won't, as long as there are rich people who want to build little campus empires), that's always going to be a possibility. As for Chuckie, I get it. He's an elite college defender. That's not a skill that's going to get him paid as a basketball player. If it's 800K to play for a CBB-mad city, there's clearly a draw there. On the bright side, I've not seen Gard have big talent for developing players, so I'm not sure this impacts UW as much as it would have long ago. They've proven fairly nimble. At the same time, now they really have to adapt and find talent that they can get to gel defensively. Hope they're up to it.
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Sonny Gray is not going to give up a run all year, is he?
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With Uribe struggling, I think letting him try to build confidence is worth it. I don't really want Vieira against Goldy and Contreras.
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With Gray going, I'd assume that, if Rea doesn't go 6 or 7 strong, you're punting, especially if you can win today. Maybe that's just me in Gray-owns-us mode, though. :)
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Yeah....he did throw 50+ pitches on Wednesday. And Hoby was efficient. I could see trying to squeeze an extra inning out of him, but I don't mind letting him sit either.
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Good point. The tricky part with Hall is that his bullpen potential is good but probably not Hader level. Even if Hall becomes a very good bullpen piece (a la Peguero), he's likely got more value as a solid number 4 starter. This is really the question for me. Is it worth trying to turn Hall into Colin Rae when you know you could turn him into Peguero? I'd say yes. I also remember Burnes struggling mightily when we first tried him as a starter. Then, he and the pitching lab worked some serious magic.
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[insert strike zone complaint]
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That pitch Turang hit out was nuts. No idea how he got there.
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Is there another guy on this roster who looks more improved than Turang? Another guy in the big leagues? I mean, I saw Bryce putting together lots of good ABs late last year. I was really excited about his development. But this is...beyond. I suppose you could say similar things about Perkins.
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Many, many outs left here. If Hall can get through another scoreless, give him credit. This was going to be an "over" kind of game today (I didn't see the total beforehand, but I would be surprised if it was lower than 9.5). Gotta score at least 5 to win. Seems about right.
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I think Hall's going to provide value in the bullpen no matter what. Ortiz looks promising as well. For one year of Burnes, I just don't think a lot more was out there. It's also April. Hall's got a good arm. He hasn't figured it out as a starter. He might not. I think it's totally reasonable to argue that it's wrong to continue this experiment at all, but there's something worthwhile in this guy. He just hasn't shown much of it in his first 4 (!) starts.
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4 starts only, but Hall seems to have a lot to figure out. I'd give him a little more leash. He's not THIS bad, so the results are going to improve. If I had to bet, I'd say they don't improve enough to outdo the value he'd provide in the bullpen. But I don't see a lot see a lot of harm in another couple starts given that you're very likely to see some improvement.
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Beating the Cardinals is great. Especially when you just toy with them as much as possible. In all seriousness, great to win these games where the offense doesn't show up. Hopefully they get to Mikolas tomorrow. Be a good time for Hall to find it. I'm not confident about Sunday's matchup. Chourio's had some good swings. Struggling lately, but that's the deal when you're in your first 50-100 ABs. This lineup misses Yelich quite a bit. Blake Perkins really stepping up and playing well. I don't expect to win at a .667 clip, but this has been an unquestionably great start for a FUN team. Love it.
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I like the move to walk Wilson.
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This has been a weird game. I thought Murphy should have had Joel up much earlier. Neither team really deserves to win. Hopefully we're the ones who get lucky. I might walk Arenado.
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Padres (King) vs Brewers (TBD): 4/17/24, 12:10pm
Cool Hand Lucroy replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Archived Game Threads
I like the pitch clock a lot, but I'd argue for it to be like 2-3 seconds longer per pitch. 18 with no one on, 20 with runners on.
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