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I saw a jersey at the game yesterday spelled Churio. Made me grab my phone and double check

I think I saw he also missed most of last year due to an injury. Obviously I have no inside info and didn't do any digging. But wouldn't surprise me if that was also pushed on him and all this has been an ongoing negotiation for a while.

I'd also say RF would be more logical due to Yeli in LF. Yes some poor D OFs have played LF but much of that has been due to arm strength (like Yelich). In theory LF is more important than RF D since there is more RH batters. I'd also assume since he played so much 3B Black's arm doesn't suck, or at least is better than Yeli. But as other's said, if he hasn't been getting any games in OF its clearly not in the cards for him this year. Since he's played so much 3B that's probably the other position he could help if they started having him work at again. If one of the 3 main IFs gets hurt there's a big big need. Next year Adames is gone and there is only Ortiz to handle one of the other spots. And as of now Hoskins might be back.

In addition to the O being generally good so far they have some clear spots for improvement as the deadline approaches as two OF spots are very very poor right now. Essentially, a month from now you should have Hoskins back and a league avg OF coming in soon after.

Being 3 days in a row now and that they just got good/lucky games out of the platoon guys last night I probably would've let the lefties have a try today. Also, I think their pitcher tonight is lighter tossing but I could be wrong on that. Actually, knowing its all lefties maybe best route would've been to one try each day or something rather than a lineup full of lefties one day. Feel like sitting guys who've been doing generally well isn't best idea. But, it just did work literally last night so really can't blame too much for giving them another go.

My so called 'instruction" was just also remember stuff they're right about and in general that its a long season so its usually better to take the up and downs in stride. These are far from controversial things or demeaning/attacking type things, and certainly not telling people their opinions are invalid or not to say them. Just trying to give some tips on processing a long season. Its really no different than someone correcting someone else with something like "actually (remember) this person's OPS vs RHP is xyx". You didn't say my opinion was wrong, you said I shouldn't say it though. As you said, you're instructing me on not instructing. It was definitely your intent to exchange comments as you jumped into something not directed at you or confrontational to anyone in in any way and led off with insults and namecalling. Really this all comes down to you overreacted and got defensive because I pointed out the guy was right about a bunch of stuff today which apparently you thought he was wrong about, and have continued to double down. But yea, as you said you're a devoted fan and into it which is obviously a good thing and in common. And hopefully you and everyone can enjoy the season. Hopefully our first place team somehow keeps it up with all the injuries and this ragtag pitching staff and so many replacement level or AAA type hitters they're being forced to play and shuffle through. I know this roster has no shot at a WS but hopefully can be entertained all summer.

Who are you to tell me that my opinion is wrong, which you did? Essentially you're saying that you can, but I can't. Sorry for taking the massively controversial stance to also remember all the times when the manager is right and oneself is wrong along with all the times he's wrong and you're right while forming an opinion on him. It's ok to be wrong, I am, the manager is, it happens all the time when there isn't 20/20 hindsight.

You are doing exactly that with this whole conversation. I didn't instruct anyone with a different view. I pointed out that that a bunch of stuff he was bashed for he ended up being right on and said to try to remember that before freaking out., long long season. That's it, ther'es no "view" there. Not pointed at anyone in particular. You then attack directly at me and insult me while telling me what is appropriate.

It wouldn't even be paying the service time game. He's clearly not ready for MLB right now. Still, it could be the best way to 'develop' him and it pays off later, as we've seen it work out with others. Or 2months down there then up might have been best. Still, with all the injuries he probably wouldn't have been able to stay down long so its probably close to wash

Quality response. So I can't express my opinion that overreacting game by game is a bad way to follow a baseball team over 162 games? 3 weeks ago, the manager was a moron for playing Bauers. Now he's a moron for sitting Bauers. He's a moron for playing/sitting all these guys today and he turned out correct over the armchairing done in this one. But sure, continue to bash him for stuff and then when he turns out correct say nothing like happened here. Wait for those great hindsight 20/20 times. Or being baseball fans for years we could just chill and know 'baseball' happens. People have sit out games, random jabronis have good games and hits at certain times, good players have crap games, go with the ups and downs, crap happens. In addition, I literally no where said to compliment every decision.

So a day of and the early part of this thread dedicated to the manager being the biggest moron ever for playing these guys and here we are so far with Monasterie 1/2 and a walk, Miller 1/2, Perkins 2/2 and a walk. Probably just a reminder to chill on the negativity, baseball season is a long one so have to try to temper game by game overreactions On a joking side, I'd guess there is only like 3 good managers in the world based on the standards here haha

That was a debate?

Really don't get why you'd want or that its allowed to make your field mud on purpose.

I think they said on TV they scored more runs off him today than they had vs him the rest of his career. Pretty sure one his no hitters was MKE. Another surprising thing is they said he's never pitched in Milwaukee. Of course he's almost always been in the AL but in 20 years still kind of surprising (although probably not all that much if you do the math on it)

Its the same for both teams so really not much to complain about or anything. But I do find it dumb for new stadiums to intentionally build in gimmicks like this. The old ones that have quirks like this were (I assume) because of fitting things into a an existing downtown area and having limited space. Your Fenways stuff, Wrigley being short in LF, and some others. I don't' get why you'd intentionally recreate it. Sidenote years ago a friend who's knowledgeable of sports (baseball being his least) but not a sports nerd like most on this site made a good point/question I'd never though of before. For a sport obsessed with stats, records, etc its weird they never made a standardized field size to make it all 'even' so to speak. Pretty much every sport/game has a standardize field/court size and dimensions.

No hitter through 6, still hitting 100 in the 6th. With how they've been protecting him I doubt he comes back out since getting 3 more innings would push it so much. Also, the walk he had could've easily been a strikeout the pitch before, technically a strike but right on the line so could go either way

They had some stat up in the last 162 games between them the record is like 120-42. Don't remember exact, but something in that ballpark

Yea he had his good start which helped the team, plays good D. Seems like a fine depth guy and won't kill you when he inevitably is needed to come back up due to injury. It was just too much leaving him on the strong side of the platoon when a good prospect at the same position has been doing better. That said, at least they pulled the plug now rather than wait another few weeks like they've done with others in recent years. Probably went on a week or two longer than needed but still, mid-May isn't drastically long and he was good the first week or so. I'd guess his focus in AAA should be hitting/driving the ball more as opposed to milking walks. Sure it could hurt his numbers down there but he has to clean up staring at 3rd strikes hoping to get walked.

Right its technically the correct move long term. Especially considering the juggernauts of LAD, ATL, Phi but its tough to do if you're leading the division and he's still playing well overall. Think you'd be irresponsible not to at least listen to offers, but you don't have to force it and take the best you can get even if you're not happy with the return. So to me it all depends on what you can get back., don't have to force the move. Even tougher after the Hader trade that caused issues. But, look at Gasser so far as the return on that. Sure its only 2 starts so who knows but you're getting 6-7 years of him vs the 1.5 of Hader that was left.

Yup obviously that's worse. But its OAK so it doesn't surprise me, and he wasn't with them to begin with.. To me its shocking for ATL to miss since they're normally so smart. But even still when they miss its not like the move didn't work for them as Murphy is also good. It's just surprising ATL didn't realize what they had considering how smart they normally are.

I'm still dumbfounded Atl traded Contreras. Such a smart organization, but I guess they can't get them all right. But even still its not like their current C is bad or anything or the trade didn't 'work' from their end since he has been good too. But younger cheaper, controlled longer all in Contreras favor. Think if they had him to go with the core going forward rather than a C entering his 30s

Well I think the idea is that he's projected to be as he ages and fills out, not necessarily that he has been in his age 18/19 minor league seasons when he's like 4 years younger than everyone else.. Size, build, swing, bat speed etc he's supposed to hit HRs dwon the line if his superstar projection is true

Had some SF on the other day and noticed the demanded Matt Chapman and how he's been doing. 210/258 with a 606 OPS and 5 HRs. He's basically hitting like Oliver Dunn for like 20 mil per year. Good thing Mark A is so cheap.

And for him it seemed he was the opposite of that coming up and the flashes last year. Basically that he was gonna try to be an old school spray the ball type of guy but not hit tons of HRs. Just hit solid line drives everywhere, use your speed. Maybe down the line if you fill out and get comfortable more power would come. I'm not expert enough to see if anything drastic has changed on his swing to chase launch angle (unlike how it was obvious with Keston) but if they have they need to just get back to basics that got him to MLB.

Yup the whole logjam discussion was overblown. But I don't think they can really do it now with the other injuries and Frelick being just as bad, but it should be on the radar for both of them down the line if things don't improve. Really probably should have held onto Taylor for another year, especially being a RH with Yeli, Frelick, Mitchell all being lefty. Stable competent bat, good at D and still cheap. No harm in digging around now for a one year fill in trade to finish the year either, whoever that might be. Oddly a Taylor type guy should be someone the target, no need to spend real capital on getting a higher level person than that with the holes in this team and the gap between them and ATL, LAD, PHI.