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They wouldn’t dare, would they? I’d love it. Me too. But I'm betting they play it "safe" and roll with Junior. Me 3. Can we circumvent 3 guys service days by rotating woodruff peralta burnes in as the 5th starter. Call them up, start, send them down. If we can drag that out til July thats a new fun way to cover 5 and not start clocks. All 3 have options to burn anyway and shouldn't need them shortly. Would allow us to get some mlb looks before we lock in on our 5. Between Phillips Williams Houser and those 3 we could be very mobile. 4 starters 24 man roster swiss army the 25th spot.

So question... Bases loaded, no outs, pop to center. Cardinals don't test Phillips. Would they have tested Broxton? If so freezing the bases won us that game. If thats a sac, runner moves to 3rd and Fowler sacs the win. Phillips Dwar unofficial = 1? (Sorta blue)

Well 122 AB have come from guys who aren't under performing... vs 260 that are. Only 44 are really overperforming since I dont count Villars 314/314 slash with no slg as over performing and even shaws 302/333/822 isn't amazing for him. Offense plus has been Yelich Aguilar and Hader Choi. 249/322/751 last year 238/296/661 this year I wouldn't call cain or yelich the problem either at 283/320/755 385/407/984 Braun Arcia Pina and a bit of Thames Santana on the other hand....

"So you are telling me Chase Anderson is Clayton Kershaw...." No. But if Chase was hurt in 2015 and 2016 instead of being solid... then yes. Basically, he's convinced Chacin is toast and Petco breathed life into him.

Bunk. He has a career 4.19 ERA outside of Petco, including a career 4.23 ERA pitching at Coors Field. He's been a better pitcher (using ERA) at Comerica Park, Nationals Park, and AT&T Park. He has a sub-4.00 ERA in 12 different parks. 6.53 ERA last year away from Petco with a 851 OPS. He is absolutely a bad pitcher away from Petco. Btw, Miller park is away from Petco. 118.2 innings at petco. Great era. 2.28 918 innings elsewhere. 4.186 era. That's a stabilizing #4. By MLB standards last year that makes him a middle of the pack #3. Go on. Ps: 3.2 4.0 4.0 4.7 4.7 with a 3.65 pen is 3.9 era. Anderson Nelson Davies Chacin Kid. 4.2 is exactly what you need at #4 if you want to get down in the 3.8 era range team wide.

No kidding, huh? Definitely no Correa, Springer, Bregman coming up in the Brewers system. High hopes for Hiura, and there is some potential among our pitchers on the farm, but... Yeah... We ain't the Astros Their staff depended on Dallas and Morton. Verlander saved the day. Their pen after 2 guys (not knebel hader even) was hot garbage. They ain't ahead everywhere. Cain yelich braun/thames shaw santana aren't close defensively with their group but the hold up pretty admirably offensively. You have to remember... Our era LAST YEAR was better than Houstons. Our pen was trash most of the year and we've listed the crap we started last year at nauseum. This is also why calling Chacin a 5 is nonsense. Houston would have killed for Nelson Anderson and Davies prior to adding Verlander. Our 1-2-3 was better. They'd have seen no resistence in the playoffs if they had the pen we closed the year with and its ecen better now.

"I do expect this to be a bit of a stumbling year, but they are doing everything they can reasonably be expected to do to stay in the wild card picture without compromising their chances of being one of 2 or 3 dominant NL teams in just a few years." I'm not sure I'm sold on that stumbling at this point. At least not season long. 4 of our 5 starters have been downright bad. (Although this is good for davies before may) 6-5 is a great place to be sitting. Teams got a ton of stored ammo. Nelson Burnes Peralta Woodruff... you really need 2 and things start looking up quick. Suter Chacin Woodruff have been awful. Offense wont hold these garbage numbers all year. Knebel at the deadline. That could be the equivalent of 3 huge trades. Right now I'm rooting for wins just to stay at .500 until June. Don't bury yourself and it gets very interesting in June. Maybe the teams too young but what if Burnes or Peralta jump in and post sub 4 stuff from the jump (both capable I think) there are a lot of wins to be had. You won't win 100 stumbling out of the blocks but people have to realize... this teams just trying to float for 2.5 months.

Luke: Bucks reference was a hard one for me to avoid. Basically look at snell telly delly. Snell was seen as great last year... hes really not different this year... except he's paid 11 mil so expectations are different. Delly telly hate for many quickly was all contract size. I have low expectations for Yo Miley Suter and I'm down on Woody in the short term. Why are they bad... well cuz they are. Chacin's been bad, there's bad bounces in there and he's started seasons rough before. Davies has been a first month 9 era guy for 2 years in a row. He still ends up 3.9 era. Chacin was 15.5/2 though. Its also front loaded a bit. He could end up trying a swarzak slider heavy BP role before thats over and at 6.75 mil he costs the same. If snell was 8/2 I wouldnt care. 11/4 is a long long time. Also... look at houston. 2015 they came alive... watch out their on their way to dominence 86 wins is a springboard. How'd 2016 turn out? 84 wins no playoffs. Then only 101 and a WS because they put inplace the finishing touches. Not saying we are on the same path but teams plateau on their rise all the time. Right now this pen is exciting and deep beyond the 25 man. You can see the starters on the way and 2 are June possible and Nelson's our team ace. Is 1b 2b RF defense limited now... yes. Is C offense limited so far this year, yes. Is our SS flukey and lost at the plate... yes. 2 years... Phillips Dubon Erceg Hiura are just the 4 close enough to EXPECT. Trades? A gem add? A glue guy when it all sorts out? There's a long way up to go and the teams not far off .500 as is.

Chacin didn't play his whole career in Petco folks. He put up good work in Coors for awhile too. Let's stop using last year as the basis for everything. Also when was 4 era 180 ip a 5? 1992? He's a 4.0 for his career. That's not a 5. Grouping these 3... ok all 3 combined are cheaper than Lynn or Cobb and no pick required. They are cheap. Cheap cheap cheap. Stearns made it very obvious that this is an add an ace or grow from within franchise this offseason. We added 3 cheap stop gap adds and people are mad about the results? Stop gap contracts are supposed to fail... its why they are cheap. Hit 1 and you're brilliant (morton). Yo is already gone .5mil wasted. Miley didn't pitch yet. Chacin's been rough but in all honesty got 2 runs handed to him due to being squeezed last night. Game 1 he was squeezed, any breaker on the corner was a ball. He's better than this and has been for years. Golden boy also has Burnes flying up the farm. Zach Browns jumping as fast and there's Jankins round 13 looking like Woody part 2. Golden boy traded Lind for a handful that includes Peralta he's #2 on the promote list. The staff is 2-3 months from adding 3 starting arms and we aren't even using Woodruff yet. That's not the end of the list either. 6-5 chill out. Everyone freaked that he under-did the pen last year. Hader called up and swarzak jeffress for next to nothing sured that up fast. Jump forward 1 year we got dudes in the minors who we want to see pitch MORE in our pen. Despite paying Albers Jeffress Jenning and Logan next to nothing. Despite 2 guys being hurt. Starters are going to be that way by next year... if not sooner. We got way way ahead of ourselves cuz we got results last year. Results are showing before the puzzle is fully inplace though. Give it time.

Roeg was just off my watch list due to start length. Really nice start for him too. Basically Ponce and Ortiz looked meh. The rest have been real sharp. Depth is going to get real interesting if Erceg stays locked in, Dubon hits enough and we already have phillips waiting for a spot to open.

A wins a win... we gotta start making these games less dramatic.

Got to score now and hand it to williams.

That exact location cost us 3 runs today.

Williams now. Need ks.

Had a great string last year... consistency over the season will be big.

Didn't he take that stupid leg swing away in the second half last year when he hit well? I remember a big deal about getting his front foot down early. Now it's back and he looks like a blind right handed Ichiro. Yeah he went more contact minded with 2 strikes and went on a 2 strike hit tear.

Nailed it and i hope its not too cute.

Sliders a beast tonight... dont pull him.

It's getting pretty bad. Regressed year to year it seems. Was a terrible start last year then got the ba over 310 for a run.

3 balls arcia... calm down be patient

Hader again... albers... said this at the top of the 6th.

He located his slider!?! That's also new.

Was about to post this.

Not sure I agree with this 5th up placement for Hader.

New ways, he'll find them.