Jim French Stepstool
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He's no world-beater, but if you look at his overall numbers w/Frisco it's not nearly indicative of his performance in Milwaukee which has been ugly (save for the OF assist in KC). It's been strange. Even the swing-and-miss. He's never been a real high K guy but you wouldn't know it looking at him recently. The roster spot probably would've gone to Baddoo if he wasn't (stop me if you've heard this before) injured.
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Granted I didn't see the last 3-4 innings of the loss in KC, but this is the first time all season where I felt they were pretty much poor all-around. It happens. In a season that doesn't end until the NFL is almost halfway through its' schedule, I'm sure it'll happen again. Hamilton has been an asset both offensively & with the glove, but this series illustrates that he's much more comfortable on the left side of the infield. A tough play in the 3rd inning (I can almost hear Bob Uecker saying "That ball ate up David Hamilton") but he didn't come up with it. And later cost the team a run by insisting on going with the tag rather than the flip. It was defensible yesterday; not today. Murphy has said stuff in the past that indicates frustration with Joey Ortiz & his offensive approach. He'll never be an elite hitter, but has more in him than what he's shown. He just never seems able to lock in. Taking strikes. swinging at balls. Trying to use the whole field for a couple days, or a week, then abandoning it. Same story long term; try to get healthy. That's true now, and it was true when they were 8-2 & doing a magnificent job of manufacturing, pressuring, and being relentless.
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I dunno. Because. Seriously, many balls that go for hits nowadays would've been called errors back in the day. Pressure on official scorers from hitters who want their number$$$$ inflated for $ome $trange rea$on? Maybe just more of an overall fascination with offensive numbers? I'm not disagreeing with you that Hamilton could've made the play. It's just been the trend.
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Let's see what happens when Chourio/Vaughn make it back. Remember, Murphy wasn't even hopped up about Mitchell going north with the team so he probably feels hamstrung right now & has him up there simply because he's been productive lately. In todays' lineup I'd have rather had Rengifo in the 2-hole. Not exactly a ton of options, especially with Turang sitting.
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I hear you, but in today's game that's a hit pretty much every time.
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Or in the case of Mitchell, just touch the ball w/the runner on 2nd & no one out. Killer.
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He's had stretches---even last year, albeit rarely---where his approach is good. He had one the first 2-3 games this year. But they quickly disappear & I think it really gets under Murphy's skin that he can't seem to sustain.
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For me the two most important ABs in the game were Mitchell in the 1st inning & the one Bauers just had, and those were probably our two worst ABs of the game to this point. Gray will do that. Gotta be better.
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I think you make a good point; I love watching Contreras working through games w/his hurlers. But I think the games where Harrison pitched were more about Harrison just having his **** more together at this stage in his career than Sproat than anything else. I've always liked the idea of a veteran who is defense & moxie first as your backup catcher. Sanchez doesn't really fit that profile but you can't argue with picking him up because I don't know what the lineup would look like vs LHP without him given the injuries.
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Yeah, I thought it would be a one-day off sort of thing where if Chrochet was throwing on Wednesday he'd have played Tuesday, then had two days off. As with all of this stuff, better to take care of it now.
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I'm sure we all know about the Blackwell announcement. More recently Alexis Bieliauskas announced for the portal (or his overseas agent announced for him; it sounds like AB has little to no involvement in the process). It can get scary when the roster starts to show gaps, but very, very few kids have made decisions on schools at this time, and many will enter the portal that haven't done so yet. I'm not saying the new reality doesn't suck. I'm saying there's no reason to panic. Oh, and it does suck.
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From someone who had South Florida sweet-sixteening🤢, heartiest congrats.
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I'd like to see them eventually give the ball to one of the younger starters (Henderson, Gasser, Crow, whoever else might step forward) & put Patrick in the role where he really shone late last year. It'll certainly help when we get further along in the year---it looks like 6 inning starts are going to be a rarity, again. I would imagine most of the relievers worthy of picking up--Hicks included--will be retained until you get closer to the deadline. Yeah, Taylor is a pretty hot commodity.
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You're talking the 8th? In that case the only one I'd hit for would be Ortiz, and that puts Turang in the game defensively & it sounded like they really wanted him to get a full day. Sucks on April 7th but might've been prudent long-term.
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Plus if Uribe was used tonite it would've been his 3rd game in 4 days & we'd get to read all of the "This BP will be toast by June 1st, Murphy doesn't know what he's doing!!!!!" posts. I wouldn't be surprised if Patrick is the added RH pen guy before it's all said & done.
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Despite only one successful inning from the offense I thought the approach tonite was mostly good, considering the opposition (once again Rengifo swings it well enough for a 2-hit day & gets nada). The thing about Crochet--you show discipline, you tax the guy, and on 3-2 he makes a pitch good enough that you couldn't walk it over the plate any better. Every. Single. Time. Finally a little crack in the armor once you get him over 100. A matchup like this, every pitching mistake gets magnified & Hall made a big one on the 0-2 pitch to Story. Was hoping the 10-12 pitch journey to la-la land from Misiorowski was never to be seen again. Oh, well. Win the series tomorrow.
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Knowing Crochet was throwing, the #1 question a month ago should've been "What the ****-------are Chourio & Vaughn hurt? Which of course they are. And you kinda expect Yelich to get either today or tomorrow afternoon off, so vs the tough lefty it's today. I agree it'll be tough, but if 8-9-1 can spend a lot of time on base (I know, unlikely) I think we win. I'd flip Frelick & Ortiz.
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I'm sure they aren't 'OK' with it & no doubt would rather never hear that sort of stuff. I just said no one is going to get suspended for simply saying something like that. In this case I'd love to be wrong but I don't think I am. I wouldn't be surprised if there is either a warning or some sort of discussion when the cards are exchanged. That would mean everyone gets to crowd the plate while wearing more pads than your average hockey goalie, and any pitcher who needs the inner half of the plate to be successful has to be absolutely perfect.
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I was thinking today------Hamilton played in Boston before this year so there are guys in the Red Sox dugout who were teammates of his, perhaps even liked the guy. Contreras is in his 1st season in Boston. I'd love to inject truth serum throughout their clubhouse & see how Contreras' own teammates feel about how he acted last night. As for tonite, unless it's a one-sided affair we have a good chance of seeing either Drohan or Hall asked to get some important outs, which will be interesting. Halls' command has been lacking so far but he hasn't been touched much at all.
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😆😆😆 Now that's one awesome idea😆😆😆
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The slide, yeah----although he didn't go out of his way on the basepath to make contact. That's probably the main thing umps look for & contributed to his getting away with the high spikes. I doubt anyone's ever been suspended for words, unless they're directed at an umpire.
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So you're saying he should change his first name to Keston?
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I wonder how much of that was being 2-7 & trying to ignite your team? Because if you think folks are throwing at you when you get grazed on the top of your hand, you're a moron.
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Was he quoted correctly? are they sure it was 'skit' with a 'K'?
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Me neither. Not sure, but I think I saw that Hall was up for that possibility.
