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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.
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Matos will get chances, as I'm sure we'll see lefties & there will be times a PH is needed. Let's remember Perkins wasn't supposed to be on the roster originally, so there's an opportunity.
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I think rough day isn't totally unfair. He K'd w/the runner on 3rd & no outs. K'd with 1st & 2nd and no outs. I give him credit for the swinging bunt just for the fact they were loaded & you need contact there. His last AB was monstrous, for sure. It's going to be interesting to see his year unfold. The large strikeout issue, but really impressive tools. The injuries stealing hundreds of ABs from his developmental curve. Just a lot of questions. But a very productive first ten games, no doubting that.
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He's come in & walked the first man he's faced plenty in his career, well-rested or not. I wouldn't equate that with his Saturday pitch count.
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Had they been trailing---and had it not been early to middle innings---I suspect he would've PH. The four-run inning was in the 4th. When you only have 4 position players on the bench it can be tough to make those moves that early. I loved it in the Stone Age when you had ten pitchers & could carry seven bench guys & make all kind of moves. Those days are long gone.
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I am too. It's the woodpeckerness. They'll hit dry spells, every team does. But we all need to give this group props for what they do & how they do it. Approach, relentlessness, pressure. Let the rest of the baseball world call it luck; that's fine with me.
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My game ball certainly goes to Woodruff. He wasn't A+ with the command, didn't exactly get a ton of breaks, but still gave them 5.2 innings in a real grown-man performance. Mitchell drives in a pair of huge runs & Ks three times. Sounds about right lol. At the end of the day you gotta hand it to him. Damn it's fun to watch #22 run the bases.
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I'll be interested in seeing how UW fares in competition with Otzelberger & ISU regarding Davis, Ann, & the Kohnen boys. Brown has been (reportedly) a heavy UW lean for a long time & it's getting a little annoying that there hasn't been a commitment. But cheating is now legal. Maybe you can't blame guys for slow-playing. I've always looked at Zens as a tweener. But guys like that can exist in the so-called "positionless" era, and it seems like his stock definitely HAS risen. I'll trust Gard on this one as he's earned it.
