DonBarclay

“He continues to shine here” - BA about Senzatela. Crazy statement.

Could really use 7+ from Miz today. Have to assume Ashby, Patrick, Hall are all down, plus Drohan is starting Sunday. So really only have Megill and Senzatella for leverage, and Wilson/Anderson otherwise. I think they should consider sending Gasser down for another bullpen arm and either go back to a 5 man or bring up Crow for his next spot in the rotation.

Would make sense to option Gasser to AAA after the game and bring up a fresh arm for the bullpen. Can have Crow take his next start, he’s been great over the last month.

Not used to having Bryse Wilson mop up a big lead rather than getting toasted.

Same. I was shocked he wasn’t bunting lefty lefty. Much more shocked at the result!

Lockridge is a faster pinch runner. Realistically, that is the role. Bauers is going to play OF against lefties, along with Lara and Chourio. Against righties, Chourio, Mitchell, Lara - and I’d place Vaughn at 1B (assuming health and 3B is over for him) and Bauers in the OF before I’d play Frelick. Sal is better than Lockridge, but not for the role that is available.

3-4 on this trip would have been an acceptable outcome going into it. Go get one tomorrow and get to the off day.

1. Yes he was. His entire body crossed the base by the time they put the tag down, with his foot on the bag. It was not even remotely close. 2. You’re not factoring in that Edwin Diaz is one of the very worst pitchers in the league at holding runners. Feduccia is also well below average at throwing out runners. It’s a risk, but not terrible process or in any way egregious.

I don’t see the correlation between these two things. I don’t think anyone you call up would have pinch hit for Ortiz there. So there’s no added value in the situation if you have Turang on the IL. Assuming Turang is back before an IL stint would have him back, there’s nobody you’re calling up that plays over the current lineup.

???? Did you watch the steal? He was safe by like 6 feet. I feel like I’m on a different planet reading some of this stuff.

What did you want him to do? Take until he had two strikes?

If they don’t want to pay him $12m, they’ll pick up the option and trade him. Catching is a very scarce commodity, and many teams would be thrilled to pay Contreras $12m, and give up a prospect for the opportunity to do so.

Idk what to tell you, other than that there’s no chance whatsoever they decline the option. I’d bet my life on it. He’s a 3x all star, 2x silver slugger, 2x top 11 MVP and still hits above average for a catcher. Plays every day. His down year right now is worth more than $12m on the open market, by a decent amount. He’s only 28, and very likely to have several years of solid production left. You don’t weigh a few bad months over all of that. Simply put, you’re wrong.

He’s also the only guy on the team that makes that catch.

Mitchell’s going for the rare platinum sombrero all looking. I wonder if that’s ever happened before.