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  1. The extra playoff team helps all of these small markets who usually have to sell out, get FA, and trade prospects just to get to the playoffs for a year or two. These short windows for the little guy can now open a bit. Play a little above .500 and you can get to the playoffs. Have an ace or two, ala Milwaukee, and anything can happen in a 3 and 5 game series especially.
  2. I feel there is still hope, even this year. It is ok to play him 7th in the order against a tough lefty too.
  3. I agree with most of this. It would be interesting to see what we could get back by trading Woodruff or Burnes, but it would sadden me too considering both are homegrown. It would be mind-blowing to trade both, but then all signals would point to punting 2023. Trading one for an area of need and prospects would be reasonable.
  4. More Hiura at DH and bring up Frelick to play in CF. The offense needs to get a kick start.
  5. Absurd to not ride the hot bat now. Sitting Hiura and pinch hitting him when a RIGHTY is pitching is like pinch running for Ruiz at AAA. Let the guy do what he does best, especially of late. And give him the DH five nights a week. Jerking him around. Crazy and stubborn of CC.
  6. Just play Hiura 5 times a week, bat him 8th, and give him DH. There is a spot for him, especially this year with the DH. McCutchen can still play over half the games in CF or even some DH. Like others say, Hiura has been jerked around. Even the last two/three days, he has hardly played after hitting very well in Nashville the week prior. Just An at bat for a thrown out of game Yelich does not help. His #s against righties this year is MVP like in limited at bats, and he needs at bats, he needs comfort in knowing he is going to play consistently for the next three or four weeks, comfort in knowing he will DH and not be thrown in at 1B, 2B, or LF, comfort in batting lower in the lineup, and comfort in knowing he isn’t going to be sent down in August. I hope CC can sit down and tell him this in a nutshell. Give him the best opportunity to succeed. Do or die time, really, for him.
  7. It is still puzzling! Of course, it is. Lamet sounds like an easy decision to keep in the pen. Move Milner down or cut Suter. McGee? Really baffling to trade for, plan on having him, brag him up to defend Hader trade, and then get rid of him the next day. And pay SD to take him. And give a supposedly good pitcher away for nothing, Mlbtraderumors says that if no one picks up Lamet, he can refuse being sent to Nashville because he has five years of service time. He would get his entire contract as FA. No need to even be sent down to get $.
  8. Lamet.. Either oversight of the 5th year option OR the Bush trade was considered better value.
  9. Better to just take on salary of a guy and cut him? What are they going to do when Cousins, Gustave, and Houser return? Rose tall? More mysterious injuries, I presume.
  10. Well, I meant optioned based on the info at sportrac. It said he had options. But yeah, Suter could have been let go too. This guy should be better, right? Kind of sad that we are taking on salary for, of all teams, SD who added more payroll than about anyone! Everyone’s grade of this trade better get adjusted down a bit if this guy isn’t even playing with us. We’d rather have Suter instead of this guy. Trade goes from C- to D for me…. And it makes us look like idiots. for forcing us to take on salary for giving up one of the best relief pitchers in the history of the game.
  11. Lamet is costing them what, 1.7 mil REGARDLESS if he plays here or not! Cutting him did what for us? We are on the hook for this money. Why in the world do we not play him? We could have put Suter down. He has options. Like someone else said on a different post, we have like 10 bullpen guys for 5 “open” spots. Fake injuries could be called on again.
  12. Or produces a double play. I hear you, though. Good points. Hiura hit .381 in July, OBP 480. Slugging 714. Struck out at 31% rate. Has like a 7 game on base streak going…it doesn’t scream send him down.
  13. Goes both ways…. Just pointing out the positive with same stats.
  14. Besides those… ha. Well, there is the DH. That is different, right? That is my 1, 2, and 3 reason to play him more. The 4 is that our DH spot has not done well, right? The bar isn’t high to get him more at bats. He’s a similar hitter to the last few years. Yep. Sure. He strikes out too much. Sure. Good. He also has had some bright spots this year with HRs and BB. He’s been jerked around daily on top of it. Play Him all over the field. Bat in all these different spots.
  15. OPS and OBP neutralize those stats somewhat. Hiura has a small sample size too, and that goes both ways. More regular opportunities would possibly bring up his low marks. He is hitting well in Nashville too.
  16. Yeah, can’t have those .800 plus OPS guys around taking at bats away from real hitters or the third catcher.
  17. Well, that’s assuming a lot. I’d put Renfroe at 3 almost daily now. I don’t think Yelich is our best lead off hitter against lefties either. Brosseau would be intriguing.
  18. Adames has hit in the clutch well this year. With people on base, with two outs, I’ll give him that.
  19. Another. You explain it to me with stats this year, please.
  20. I really am not a Hiura fan. I just think he could help us this year. Here it is, he does not need to play a position this year. DH. He also has hit well this year. He was hitting well when he was sent down and has hit (I believe) overall for the year.
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