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  1. adambr2
    Beautiful ball movement and then Ersan misses a bunny and then compounds it with a foul.
  2. adambr2
    Keep it up boys!
  3. adambr2
    I like Bledsoe. But I can't even believe how badly he is playing on both ends.
  4. adambr2
    We're winning this easily if Bledsoe sits. He has been just killing us today. 2 for 10 doesn't even tell the whole story. That awful foul at the end of the 1st cost us 3.
  5. adambr2
    Tony Snell has absolutely no business playing in a competitive playoff game.
  6. adambr2
    Bledsoe is an absolute mental midget today.
  7. adambr2
    Absolutely garbage charge call on Giannis. Dude never even comes close to getting set and starts falling down before Giannis even contacts him.
  8. adambr2
    Bledsoe needs to calm down.
  9. adambr2
    If he can't even PH today it might as well be IL time. His 10 day stint would be half over already. Normally I'd agree but not with Yelich. Having him in the lineup even 1 additional time is worth more than the days of an extra roster spot.
  10. adambr2
    That's totally fair. I'm bothered that we let him walk, but I don't know the circumstances. Maybe it wasn't about the money and he just had his heart set on Cincy. I hope it had nothing to do with us being cheap or some dumb grudge in the organization, but I can't assume it did. So I can't be mad. But yeah, we talked up DJ so much last year --."DJ will fix him", "DJ can work his magic", etc. Then he leaves and some act like he didn't matter at all. Doesn't work that way.
  11. adambr2
    At the time we traded Lucroy in 2016, he was one of the best catchers in baseball. His offensive production about matched what Grandal has given us this year, but Lucroy had a good defensive reputation with no stigma attached to his defense. Just as importantly, Lucroy had a massively cheap contract compared to Grandal (about $4M vs. $18M), and even more importantly, Lucroy wasn't a rental -- he had an additional year of control for 2017 at only $5.25M. Furthermore, Jeffress was included in that deal to Texas, who was a very effective closer for us at the time. In no way is Grandal more valuable than Lucroy was at the time nor is he bringing anything close to the 2016 value of Brinson + Ortiz + Cordell.
  12. adambr2
    I don't see any really good trade chips on this team. Yelich and Hader obviously but these guys are going nowhere. No one else in the pen is really going to bring back anyone of significance. Grandal, I doubt it. Wilson Ramos was basically given away at the deadline last year and he cost far less than Grandal. There's not usually a big market for rental catchers at the deadline. Contenders don't like messing with that position at the deadline, generally. Moose might be able to bring back close to what we got last year, which isn't much. Chacin is nice but he's just a guy. Rental players who are "just a guy" bring back prospect fodder. You really need to be a star at your position, a Machado or Chapman type deal, to bring back significant value as a rental. I just don't see that on this team. Anyone who is realistically going to be dealt is going to bring back filler.
  13. adambr2
    So just let them get beat up and live with it, playoff spot be damned? And you don't even believe any of them are aces and that's still the best course of action?
  14. adambr2
    Oh I definitely put more of the blame on the players themselves. I guess its just rare that you see quite frankly a whole staff just get so bad seemingly all of a sudden. Like I said, I'm grasping at straws to figure out why. Perhaps there is no specific answer. That's hyperbole. The young starters are struggling as they sometimes tend to do and a few marginal bullpen arms have been up and down but who has been that bad outside of that? Barnes and Williams have been completely wretched. Not up and down.
  15. adambr2
    So it's a really silly, lazy argument IMO. There are actually things beneficial to a pitcher that a pitching coach can do that don't involve actually throwing a pitch. Coach doesn't "hit/throw/field" etc. tells us absolutely zero. You could apply this across the board to any coach/manager in every sport to hold them blameless. If you believe it, say what you really mean -- that you think coaches, managers, etc don't matter at all. We all understand that the players play the game. There are things that Derek Johnson did for our pitchers -- things that we miss right now. Just because we only see the pitches thrown, doesn't mean those things aren't there. Our two best pitching prospects in years are massively failing. Not just a rough outing here or there, massively failing. It's not a one player problem, and it's absolutely fair to scrutinize the pitching coach particularly after a coaching change when these same young players performed well last season.
  16. adambr2
    He’s not out there on the mound missing his spots Applies to every pitching coach in the history of the game.
  17. adambr2
    Chris "3 run first" Hook isn't making any of his young starters look very good.
  18. adambr2
    I've always believed that a pitching coach probably has more affect on a team's W/L record over the year than a manager. A manager matters, but at the end of the day, they all make 90% of the same decisions as the rest of them. Pitching is different. It's a craft and there's so much involved that the pitching coach needs to be mindful of for each guy -- adjustments, watching for signs of injury, arm slot, delivery, landing, balance, as well as being a good communicator. Hitting coach matters too, but not so much as a pitching coach. You could argue that pitching coach isn't going to make as much of a difference for veteran guys, but it's probably even more important when you have the youthful pitching that we have. I thought Hook would do better solely on the fact that he's been working with these young starters already, but obviously that hasn't been the case. I don't know much about him at all, and I do think that there needs to be a larger sample before calling for his head. But certainly early returns haven't been good and yes, losing Derek Johnson mattered.
  19. adambr2
    At some point, they just need to view Jacob Barnes as an AAA pitcher again. Send him down and let him work on things in San Antonio for most of 2019 without doing so much damage up here, don't bring him back up unless injuries necessitate it. If things start to click for him he can be an option in 2020 again.
  20. adambr2
    Really I didn't even think they were close to their best tonight other than Middleton. Bledsoe played well tonight. Most everyone else was just ok at best. Or great in spurts, bad in other spurts.
  21. adambr2
    C's fans are hilarious: Game 1 when they outshot us by 20%: "OMG we are so much more talented this is over" Game 2 when we outshoot them by a couple points: "Ya no way Bucks can possibly play any better than they did today and Kyrie can't possibly have done worse will never happen again"
  22. adambr2
    If the Celtics were indeed in our heads, it was huge to win this one in a blowout for confidence heading into Boston. I'm happy, but I'm more relieved than happy.
  23. adambr2
    Loving this. Keep the pedal down.
  24. adambr2
    Nice run before half, but still need to be better in the 2nd half. Kyrie isn't going to shoot 17% all game.
  25. adambr2
    Had some momentum and stopped moving the ball, just jacking up 3's early in the shot clock.
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