I was almost more frustrated with Albies tonight. He had multiple routine opportunities to get a run in and sucked.
He absolutely cannot do that, especially in the leadoff spot.
I was almost more frustrated with Albies tonight. He had multiple routine opportunities to get a run in and sucked.
He absolutely cannot do that, especially in the leadoff spot.
Does AA actually see what he's watching?
I don't think so!
Biddle saying it wouldn’t happen again and completely s****ing the bed the next night is a damn good storyline though lol
There's really nobody left that he can turn to "moves wise" unless he throws up his hands and gives up on trying to stay with developing the starters, and even that hasn't worked outside of Fried over recent years. Kimbrel helps, but because he decided to risk building his pen around injury prone guys, he really needs half an entirely new bullpen and that's impossible to get this early.
Aggression with prospects is fine, but being stupid is not. There should be a way to find a happy medium between a Pirates like idea of being overly cautious with prospects and going stupidly fast with prospects.
On the bright side Gausman looked awesome
Chico (04-18-2019), jpx7 (04-17-2019), Runnin (04-18-2019), TomahawkCult (04-18-2019), UNCBlue012 (04-18-2019)
That’s pretty bad but I know Ga milestones tests are being taken at schools this week so most parents aren’t gonna let there kids out late this week.It might be a good thing we aren’t showing up though since it gives Liberty an excuse next season if they don’t find value and don’t add anyone.They could then have a legit excuse as to why payroll goes down.
50PoundHead (04-18-2019)
Hoping it picks up in the summer. Last thing that needs to happen is the Battery dries up. I worried that if they didn’t invest more into the team fans might not show up. If we find ourselves in 4th place by June, we could be looking at 115 million payrolls for a long time.
Coppy
No idea if attendance will be an issue, but here's the Wednesday games and attendance for last season through may:
Nats - 29,834
Phillies - 22,135
Cubs - 28,264
Mets - 21,449
Avg - 25,421
This season:
Cubs - 37,398
Dbacks - 22,356
Avg - 29,877
We have 2 more Wednesday home games (cards and nats) before June, so we will have equal sample size then
THIS:
50PoundHead (04-18-2019)
There gets to be a lot of buzz among some in the stat community about the value/use of a closer, but I agree wholeheartedly with O'Flaherty here. A solid guy slotted for the 9th inning allows the rest of the pen to move up to situations in which there is less leverage. I don't know if that is necessarily easier, but I always think you use your best bullet for the highest leverage situation and that's almost always in the 8th or 9th innings. It may not have made a difference last night, but in the long run having a "nail down" guy is really important.