GDT 5/11 Mama Tried Edition: Sale and Drake and win one for Cy’s Mom

I also see a matchup with Garrett Crochet lurking this Friday, too.

They have to win the series against Washington with what's coming after the Nationals series. The rest of May and entire month of June are pretty brutal.
 
Current OPS:

Verdugo: .625
Albies: .601
Harris: .601
Allen: .628

White's OPS is .761 this month coming into today, but it seems like it is steadily falling. His 0-4 performance will drop it quite a bit.
 
WaitingFor2017 said:
Current OPS:

Verdugo: .625
Albies: .601
Harris: .601
Allen: .628

White's OPS is .761 this month coming into today, but it seems like it is steadily falling. His 0-4 performance will drop it quite a bit.
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I think Harris will be ok, but I'm worried about all the others. We need to be pushing Acuna
 
We talk about how this lineup has declined, when it’s really just Albies and Harris. Olson hasn’t been great this year, but he has been above average (OPS+ 113). The problem with this lineup right now is that we have 4 good hitters (maybe 3-1/2 considering Olson) and the rest are below replacement level. It’s not really Verdugo, Allen, or White’s fault. They are what they are (though Verdugo is a bit better than he’s been lately as long as he faces exclusively RHP). But, it’s Albies and Harris that are really bringing this lineup down, because they should be better. Harris looks like he may be coming out of it, while the Albies cause is seeming more hopeless by the day. Look at what happened when Verdugo, White and Allen caught lightning in a bottle and were hot for a couple of weeks. We scored a bunch of runs. Point being, four out of the six big bats in our lineup are actually producing. It’s Harris and Albies that need to step up, especially while Acuña is out. Four good bats and five terrible ones are going to struggle scoring runs, and Verdugo, White, and Allen can’t be depended on.
 
I know AA was resetting the luxury tax and hopefully he spends this offseason but we need more consistent bats in the lineup. We could live with Allen at SS next year if we had a bigger bat in LF that was reliable. I know that Profar was brought in but that is gonna be a dead contract when he comes back and no juice. Just fork out the money and bring in Kyle Tucker in the offseason and let Profar and White be bench bats if you can't unload Profar.
 
CyYoung31 said:
We talk about how this lineup has declined, when it’s really just Albies and Harris. Olson hasn’t been great this year, but he has been above average (OPS+ 113). The problem with this lineup right now is that we have 4 good hitters (maybe 3-1/2 considering Olson) and the rest are below replacement level. It’s not really Verdugo, Allen, or White’s fault. They are what they are (though Verdugo is a bit better than he’s been lately as long as he faces exclusively RHP). But, it’s Albies and Harris that are really bringing this lineup down, because they should be better. Harris looks like he may be coming out of it, while the Albies cause is seeming more hopeless by the day. Look at what happened when Verdugo, White and Allen caught lightning in a bottle and were hot for a couple of weeks. We scored a bunch of runs. Point being, four out of the six big bats in our lineup are actually producing. It’s Harris and Albies that need to step up, especially while Acuña is out. Four good bats and five terrible ones are going to struggle scoring runs, and Verdugo, White, and Allen can’t be depended on.
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Ozuna‘s stats have slowly gone south the past few weeks. He doesn‘t have a homer in May. Riley has been quiet outside of the one game against LA.
It‘s not that these two have been bad - they‘ve been solid. But they have also been far from carrying the offense. No one is carrying this offense right now.
 
CyYoung31 said:
We talk about how this lineup has declined, when it’s really just Albies and Harris. Olson hasn’t been great this year, but he has been above average (OPS+ 113). The problem with this lineup right now is that we have 4 good hitters (maybe 3-1/2 considering Olson) and the rest are below replacement level. It’s not really Verdugo, Allen, or White’s fault. They are what they are (though Verdugo is a bit better than he’s been lately as long as he faces exclusively RHP). But, it’s Albies and Harris that are really bringing this lineup down, because they should be better. Harris looks like he may be coming out of it, while the Albies cause is seeming more hopeless by the day. Look at what happened when Verdugo, White and Allen caught lightning in a bottle and were hot for a couple of weeks. We scored a bunch of runs. Point being, four out of the six big bats in our lineup are actually producing. It’s Harris and Albies that need to step up, especially while Acuña is out. Four good bats and five terrible ones are going to struggle scoring runs, and Verdugo, White, and Allen can’t be depended on.
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The thing with Ozzie is he has literally made zero adjustments his entire career..zero...his hands are getting slower.
 
CyYoung31 said:
We talk about how this lineup has declined, when it’s really just Albies and Harris. Olson hasn’t been great this year, but he has been above average (OPS+ 113). The problem with this lineup right now is that we have 4 good hitters (maybe 3-1/2 considering Olson) and the rest are below replacement level. It’s not really Verdugo, Allen, or White’s fault. They are what they are (though Verdugo is a bit better than he’s been lately as long as he faces exclusively RHP). But, it’s Albies and Harris that are really bringing this lineup down, because they should be better. Harris looks like he may be coming out of it, while the Albies cause is seeming more hopeless by the day. Look at what happened when Verdugo, White and Allen caught lightning in a bottle and were hot for a couple of weeks. We scored a bunch of runs. Point being, four out of the six big bats in our lineup are actually producing. It’s Harris and Albies that need to step up, especially while Acuña is out. Four good bats and five terrible ones are going to struggle scoring runs, and Verdugo, White, and Allen can’t be depended on.
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Olson's career OPS is 134. He's sitting at 113. A week or two and he can probably cut that difference in half, but he's declined and his performance has been viewed as central to the team's success. While batting average is misleading, I've always thought at .230, he's just-a-guy; at .250 he's a likely all-star; and at .270 he's probably top ten in the MVP voting. He's on track for an HR total in the 30-ish range, which is good, but while he's one of the guys on the team willing to take a walk, you don't pay Olson to be a guy who walks a lot on a team that's not hitting. The absence of Acuna and other parts of the line-up not hitting on all cylinders puts a fair amount of pressure on Olson to do more.

Acuna probably takes the pressure off some guys and provides a trickle-down effect to the rest of the line-up.

Harris' plate discipline is miserable, so he has to hit the ball. I'm too lazy to look up EVs and the luck factor, but unless his plate discipline improves no one is going to throw him strikes. People forget that the other teams scout us as much as we scout them.

I'm really disappointed in Albies. It's almost as though the wheels have totally come off the vehicle.
 
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