Recent content by DirkPiggler

If so it will probably be as an opener for a bullpen game. Not by design...results will dictate it.

If we need to DH Acuña more, and I agree with those who say it's a good idea, we'd likely be better off having Marcell stand in LF for 20 games or so than bringing in a lesser hitter who might save a few more (or cost a few less) runs.

Assuming he continues to hit at current levels through the end of the year I think you have to bring him back. He should cost significantly less than what it would take to replace his production. If the plan is to rotate Acuña through the DH spot, who do you get that can competently play the...

What the hell do you have to do to strain one of those giant hamstrings?

I thought that the appeals process was so long that this would have had to have been in process when we signed him, but I admittedly know little about how this works.

Obviously it's far too early to write anything off, but this feels like the kind of start that, if it continues into say a 5-20 start or something similar it could result in an early season managerial change. Something seems off with this team, has been for about a year now, and it doesn't feel...

Don’t know about Strider, but Schwellenbach was a decent hitter in college. Pretty good shortstop too. Maybe he can be Ohtani light and replace Arcia a couple of days a week.

Am I wrong in saying that low OBP is this offense's Achilles heel? Without Acuña we don't have a lot of high OBP options for leadoff, or really any spot in the lineup beyond Ozuna or Olson (if he hits for enough average to keep it up). Profar was good last year but he doesn't have a track...

FloSports.

No one gets it right 100% of the time. Even the GMs of teams with the ability to have billion dollar payrolls and defer money until the next millenium. With you 100%. The sky isn't falling, but no need to pretend everything went according to plan.

Pat was a hell of an athlete in his day. Was headed to Arkansas to be a part of Nolan Richardson's 40 Minutes of Hell, as part of the class with Lee Mayberry, Todd Day, and Oliver Miller which went to a Final Four and won four conference titles, had he not signed to play pro baseball. If...

The Ozuna contract was a bad decision that ended up working out better than it probably should have...at least at the back end. As recently as May 2023 anyone suggesting that Ozuna would be a Brave in 2025 would have been justifiably laughed off the board.

"Handed the keys to a Rolls Royce" seems like an exaggeration. AA deserves all the blame for the terrible offseason if this is the team that takes the field on Opening Day, but lets not pretend that he had little or nothing to do with getting them to the point where we as fans can have...

24 hours = 1000 lbs.

Last time we were there we stayed at the Aloft Battery. It was fine, and a very convenient walk. It was kind of nice being down there close by and not having to worry about parking, walking across 285 via the pedestrian bridge, etc. We booked the rooms within a day or two of the schedule...