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TD is our starting catcher at this point. Murphy has been demoted to a back-up role. The facts support this. Anyone thinking we don't have a problem is delusional at this point. At best, one can just be betting that the front-office will confront Snit for the playoffs. Murphy hasn't played...

I know it’s how we did it with Maddux but I prefer the guys I need “going to war” to have experience together. So I’m ok with a personal catcher, I personally just don’t love it with pairing my ace and the backup catcher. In any event, I’m focused on the bigger issue at hand. TD is down to a...

TD is going on 35 and has a 700 ops. He shouldn’t be anyone’s personal catcher. He should give Murphy a rest 3.5 out of every 10 games and maybe this time of year 4 of every 10. I think our manager legitimately believes TD is better than Murphy.

How can anyone deny this is now code red. It’s not even a platoon. 5 out of 7! It’s inexcusable shockingly offensively bad

Nice to preserve the win, would have been an annoying one to lose Acuna is strangling home the MVP and its damn fun to watch. 7 bombs in 11 games? Feels like he should be getting to 40, which is huge. Needs four more in 19 games. At this point that's only a 34 homer pace in those games. Crazy...

It will if TD starts in the playoffs. His OPS might just be below 700 by the end of the season...

Playoff starting lineup. #239 batting average TD

Albeit a double header today, still funny that TD is getting the early game start, his 4th start in 5 games. Knowing Snit, that sets-up Murphy for the evening game so that TD can "rest" tonight" and be ready again for tomorrow to resume his role of starting catcher. If Murphy including tonight...

We aren't talking about Murphy starting 4 out of every 5 games. He just sat 3 of 4. At this point I'd be thrilled if he was getting 3 of every 5 games.

This all goes back to a simple point. If we were assured Murphy will start every playoff game it’s a non issue The fundamental concern is Snit has gone from playing them at a level that one could reasonably believe is to “keep Murphy fresh” to playing them at a level that one can only...

He is on pace for 387 ABS this season. Do you realize how low that is, even for a catcher? Let alone, someone that has statistically been the best offensive and defensive catcher in baseball this year? he's getting rest because Snit has an irrational bias to TD because at some point Snit got it...

He’s played like 90 games this year. What you are saying makes no sense. By that logic we should call up the minor league squad and rest Acuna Olson and Riley rest of year. Murphy has just been benched not rested. He’s gone from a starter to a platoon player. TD about to play third game in...

Bump. This is not going away and its only getting worse. People can't possibly believe this is a strategy at this point to rest Murphy. Its a full-on platoon. Very, very concerning given a hot murphy is a game changer, and frankly he's been rusty. To me, its actually critical to get him the...

Its a major concern. I think that's a fact. The question is do we have full conviction that the front office will step in and make clear to Snit that he is an idiot in this respect, and that Murphy needs to play. Because if it is up to Snit, I have no doubt TD would be out there. For the...

Would have given TD the day off vs. playing him back to backs, to keep him fresh for the postseason, but is what it is. By playing him today, Murphy gets the start tomorrow and day-off for Sunday day-game, forcing TD to play 3 of 4 games. We then have a double header that will force TD to play...

Man that was big. If Acuna had another one at the track, was gonna be so ticked. Three wall scrapers (albeit to deepest parts of park) and two bombs to show for it. I'll take it. Acuna is silly good. His fly ball / homer rate seems to be going way up. Is he hot, or is he so good that he has...

In separate news, as someone that appreciates the stats of baseball, hoping coming back home against a bad cards team, we can keep the stat gravy train rolling. Acuna march to 40 bombs and MVP Olson push for 50+ bombs Riley / Ozuna push for 40 bombs Team homer record Ozzie secure 30 bombs...

That's been my point all along. Its not like we started playing him 50% of the time in mid-September. Its been this way for basically going on over two months. Every other player plays literally every day. So I don't buy that its been front-office tactics to rest players, because if the FO was...

Easy moves to make rest of year. Lopez basically spells 2nd, short and 3rd once a week, Ozuna sits one night a week and give Acuna a DH game, get Harris a night off each week in center and no reason Pillar shouldn't get some starts across the outfield

Sweep would have been nice, but weirdly there is delivering a message (which we did) and there is giving a team SO much of a message, where you can just see them then embracing some BS "underdog mentality" come postseason, etc. and all the BS story lines "we remember when they swept us, we did...