GDT 8/27/23: Braves @ Giants - Big Opportunity for Shuster

CyYoung31 said:
Name a worse reliever in our pen. I’ll wait.
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McHugh has been reliable. If he's "worst" it's only because the other relievers around him have gotten better. We've had the been pitching staff in the game. I'll happily take a staff with McHugh in long relief.
 
Runnin said:
McHugh has been reliable. If he's "worst" it's only because the other relievers around him have gotten better. We've had the been pitching staff in the game. I'll happily take a staff with McHugh in long relief.
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Fine—he's been reliably mediocre. But Tonkin has been even better in that long-relief role, so McHugh is redundant. Moreover: McHugh shouldn't be pitching in high-leverage, which is where Snitker keeps deploying.

I'd rather have him off the team at this point, especially with better relievers ready to come off the IL and better relievers already on the roster.
 
Runnin said:
McHugh has been reliable. If he's "worst" it's only because the other relievers around him have gotten better. We've had the been pitching staff in the game. I'll happily take a staff with McHugh in long relief.
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A lot of words to say that you were wrong.
 
Weird day. Typically, we’re able to overcome Snit’s stupid ass tactical decisions but he made one and doubled down on it. The team probably wins it if he makes the easy moves.
 
McHugh has become Snit's long reliever. That should tell you all you need to know about the confidence Snit has in him.
 
AA is gonna have to leave McHugh off the post season roster to keep Snit from using him. Dude has become unusable.
 
It’s funny I can get mad about a game that’s less than important- mainly because we scored enough runs to win. I get leaving McHugh in to see how he would handle a clean inning and then checking on Tonk for a quick bit—- in other words treating it like a ST game - and we certainly have that luxury ….. but I still hate losing games we coulda’ won - especially given we want that home field advantage and LA already won…..beautiful part though is Shuster ate up some innings and left us with a chance at least. All you can ask of him. And Ozuna keeps on raking!
 
While it's true that most pitchers taken never reach the majors and many first rounders are included in that, this fact doesnt excuse picks that were bad when you made them. That's why the Shuster pick annoys me, it was dumb when we made it.

Shuster was picked in 2020. That was an abbreviated draft after a truncated college season. The last thing we needed to do was chase helium from the Cape Cod League.

Shuster was a soft tosser his entire pitching career before suddenly seeing his velocity jump in the Cape Cod League. Normally you'd be able to see him in the college season and confirm the velocity jump but we didn't really have that chance.

Spending our first round pick in a short draft on a guy who has had bad stuff his entire career except one brief stretch which you can't confirm was a bad idea.

That draft was absolutely ridiculously good but Shuster wasn't our front office's finest moment.
 
striker42 said:
While it's true that most pitchers taken never reach the majors and many first rounders are included in that, this fact doesnt excuse picks that were bad when you made them. That's why the Shuster pick annoys me, it was dumb when we made it.

Shuster was picked in 2020. That was an abbreviated draft after a truncated college season. The last thing we needed to do was chase helium from the Cape Cod League.

Shuster was a soft tosser his entire pitching career before suddenly seeing his velocity jump in the Cape Cod League. Normally you'd be able to see him in the college season and confirm the velocity jump but we didn't really have that chance.

Spending our first round pick in a short draft on a guy who has had bad stuff his entire career except one brief stretch which you can't confirm was a bad idea.

That draft was absolutely ridiculously good but Shuster wasn't our front office's finest moment.
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5 round draft has resulted in 6.7 fWAR this season. The order means nothing to me in hindsight
 
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