Hopefully after we get healthy they settle him in around the 6 hole. Take some pressure off the kid. He's still going to carry the team at some point. Just don't need the fails to be so magnified.
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My money is on Jansen. Just afraid to give the Red Sox someone from our organization because no other organization knows our farm better
Starting to get (positively) concerned about what you do when Belli and Suzuki are back.
You can’t put PCA down. Tauchman has the 4th best OBP in the league right now. Two guys that had to earn it, in my opinion, have.
You can’t put PCA down. Tauchman has the 4th best OBP in the league right now. Two guys that had to earn it, in my opinion, have.
There's also some speculation that they are going to move him right from AA because they don't want to expose him to public StatCast data. AAA has StatCast, AA does not. They don't want to tip any pitch shaping or spin rate.
It's getting to the point with him that you have to bring him up because you're just wasting pitches.
1. Hoerner 2B
2. Tauchman OF/DH
3. Bellinger 1B/RF/DH
4. Suzuki RF/ DH
5. Happ LF/ DH
6. Busch/ Wisdom 1B/3B/DH
7. Morel 3B/DH
8. Gomes/ Amaya C
9. PCA CF
Madrigal is strictly a defensive replacement.
Mervis PH
Send Canario down, he's shown enough to think he can hit ML pitching. Let him explode in Iowa and deal him for pitching.
Mervis is gone, obviously, so you've got 1B, RF, LF and DH for 5 guys. It's not a great setup but it's also a very good 'problem' to have. Plus, Tauchman will eventually come down to earth so he'll end up in that 4th OF role.
I'm not sure PCA ever plays another MiLB game. I think he's up for good.
Am I crazy to think Happ could be the one dealt for a reliever if you could find someone to take on his deal? You're getting better production out of Tauchman for much, much cheaper. Roll with a platoon of Beli, Seiya, PCA and Tauchman with mixing in Beli at 1st on days he's not in the outfield.
That's twice in 2 nights our runners have risked injury to avoid a pitcher covering that ventured too far over the bag. Run that ****** into the dirt.
4 unearned runs tonight because Wisdom threw an easy out into left field and Swanson threw a ball 10 feet short of first base.
How did we have such a good defense last year to a group who really struggles with the fundamentals and it’s the same group?
How did we have such a good defense last year to a group who really struggles with the fundamentals and it’s the same group?
This team desperately needs Belli and Suzuki. When your offense is atrocious as is, you can’t give up 4 unearned runs.
Tauch, RF
Hoerner, 2B
Suzuki, DH
Belli, 1B
Morel/Busch, 3B
Swanson, SS
PCA, CF
CATCHER
Happ, LF
Hoerner, 2B
Suzuki, DH
Belli, 1B
Morel/Busch, 3B
Swanson, SS
PCA, CF
CATCHER
Happ, LF
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They switched the first run to earned but the point is valid. I was on my way home listening on radio. Ron said Wisdom basically stayed on the bag rather than moving forward to get an angle for the throw to second. This is 1B 101. Especially for one that throws righty.
Getting Suzuki and Bellinger back is going to solve a bunch of problems. Moving Busch is going to create more in the future. If Bellinger has a productive season he's opting out. So a year from now you have Busch back at a position he failed at the prior year. Morel's defense has been pretty solid overall. Moving Busch doesn't make a lot of sense when you factor Shaw into the equation.
