Nice couple of hang in there wins last two days. Soto and Judge have been off for about 2/3 weeks, but I think they are coming around. Judge hit some rockets last night.
Random thoughts:
Torres is a tough out at the leadoff spot. Wears pitchers out. His fielding is iffy at times, but I think he is good at leadoff. Base running is like his fielding - just waiting for an eff up.
Nestor - He looked great in relief and started well last night. Like Wandy Peralta, he is a bulldog and not afraid to pitch to anyone. But he does either run out of gas or teams catch on after 4 or 5 innings. I tend to think he will be in the pen for the playoffs.
Wells - I have a good feel when he comes to the plate
Stanton - I thought he was coming around after the IL, but he hasn't...You cannot count him out but also cannot count on him. Scary guy to pitchers.
Volpe - batting enigma. Wouldn't mind getting him a couple days rest.
Rizzo - his ABs look slightly better, but since the concussion last year he just has fallen off the cliff at the plate. But an upgrade over DJLM in the field.
Bench - Cabrera, Trevino, Berti and Verdugo/Dominguez is a good bench.
Bull Pen -
Guys I trust - Weaver, Hamilton, Kahnle, Hill, Cousins (That order)
Guys I don't - Holmes, Leiter, Mayza(why is he on this team?) Dump Mayza and put Cortes in there post season.
Holmes to me is an easy read - if his first two or three pitches are strikes or near the plate, he will be ok for about 20 pitches. If they are up and to the right - good bye.
Stab at post season rotation:
Cole, Rodon, Gil, Stroman, Schmidt - do they go five or four?
Think I would put Schmidt in the pen with Cortes. But toss up between Stroman and Schmidt.
They have two hitters averaging better than .250 in the lineup tonight. You can't score if you can't hit AND your HR hitters are slumping.
Soto up as the tying run, no outs.
#FreezingColdTakes
Three grits wins in a row. Nice. Grinding is good.
Judge with a weight off.
lol, that's baseball Suzyn.
Great win!
Beware of sleeping giants.
O's lost 1-0 to the Tigers?
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Just stop. You sound like an unhinged lunatic. It’s a long ass season, players are exhausted and they are using the depth to get guys some days off by rotating them. Calm the fuck down. You’re the first person that would bitch of someone gets injured and they now have to play Verdugo in the playoffs after not having played for 3 weeks. They all need reps. They are doing what they should be doing. Regardless of what some impatient, irrational fans on their couches knocking back a bunch of White Claws think
This is the most irrational nonsense I’ve read on BBI this week, which is really saying something.
I thought it was rational.
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In comment 16608248 BigBlueShock said:
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Just stop. You sound like an unhinged lunatic. It’s a long ass season, players are exhausted and they are using the depth to get guys some days off by rotating them. Calm the fuck down. You’re the first person that would bitch of someone gets injured and they now have to play Verdugo in the playoffs after not having played for 3 weeks. They all need reps. They are doing what they should be doing. Regardless of what some impatient, irrational fans on their couches knocking back a bunch of White Claws think
This is the most irrational nonsense I’ve read on BBI this week, which is really saying something.
I thought it was rational.
Ha - I haven't figured out who/what was irrational. To me the original whining about Verdugo was just the usual BBI bitching.
Anyway as I said, Leiter is not reliable and Weaver is. I think if there was anyone else available, I'd leave Mayza and Leiter off the post season roster. Saw that Trivino is on his 3rd 10 day rehab stint and getting close.
I was thinking the same.
This is the most irrational nonsense I’ve read on BBI this week, which is really saying something.
I thought it was rational.
Calling people “unhinged lunatics” and drunks because you disagreed with their opinion is rational? All while providing zero statistical evidence to support their claims? BBI is even more of a shitshow than I thought.
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This is the most irrational nonsense I’ve read on BBI this week, which is really saying something.
I thought it was rational.
Calling people “unhinged lunatics” and drunks because you disagreed with their opinion is rational? All while providing zero statistical evidence to support their claims? BBI is even more of a shitshow than I thought.
“Statically evidence”? wtf are you cackling about? What part of my post requires statistical evidence? I’m tired of you whining, bitching, moaning and complaining every single day. They are in first place and reading your posts every day you’d think they were fighting for the first pick in the draft. Baseball is a LONG season. Can we stop freaking out every single day because they aren’t undefeated? It’s beyond exhausting. Get your shit together
Leiter plain sucks, I’d rather have Neely’s potential. How about Wesneski for Effross? Before Judge’s GS we were going to be talking about Dick Fitts for Verdugo.
And don’t bother, I swear some people act like they are related to Cashman around year. According to them we should skip the daily discussions and juat look at the WS rings by the decade…..
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This is the most irrational nonsense I’ve read on BBI this week, which is really saying something.
I thought it was rational.
Calling people “unhinged lunatics” and drunks because you disagreed with their opinion is rational? All while providing zero statistical evidence to support their claims? BBI is even more of a shitshow than I thought.
Far too many Yankees fans have gone completely bananas this season with the constant attacks on Boone and Cashman. Some of them sound unhinged with a serious axe to grind. The team is on its way to 95 wins but you’d think it was 59 wins with the way some talk. Going ape shit because JD didn’t play last night is yet another example. Calm down.
Looked like it was Cole's idea for the intentional walk. Wonder if he consulted Boone
I hate the move. It's like a reverse Satchel Paige move.
Imagine a pitcher pulling that move on Billy Martin.
That's fucking embarrassing, under those circumstances. And the way he did it too, just bizarre. It's like he stressed over it for a whole week before today thinking about what to do. Just fucking hit him 4x, that'd be better.
If I were Boone, I'd make Cole apologize to the team.