2016 MLB Season Thread Baseball • Page 226

Carrasco out for the season. Baseball is stupid.

 

this seeems really impressive

 

Casilla is now at 9 blown saves and all I could do was smile while him/Bochy got booed.

 

Good job.

 

Arietta is worrying me. No one's cutting it lately to get that third spot in the playoff rotation

 

Jake's problem really seems to be control. His batting average against is lowest in the league at .185, which is definitely helped by the all-time great Cubs defense, but also speaks to just how hard he is to hit. He has some of the best stuff in the entire league. I'm not sure what happened between last year and this year with his control, but it's so off. The movement is there, the placement is not.

He's also got the lowest OPS allowed in all of baseball. He's fifth in soft contract %. He's being killed by his walks

I still love Jake and trust him in the playoffs. If he's rolls through the first four innings as he seems to do, then has trouble with his command in the 5th or 6th (as it seems to happen), maybe have a quick hook and bring in Montgomery or Hammel or someone? I'd be a fan of that.

 

if we make the playoffs our rotation will be
1) Syndergaard
2) Colon
3) Seth Lugo
4) Robet Gsellman

yeah i know....even met fans aren't sure who those last two guys are

 

Girardi gets way more shit than he deserves and I always defend him but this Red Sox series is the worst pitching staff management I think I've ever seen.

 

Why are we pitching to Hanley ever. Like this should be the Cubs treatment to Harper.

 

This is currently Hanley's third-highest HR total in his career. One more homer and it's tied for second.

And this is a man with three top-10 MVP finishes. Just an insane run.

 

sox are amazing

 

Sawx are the team that scare me the most in the AL

 

Hot damn I love the Sox. Mookie and Hanley are unreal right now

 

Mookie is stellar in MLB The Show

 

Vin Scully was on the Dan Patrick show today and his Jackie Robinson story was great.

 

Is it in podcast or a link to listen to it?

 

Finally watched that Bo Jackson documentary on Netflix this weekend. Man, he was an absolute beast.

 

Losing Salazar wasn't that big of a blow considering the guy had been awful/injured since all-star break (never won a game after July) and the Indians still played well in spite of it. Losing Carrasco sucks, but really, other than Kluber, the starting pitching has been a huge question mark for the past few months. Carrasco, Bauer, Tomlin has been extremely inconsistent for a long time now, yet the Indians continue to fight through it and win games. Their bullpen is also one of the strongest in the league now, whereas earlier this year it was the biggest weakest link on the team.

Sounds crazy, but as a die-hard Indians fan, I don't think it's as big as a blow as most people are making it out to be. Playoffs you only need a 3-man rotation so you figure Kluber, Bauer and Tomlin and with more days off in the playoffs, bullpen should be well rested and Miller/Allen/Otero are fully capable of pitching multiple innings when needed.

 

Dan Patrick show is like an every day listen for me.

 

I hope I get to see this Sox outfield together for years and years.

I'm not saying they're Rice/Lynn/Evans, but how many teams get lightning that strikes like that twice.

 

Puig the best. What an effort by him even if he didn't catch it.

 

IM SO HYPED BECAUSE OF THAT ENDING

 

poor giants

 

I see there was a bit of an ump show in the Rangers/Angels game. Need Elon Musk to drop his mission to Mars and focus on robotumps.