jacksonianmarch

Kelly is and has always been a scrub

You know, I post that, then he rips two singles on fastballs, the last one off Giles at 98mph. That being said, it looks like he has to cheat a bit on the heat, as he's missing too many cockshot fastballs earlier in counts

Buchholz looked absolutely terrible. His fastball was flat and his breaking stuff was flat. It was one start. We shall see if it continues

2 more hits today. One off the wall, another over it. He's really locked in. He and Didi look good as the 8-9. But ARod looks old and slow

That is an abysmal excuse. Shows a lack of accountability.

Starlin Castro has started out on fire.

a700, I do agree. This team seems to be the s*** that wont flush rather than the s*** that you know you had, but seems to have already jumped into the hole. Maybe my analogy is a little off, but with Fatso Pandoval and Rusney on the bench, you have a lineup of guys who are gritty and willing to fight rather than pout and suck

The wind blew out the fire on the lake

That is how to finish. Wow

I anticipate Correia will be a bit better than Harvey. The kid just went off the restaurant in CF, something that hasn't been done in 7 years.

Price, ERod, pray or rain?

So Pineda was maddening tonight. He snapped off some absolutely nasty sliders, mixed in with hangers that got banged hard. Velocity was a bit down, sitting around 91, but again it is cold and early. I didn't see his change or cutter at all. He couldn't command his fastball like he usually does and missed a lot in the zone. He was sloppy as hell today.

UN?, you still want to take Lindor? Correia has hit his 3rd homer in 14 innings

Tazawa looking to be in mid season form

wwbhd?

Clay's stuff was alarmingly pedestrian. It was cold, so it was probably the weather.

f*** you Pineda

Pineda's command is awful tonight. Gonna be a softball score

66 pitches and counting in the bottom of the 1st

Betances was the one who screwed up today (thanks in part to the umps). Miller is active at this time

Was a real good game today until it fell apart late. Tanaka didn't have velocity, but nobody seemed to have their prime velo in the cold (including in CLE). But he was mixing in his stuff to perfection for the first turn through the lineup (which was perfect). Starting in the 4th, the ball kinda rode high on him, and it didn't help that his defense let him down a bit. Hicks came in on a liner that would have hit him in the chest had he frozen, and the ball ended up a double. That was run #1 and it was earned. Correia blasted one out to right on a hanger. But the 3 runs in the 8th were inexcuseable. With a runner on 2nd and 1 out, Springer hit a little roller down the 1b line. It was about 5 feet inside the basepath and the runner nearly kicked the ball. Betances picked it up and instead of drilling the runner in the back, he tried to throw it over him and sailed it into RF. Girardi tried to challenge, but was rebuffed, and played the game under protest. Later in the inning, Valbuena took what should have been strike three on a wicked slider that was well within the strike zone. The next pitch was a 2 run single, effectively ending the game. We mounted some rallies early, but were mowed down late as Kuechel retired his final 11 batters prior to exiting. We wont win the protest, but it was as obvious as most anything. Spring nearly kicked the ball, he was so far inside the line. Regardless, Betances looked shaky, Tanaka looked pretty good. Barbato and Shreve looked good. Gregorius and Castro swung the lumber, but the other guys looked pretty weak against the former CY winner. Tomorrow is another day

Holt is an interesting player in this lineup. He's scrappy. Not likely to hit for power or for really high average, but will give consistent production with a bit of speed and a good eye to go along with insane versatility. He does get exposed a little and seems to tail off at the end, but he reminds me of a poor man's Bill Mueller. The guy also has quietly seen over 4 pitches per PA since becoming a sock. His current position does limit his value, as he'd be a hell of a lot more valuable in the IF, but for now, he fills a hole without embarrassing himself

And two runs after the guy should have been struck out. Umps f***ed us today

Yanks get screwed there. Betances should have just drilled the runner. Instead he airmailed him as he was well within the field of play

And there goes f***ing Correia