FredLynn
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Eovaldi is still in the game.....horrible managing.
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Too slow on the trigger to remove Eovaldi.....this is not the dress rehearsal
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I would pull Eovaldi right now. He doesn't have it tonight.
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Yankees now down 3-0
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Get Eovaldi out of this game....he sucks tonight.
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Eovaldi isn't going to make it through four innings....horrible start for him.
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Eovaldi has no command so far.....better get it together.
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This team is boring as hell...all they do is win.
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There is only now, not later. Its mid August. There is no more time to wait for Pomeranz to "regain his former self".
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Hembree is also in the mix, as is Brasier. All of those guys are more deserving than Pomeranz both then and now. Pomeranz is like an appendix; a useless appendage who should most certainly be removed. I don't understand why he was put in the pen rather than just given his walking papers.
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I see. And just who is Pomeranz going to replace in the pen? Who exactly is he better than?
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Benni looked safe
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Not really liking Moreland up here.
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And yet we just swept the Yankees....
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JBJ is due.
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There is no point in keeping him at all. There are better relief pitchers as well.
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Great play by Leon!
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This game is about to get out of hand.
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There are better options. If there weren't then we keep him. But there are....a lot of them.
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Its his overall command-and the fact that he can barely reach 90 with his "fastball"....along with the fact that he has only two pitches.
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He cares because he can see his contract for next year disappearing. I have nothing against Pomeranz, but the fact is that there are much better options. I would like to see him DFA'd as soon as ERod returns.
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s***** outing by Pomeranz...again. Five walks....no command. Get him out of the rotation please.
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No pitcher is going to throw his catcher under the bus. Thats my point: we don't know what the pitchers think about Swihart's ability as a catcher, so to judge how well he is doing you have to look at the objective performance measures that are available and watch the games. That is what I have been doing. I see a catcher whose athletic ability is much better than the other two catchers on the team, a guy whose offensive upside is better, a guy whose defense has been maligned without a good reason (I see him blocking pitches in the dirt and throwing out runners)-and yet he isn't given the credit for this on this board to a large extent. IMO he is earning a place on the postseason roster with his performance if he continues to take advantage of the opportunity he has been presented with.
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Exactly. My proposal includes the caveat that Swihart continues to play well and is given more playing time than he had before the Vasquez injury.
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What if the catcher can not only play defense but can also hit and win games with his bat and speed? I am not advocating that we keep a catcher who cannot catch defensively. So far Swihart has shown the ability to play defense as well. If he falters in that regard then sure, do not include him on the roster. So far he has actually more than held his own defensively once he was given a chance to play regularly-and has won at least one game with a walk off hit. Data? Vasquez has a dWAR through when he got hurt of -.2. Swihart has a dWAR for the year of -.1. Not much difference. But since Swihart started playing regularly about June 15 his OPS is over .800. Vasquez is under .600. Who do you want on YOUR team? Leon has a dWAR of 0.6 for the year, but his OPS is just over .600. You can argue that Leon should be the other catcher, but IF Swihart keeps playing well he has earned a spot on the postseason roster.