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They have a day they throw, but not at the level of a game, and coming into a game involves warming up and stepping out of their normal routine. Baseball is very much into routines and patterns- for good or bad.

Maybe before.

Duran went 3 for 4 with his 5th dinger. Downs hit his 10th and went 1-2 w a BB Hamilton, Rafaela and Castellanos all went 2 for 5- the last 2 had 2Bs. Greenville hit 4 HRs, including McDonough who went 2-4, Scott 2-5, Binelas 1-5 & Davis 2-4. Flores went 2-2 w 2 BB. Northcut actually had a non HR hit and 2 BBs! Mayer went 2-4 with his 4th HR & 15th 2B. Jordan had a 2B.

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I'm all for giving these guys a shot, and we have tried Winckowski and Crawford, but most of our farm guys are projected as back end starters, at best, so I'm not so sure they clearly have "better stuff." Some of our RP'ers doing very poorly have some pretty good stuff. Some have been getting most of the batters out and have have low OPS Against, but they have just failed at the worst possible moments. I'd like to see German get a shot. I trust Bloom to know when the right time is, but mistakes can be made with these choices.

Hip injury- day to day

Huge game for Crawford and the pen! Spring board this- one game at a time!

Let’s hope this solidifies Houck as the closer! We still need more pen help, but this could be a big step forward. What took Cora so long?

A Campusano trade would most likely be made next winter, unless other useful players are included. Now, if SD really wanted Duran for the OF, now, maybe they'd be more likely to make the trade, soon.

Says the man who continually uses fals facts and never corrects them. Like every publication gave Bloom a failing grade on the Betts trade, and you can't even produce one link that gives him an F. Like saying Story's rbi lead is based on 1 week of red hot hitting, while not taking away everyone else's best week. I could go on and on. I made a horrible mistake by trusting the thread started by Thunder. If that's the worst you can find on me, have at it. This is like the 3rd time you've brought it up. Repeating it does not improve your silly actions.

How is saying the pen sucks ignoring they suck? What you ignore is the fact that traditional closers don't come into tie games very often. You think a solid closer would have pitched in every situation where a RP'er gave up the lead or turned a lead into a tie. 26-3 (now 30-3) when leading going into the 9th is not an illusion. It's the 1-6 record when tied going into the 9th, or where we took the lead in the 9th, like last night, but lost it that weighs heavily on our pen. I have never denied or tried to hide those numbers, either. I've posted them several times, along with the 2-7 record in extra innings. NEVER have I denied or minimized the fact that our pen has allowed the opponents to win games that were winnable going into the 9th, 10th or 11th. Our pen has sucked at finishing the job. How many more ways do I need to say it. Your claim that a solid closer would have won many more games is likely true, but how many is up for debate, since a solid closer would not have b een on the mound in many of those key games, and we don't know how perfect they'd have done. Then, would the wins they created outweighed the wins Story, Wacha or others have given us that would be taken away by the either.or choice. Did Tony Mass discuss that? Using your classic statement, "He ignores it."

Before last night's game, the ALE held 4 of the top 6 records in the AL.

The difference is, I admit when I mess up or miss something important. I'm also talking about keeping up with what is being discussed, like talking about last year NOT who is the closer. Like pretending other posters are defending Story or the pen, when they clearly are not. I opened the thread and saw Houck was starting. Shoot me for assuming the usually dependable Thunder missed the starter. I'd rather make a mistake like that than totally misrepresent another posters' views over and over and over and forever change the criteria being used to judge players based on who you like and don't like.

ERA for RP'ers is not very telling. Many RP'ers come into games with 1 or 2 outs, already, so there is a much less chance their own runner might score. That's not to say Davis has not been one of our best RP'ers, but here are some other numbers as RP'ers only: OPS Against .384 Whitlock .428 Schreiber .554 Valdez .572 Sawamura .586 Houck .604 Strahm .634 Danish .635 Davis .650 Robles .742 Diekman .784 Barnes .902 Brasier .908 Crawford WHIP 0.62 Whitlock 0.75 Scheiber 0.97 Danish 0.97 Valdez 1.03 Sawamura 1.12 Robles & Houck 1.17 Strahm 1.32 Davis 1.38 Brasier 1.52 Diekman 1.71 Barnes 2.16 Crawford K:BB 7 Danish & Brasier 6 Whitlock 5 Strahm & Schreiber 3 Houck, Sawamura & Valdez 2 Davis, Robles, Crawford & Diekman 1 Barnes ERA as RP'er ONLY 0.93 Whitlock 1.04 Schreiber 1.64 Davis 2.88 Houck 3.10 Sawamura 3.20 Robles 3.22 Diekman 3.32 Danish 4.00 Strahm 5.75 Brasier 5.84 Valdez 7.94 Barnes 8.44 Crawford

Our pen sucks. I've never denied it. Acting like I have denied it is being like a silly clown, and it's very predictable, because it's all yo act like. At the risk of being accused of defendin g our horrible pen, these are some stats, too: OPS Against .657 Pen (which includes 7 IBB) .687 SP (no IBB) ERA 3.61 SP 3.75 Pen BA .223 Pen .234 SP HRs Allowed 26 in 1001 PAs Pen 41 in 1228 PAs SP XBHs 60 in 1001 PAs Pen 100 in 1228 PA SP Again, I am not presenting these stats to say I think the pen has done well or b etter than our starters. Other factors are involved in doing a comp like this, but some stats show the pen has done well at a lot of things, except saving games and keeping ghost runners from scoring.

Do you try to appear to be an idiot? My point was about you saying "last year was last year and means nothing now." It's not about the closer. It's about you bring up last year when it suits you but bashing others when they do it. It's call hypocrisy. You bring up Renfroe so many times, I lost count. That was last year. RF not closer. I'd say please try to keep up, but I know that's all but impossible with you.

I've always wanted to live on your big corner. You must feel so blessed.

Stop making sense, Max. It falls on too many deaf ears. This is the guy who said we'd have 8-10 more wins with a solid closer, despite the fact that we were 26-3 when leading in the 9th, at the time. Facts don't work on silly clowns.

Renfroe was last year, and he surely matters to you. Just admit it. You selectively choose what can be talked about, last year and bash otehrs for doing it to make points against you. Worse yet, is you can't even see the hypocrisy. Same with the whole rbi issue and Story land.

Hardly all I got, but when posters like you continually construct false opinions held by other posters, I'll keep on calling you out. I know it might hurt your fragile ego to keep being exposed for misunderstanding positions over and over, but it happens so often, I can see why you think exposing you over and over is "all I got."

Does this mean you'll never mention Renfroe, again?

No doubt. I've never disagreed on this. I've tried to explain his possible reasoning, but not as a way to excuse the failure. A GM needs to plan for injuries like Taylor and Sale, shortcomings like Diekman and Robles, and other factors, but again, I come back to the GMs need to stay withing a budget limit and having numerous holes to fill- some rather large, like replacing ERod and finding a 2Bman, and 3, 4 starter not just a closer. Bloom chose other slots as higher priorities. There is still 2/3 of the season remaining and a trade deadline to try and fix some of the shortcomings. The Story signing may still prove to be a major plus. The Wacha, Strahm and Hill additions look good to very good, so far. The Diekman & Robles signings have been big failures, so far, and yes, that is on Bloom.

You probably don't even know what the term means.

Papi is a maybe, because we don't even know what he might have taken or if it was even illegal. The fact that Clemens is a liar, and it is a fact- not just on steroids, does not mean there was no clear evidence Clemens used, like numerous witnesses who exposed him while under oath. You really don't see a difference? Why not jizzslop me the names of the "company?"

You're the expert on strawman construction, not me.