moonslav59

You should be a Braves fan. You hate more Sox players than you like.

You’d probably PH for one of the teams best lefty masher, right.

True, and with the lefty going Renfroe and Dalbec have to start.

I have a long record of criticizing Vaz’s pitcher handling, but I doubt he called for a pitch right down the pike.

Nice!

Marwin has only started one game since May 19th. Is he hurt or benched for slumping.

He pulled da levers.

Honest. I told my wife “home run here” just before it happened. (Note: I’ve said it before and been wrong.)

Richards was a real good pitcher who has been out with injuries. Kluber was an excellent pitcher out with an injury. Both signed for about $10M. It’s a better comp than Pivetta who has never had a real good season or been out with a major injury.

The real comp was Kluber v Richards.

I think it has to be dead even to look at position.

Good to see you entertaining the idea that 2021 might not be just luck for Pivetta, and maybe it is a "break out year."

Yes, for what 3-7 days? maybe 10? I seriously doubt they'd call up anyone in April, who was not playing live games, unless it was an emergency. I seriously doubt they'd call someone up after playing just a week or 10 days of live ball in the minors, which started in early May. The Olympic round start, soon. The is was very short, but yes, possible.

It can't be obvious, because Duran is not available. He wasn't available for the first 10-14 days of May, either. He hadn't played in a month (since ST'ing). It might look obvious, because we see him crack 7 HRs in a couple weeks, but it wasn't so obvious before that, and we still don't know all the facts on Duran. I'm not trying to bust your balls, but do you really think you or I know more about when Duran is ready and/or available than Bloom? His going to the Olympics was an obvious barrier all along. It's not something Bloom just found out about. (I just did, recently.) Casas was not likely going to join the club before August anyway, even if we didn't have Chavis and Ockimey (who kills righties and has shown it at higher levels than Casas). BTW, Dalbec may be batting .177 in the last 7 days, but is that really what you want to use to decide someone's fate or to call up someone from AA to replace or platoon with him? Dalbec did hit a huge HR and has 4 rbi in the last 7 days and has a .939 OPS the last 14 days, which to me, counts more than 7 days. Had Santana been playing in April, which he couldn't due to injury and no games in the minors, he might have been called up earlier. I wanted him and Chavis up ASAP, but I didn't know what ASAP was specifically. I trusted Bloom to know. I'm fine with you and others not trusting him. It's the nature of boards like this, but no way was Duran coming up in April: he wasn't playing live games. No way was he coming up in early May, due to only playing a hand full of live games and only coming to life at the bat after the first few games- something hard to project. No way they call him up for 3-7 days, then send him to the Olympics. That's my opinion, and I think that might be Bloom's major reasons for not calling him up. It could also be that he doesn't think he's ready yet and even if he had played all April and wasn't going to the Olympics, he might still be in AAA. There's also the team control clock as a factor.

It looks that way, but it's so hard to know. The NBA is much easier. The NFL is somewhat easier to project than MLB.

...Wade Miley now has more career no hitters than Greg Maddux. And Pedro, too. These no hitters are not due to defensive shifts.

LoL

One thing in our favor, assuming getting Leiter or Rocker is in our favor, is that the teams picking before us may be taking a longer look and have no issues taking a HS player over a college player that may bring help sooner rather than later. I'm not sure anyone drafts with that in mind, though.

I disagreed with resting 2 stars in the same game right before having 2 days off in 4 days, too. but I trust Cora knows what he's doing, and maybe the extra rest will give us an edge later in the season. On Duran, I know I've sounded very cautious, and I have mentioned maybe his defense needing work, but I also think his offense has only been eye-popping for a very short time, and since they knew he was going to the Olympics, I can see why they held him back. There were no minor league games in April, as well. If it was up to asking minor leaguers, if they are ready, my guess is many unready players would say, "yes." I really trust Bloom will know when Duran is ready. Maybe he already thinks he is, but held him back because of the Olympics and the team control aspect of making a move to bring him up earlier. I have been very critical of Cordero, but he needed a few weeks to show what he has. It was only after 3-4 weeks that I started wondering about a change, platoon or whatever, so it's not like we overplayed him for 7 weeks. it's more like 2-4 weeks, and BTW, he's actually hitting the ball harder and bringing his OPS up, slowly. I have also been saying a platoon might be needed for Dalbec, but again, he deserves a long enough sample size vs righties, before we decide to platoon him. Maybe we disagree on how long a sample size is needed, and I'm fine with that. I've always been one to think larger sample sizes are needed to know much about anything, and even then, players can change on a dime.

Nobody can ever convince me that playing Cal Ripken every game helped the team or him be better.

Great example.

It does need to be pointed out that he only pitched 101 pitches that night. He had 103 a few games earlier and 101 a couple starts earlier. Maybe he should have been limited to 80-85 pitches for a couple months. Hard to know.

Shocking!

Exactly, that's much worse than watching a player hit into an out due to perfect shift positioning. (BTW, we get outs from our opps that way, too.) Start teaching bunting and hitting the other way in the minors, and the shift will be reduced greatly.

I have to agree, but if Bloom & Co. pick a HS shortstop or Henry Davis, I'm going to trust they know what they are doing. As most here know, I'm a huge Cora/Bloom fan, but I have to point out that Bloom did not always have a great drafting history with the Rays. It's not really what he is "known for."