moonslav59

Nobody said or assumed a "seamless" transition to 1B by Schwarber. I think they expected he could play there 10-15 days after the trade- well or not. I mean, why start caring about 1B D, now?. The groin injury may have ended up preventing any chance at 1B, at least for 17-25 days. It didn't work out. That doesn't mean Bloom knew he'd never play 1B.

It doesn't seem like Kimmi. Has her account been hacked? I do think several players talk about being comfortable in certain slots, but often the numbers betray their preferences. I think there is some slight validity to the concept, but not nearly enough to change a line-up over, unless the choice was exactly 50-50 and one guy flourishes in that slot.

Had he not pulled his groin, he may have played 1B more. (Badly or okay)

LD% in August 27% JD 25% Vaz & Kike 23% Bobby Dee & Devers 22% Bogey & Dugo 19% Duran & Plawecki 17% Renfroe 13% Schwarber

Was there no amount of games behind we'd have had to be back to be sellers?

I agree on Plawecki. This whole, he's been hot for 2 weeks crap is just that: crap. On Duran: until Arroyo returns, I agree. Kike at 2B, Duran in CF makes the most sense. If Schwarber can't play 1B or can't play it much, then the dynamic changes. Schwaber plays the shorter corner OF and Verdufo or Renfroe plays CF. An argument could be made to platoon Verdugo, but I don't think Cora likes that idea.

Maybe it wasn't "poor management" at all. I'm curious what all these people thought we should have given up for enough players to have made this team into a ring winner. To get Scherzer or some other big name player, we'd have had to sacrifice a big chunk of the farm? Not doing that was "GOOD" management, not poor. To get another moderate or minor piece to play 1B or bolster the pen might or might not have been enough to make a difference, but again, at what cost? Do any of us know what GMs asked from us for Berrios, Rizzo or Kimbrel or some other player that could be viewed as a major difference maker? In hindsight, it appears we may have need way more than even the complainers thought we needed to be highly competitive. The fact is, we looked pretty good right before the deadline and had several players about to return from the IL. We acquired Schwarber to help our offense and maybe fix the 1B issue. It's hard for Bloom to foresee a subsequent groin pull that delayed his return and stunted his ability to learn 1B quickly or even play there, at all. I guess that all his fault. I, for one, am very happy he did not equal or top the returns I saw teams give for marginal and good talent. It does look like I'm in the minority, but I'm with Bloom and Cora on this one. This was not "the time" to go big and going half way equates to the worst of both worlds. Next year, we spend big and set ourselves up for a deadline where maybe we are just one or two pieces away from being a top contender. That may be the better time to trade some future pieces for the here and now. Many fans and commentators only care about winning now. Their jobs don't depend on winning next year and beyond. Bloom's does.

We could go .500 over our next 10 games and gain 2-3 games on the A's.

Poor A's. They've lost 4 straight and 5 of 6. Their next 10 games are: 1 @ CWS 3 v SFG 2 v SEA day off 4 v NYY

But we did something. We were buyers.

That's exactly how I remembered it, and the players actually sided with Manny, after the media initially questioned Manny's actions.

I have single-handedly proven mojo is no repeatable.

I thought that was about Youk throwing an overboard tantrum after a K.

Juju is not a repeatable skill, nor is mojo.

Hit the ball real hard for 3 outs, last night. That's more than most others can say.

Maybe she'd want us to be sellers.

If a batter fails to run hard to 1B, they should send them back to the 60's!

We can't prove anything, other than Marwin sucks.

Too much talk of 2022 in the 2021 thread. It's not like we started losing after the thread was created. That began beforehand.

Rizzo would not have been there to hit the ball to Rizzo. No doubt, we'd have been better with Rizzo than without, but the Yanks gave up more than we should have to get him. IMO.

Plus, by playing JD in the OF, they opened up the perfect fit for Schwarber- DH! But, they put Plawecki there, instead, then refused to PH SChwarber with the game on the line. I'm the last guy to make game choice criticisms of our managers, but I'm in disbelief on this one.

The groin injury set him back and limited his ability to practice more at 1B, but why are we DH'ing Plawecki with Schawrber on the bench? We had 2 days off around these 3 Yankee games plus this Monday off.

Okay, we have a day off, and need a serious re-grouping or smacks up aside some heads. As bad as things have looked, we are still tied for the last WC slot, with the A's having one of the toughest remaining schedules in the league. I'm not a big believer in the playoffs are a crap shoot theory, but some of you are, so at least you guys should not count the Sox out. A crap shoot is a crapshoot, so anyone in has a shot, right? We have the next 9 games, including another day off on Monday, to make a statement. Home for 3 vs TEX and 3 vs MIN before going to CLE for 3. That will be followed by 9 games that may make or break us: 3 vs TBR at home 3 @CWS 3 @ SEA If we are still in it, even if a game or 2 behind on Sept 15th, we have a shot. We finish the season with... 8 at home: 3 v BAL 2 v NYM (still in it) 3 v NYY then 6 on the road: 3 @ BAL 3 @ WSH Here's how the next 9 games shape up: TEX Sale (+1 day rest) TEX ERod (+1) TEX Eovaldi off MIN Houck (+2) MIN Pivetta (+1) MIN Sale (+1) @CLE ERod (+1) @CLE Eovaldi (+1) @CLE Houck The series in TB might line up with Pivetta, Sale & ERod. There is still hope, but we need our offense to pick it up, especially by hitting our HRs with men on base, which of course, implies we need to get on base more often. We need our defense to make plays, when we need them most. I can't expect them to learn how to play good D overnight, so we will just need to get lucky by having our mistakes made when they count least. Our pen needs to rebound, and maybe Richards and Perez can provide the boost they need. We need our starters to come through. That's a lot of ifs, and maybe we don't need all at once to pull out enough games to, but we have to do better on a number of fronts to right the ship.

Can we celebrate Bobby Dee hitting into 3 hard outs? Man o man, this sucks!

I'd have also DH'd Schwarber over Plawecki or at least PH for him in the 9th.