moonslav59

Gave Luke a Vazectomy!

Bye bye Ghost!

Time for Vaz to send the ghost packing!

Time for a Luke Skywalker!

PH Danny Santana???

Okay. Let the rains come!

That was fun!

Trade him while his stock is high,

At some point, you’ve hated more than half. No doubt.

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.