moonslav59

I've always been high on Devers, but he has impressed even me, this year!

A company I once worked at gave everyone a $1000 bonus- some complained.

Some will never be happy.

The Rays are for real. Count the second half of last year, and they are right up there.

I've said all along, we will be contenders and not sellers. I just responded to a post that said we had no FA to be of value to trade.

He's a FA after this year. Based on the faulty assumption that we'll be out of it and e sellers, trading Porcello makes sense- in this context ONLY.

Until we find a true 2Bman, Chavis will not be in the OF.

JBJ has a SLG% of .721 since May 20th (last 13 games). His OPS has been 1.129 since then- tops on the team. I know it's a small sample size, but he's had prolonged hot streaks his whole career. The idea of benching him now is sheer trolling. (He's also at .931 sine May 10th- 19 games) Chavis is going to have to make some adjustments after pitchers have figured our the holes in his swing. If he doesn't, he may become the next Middlebrooks. I have faith, but he is not doing anything recently to show he should be replacing JBJ, and why are we even talking about Chavis vs JBJ, but for some clown troll? It will be Chavis vs Holt/Nunez at 2B or Chavis vs Moreland/Pearce at 1B. He will occasionally DH when JD plays the OF and a 1Bman is back from the IL. Chavis of late: .664 his last 24 games(.299 OBP) .687 his last 16 games (.290 OBP) The kid had an incredible 11 game stretch, where he hit 1.418. Without that stretch, he'd be pretty close to JBJ in 2019 OPS.

I was saying this assuming we become sellers, which I don't think will happen. Trading guys who are doing very poorly brings back nothing. Porcello and cash would bring back a nice prospect or two. A JBJ at .700+ in July would bring back a nice prospect. I AM NOT for trading anyone on the ML roster, unless someone wants Nunez.

Ignore the clown troll, and maybe he'll just go away.

Betts is having his third best season out of his 5 full seasons. 1.078 2018 .897 2016 .853 2019 .820 2015 .803 2017 He's just.035 from his career .885 OPS- basically one big game away from it. Yes, his power is down (.462 SLG), but his OBP is .390 (second best of his career). He's still on pace for about 24 HRs per 162 games, which is 3 less than his career HR/162 game number of 27. (BTW, Mookie's lare season career OPS numbers: .919 in Aug & .922 in Sept- his two best months.)

I'd rather see us get rid of 2 teams. Move OAK to NC and and disband MIA & maybe BAL. North BOS, NYY, NYM, PHI, WAS, TOR, PIT South NC, ATL, TB, HOU, TX, STL, KC North DET, CLE, CIN, CWS, CC, MIL, MN West SEA, SF, LAA, LAD, SD, AZ, COL 4 games vs 21 teams from other divisions: 84 games 13 games vs 6 teams in own division: 78 games

One could swap Pitt to the North (or add Montreal and not NC), NC to the East and STL to the South to pair with KC.

Making geographic divisions not only aids attendance and viewership for newer rivalries, it lessens the amount of games teams like the Astros play on the west coast, where late games lessen TV viewership. If they do add two team, I suggest Las Vegas and North Caroline, I'd like to see something like this: East: BOS, NYY, NYM, PHI, BAL WSH, TOR, PIT North: CLE, CIN, DET, CWS, CC, MIL, MN, STL South: NC, ATL, TBR, MIA, HOU, TEX, KC, COL West: SEA, OAK, SF, LAD, LAA, SD, AZ, LV Games vs non division: 3 A vs half and 3H vs other half (flip each year): 3 games x 24 teams=72 games Games vs own division: 6 H + 6 A vs 7 teams= 84 games + 1 game vs 6 in own division= 6 games Or play 4 games vs other divisions (can be 2H-2A or alt 4 H-4A each year for east-west coast trips): 4 x 24= 96 games play 5H + 5A vs own division: 10 x 7= 70 play 2 games vs 2 teams with same place previous yr.= 2 games

Certainly some do, especially, if we kick in some of the salary still owed. Porcello would bring back a nice prospect or two. If JBJ keep hitting well, he would bring something useful. Holt, Nunez and Pearce, not much, even if we pay almost all of their remaining money owed.

I hope they rest everyone more next spring- just so the snowbirds get bummed out and another controversy brews. When we win it all, we'll bake a huge crow pie.

Wasn't Betts dealing with an injury? I don't think 6, 4. 4 & 3 less PAs in ST'ing by four of our players ruined their April.

Plus the 2018 playoffs and before that...

I'm not for trading Beni, but he has been disappointing, especially with little improvement vs LHPs.

The pen has already been magically good. It's our starters and untimely hitting that has been our downfall, so far. That being said, we should trade for a RP'er ASAP. Relying on magic is never a good idea.

I hope not.

The stats were not meant to make our pen look great. They are not. But, our losses, in terms of pitching only, are more on the starters, and our wins show the pen doing better than the starters, as well. Of course, our hitting has lost and won us a few games, too. We need pen help. I was hoping we signed Otavino this past winter (among other suggestions), but I think we should act sooner rather than later. We are seeing teams already making moves and throwing in the towel.

I'm not trying to imply that I am better than anyone else for not being so reactionary, but if some posters had their way, we'd have traded everyone on the team during or right after a long slump.

The problem is, we have a ton of players doing well or very well the last 14-28 days, but we aren't putting it all together to win more games than we have been losing. It's hard to ask for more timely hitting and to stop losing series where we outscore the opponents. I've heard people blame the pen, the bottom of the order, Cora, JD & Betts, but the fact is, we just aren't bunching our hits and walks and taking advantage of good pitching games, when we get them. Numbers in May (Not counting the last 2 games of April that we won by a combined score of 13-5.) Pitching IP/ERA 38.1 Sale 2.82 32.1 Porcello 3.34 30.0 ERod 3.90 17.2 Price 1.53 17.1 Walden 2.08 11.2 Workman 2.31 11.1 Hembree 0.79 9.2 Barnes 1.86 When Eovaldi comes back and we presumably add a RP'er, maybe we'll see less inning from... 18.1 Velazquez 7.85 18.0 Weber 4.50 12.0 Brewer 5.25 10.0 Brasier 7.20 7.0 Thornburg 7.71 7.1 Smith 4.91 4.1 Lakins 8.31 Hitting PAs/ OPS 127 Betts .825 122 Beni .792 121 Devers 1.021 120 Bogey .952 118 Chavis .788 103 JD M .884 93 JBJ .843 78 Vaz .957 72 Moreland .928 (on IL) Bench 56 Pearce .664 (on IL) 50 Nunez .614 41 Leon .618 (went 3-3 in June) 12 Holt .583 Our top 9 PA players were all over .788 and 7 were over .825. I'm not sure we can hope for better from our top playing players: we just need them to put it all together and create wins.

The Weber loss? One, maybe 2? How many games did the pen lose, because they were called upon early in so many games due to starter ineffectiveness or having to start Weber, Smith & Velazquez so many times? IP per GS 5.1 in 2019 5.4 in 2018 5.9 in 2017 Certainly, the SP'ing has done better lately, and the pen has done worse, but the starter IP numbers show they are the ones causing any pen fatigue.