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How about our 8-9 batters snapping us out of our scoring slump? 5 for 8 from DHam + Rafaela 2 HRs and a 2B 3 Runs and 4 RBI Welcome back Wilyer (2 for 4 and back to .800.) Duran looked keyed in and focused (2-5 w a big SB)

Of course, you do. He's got Abreu beat by 17 points on BA. Throw OPS out with the baby's bath water. Demote DHam. Move Duran to CF. Fire Cora and Brez. This team sucks!

If being "politically correct" is right, then I wanna be wrong. Too bad we didn't demote DHam and do the "correct" think and keep KC on the 26. FIRE BREZ, TODAY!

I saw my first MLB game at Wrigley back in 1968. I've been a baseball fan, ever since.

All the night's games are over. The current standings: AL East -- NYY -1.5 TBR -3.0 TOR -4.0 BOS Wild Card +2.5 TBR +1.0 TOR -- BOS -0.5 SEA -1.5 KCR -1.5 C -2.0 MIN -2.5 TEX -3.0 LAA

Brez could go down in history with a simple hire.

Brez could gain a lot of cred, if he just hired Thunder as the Travel Secretary.

It's been a very long time since I've been this jacked up over a game in mid June.

Hicks is better than our 8th pen arm for sure and may be better than our 5, 6 and 7. He might challenge Weissert for the 4 slot. Harrison, if he doesn't take Buehler's job, will slot in nicely at 5, 6 or 7. Our pen is better, after the trade. Brez needs to be on the phone for a #2 SP'er and a big bat.

Gotta admit. That was momentous. I know I'm a homer and prone to optimism, but I'm getting a feeling I haven't had since 2021. I'm not making any predictions- just a gut feeling.

He did: wait for Hicks to come off the IL or for Harrison to be promoted.

All I can say is... DAMN! That was a sweet win!

He'd probably have refused to move to DH, anyway.

Oh, Nooo.. You Dih- ENT!

He's answering all those who complained he pulled guys too early.

Jordan has really proven me wrong. Wow! Uberstine down to 2.45. Tibbs got a couple hit for POR, too. Bleis up to .773, now w 2B.

Just a gut feeling, but this team looks like a totally different team. I'm seeing spark. Energy. Confidence.

Cal just passed Bench for more pre ASB homers, and he did it in 14 less games!

I have no faith in Casas staying healthy: I just wish he still was healthy and think we'd be better, now, if he was. Do we bat Bregman 2nd?

He should be able to. This would be back to back games not days.

We need to get a lil of what their smokin'.

Nobody is happy with a .475 OPS from DHam. His 12 SBs in 99 PAs (20 times on base) is hardly a big boost, but the fact is, this is way better than what KC was doing. Then, there's the defense. Maybe, someday, we'll see a Grissom/Romy 2B platton, or Story/Mayer at 2B.

To me, this isn't even as bad as thinking Duran is a better defender than Abreu, even when shown Abreu has a better Flg%, which is his go to stat. I have a Duran/Ref DH platoon as our best solution for replacing Devers at DH. (Rafaela & Anthony FT OF'ers with Abreu vs R and Duran v R, when not at DH v L)

Many managers pull starters early in April, and gradually increase pitch counts and IP'd. We started the season with something like our 11th or 12th SP'er on the December depth chart (Newcomb) as well as maybe #8 or 9 guy, Fitts. Houck was stinking up the place just about day one and every day afterwards, which further taxed our pen. Buehler has not been good, either. Our staff has a 93 ERA-, so far (7th in the AL.) Our 3.86 FIP is 4th in the AL and 0.09 from 3rd. Our 0.95 HR/9 rate is second in the AL. These are not numbers you see from a mismanaged pitching staff missing 3 of their best SP'ers for all or most of the season, so far. 15 missed starts: Crawford, Sandoval (Wink & Murphy do not count, but were rotation depth) 7 missed: Houck 6 missed: Giolito 2-3 missed: Bello & Buehler It's too bad Cora ruined a pitcher like Dobbins. The pen was widely viewed as our preseason weakest link. It is the big area where managers often get blamed for "pitching the wrong guy," often when no better guys were available. 2nd in pen fWAR in AL (81) 2nd in ERA- (5th in ERA) 3rd in FIP- (83) FIRE the BUM!

How about the Houston Astros model of pitching staff building? They lead the AL in Pitching fWAR and are missing: Lance McCullers, Cristian Javier, Luis Garcia, Arrighetti, Blanco & JP France & Wesneski. That's 5 of their best 6 or 7 Sp'ers and 7 out of maybe their top 10 or 11 SP'ers!