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These blown saves are largely not in the 9th.

When's the last time Whitlock went 2+ IP?

I think the plan is Jo Garcia to go to GRE after hsi rehab stint w FCL.

Story over the modern Mendoza .600 OPS line.

I thought our closer was Chapman, not a guy named Cora.

Some small sample sizes, but hell YES! C-R-A-Z-Y!

Jh Garcia went 1 for 3 with a BB and his OPS fell below 1.000. BTW, Woo won 5-4. POR lost 6-2 as Wehunt got shelled. Arias homered in GRE's win (2 for 5.) Re Rivera went 5.2 w 1ER, 8Ks, 1BB and 3H. Y Rod 2-5, Taylor walked 3 times. Yuten is heating up with SAL (3-4.)

With a few exceptions, who we thought were our bench and minor league depth, have done pretty well... .897 Refsnyder (platoon) .850 Toro .820 Romy .818 Narvaez

Narvaez for Governor!

Campbell seems to be shaking off that long slump. 1.323 in first 33 PAs .540 in his next 185 PAs. .862 in his last 13 PAs, before tonight's dinger. The two hot streaks, combined are still dwarfed by the long slump, but let's hope he's back in a groove.

Thanks for the correction. One flaw in OPS is that one uses PAs and the other ABs, and yes HBP and Sacs are treated differently. A single is counted in OBP and SLG, but a walk counts only in OBP. It is likely that a BB is worth more than half of a single.

I'm glad we kept KC on the 26.

Yes, scoreboard from 2019-2023 counts, too.

Judge: .390 BA .356 ISO .152 BB Rate .900 OPS His OPS is actually 1.233

You crack me up. OPS= OBP+SLG Yes, hits are counted twice (OBP & SLG), while walks once (OBP only.) XBHs as compared to just hits are just counted once, as well (in SLG not OBP.)

And he'd likely be demoted like Fitts was. Last 8 games: yes, all into 5 innings pitched or more, but... 4,54 ERA (4,65 FIP) Fitts: 5 GS and 21 IP (4+ IP/GS) 4.71 ERA (5.88 FIP).761 OPSA in 9 GS/42 IP Career: Fitts: 3.24 ERA and .684 OPSA Priester: 5.39 ERA and .793 OPSA in 28 GS and 10 RP games/155 IP (5.16/.819 as SP) This is pretty close to a non issue, IMO.

You like running with the projection thing, I see.

We saw what it took to get Crochet and then extend him. The Sale trade was long ago, and he had one more year of control than Crochet did. I'm not sure who is available, but for the right price, anybody is. Skenes comes to mind, and if we could get him without giving up two of our big 3, maybe it would be worth it. I think we can only part with one from Mayer, Campbell and Arias. I don't think Romero, Grissom/DHam/Romy/Sogard and Alcantara, Anderson and Nunez is enough left-over depth, and much is too far away. Parting with Anthony would be major, and I'm not sure Duran, Abreu or Rafaela is what a team like PIT wants to pay, instead of Skenes. We could roll the dice with our current 3 OF'ers plus Refsndyer & Jh Garcia, but imagine what we'd hear if Anthony becomes the stud some think he will be. We'd likely have to also trade Fitts or Dobbins or Perales, Tolle, Clarke or Valera- maybe 2 pitchers. Something like Anthony, Arias, Clarke and Fitts might be what PIT would demand. Mayer, Jh Garcia, Tolle, Clarke and Dobbins? I don't think a package like Arias, Jh Garcia, Jo Garcia, Cespedes and Monegro gets what it used to get a few years back, when farther away prospects were viewed as more valuable than they are now. (Besides, Arias might be our best prospect, in the long run.) I really like the looks of this: C Narvaez 1B Jh Garcia 2B Campbell SS Arias 3B Mayer If this means trading Anthony and rolling out Duran-Rafaela-Abreu, every night, I think I could live with that, as long as Crochet and Skenes top our rotation. We'd be without others like 2 from Bleis, Romero or Cespedes plus two from Perales, Clarke and Tolle, but at some point we have to make some hard choices. How long do we run with "depth?"

Dorian Soto was 2-for-2, yesterday along with a pair of RBIs and a run scored gives him nine hits over his first 19 at bats with four runs driven in.

But do any look like better options, now? I Campbell is sucking, so far. I'd say, based on what people have looked like, so far, Van Belle and Drohan look like the best choices, and DFA's Stock for one of them would be okay with me, but Stock has looked real good with Woo, and some on this list are doing worse with POR.

1. Several is 2 or more people. 2. I could care less about your idea of who RSN is and your opinion on what most or several are saying. You get my opinion wrong 99% of the time, so I'll hardly trust your assessment of a bunch of people's opinions. 3. I never said a lot of people or the majority said or agree with your statement: "Fire the whole bunch of them." I'm not sure what that has to do with more people wanting Cora gone than the "whole bunch," but so what? More people blame Cora more than Brez. That would be a switch from Bloom vs Cora, for sure, but yes more than 1 person is not for firing Cora, at this time. That is what "several" means. 4. Try using a dictionary. They even have sites online that will tell you what words mean. The problem is, they use other words to define what words like "several" means, and you don't know what those words mean, either.

How many are ML ready, we think they'd be better than Guerrero, Kelly or Burdi? Okay, better than Stock, probably someone. However, here are the WOO OPSA numbers (listed by most IP): .615 Stock .651 Van Belle (maybe?) .774 Mills (Nope) .539 Criswell (has sucked as a RP for BOS) .830 Mata (Nope) .779 I Campbell (I once had hopes for him) .571 Drohan (most likely of all?) .859 Cellucci) (Nope) .685 Uberstine (long shot) .685 Wink (on 60 day IL) .682 Guerrero (getting his chance) Maybe, someday, Chris Murphy will be ready or Sandlin will be ML ready. Connelly Early in 2025?

Several of us are not for firing anybody, except maybe some coaches under Cora. I'm upset about Anthony, too, and a few other issues, like how they handled the Devers' position change and the lack of more investment in quality pen arms. If GMs were fired over 2-3 or even 5-6 significant mistakes (many in hindsight, only) over a 2 year period, we'd have no GM with more than 3 years of tenure.

I don't buy the "smarter" argument. There is no way any GM knows a pitcher will stay healthy, Max, and to "know" this after 5 years in a row of lost hope is more luck than smarts. I do not doubt that we'd be much better with sale over Gio and Grissom, and that is on Brez, but I cannot say Brez was stupid to do the deal, at the time. I guess that's how we see things differently, and I'm fine with that. I was Sale's biggest fan. He was CHRIS "FRAKIN' SALE to me, but nothing about less than 300 IP in 5 lost seasons was encouraging to me. Not the "but he's finally healthy this winter" argument. I remember a stationary bike. Not the "his arm is well rested now" argument. The guy had a 4.16 ERA over those 298 IP, all on a well rested arm. This is all hindsight wishing and praying, to me. I'm glad Sale regained his form, and BTW, he missed the end of the season, when the Braves needed him most. Let's see if he makes it through this year. Would you bet on 32 GS'd? How about even 28 or 25?

Whatever people used for an excuse, Gio pitched pretty well over his first 19 starts of 2023. He had a 3.45 ERA and was pitching better over his 7 starts (2.45 ERA,) then the wheels came off in a big way. No doubt, wheels coming off so extremely should have raised major red flags. For that reason, I did not like the signing, but to say the guy offered no hope, at all, is far-fetched to me. Sure, we saw him miss a full season and then suck on his return, so it's easy to say it was obvious he never had any hope, in hindsight. I guess we should blame Brez for now knowing Houck was ready to pull a Gio, despite being happily married. He should have seen the Crawford injury a mile away. He should have not counted on Buehler coming back from injuries, but instead known sale was going to. He should have known Priester would do better than Fitts over a small sample size. We need a bonafide fortune teller for a GM, I guess.