Larry Cook

It’s really a domino affect when it comes to the Thornburg trade. First, thornburg has provided us nothing since we acquired him. Second, I saw him pitch earlier this year and at the time, his breaking balls did not break, at all. They were just meatballs waiting to get smacked! I understand that he is improving his breaking balls as of now. So maybe one day Thornburg contributes. I hope so. Third, Once Dave traded Shaw, Dave went into last season with sandavol as the only non-utility third baseman in the roster. After sandavol imploded, which everybody and their mother was saying was going to happen, he rushed devers to the big leagues. Devers natural development was forever retarded because of that move. If devers career craters because he can't Define the strike zone or his defensive woes mentally hinder him, it is directly attributable to dave’s idiotic trade for a broke down sore armed reliever with decent numbers. Remember Dave, nothing beats getting eyes on a player before you over pay for that player in a trade! Your scouts are professionals, please listen to them before over ruling them. Hear what they have to say. It’s what you pay them for! This is why most of the baseball operations department deserted us for greener pastures.

Amen brother! Experience is the best teacher!

I understand why he had to trade for starters like sale and Pomeranz. Those trades make sense, even though everybody knows pomeranz’s ucl could snap at a monent’s notice. What I am perplexed with are the non closer bullpen trades and dave’s draft picks? 1.) Why overpay for two guys known to have bad arms? 2.) Why must he draft kids that other teams pass over? It’s like the other teams have scouting systems that have depth, purpose, research and team goals, Meanwhile Dave is drafting based on what he reads on the bill James website. Does he even listen to his scouting staff is telling him?

So much can happen over the next 4 months. Any team is one injury away from disaster!

That is an excellent point. You would think given the city and the medical facilities in the area, we would have a medical staff second to none. Yet, we seem to have a staff of doctor, All with mail order degrees. At this very minute something is wrong with price’s arm. Either circulation or ucl or the famous “something is torn in there”. What is the medical staff doing about this? How did this franchise wind up at the mercy of their medical staff?

Can we really afford to keep either one? I can’t see it unless we trade some salary.

Or we could continue to make trades and just learn to not overpay for sore armed pitchers who’s ucl is held together with duct tape and bubble gum.

I think Pomeranz and Kimbrel are out of here at season end. We have way too many untradable contracts. What would be nice is if we could develop a starting pitcher or two.

Thanks again Dave!

Let the Dodgers or the Yankees over spend on a rental. We need to focus on getting our pitching up to par.

Sale has not been executing pitches lately. Hopefully he gets this figured out real quick.

Hitters are teeing off on price's Fastball as it lacks any movement and weak location. So he has started throwing some sort of cutter which he had success with early but now teams are laying off and forcing him back to the fastball,

Mata wild and went less than two innings. Crawford looked good tonight. Lovello with a tater.

Having a guy like Bradley in center field, gives our pitchers the confidence to make pitches they normally would not because they know Bradley will run down mistakes.

Just how poorly is price pitching right now when he gets jacked up and porcello shuts them down?

Mookie is unbelievable!

If devers ever learns the strike zone, he will be an offensive juggetnault.

The thing I like b st about beeks is it looks like he is throwing four pitches for strikes, when he is locating well, he had tremendous success. But because his stuff is not electric, he has to walk a tight rope in order to succeed!

Washington with two taters tonight. Campana with grand tater as well. Cuevas threw a nice game tonight.

I watched him pitch the other night and he is not ready. Shotty control and no movement on any pitches. In the pros, he would get lit up worse than price, if that is possible!

Beeks with 8k’s in 6 innings tonight. He gave up a tater.

Watching price get beat like a dog these past couple of times out, makes me think something is not right with his arm.

Schreff threw a nice game today.

Price is really throwing hittable pitches.

If mookie is on fire, what do we make of benintendi and bradley’s struggles?