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Seasick Sailor

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  1. Is there any obvious move to make room on the 40-man I'm missing?
  2. Even based on his xERA, he's been terrible this season. He gets behind far too many batters. I'm not sure if he's nibbling or just can't command his pitches, but either way, he ends up behind batters and then finds himself in a fastball count throwing a very hittable meatball over the heart of the plate. As unlucky as his outing in Seattle was early in the season, the Crawford AB is a great example of his issue. Nibbled around the edges against a 9-hole hitter and was then forced to throw something over the heart of the plate when everyone, including Crawford, knew it was coming. That's not a recipe for success.
  3. I know he just signed a three year deal, but we can't keep sending Montero to the mound. At least it's the 6th, and we will have time to dig out of whatever sized hole he leaves us in.
  4. Oil and Honor is one of my favorite non-fiction books. I'll check this one out.
  5. That version of The Night is the first song of hers I heard. Needless to say, I was pretty damn disappointed to hear what her album stuff sounded like.
  6. They're are dead in the homemade submarine the homemade submarine the home made submarine
  7. I don' think we need to make any significant trades before the deadline. The bottom line is our stars need to start producing. If they do, we don't need anything more than minimal help, e.g. a Mancini/Vasquez type trade. If they don't, no one we could reasonably expect to get will make a difference.
  8. Dusty's refusal to pinch hit for Maldy is infuriating and defies any logic whatsoever. In the 9 outs between the 8th and 10th innings we allowed perhaps the worst hitter in the majors to record two of them despite having a backup catcher on the bench. Make it make sense.
  9. Fair enough, but that's not what he said. Brown has no say in the matter. Brown is on the record saying he wants Diaz to get more PT but Dusty controls the lineups. Crane is the one who is okay with this. Brown didn't hire Dusty or give him an extension, and Crane damn sure won't fire Dusty in the middle of the season. So we are stuck with Dusty and his refusal to make moves that increase our chances of winning individual games seemingly on the basis that it somehow increases our chances of winning in October when, as of now, we have a .5 game lead for the final wild card spot over the Jays and may be losing Yordan for a significant stretch. There is a non-zero chance this team will miss the playoffs if they can't get their shit together. What was unthinkable on Opening Day is now not terribly hard to envision. In fact, Fangraphs pegs our chance of missing the playoffs at ~25% as of today. Add in significant missed time from Yordan, some likely regression from our young SPs, some regression from Dubon and the OF, and teams like the Mariners and Jays playing better and making moves to get better at the deadline, and sitting at home during the playoffs starts looking like a real possibility. Hopefully, this reality will spark a sense of urgency in Dusty. My concern is that perhaps he's not complacent just incompetent. He did a great job during the postseason last year (helps when you get a historically great performance from the bullpen and Yordan hits 3 extremely well-timed HRs), and winning the WS made it easy to look back on his regular season decisions and give him the benefit of the doubt. But reducing a teams' chances to win an individual game matters much less when you win a division by 10 games. He needs to understand that there is almost zero chance we run away with the division this season and a shockingly high chance, given preseason expectations, we don't even make the postseason. In short, each game fucking matters. He should start acting like it.
  10. Such an abysmal stretch in an amazing season. I think of those series along with the father's day game against the Jays that proceeded them when I need to remind myself that even great teams have stretches of shitty baseball.
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