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In Wildcard's defense, he did point to Mountcastle's less than ideal numbers last year vs righties as well. Now obviously this year's numbers are a small sample size, but with Kjerstad basically benched, the idea of monitoring Mountcastle to see if his struggles against right-handers continues was worthy of discussion in my opinion. Now maybe the title of his thread here is the issue more than the conversation. Obviously Mounty crushed that homer last night off Harvey so now some people will be like, "See he can hit right-handers just fine," but at the end of the day, keep an eye on how a player is performing when another may be able to do better in his place is a worthy discussion in my opinion. Hays had a small sample size this year before he was basically replaced by Colton Cowser before he got hurt. Hays also struggled the second half of last year. So sometimes a "small sample size" might be enough to make some adjustments to a player's playign time. Now saying all that, Mountcastle wasn't struggling that badly and as @Frobby point out was actually 104 +rc and his defense is clearly superior to O'Hearn at first base. With all that said, Mountcastle is going to still get the vast majority of at bats at 1B this year against right-handers unless he suddenly drops into the mid .600 OPS wise.

Fair enough, but I guess I just don't see how the title of Wildcard's post erodes the credibility of the thread or forums. While it could have been read in different ways, it actually fit what Wildcard was going for and I can't really ding him for that. I've seen seriously misleading titles and changed them, but in this case, I case we'll just have to agree to disagree. On top of it all, Wildcard, as a 20 year plus member here, will always get some leeway from us. He's an OG.

I said this is the game thread this morning "The craziest thing is I don't normally yell during games because I can just type out my frustrations here. But without it, my expletive laced shouting at McKenna for making such an off line throw (after taking three steps), knowing Santander would have most likely made a better throw just annoyed me to no end. That's the second time McKenna as a defensive replacement has not worked." I hope when Hays gets back we can end the McKenna era for a bit. He's hit a little bit off lefties, I give you that, but he such a poor instinctual baseball player and that's obviously not going to change.

The craziest thing is I don't normally yell during games because I can just type out my frustrations here. But without it, my expletive laced shouting at McKenna for making such an off line throw (after taking three steps), knowing Santander would have most likely made a better throw just annoyed me to no end. That's the second time McKenna as a defensive replacement has not worked.

First, let me apologize. The entire network that is our provider went down. Just so happens it goes down during one of the craziest games ever. And yes, I was losing my Sh!t while it was down. At least the Orioles won.

He has to be coming back out.

They may not be soon!

Holy crap!!!! Mounty!!!!!

Good job advancing the runner there by Adley!

I'm for it. He has the miss, and has the temperament.

There you go Albert! And he can come back for the 11th!

Let's just get to Harvey. No way he can be effective two nights in a row without imploding.

Cowser K's again. O'Hearn swings at a ball up and in on 1-0 when Mateo had 3B stolen. Mullins pops up like a little league hitter after swinging at ball 4 on a ball well inside Gunnar rolls over and grounds into a FC That is how your offense comes up small with a runner on 2nd and no outs.

Oh well, another bullpen loss. Sucks because the pen is the only thing keeping this team from being special. Unfortunately, we knew that coming into the season. When you lose Bautista, you don't replace him with a 36-year old has been.

Damn, Mullins. Just terrible.