SilverRocket

I don't think the moneyball approach disappears just because of new ownership. We got Burnes through trading surplus prospects, not spending money. I suspect that will be how we acquire starting pitching going forward too, at least in the near future. I don't envision huge money being spent until at least when the pipeline starts to thin out because our draft picks are lower, which will take a few years.

Adley and Gunnar had poor starts and I would've voted over on 2.9 for them, but something feels different with Holliday where the adjustments are going to have to be a lot bigger. I can see him ending up with a 2 WAR Ramon Urias type year, and I'll be satisfied with that at this age.

Looked like Mountcastle hesitated there and maybe could've scored otherwise.

Two of those sinkers had insane run. 18 and 19 inches instead of his usual 9-10.

I'm not expecting ace stuff but think he could've gotten a decent 6 IP 3 ER if things rolled better.

Honestly think he pitched mostly fine and got screwed over by the ump and Holliday calling for a ball he couldn't get to.

Isn't Kemp guaranteed the full $1 million, not a prorated amount if he's released? That's what Spotrac seems to imply. If it were just he makes 35% more than minimum during the time he is here, then that's not a big deal, but the full $1 million implies he was not intended to hold a temporary spot.

Send him down on the last day if he's not winning ROY to get the extra year.

If this was 2021 then sure, but we need a lot of innings from him this year and hopefully in October.

Not a fan of pushing Grayson here.

Found this. Statcast is still calling it a cutter in today's game. His old slider was around the same velocity as his curveball so maybe he tweaked this to make the curveball more unique.

Really hate the bunt decision.

Holliday wouldn't have made that play.

Curious what happened with the slider or cutter. Statcast lists them all as cutters now but I thought it showed some of them as sliders during the game. The velocity was more like last year's cutter (high 80s) than the low-80s slider he had. Either way, that pitch yesterday looked awful and got shelved after the Ward HR. The remaining three pitch mix was good enough. The low-80s slider was a key pitch in the second half last year so I'm curious what happened with it.