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The clown show is in town with a big can of gasoline to start a raging fire. I swear he must have the dark secrets on Hyde.

I see the sparkling analysis in the game thread hasn’t changed much in my time away.

Seriously? They’re down by a run.

It’s only the 4th.

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Based on what exactly? You’re one of the more informed voices here, but this, in fact, sounds specious. I mean, Dr Andrews first came up with the idea of pitch counts for kids. For a 17 year old it’s 105 pitches. I’ve seen kids continually overused so some coach can receive praise. So, pitch counts for kids whose bodies are still developing makes sense, but you know what makes more sense? Proper mechanics. If pitch counts work (I’m including relievers because the idea they’re overused is relative to pitches thrown) why is there a continual amount of pitching injuries? I’d argue that mechanics far and away are responsible for the number of pitching injuries we still see. If you don’t want to push the envelope of how many days in a row a reliever is used or how many pitches a starter can throw in any particular game, where’s the bar set? To me it’s an arbitrary number that has been ingrained in most, if not all, managers (probably with guidelines from their respective front offices). And there is little evidence to support it’s working.

So, going back to Sunday Perez threw a third of an inning (5 pitches), two thirds on Monday (8 pitches), and third again yesterday (10 pitches). Does anyone besides Hyde think that he was overworked? He’s been one of the best out of the pen in the second half. That along with Hyde bringing in Cano last night and Fujinami today is a head scratcher.

Elias got him on the roster. Hyde makes decisions on the field.

What is the freakin fascination of Fujinami for Hyde?

Verdugo hasn’t had a “badder”? defensive series in RF according to Brown. Or, worse.

Was Westburg hurt? Someone in another thread said something to that effect.

I didn’t like the move. They had big lead at the time 12-6, (7th inning). Westburg is a better defender and was having a big night offensively after not exactly tearing the cover off the ball until this past week. Felt like Hyde was “getting Frazier into a game” he thought was won. But who knows?

Maybe, but that still wouldn’t explain taking a flyer on a guy who clearly hasn’t been the same since the Orioles traded him. Also, if anyone needs to come out of the rotation it’s Gibson.

Same. Voth gave them length if needed out of the pen and had been better after a slow start. Strange move.

Game on mlb.tv now

Any word on why Gunnar isn’t starting?

Has Stowers fallen that far out of favor? I get it, McKenna is seen as the better defender, but is Stowers looking forward to another team or what?

I remember him just fine. And I grew up listening to Scully. Brown has a good voice for broadcasting, but his cultural reference garbage is annoying.

Baseball stories. Are you seriously comparing Brown to either of those guys?

Gunnar knows baseball.

Switched to the TB broadcast. Who knew announcers who just call the game. I knew Brown couldn’t go a whole game without some idiotic reference (the Apple Siri reference while Siri was AB). And the Rays guy is great, has this gravely voice and calls the game-just the game. Baseball is fun to watch, you don’t need to “spice it up” with your clever cultural references.

I think they changed up his routine and rest because he had already been trending down before the AS break.

I’ll take it. Only one run allowed with Wells looking below average.

Looks like he’s settled in.

They need to keep an eye on Wells today. I haven’t seen him this off with his command in a while.