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By sportsfan8703 · Posted
No excuses for McKenna. He’s played his whole career in OPACY. I’m sure he got pregame reps in and knew he was going to be a defensive replacement. It’s a bad read. Whether it’s the 1st inning or the 10th. The 85% catch rate on that ball is for a normal RF. That should be much higher than 85% for a defensive specialist and essentially a CF in RF. -
In don’t mind some negativity. Saying ‘damn that sucks’ or ‘oh man not Webb, not now’ is part of it. But it’s over the top for me, and that’s why I don’t spend long on there. I’ll have a (what I think is) clever though so I’ll jump in and throw it out there, then jump right back out. Otherwise every time the other team gets a base hit while we’re up four runs, you get three posts ‘uh oh here we go’ ‘they’re going to blow this’ etc. Call it Premature Negativity maybe. That’s the issue. At some point the team deserves/has earned a little more benefit of the doubt than some posters are willing to give in the moment. For instance, I was nowhere near the game thread during game 1 of the Angels series, because I’m sure the doom and gloom as the Angels loaded the bases in the ninth was substantial. I’d rather hold out hope and have a little faith that Kimbrel will work through it (which he did) then read a bunch of whining about how it’s over while we’re still up two runs with two outs. And then if a player makes a mistake, it can’t just be a bad play that we can rationally discuss, it has to be we’re doomed to get swept out of the playoffs because Elias is a knucklehead who didn’t fix the bullpen and why is McKenna even out there and oh god oh god oh god…..that’s tiresome. -
Kind of ballsy for a second-year player to hold out. Of course, there was no fixed second-year salary in those days, but even so, the rare guys who held out were usually long-established stars. I bet he didn’t hold out the next year! I remember when Koufax and Drysdale held out for $125 k and $110 k, respectively. Those were the days! -
You know what's interesting? The Orioles were 7-3 while Holliday was here despite his struggles, but did sending him down cost the Orioles a game? Think about it. Urias replaced him in the lineup and went 0-for-3 (something he could have done) and didn't have any productive at bats. He did make a nice stop and throw to get the runner at the plate in a run down, but nothing Westburg most likely would not have made. But, if he were on the roster and not McKenna, Santander probably is in the game in the 9th and most likely makes that catch. So in a weird way, sending Holliday down may have contributed to the Orioles losing last night. -
We need him in our bullpen at first. Maybe our closer. -
By Aristotelian · Posted
Tough play but a defensive replacement guy has to make that. That is your role. You should be practicing balls like that all the time. Not remotely as bad as the Fenway play but I think even Santander makes that most of the time. -
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