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This is a 70 win ball club. The offense is the same old thing as usual. It’s hard to blame fans for not going out to these games. No hits til the 8th yesterday and 1 today. Pretty pathetic. 

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38 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

So boring. Same all or nothing team for the last 3 years. We refuse to make adjustments. 

Right now we’re looking a lot like we did last September when everyone was slumping at once.   

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Just now, Can_of_corn said:

Low energy?

Disinterested?

I don’t buy any of that kind of stuff.   Sometimes, you’re just not hittIng.

By the way, Berrios is a very good looking young pitcher.   In my mind, the best of the three we’ve faced in this series.     

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Just now, Frobby said:

I don’t buy any of that kind of stuff.   Sometimes, you’re just not hittIng.

By the way, Berrios is a very good looking young pitcher.   In my mind, the best of the three we’ve faced in this series.     

I'm not saying they are there right now.

I have seen many a team pack it in before the season is over and go through the motions.

 

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It'll continue like this until they have pure incentive-based contracts. $40,000 basic pay regardless of performance, complimentary insurance that pays $200k if you get injured for more than 3 months, but anything with 7 or more digits comes from performance, including for young players under team control. Give the young guys an opportunity to take home millions in their rookie year if they can smash 30 home runs and bat .300. Also, the old vets that can't produce anymore like JJ Hardy and Chris Davis wouldn't cost the team more than $500k or so for the year.

No incentive, no production. There might be players on other clubs that want to produce even though they'll make bank regardless of performance, but I think we've built a team and a culture that only does the minimum to satisfy their contract. The contract says they have to play the game, not that they have to play the game well.

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18 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I don’t buy any of that kind of stuff.   Sometimes, you’re just not hittIng.

By the way, Berrios is a very good looking young pitcher.   In my mind, the best of the three we’ve faced in this series.     

Yeah that kids breaking stuff is nasty and the dude last night was no slouch either. It appears the twins have some GOOD pitching?

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5 minutes ago, TouchemAll said:

Yeah that kids breaking stuff is nasty and the dude last night was no slouch either. It appears the twins have some GOOD pitching?

Gibson’s a mediocre veteran with an 89 ERA+.     I didn’t see enough of his outing to tell whether he pitched really well or the O’s just made it easy on him.    Berrios, I think, is going to be a good pitcher in this league for years to come. 

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1 minute ago, Frobby said:

Gibson’s a mediocre veteran with an 89 ERA+.     I didn’t see enough of his outing to tell whether he pitched really well or the O’s just made it easy on him.    Berrios, I think, is going to be a good pitcher in this league for years to come. 

Yep some of both, but his stuff was good last night.

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