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Kyle Stowers has 12 ABs and is already worth.1 bWAR. Hays is -1.0, and Mullins and Santander combined are .7 (Cowser, despite his exciting throwing, is 1.1) So there is ample reason to play Stowers….and to sit Hays/Mullins/Santander. -
By ShoelesJoe · Posted
After watching Hernandez for years it became obvious that for most close calls he'd just flip a coin in his head and hope for the best. IMO the straw that broke the camel's back was the Mets / Tigers game where Angel ruled a pitch to Spencer Torkelson was a foul tip, which is reviewable. When the Tigers' manager came out to challenge the call Hernandez all of a sudden changed his call to a check swing, which isn't reviewable. Replays showed the pitch wasn't a foul ball and Torkelson never came close to swinging at it. It is reasonable to conclude that Angel Hernandez changed the original bad call to an even worse call just so he wouldn't be overruled by replay officials. -
Great, I’m heading to the Balkans in a few days anyway. Im not saying I enjoy cock fights or dog fights, I am just saying I enjoy the collisions. I don’t want either guy to get hurt any more than, that sucked and am going to feel that in the morning. I thought it was great when they came in hard to second and the double play wasn’t automatic. Now you have the ghost tag of the base and the runner just jogs out of the way. I guess it is hard to explain but it is the difference of the NBA 30 years ago and now. Or NFL or MLB. -
Well, my personal spin on what OOO was saying is that Mike shouldn’t be adding guys like this one, and should instead be adding guys who will be a net positive. If there’s a glut, do something about the glut.
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Tweaking guys is for the off-season and spring training not for when you really need guys who know what they’re doing already. Our pen is weak and this fellow doesn’t make it better, but worse. There’s nothing in his portfolio to indicate anything else. I realize the trade was probably actually for the other guy, but this fellow could easily have been immediately designated, cleared waivers, and then added to Norfolk, and then they could play around with him all they want. I remember when Brian Matusz was traded to the Braves along with a competitive balance pic which Dan did not value, and the Braves immediately designated him. They weren’t going to let him anywhere near a mound. Thats what should have been done with this guy. Mr Vespi must be in tears, because he’s thinking “they wanted THIS guy more than me???”
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Per Ump Scorecard, this year CB Bucknor and Manny Gonzalez are either 1-2 or 2-1 worst, depending on whether you judge them by average accuracy, or by accuracy above/below expected accuracy. Out of 85 umpires, Hernandez was 19th worst in the former and 9th worst in the latter. https://umpscorecards.com/umpires/ -
I am perfectly content to let all these "other teams" be losers for every bit as long as they think serves their best interests. I'd also like to say I respect people and organizations who stand on principle, but in this case I really don't see the point.
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