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9 hours ago, AnythingO's said:

While Hyde's answer was brutal, it was honest because he is doing the best he can to win games in a playoff race, for him, the fat lady doesn't sing until mathematical elimination. He isn't playing the rookies to improve their performance in 2023. I doubt ME is instructing Hyde to do that at any level.

For a team that does many things on the measurable of the game, some decisions are utter head-scratchers!  Looking at Hays season and recent stats, and comparing his and Stowers splits, I can see a clear path to sitting Hays at least against LHP.   Whether we like it or not, it likely falls in the veteranosity or “ride the horses that got you here” buckets. 

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1 minute ago, sportsfan8703 said:

It’s time to just be honest about Stowers… he has terrible ABs consistently and his defense has been poor. These are things to be worked on over the summer and in ST next year, and not at the MLB level. 

How’s that any different from Hays? At least at Stowers point his career he has a better chance of improving. 

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12 minutes ago, Brian88 said:

How’s that any different from Hays? At least at Stowers point his career he has a better chance of improving. 

Hays has better ABs and is better defensively. Stowers will get his shots, and I’m not down on him that much, but ST is where those will happen. Same with Vavra. 
 

This team has battled way too hard this year to kick the ball around like little leaguers and lose our momentum. 

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26 minutes ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Hays has better ABs and is better defensively. Stowers will get his shots, and I’m not down on him that much, but ST is where those will happen. Same with Vavra. 
 

This team has battled way too hard this year to kick the ball around like little leaguers and lose our momentum. 

Did you not see Hays fumbling around in LF last night? He’s been bad at the plate and in the field the majority of the season. What momentum are we risking losing? They are playing poorly already.

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Did you not see Hays fumbling around in LF last night? He’s been bad at the plate and in the field the majority of the season. What momentum are we risking losing? They are playing poorly already.

Who wants to finish 2-14. We’ve come too far. I’ll stick it out with what got us here and take 82-80. 

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1 hour ago, Brian88 said:

Did you not see Hays fumbling around in LF last night? He’s been bad at the plate and in the field the majority of the season. What momentum are we risking losing? They are playing poorly already.

Yeah I don't get the argument that we will be sacrificing something by playing Stowers. Defensively, probably. Put him in right field and give him some at bats. 

It's amazing to me that they are so analytical up and down the organization yet somehow don't realize that Stowers hits both righties and lefties effectively. Maybe they value Hays' defensive advantage over Stowers likely offensive advantage - but for the love of God Hays has been a pit of despair for awhile now and the team needs some offensive help.

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I like how Stowers has been using the whole field. 
 

His first hit was a double to left center, both of his HRs so far are to center, and his RBI single today and rally starting single on Sunday were to center and left respectively. 
 

The Luke Scott comparisons made me subliminally expect more of a dead pull hitter. I could be wrong but my memory is that a vast majority of Scott’s HRs were to the flag court & Eutaw St area. 

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1 minute ago, Frobby said:

Nice game for Stowers all the way around.  Two run homer, RBI single, and three difficult catches in the outfield, though perhaps he made them look a little harder than they should have been. Anyway, nice game.  

How did he make them look tougher?  First one was a line drive fly over his head.  Made a nice back hand outstretched catch.  In the 9th, he was getting close to the wall and went into a slide and never took his eye off the ball.  Excellent catch. Last out was a catch on the run and he went into a slide like all outfielders.   He deserves credit for 3 nice plays, not some faint praise like he turned ordinary plays into tough looking catches.

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38 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Nice game for Stowers all the way around.  Two run homer, RBI single, and three difficult catches in the outfield, though perhaps he made them look a little harder than they should have been. Anyway, nice game.  

I agree, he made three nice plays in the field, but he did make two of them look a little harder than they were... still, he's clearly got some athleticism working for him.  At the plate he absolutely smoked that homer to center.  

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