Wednesday, April 5: Grayson Rodriguez's long awaited debut vs Jacob deGrom

[LA2]

Just now, oriolediehard said:

I am always nervous when Voth pitches.

His starts for us last year were pretty smooth, though they always pulled him before going deep into the second half of the game.

[MurphDogg]

1 minute ago, Tony-OH said:

Just not a lot of options that make you feel good out in that pen outside of Bautista and Perez.

No, but no option makes me feel less good than Voth. Knowing they had an off-day would have preferred going inning by inning with our better guys.

Voth as a piggy-back made sense if Grayson only went 3 or 4 or they were getting blown out, but you don't bring your worst reliever into a high leverage situation if you can avoid it and they could have avoided it.

Edited April 5, 2023 by MurphDogg

[Fiver6565]

Tough defensive series for Gunnar, though the plays he hasn't made have been difficult ones.

[btdart20]

23 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I think it's plain to see that Frazier is a significant upgrade.  And I freely admit that I was entirely too harsh about him over the offseason.  

He's not the strikeout guy that Odor was, and that was one thing I think we all missed and underrated.  There's no way Odor goes the other way like that against deGrom.  That was great.

 

Tooting my own horn on the K% thing...

[O's84]

Running ourselves out of that inning really hurts.

 

[LA2]

Just now, Gurgi said:

Not been impressed with Gunnar at third so far this year.

He's looked all out of synch there.

[Sessh]

I'm probably just seeing Gunnar at a bad time, but the three games I've at least seen parts of now, he's made a few throwing errors and mishandled a couple balls hit to him at third. He's better than this defensively right?

[Moose Milligan]

3 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

I don't know if you jinx it or I did but there we have it..

I'll take the heat, Tony.   

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, btdart20 said:

 

Tooting my own horn on the K% thing...

I'd give rep but I'm out for the day.  Kudos to you!

 

[dtk9119]

Well at least it was only 2 runs. Offense needs to step it up now. Hopefully DeGrom is about done.

[foxfield]

Lets see what we can do with their bull pen

 

[foxfield]

1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

I'd give rep but I'm out for the day.  Kudos to you!

 

i got  you

 

[RZNJ]

Voth had a great curve last year.  He tried to add the sweeper and now he has neither.

[deward]

3 minutes ago, Sessh said:

I'm probably just seeing Gunnar at a bad time, but the three games I've at least seen parts of now, he's made a few throwing errors and mishandled a couple balls hit to him at third. He's better than this defensively right?

All the prospect guys say he should be a GG-quality 3B in time

[LA2]

Possible that all the rampant expectations from the media and around the league, e.g. predictions of RoY, have unnerved Henderson?