Tuesday, May 9 vs Tampa Bay Rays

[Billy F-Face3]

Got the strike out. Nice job Grayson 

[ArtVanDelay]

1 minute ago, Tony-OH said:

Mountcastle is like, not only will have a crap approach at the plate, but I'll be a butcher at 1B. Instead of getting off to a great start this inning, now we have a guy on 1st base. 

 

I’d like to see Kjerstad take over at 1B later this season

[Moose Milligan]

He doesn’t repeat his delivery. It’s plain as day. 

[ArtVanDelay]

Should be out of the inning

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, spiritof66 said:

I feel like a broken record -- does anyone know what that is anymore? -- but to me it's a matter of Elias' (and maybe John Angelos's) risk aversion. Has Elias ever contributed to decisions on drafting pitchers early or on decisions to trade meaningful talent to fill in gaps in a team's home-grown talent?

You can't be blamed for wasting a high draft pick on a pitcher who gets injured or can't hack it in the majors if you don't use your draft picks that way.  You can't be blamed for making a bad trade if you don't trade anything meaningful.

If this team had an owner or  CEO who knew anything about baseball, I think there would be a serious question after this season whether to move on from Elias (assuming his inaction isn't at ownership's direction). He did a fine job in the initial stages of the rebuild, but I see no evidence that he knows how to go forward from there. I hope i'm wrong.

He did with the Astros.

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

He doesn’t repeat his delivery. It’s plain as day. 

Would be cool if we had a pitching coach that could help with something like that.

Oh well maybe he can start throwing a sweeper?

[Emory Eagle]

Looks like GRod getting squeezed on the zone on game day app

[Malike]

7 minutes ago, Tony-OH said:

You're being dumb.

Nobody said they were quitters and weren't trying. They needed to get mad. Mad at themselves for sucking. They need to expect to win. They need to do something like they did this inning. Come out and hit a few balls hard.

Put some damn runs on the board and get ahead. now Rodriguez needs to come out and shut them down. 

 

 

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I'm being dumb? Okay, Chief. Sarcasm isn't your thing, I get it. Go read some of your posts, I'm just a big enough boy to not call people dumb.

[Gurgi]

Just now, Emory Eagle said:

Looks like GRod getting squeezed on the zone on game day app

He is also all over the place

[dtk9119]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

He did with the Astros.

Big difference, Astros were willing to spend money to supplement young talent which got them over the top in 2017.

[Mooreisbetter27]

A shame he’s pitching all these extra pitches when he should be out of the inning. 

[Just Regular]

Still cost us some pitches, but growing into a pro is also stepping over stuff like that.

[Aristotelian]

Not super crisp but good enough to get 4 outs.

[Gurgi]

Mullins actually let Stowers get that?  Usually he does a Kelly Leak

[Billy F-Face3]

Ok good. Grayson saved Mounty that inning. Unfortunately it cost him in the pitch count and fatique reserves departments.