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Ah, another year of second guessing the lineup every single day!  

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I don’t know why people keep lumping O’Hearn in on posts like this. The guy had one of the few over .800 OPS on the team last year. He’s not remotely the problem. 

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I heard that he was initially scheduled to be DH, but told Hyde, “if Burnes doesn’t want me to catch him, then I don’t wanna play!”  Then he was seen softly sobbing in a corner of the locker room.   

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Just now, dtk9119 said:

It's ridiculous Mayo is not getting more opportunities.

And when will Hyde pull the plug on Adley batting 2nd? Its not working right now.

With Adley struggling why not give Mayo a chance at DH today. Let Adley get a real day off if he was hitting like the first half I get it, but he's not otherwise why call Mayo up.

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22 minutes ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

With Adley struggling why not give Mayo a chance at DH today. Let Adley get a real day off if he was hitting like the first half I get it, but he's not otherwise why call Mayo up.

I’m hardly a free Mayo guy, but this would be the spot to let him DH. 

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2 minutes ago, casadeozo said:

Ya I would love a reporter to actually ask Hyde about this absurdity. Why is Rivera/Maton playing over Mayo? This reeks of veteranosity for no reason 

Well he’s 2-23 with 13 strikeouts. The real question should be why is he on the team right now. 

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6 minutes ago, waroriole said:

Well he’s 2-23 with 13 strikeouts. The real question should be why is he on the team right now. 

Bingo!! If Westurg, Urias and Mateo weren't hurt he wouldn't be. Holiday is the lucky one. At least he seems somewhat comfortable at 2nd, though his arm seems lackluster.

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24 minutes ago, waroriole said:

Well he’s 2-23 with 13 strikeouts. The real question should be why is he on the team right now. 

Totally fair. How is he expected to start adjusting by playing every 5th day. 
 

in fairness a vast majority of those at bats were in his first call up. He went 1 for 2 in his first game back and was promptly benched for 3 games.

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1 hour ago, ShoelesJoe said:

Hyde is begging for a TB lefty reliever to come in and shut us down during a big rally.

I think he’s perfectly comfortable with TB being forced to go with their LH relievers. 

For lefties, they have Lovelady, Cleavinger, and Mason Montgomery. We’ve seen Lovelady a few times, and he’s nothing special at all. He’s also pitched in 2 of their last 3, so that could be an issue. Montgomery has pitched one ML inning, after posting a 6.26 ERA in AAA. I doubt they’re scared of him, either. 

Cleavinger has been a solid pitcher, but even he has a 3.84 FIP. And they can only use him once — so using him against those 3 LHHs would mean they can’t use him to put us in the O’Hearn dilemma.

On the other hand, even without Fairbanks, they still have Kelly (3.03 ERA), Uceta (0.79 ERA), Rodriguez (2.79 ERA), and Bigge (0.84 ERA) as the righties out of the pen. I would think we win (big time) in the trade-off if they’re using those bum lefties to try to match up instead of throwing those RHP killers.

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8 minutes ago, casadeozo said:

Totally fair. How is he expected to start adjusting by playing every 5th day. 
 

in fairness a vast majority of those at bats were in his first call up. He went 1 for 2 in his first game back and was promptly benched for 3 games.

I assume he’ll get plenty of opportunity to go through the adjustment period next April. 

Right now, there are 20 games left in the season and we’re trying to win a pennant race. We’re not really in a position to give charity at-bats to a kid who has done nothing but hurt us at the ML level at bat and in the field. 

I’m a big fan of Coby and I have high hopes for him. But I think our fans have been in “build for the future” mode for so long that we’re understandably but probably excessively fixated on developing the kids. Maximizing Mayo’s development at the expense of winning games — and the other 25 guys on the roster — just isn’t where we are at the moment.

If he could at least field, that would be one thing. If he had even shown some signs of it clicking at the plate, you could probably justify it. But he just looks lost. Striking out half the time, and not even hitting the ball that hard. They’re already sticking with Jackson as an absolute black hole in the lineup, which I’m sure makes it even harder to talk themselves into forcing Mayo out there too.

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