Injury updates

[Warehouse]

Garrett Cooper has returned to the Norfolk lineup.

[eddie83]

 

[eddie83]

 

[Roy Firestone]

I heard someone tell me Mountcastle wont return this season. Compltely unconfirmed.But it wouldn't surprise me.

[LookitsPuck]

5 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

I heard someone tell me Mountcastle wont return this season. Compltely unconfirmed.But it wouldn't surprise me.

Based on Hyde’s quotes and lack of meaningful progression, it wouldn’t shock me one bit.

[Sports Guy]

56 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

I heard someone tell me Mountcastle wont return this season. Compltely unconfirmed.But it wouldn't surprise me.

Seems pretty obvious that he’s not coming back unless the Os go deep in the playoffs and even that may not be likely.

[Sports Guy]

Winning the division to get more time off would be nice…but either way, getting these guys back is imperative.  They may be coming back too late to make much of an impact though.

Edited Friday at 23:07 by Sports Guy

[Three Run Homer]

12 minutes ago, Sports Guy said:

Seems pretty obvious that he’s not coming back unless the Os go deep in the playoffs and even that may not be likely.

Then we need Santander at 1B and Kjerstad in RF so that we can put Ryan O'Hearn's sorry ass on the bench.  

[Sports Guy]

5 minutes ago, Three Run Homer said:

Then we need Santander at 1B and Kjerstad in RF so that we can put Ryan O'Hearn's sorry ass on the bench.  

Oh I agree. OHearn is a black hole right now and it’s not like he’s bringing good defense to the team either.

[EddeeEddee]

23 minutes ago, Three Run Homer said:

Then we need Santander at 1B and Kjerstad in RF so that we can put Ryan O'Hearn's sorry ass on the bench.  

O'Hearn just needs to go back being DH and used more selectively.  I still think the team will bring him back next season but it is becoming less certain.

[Brooks The Great]

32 minutes ago, EddeeEddee said:

O'Hearn just needs to go back being DH and used more selectively.  I still think the team will bring him back next season but it is becoming less certain.

O'Hearn has already cost the team valuable at bats that could have gone to Norby, Kjerstad, and Mayo, ultimately lowering this team's offensive ceiling. It's well past time to move on from O'Hearn and commit to the future of the team. I was against bringing back O'Hearn from the beginning of the season precisely because he was blocking too many good prospects, and because he was a limited, unproven commodity.  

[gtman55]

O'Hearn is NOT an every day player on a good team. As much flack as Mayo seems to get for his fielding, O'Hearn may be worse. And now he's not even hitting.

[LA2]

3 hours ago, gtman55 said:

O'Hearn is NOT an every day player on a good team. As much flack as Mayo seems to get for his fielding, O'Hearn may be worse. And now he's not even hitting.

Mayo's also hitting .094, incl. two singles in 15 ABs since being recalled. Holliday has also been worse than O'Hearn and Jiminez and Slater have cooled off. Lots of problems in the lineup and scapegoating O'Hearn is not a solution.

[gtman55]

How am I scapegoating him? He hasn't played well for a very long time. I'm just saying give Mayo a legit shot.

[e16bball]

2 hours ago, gtman55 said:

How am I scapegoating him? He hasn't played well for a very long time. I'm just saying give Mayo a legit shot.

But O’Hearn isn’t blocking Mayo. Which is why it’s a little hard to understand why you’re connecting the two.

Since the day Mountcastle went out, O’Hearn has played exclusively at 1B. He hasn’t DHed in a month. He is only taking up PAs at 1B.

Mayo can’t play 1B. He should only be DHing, but given the dire straits we’re in, you can probably justify throwing him out there from time to time at his natural position of 3B and praying it doesn’t go too poorly. 

The only way you’d create space for Mayo by removing O’Hearn from the lineup is if you played Rivera at 1B to open up 3B for Mayo and had Jimenez DH. Which is, incidentally, exactly what they’ve done against lefty starters — so there’s no blocking there. And against RH starters, why on earth would you possibly want Mayo, Rivera, and Jimenez in the lineup and O’Hearn out of it? You’d be intentionally downgrading both the offense and the defense.

The guys who are actually blocking Mayo are Rivera and Jimenez, who are the primary options at the positions he can play. The obvious course of action for now seems to be to just give Mayo the DH role that Jimenez currently occupies, because Eloy has been just as bad over the last couple weeks. And (once again) pray that Coby figures something, anything, out at the plate.