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MS said:
The 6th inning of a 7-inning game is the same as the 8th inning in a 9-inning game.

This was essentially letting an AAA pitcher throw the 8th inning of a 1-run game in the middle of a pennant chase when the entire bullpen was rested after a day off. Inexcusable.
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Makes no f’n sense. He is in his third year as manager and has been coaching for 20+ years, it’s baffling to see some of his decisions.
 
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Matz' stuff plays better out of the bullpen anyways. He can throw max effort for an inning and hit 95 with his fastballs. I feel like Stripling out of the bullpen would be a disaster.
 
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Stripling reminds me of Estrada. Does throw heat but guys can’t square him up. Stripling has to decrease his hits and homeruns against to be prime Estrada but he has been solid for us. Run the 6th man rotation until the end of the month. If you need to skip a guy, skip Matz.
 
Matz had 3 stellar outings to start the year then imploded, got covid, came back weak, and continued to struggle. So if we take out those first 2 and a half/3 weeks of the season and just go from April 23 onward:

in 16 starts Matz was 6-6 in 78 innings, with a 4.95 ERA pitching to a .298 average, .345 OBP, and .892 OPS. He had 81 strikeouts, 20 walks, and 12 HR with a .363 BABIP

over that same span for Stripling (though he didn't pitch for much of the back half of April)

in 16 starts (17 total games. he came in after a 1-inning Opener in one game) Stripling went 5-5 pitching 83 innings with a 4.12 ERA while having an opposing BA of .229, OBP of .287, OPS of .729. He had 81 strikeouts, 24 walks, and surrendered 17 HR on a .252 BABIP

Neither of these totals include today.
 
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So Buck whinges about newfangled stats people devaluing the impact of the strikeout, then cites an entire train of thought predicated on the team's record during a two-week span where a single player won player of the week awards consecutively.

What the hell is that fresh nonsense? And that's not even counting that he grossly misrepresents how strikeouts are regarded analytically in order to make his bafflingly stupid point.
 
This homeplate ump can see. If I'm going to point out the blind ones it's only fair to give props to the ones who are getting regular visits to the optometrist. Well done.
 
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Well, maybe we might have to eat SOME crow here. Stripling’s forearm looked really red with ointment on it, maybe he had some work on it and Montoyo knew the pen might be needed for Stripling in case he couldn’t go deep.

Still not defendable as you don’t punt a winnable game in the middle of a playoff race but something to consider.
 
phillipmike said:
Well, maybe we might have to eat SOME crow here. Stripling’s forearm looked really red with ointment on it, maybe he had some work on it and Montoyo knew the pen might be needed for Stripling in case he couldn’t go deep.

Still not defendable as you don’t punt a winnable game in the middle of a playoff race but something to consider.
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So Charlie punting both games today given the Thornton/Dolis choices in game 1?
 
"I like batting average... it tells you how much a guy got on base..."

You know what else tells you how much a guy got on base, Buck?

On Base Percentage.

I know the answer is probably "none" but I often wonder how many people that fetishize batting average over OBP actually understand why Avg excludes walks. Because if they knew why, they'd know it's an incredibly misinformed/stupid/arbitrary reason in light of how baseball has been for most of the last hundred years and its exclusion serves no useful purpose except to obfuscate certain players' actual talent level.
 
The Nemesis said:
So Charlie punting both games today given the Thornton/Dolis choices in game 1?
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Maybe punting is the wrong word. Not defending him because I still think his moves in game 1 were bad. But perhaps he thought he could get away with using his non tier 1 or 2 pen guys in game 1, win and save his better guys in case Stripling couldn’t go in game 2.
 
phillipmike said:
Maybe punting is the wrong word. Not defending him because I still think his moves in game 1 were bad. But perhaps he thought he could get away with using his non tier 1 or 2 pen guys in game 1, win and save his better guys in case Stripling couldn’t go in game 2.
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That's just bad management. If you thought Stripling couldn't go in game 2 then he shouldn't have been starting.

Or at the very least you probably shouldn't burn Thornton in game 1. Because even granting that Thornton sucks, he's one of the few guys in the pen capable of giving you multiple innings. Because instead here we're going to through the last 5 innings probably using 3-4 pitchers.
 
The Nemesis said:
That's just bad management. If you thought Stripling couldn't go in game 2 then he shouldn't have been starting.

Or at the very least you probably shouldn't burn Thornton in game 1. Because even granting that Thornton sucks, he's one of the few guys in the pen capable of giving you multiple innings. Because instead here we're going to through the last 5 innings probably using 3-4 pitchers.
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and that impacts game 3 and 4 if you burning guys in games you don't need to
 
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