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Magua said:
I can handle the blown lead. Bases loaded striking out looking on 3 pitches, followed by 1st and 3rd with 1 out and not driving in at least the tying run, followed by 1st and 2nd with 0 outs and hitting into a DP.

They should’ve taken the lead back. That’s some gross situational hitting.
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Team always comes up in the high leverage situations. Both the relievers and hitters are just excellent under pressure. This squad is made for the playoffs
 
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I'm mad that we didn't get to see the Marlins send out a position player to pitch in extra innings to maintain a lead or a tie.

The Brewers are contending for worst loss of the day
 
DancingPanther said:
Schmidt said it himself. You never bunt your #4 hitter. Never!
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You don't bunt there. You just can't hit into a double play. Literally anything but that and you still probably tie the game.

Halladay said:
Rob is not the guy. If missing the playoffs means him going Im all for it. Total clown.
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We're blaming the manager for the offense not executing in late inning situations? You greatly overstate the impact of a manager.
 
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FLYguy3911 said:
You don't bunt there. You just can't hit into a double play. Literally anything but that and you still probably tie the game.


We're blaming the manager for the offense not executing in late inning situations? You greatly overstate the impact of a manager.
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There's a lot of blame to go around after this one.
 
FLYguy3911 said:
You don't bunt there. You just can't hit into a double play. Literally anything but that and you still probably tie the game.


We're blaming the manager for the offense not executing in late inning situations? You greatly overstate the impact of a manager.
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No, for bringing in Seranthony again in a tie game. The hitters failing to hit are on themelves. he finally made the change dropping Nick 8th, only 11 months too late. there is some progress at least. The manager did not have a very good weekend, starting with his gauffe Friday night by pulling Sanchez who was cruising. Something he has done numerous times this year.
 
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Halladay said:
No, for bringing in Seranthony again in a tie game. The hitters failing to hit are on themelves. he finally made the change dropping Nick 8th, only 11 months too late. there is some progress at least. The manager did not have a very good weekend, starting with his gauffe Friday night by pulling Sanchez who was cruising. Something he has done numerous times this year.
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Fans view these decisions in a vacuum. These decisions are almost always planned out in advance with the analytics and advanced scouting teams input.

Sanchez's career high in innings is 97. He's currently at 130. He's just not going to go more than 5 innings from here on out. If you're expecting him to, your expectations are just not aligned with modern baseball. There's a reason they brought in Lorenzen and went to a 6 man rotation.

They have an 8 man bullpen. Hoffman threw 1.2 yesterday. Soto threw Friday and Saturday. Who are you going to? Covey? Bellatti? There's also a mental component to the decision. They need Dominguez to throw like he did last year. If the manager doesn't show enough confidence to throw him in that spot, it can be just as detrimental as a poor outing.

A manager's job is mostly to make sure guys don't hate coming to the ballpark every night. And by most accounts they do, so there's that. I hate to oversimplify it to just that because there is obviously more involved, but games are won and lost by players executing or not. Today they didn't execute and they lost the series.
 
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FLYguy3911 said:
Fans view these decisions in a vacuum. These decisions are almost always planned out in advance with the analytics and advanced scouting teams input.

Sanchez's career high in innings is 97. He's currently at 130. He's just not going to go more than 5 innings from here on out. If you're expecting him to, your expectations are just not aligned with modern baseball. There's a reason they brought in Lorenzen and went to a 6 man rotation.

They have an 8 man bullpen. Hoffman threw 1.2 yesterday. Soto threw Friday and Saturday. Who are you going to? Covey? Bellatti? There's also a mental component to the decision. They need Dominguez to throw like he did last year. If the manager doesn't show enough confidence to throw him in that spot, it can be just as detrimental as a poor outing.

A manager's job is mostly to make sure guys don't hate coming to the ballpark every night. And by most accounts they do, so there's that. I hate to oversimplify it to just that because there is obviously more involved, but games are won and lost by players executing or not. Today they didn't execute and they lost the series.
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The thing with bringing in Dominguez in that situation isn't wrong, so I agree with a lot of this.

The problem I have with this bullpen is too long for me to post, but the best way I can sum it up is like this.

We have TOO MANY CLOSERS and not enough SET UP arms. I watched Soto, for example, close many games last year for a terrible Tigers team. I didn't like adding him IF he wasn't going to close games. Kimbrel is a closer. Seranthony was being groomed to close but is taking a back seat. Then there's Alvarado who closed game one NLCS last year. Nobody wants to bring in a closer down one run or even in a tie game. Yet it's always one of the would be closers for another team blowing it. I just feel like the problem isn't the bullpen, so much as what roles the pen are put in. That much is on Rob at this point, and to a lesser extent DD.

And yeah I'm forced to watch Tigers baseball but my point stands whether it makes sense or not. Yeah this post ended up being too long screw me.
 
Bigtimefeed said:
The thing with bringing in Dominguez in that situation isn't wrong, so I agree with a lot of this.

The problem I have with this bullpen is too long for me to post, but the best way I can sum it up is like this.

We have TOO MANY CLOSERS and not enough SET UP arms. I watched Soto, for example, close many games last year for a terrible Tigers team. I didn't like adding him IF he wasn't going to close games. Kimbrel is a closer. Seranthony was being groomed to close but is taking a back seat. Then there's Alvarado who closed game one NLCS last year. Nobody wants to bring in a closer down one run or even in a tie game. Yet it's always one of the would be closers for another team blowing it. I just feel like the problem isn't the bullpen, so much as what roles the pen are put in. That much is on Rob at this point, and to a lesser extent DD.

And yeah I'm forced to watch Tigers baseball but my point stands whether it makes sense or not. Yeah this post ended up being too long screw me.
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Alvarado and Dominguez dominated last year. Heck Alvarado this year despite some scuffles recently has been pretty great. Dominguez not so much.

Alvarado, Hoffman, Kimbrel, and Strahm is a pretty good core of playoff pitchers. Dominguez has shown many times he's capable of being a part of that list. Add in what I have to think will be Sanchez as this year's version of playoff Ranger and they could be cooking.

As much as I grill this team, part of why it's so infuriating is they should be better than this. These arms aren't poor enough to blow leads left and right. Does that mean normalization is on the horizon? Let's hope. The bullpen is so key because we know exactly what the offense is going to be: boom AND bust. The only way to win with that type of lineup is to have a good bullpen, which this is not right now. It has been, but it's not right now.
 
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Wow. Yankees just called him up like a week or so ago... said he felt soreness in his arm all week.
 
DancingPanther said:
You want to see a shit show? Tune in to a rousing double dose of Phillies baseball today against the Braves
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Morton was scary good in August, last start not so much though. I am pretty optimistic, if Rob sits down Seranthony and other bullpen clowns. Walker and Lorenzen starting today.

Split would be fine today.
 
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