OT: Raise the Jolly Roger: Congrats to the Houston Cheaters on their win

[DJ Spinoza]

Well, that didn't go like I'm sure they drew it up. Cubs have looked terrible, hopefully Eickhoff can at least fall on his sword and eat 5 innings tonight.

I think it was partially a timing thing. Wilson pitched last night (and was awful anyways), and Bolton / Burrows aren't in line for today. I actually think we'll try to get one more start out of Eickhoff vs. Washington before DFAing him, but he might be such a train wreck that it's impossible. He just doesn't have a fastball that can do much of anything.

 

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EIckhoff throwing BP meatballs.

 

[ImporterExporter]

The first inning you could that was coming. Just about every strike was middle/middle.

Going to say he won't pitch again for us.

 

[ImporterExporter]

Just pathetic. BP tosses all night. Should never see another inning here after tonight.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Don't think it's an enormous deal but would be nice if he can at least eat 6 innings. I'm sure we will see a position player pitch an inning tonight.

 

[DanielPlainview]

It sucks. Not fun to watch. But hopefully it's just a one off

 

[ChaosAgent]

Over the course of the season, you'll have a couple stinkers where non-MLer pitchers give it the old try.

Should have started De Jong. Regardless, I doubt Eickhoff gets another go.

 

[ChaosAgent]

Mitchell looks overmatched. I'd send him down pretty quickly once one of the rehabbing guys is ready.

 

[DJ Spinoza]

I'd rather just have a permanent expanded bullpen than see position players pitching regularly.

 

[Empoleon8771]

MLB teams should be allowed to forfeit a game if they're down by so much that they're reading to put in a position player to pitch.

 

[ImporterExporter]

Mitchell looks overmatched. I'd send him down pretty quickly once one of the rehabbing guys is ready.

Yep. Agree completely.

 

[ImporterExporter]

Nice fight at the end.

 

[Gallatin]

Nice fight at the end.

And Cruz scored a run and knocked another one in. Given the quality of his swings tonight, I'll take it.

Madris continues to impress.

 

[CallArnoldSlick]

 

[DanielPlainview]

They could have brought Jeff Karstens out of retirement for one night and gotten a more entertaining result

 

[NewAgeOutlaw]

They could have brought Jeff Karstens out of retirement for one night and gotten a more entertaining result

 

[Gallatin]

Cruz may be one of those guys that struggles with his throws when he's not letting it rip. We might need to go the Dunston route here. Oneil should not be tossing balls across the diamond at 50% but rather he should bring it every time.

Thoughts?

 

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[ChaosAgent]

Need something big out of Castillo and Chavis. Just the reality of this team facing lefties

 

[ImporterExporter]

Cruz may be one of those guys that struggles with his throws when he's not letting it rip. We might need to go the Dunston route here. Oneil should not be tossing balls across the diamond at 50% but rather he should bring it every time.

Thoughts?

Whatever keeps them on target and I think that is by ripping it from what I've seen. He started taking heat off it and throws were in the dirt and going wide. Just let it rip. I'm sure he's going to make some errors in the throwing department, but that first one he fielded and just let loose on is how I think he should be going about things.

 

[Gallatin]

Whatever keeps them on target and I think that is by ripping it from what I've seen. He started taking heat off it and throws were in the dirt and going wide. Just let it rip. I'm sure he's going to make some errors in the throwing department, but that first one he fielded and just let loose on is how I think he should be going about things.

Those are the same kind of throwing errors he was making in the Minors too.

Personally I'm all for it. It should be actually more fun from the fans perspective to see him letting it rip all the time.

Gotta go back to work soon. Enjoy the Day Baseball peeps.

 

[Gallatin]

FYI Garcia and Chen are pitching tonight. Two guys I've really got my eye on in A-ball right now.

 

[ImporterExporter]

June Reynolds is MVP caliber.

 

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Can't wait to see the Twitter crowd start to turn on Cruz within the first week of him being up here....

 

[DJ Spinoza]

Yeah, we need some distance from the micro-commentary on everything that he does. It's funny, Brown is like the guiltiest at that kind of thing -- he was doing it for a while with every single pitch that Mitch Keller threw.