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

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If nothing else, hopefully this will at least give Castillo steady playing time in the infield. I get that people can point at underwhelming stats, and also that we are prone to hyper-fixate on prospects, but it's been weird to watch his playing time unfold early in the season. I can't think of him starting on back to back nights except one or two occasions. Just stick him in the lineup everyday for 2 weeks and then start to assess.
 
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If nothing else, hopefully this will at least give Castillo steady playing time in the infield. I get that people can point at underwhelming stats, and also that we are prone to hyper-fixate on prospects, but it's been weird to watch his playing time unfold early in the season. I can't think of him starting on back to back nights except one or two occasions. Just stick him in the lineup everyday for 2 weeks and then start to assess.
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I can think of nothing else aside from Shelton wanting to righty/lefty and the extending spring training stuff to keep giving Tucker, Park and Vanmeter more looks. As those guys fade from consciousness I think Castillo will start the majority of games against RHP and LHP
 
Another solid outing from Burrows tonight: 5 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 7 K, 0 R, 66 pitches

Something that won't necessarily show up on the box score is that he labored a little bit in the 4th, getting into some deeper counts, and then Altoona was sent down very quickly in their next inning. Burrows got back on the mound and I think had a 6 pitch inning, quickly generating weak contact for routine outs.

He looks very good to me -- not quite the complete dominance we saw from Contreras last year, but opposing hitters are very often overmatched against him. He does miss his spots occasionally, but to me he never looks to be too wild or not in control. He's able to just carve guys up or pivot to living closer to the edges in order to generate pop ups or weak grounders.

I haven't checked his other starts, but he's also generally being efficient out there, so the shorter inning totals are more about monitoring workload and not pushing too much early in the season. The most noticeable thing with him so far this year is that he's able to utilize multiple weapons effectively. Heading into last year I think a lot of people had him as more of an RP type prospect, and it will be something to monitor as he continues this year, but he has the stuff and poise to be an impact starter.
 
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Yoshi does not move well at 1st. Broke very slow and awkward on that.

He just sucks in general at 1B. And unfortunately, at the plate as well this season.
 
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Reynolds' pitch recognition...what happened? Is this going to be 2020 all over again?

He and Tsutsugo are the biggest problem with the team, and it isn't close.
 
I don't think there's a great solution for Yoshi except to sit him for a while. His ABs were fine early on, but it's now an extended stretch. Chavis is probably your other viable option (Vogey too, but he's a bad defender) and the swing and miss has ticked up for him noticeably in recent games. I'd probably just try to get Yoshi a few days to reset and then see -- IMO it's way too early to call up Martin, even if that ultimately might make sense. He needs to get his Ks down in AAA before it makes sense to do something like DFA Yoshi and add him to the 40-man.
 
Sometimes Shelton's tinkering leads to a W, other times it leads to pulling a pitcher who was perfectly fine for the matchup of a guy who shouldn't even be in the big leagues right now.

Howard was an obvious fall off after the substance crackdown last year, and whenever Banda can come off the IL he needs to go down.

It's ultimately meaningless because Ben Cherington assembling yet another terrible MLB team, but it's beyond demoralizing to watch this kind of shit when we were perfectly set to lose 2-1 anyways. Now we might luck into a walk/hit/HBP and there's still no pressure on Hader.
 
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Sometimes Shelton's tinkering leads to a W, other times it leads to pulling a pitcher who was perfectly fine for the matchup of a guy who shouldn't even be in the big leagues right now.

Howard was an obvious fall off after the substance crackdown last year, and whenever Banda can come off the IL he needs to go down.

It's ultimately meaningless because Ben Cherington assembling yet another terrible MLB team, but it's beyond demoralizing to watch this kind of shit when we were perfectly set to lose 2-1 anyways. Now we might luck into a walk/hit/HBP and there's still no pressure on Hader.
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I think Shelton managed fine today honestly.

It isn't his fault Yoshi can't field his position and all his hitters suck.

I know it's miserable to hit when it's freezing outside and stuff but I'm so disappointed in some of these guys. These aren't major league quality at-bats. Reynolds...glad we didn't pay you the big bucks man. Gonna be a .750-.800 OPS year for you.
 
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I think Shelton managed fine today honestly.

It isn't his fault Yoshi can't field his position and all his hitters suck.

I know it's miserable to hit when it's freezing outside and stuff but I'm so disappointed in some of these guys. These aren't major league quality at-bats. Reynolds...glad we didn't pay you the big bucks man. Gonna be a .750-.800 OPS year for you.
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Yeah, I think he was mostly fine, but trailing in the game, I don't see the need to try and go with the matchups in that situation. I'd just let the guy in the game keep going.

Regardless, can't really do much of anything when you score 1 run, and despite how bad the starting pitching is, the losses have mostly had a pretty consistent theme of 0-2 runs. Reynolds has to get going if we have any prayer of treading water.
 
F*****g Yoshi

I realize that facing Hader is unfair for any lefty.

But it's an accumulation of incompetence at the plate and bad fielding.
 
Quintana locked in today so far but I'm not sure it's gonna matter with the state of our offense/Peralta. At least Hader probably can't be used, and I guess maybe Quintana has a fighting shot to get through 6 innings.
 
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