hankchifan

Guys, Yoan is the least of our worries. Worry about Vaughn, Goodwin, our injured players, more important issues.

DK at least got Marte to pop up.

Vaughn. Has been our biggest rally killer. In this inning he struck out with a ball over his head, when we needed contact. He needs to be benched. Let Leury play the OF. He along with Grandal has been our hottest hitter.

Definitely, prefer LeuryinRF than Goodwin, and he is also a switch hitter.

We can’t get anyone to hit a sacrifice fly. We are going to have to get some fly ball hitters into the lineup next year.

We got the bad Luis tonight so far.

He needs to grab some bench. Play Sheets in the OF. Can’t keep getting him out there to kill rallys. He needs the rest physically and mentally.

For starters we need to stop hitting into rally killing double plays.

We don’t have upper cut swingers like a Kris Bryant.

We need to put runners in motion, can’t be worse than the DPs we are hitting into. That will put the defense also in motion and open holes in the infield. If station to station baseball is not working we need to adjust. The way we are playing if we don’t hit homers, it is tough to win.

Awful. I can see not running with Grandal, but next time is feasible we must hit and run. You can’t keep hitting into DPs with DK pitching and expect to win. Station to station baseball waiting for a homer is not going to work in a big park like a Oakland.

But isn’t Engel going to play RF?

Goodwin sucks. Can’t wait for Engel to be back.

Agree, would have been more valuable and more of a need than Kimbrel.

Adjust and hit and run, put the runner in play. Put pressure on the defense. We are a ground ball hitting team. We don’t hit many sacrifice flies.

We already had a closer. We had bigger needs in the outfield. We gave up too much for a luxury Nice to have but not a must.

What about a bullpen game?

Regardless, let’s try a hit and run,and not keep hitting into double plays. Outcome can’t be worse than what we are getting now.

What about a hit and run with Abreu at the plate against the splitter. That should have been a no brainer. The station to station inaction cost us another double play.

Maybe he should refund part of his bloated salary. Time to apply pay for performance in baseball.

He needs to change for the better. .464 opponent batting average in his last 9 innings is not going to cut it. Maybe he should shave that frigging ZZ Top beard for starters. Get all those bugs out of there.

I hope we can get some first downs and not just one big punt.

It was a good game except for theBurr detour that we managed to overcome.

Sounds like a Southern teenager nickname.

He also failed to move Leury to third who would have scored on Hernández infield hit.