JoeC

No, there was 1 bad inning on defense. 9 bad innings on offense.

Why? we can’t have anyone WALKING

I'll await additional instructional assignments between my game thread appearances.

...I notice I was "promoted" to Birmingham. Does this mean "yes?"

Yes.... those hurt

I would say the concept of positional flexibility isn't the problem. The problem is applying it to guys who don't have the tools to fit into the concept. You can't train a fish to climb a fucking tree and expect it to replace a monkey.

Maybe it was Boone. Actually, I think you're right. ...but I did remember Wasserman did come out of nowhere - fringe-ish prospect --> big league bullpen

In Wasserman's defense, he was a dark horse who came out of nowehere. I believe the big league team faced him in an intrasquad game and basically were forced to give him a chance.

Do you wanna talk about hotels, or do you wanna win some ballgames?

...so... question answered?

I'm not sure which is worse. Option 1: no - the team (analytics department) isn't aware of these horrible and disturbingly inept offensive numbers Option 2: yes - the team is aware but isn't acting on it.

Yeah - the "option" is defined as sending someone down.

I think they can use him, but they can't send him back down. So the next time he's up, he's up "for good" for the season.

kind of nice to see the team climb out of the basement on this, basically entirely buoyed by Montgomery's ascent as a prospect. Hopefully Project Birmingham proves effective.

At least with Kopech there (seemingly) was a strategy to give him periodic rest for innings management anyways, so I am guessing it was somewhat of a no-brainer for that reason.

As a side note, I would love to have Benetti and Brockmire call a game together. Benetti as the "straight man" setting up Brockmire would be a sight to behold.

Huh. It's almost as if this organization tolerates mediocrity in its public-facing product out of some sense of loyalty. I hope it doesn't bleed over to the on-field product. That would be a shame.

That, and the fact that Vaughn never played OF tells me that he isn't an outfielder. I commend him for seizing the opportunity to break into the big leagues, but at some point the org should strive for something beyond a second-tier solution.

Muncy just signed an extension, so he's off the table.

Makes sense, given the lack of mask in the video.

Would be curious to see the rest of the team's stats in this situation. Read: "someone please look it up because I'm too lazy"

You're right. It's pretty plain. For his career: 1B: .776 OPS (104 AB) DH: .802 OPS (126 AB) LF: .748 OPS (377 AB) RF: .685 OPS (173 AB)

I think that was from late 2020 or early 2021. At the time I was actually on board with it. The offense had relied so incredibly heavily no the home run that it was feast-or-famine a lot of games. I interpreted his "fuck the home run" attitude as a "let's focus on good at-bats as a primary approach, and home runs will come." Not "don't hit home runs." You know - I was viewing it though a lens of common sense.

AV has an .800 OPS. His WAR is 0.6, but that's 100% because of his defense. I'm failing to see how he's a massive disappointment.

Yes.