GT 4/16: Rays at Sox, 1:10 CT

[hankchifan]

1 minute ago, Polar Bear said:

Leury should be on the bench 6 out of every 7 days 

My bad, I meant for today’s game.  If we had kept Madrigal, we would not be dealing with Leury so much.  That Kimbrel trade was a bummer.  We didn’t need him. We needed a RF.

[CentralChamps21]

3 minutes ago, hankchifan said:

My bad, I meant for today’s game.  If we had kept Madrigal, we would not be dealing with Leury so much.  That Kimbrel trade was a bummer.  We didn’t need him. We needed a RF.

Trading Madrigal for Kimbrel ended up getting us a RF.

[hankchifan]

4 hours ago, chw42 said:

My heart rate is about 150 lmao

Hendriks is Cardiac Liam.

[hankchifan]

6 minutes ago, CentralChamps21 said:

Trading Madrigal for Kimbrel ended up getting us a RF.

Right.  But we needed a RF last season.  That God awful Goodwin cost us a few games.  Atlanta traded/acquired 3 outfielders last season and won the World Series.  We stood pat stuck with Goodwin and Leury and we did not go too far.

[hankchifan]

5 hours ago, HahnsKiddieTable said:

McGuire earning his paycheck behind the plate with all these balls in the dirt

You are right.  Neither Grandal nor Collins orSevy would have stopped most of them.

[hankchifan]

5 hours ago, ShoeLessRob said:

If Grandal was behind the plate this game would be tied. 

With Collins we probably lose.

[Heads22]

McGuire can steal strikes behind the plate. Collins never could with us.

[FriendlyNorthsider]

What's awesome about Liam is that he has the mental toughness to close out games even when he doesnt have his best stuff or isnt getting results. He has a 2.4 WHIP and is 4/5 in Save situations. The Velo is still where it needs to be so I'm not worried hell get back to his usual self.

Kimbrel's fastball is down a MPH since last year (1.4 MPH since 2020) which makes me a bit less confident that he will outperform his metrics this year