Look at Ray Ray Run

Tim wasn't calling for that ball at all. It was his, but he wasn't saying a thing.

How would you know if they were ever late? The only way you find out is if a coach says so. I know in Puig's case, he was chronically late and eventually sat for it.

LOL so you think in the last 7 years of baseball there have been three guys who were late to their job? ?

You hear about maybe 5-10% of players who are late to a ballpark or arena in any sport.

What lesson are you teaching a professional athlete by benching him for being late? I'm serious. What message are you sending the team? Being on time is more important than producing and winning baseball games? That's just dumb.

This is just not true at all.

So fine him and put him in the damn lineup because his job is to win games, not be Yermins dad.

So glad we taught Mercedes, the 28 year old grown man, a lesson about timeliness today! Hopefully that's a valuable lesson that Yermin will take with him to his future office jobs. After all, professional sports are about life lessons and not winning... amirite or amirite?!

Bases loaded!!! for Jake Lamb

Oh my goodness. It just won't end despite all the evidence to the contrary. Giolito's xFIP is 3.2 - the lowest of his career. Unless you think Giolito is suddenly a 22.7% HR/FB guy, Giolito has been absolutely fine. His LOB% is 10% below his career average, and is actually 3.5% lower than it was in the year where he was the worst pitcher in baseball. Sequencing has gotten him, and ONE BAD INNING vs the Red Sox has inflated the heck out of his numbers. Giolito is FINE.

Why would you compare August to April/Early May?

In fact, if you look at the graph his peak velocities have actually been UP over multiple starts last year and all April starts in April 2019.

I posted his velocity chart. There is nothing off about Giolito's velocity. Compare April/May of 2019 vs 2021. They are nearly identical. His peak and bottom velocities are the same as well. If the Red Sox game HAD NOT happened (which frankly was a fluke combination of terrible command and a team just having a read on a pattern he had shown early), no one would be talking about how "bad" Giolito looks today. If LaRussa actually took him out when he was gassed, no one would be saying "three bad games" when reality is it was one. Giolito's problem right now is his command has gotten a little weary. It happens!

Lol this narrative is so exhaustingly broken

The guy is good! I didnt even wait for it to be official, started looking it up right after he posted it assuming that was it

Sounds like 3-6 weeks.

Nothing at all crazy or alarming about 2021 here. Giolito has just had had command in this recent stretch and it's hurting him imo

Jack you just said yourself his velocity is down .5! Mph. You may not remember it, but they happened. .5 MPH is absolutely nothing to worry about.

I mean the evidence was his job title was literally GM. I like Hahn but this insistence on giving hahn credit for the very very little success he's had in his tenure and blaming the failures on everyone else is laughable. Kenny, as GM, WON more than hahn and everyone blames Kenny for failures. It's wild.

Which is almost meaningless given that it's April (I guess technically may now).

Giilito problem, which is being greatly overblown here as he's given up nothing, is that he's predictably a two pitch pitcher the first time though the order. He doesn't really work the slider in until the 2nd time through. People are just sitting on the change or fastball and waiting. Not too worried.

Yeah, yas too. I think most werent sure robert would be this good offensively this year, so if Vaughn/abreu and yas get going a little they should be able to score. I dont trust engels bat at all so wont say relying on him. Great play Eat!

If the starting pitching keeps dominating games they should be fine, the division is week and those guys keep them in all the games. Robert is such a tough loss though

The good news, if there is any is engel will be back so they wont lose much defensively. They need vaughn to pick it up a bit offensively, and abreu, but if vaughn can get going maybe they can cover for the loss a bit.

This isn't amateur sports. Fine him if you want to punish him for tardiness. I'm not a fan of this type of leadership. You are, in turn, punishing the rest of the team because Yermin was late.