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Kevan Smith ? Isn't he a FA now ?

Until he starts hitting again hit him 9th. Crap Judge sucks. Our 2 closers can't stop throwing gopher balls.

No one has really talked about it in these threads but Burger has been out since he injured his hand July 30th with a bone bruise. He was initially put on the 7 day IL but last I read they were talking about him possibly returning before the end of the season.

I really liked that so I watched Part 1 also. Thanks.

The announcer called the hit a 1 hop line drive but it was actually 2 hops and if Harper charges it instead of standing there waiting for the height of the 2nd hop maybe he has a shot at nailing Turner at the plate. Just one of those small things that won't show up in jump or range or burst or any fielding metric I can think of but makes a difference in evaluating OF defense.

Grandal went 1-4 playing DH for Birmingham. 27 yr. old Jameson Fisher had 3 HR's and a walk hitting behind Grandal. Our A League teams Kannapolis and Winston-Salem are a combined 59 W and 117 L. AAA Charlotte is 31-57. Only Birmingham has a winning record of 47-40.

A mic'ed up Timmy , who has never seen Field of Dreams, makes his own Field of Dreams !

No one seems to have a problem seeing the ball on the field

Seby !!!!! Legend

Big Baby !!!!!!!!!!!!

Pito !!!

I've probably seen it 5 times, so no need. Enjoy !

Costner just said "shit" on national TV.

Timmy has never seen the movie.

These are the kind of narratives that never make any sense. A pitcher with a 3.57 ERA with decent K, BB percentages should not only be put in games up or down by 5 runs. How often does that happen? Then you got others here who aren't going to trust Lopez in the same situation and others who want Kimbrel and Hendrick to pitch at any time. If Foster stays around how do you use him ? So now you have 3 guys you can't use unless you are up or down by 5 runs ? There are way more things to consider besides how far ahead or down you are. Look when you manage a bullpen there are never ideal situations to pitch just the right guy. You track their appearances, their innings pitched last year , innings pitched this year ,the times they get up and down in the pen, who's coming up to bat, how they feel, and maybe a dozen other things and the manager has to make a choice while using everyone to keep them all involved as much as possible because you never know when someone will be called upon to go above and beyond their specific role. A manager will do certain things to manage the specific roles he has on how to use guys. It's never going to make everyone happy in the regular season with a 10 game lead. Managing in the post season is a different ball game and despite anyone thinking the way TLR manages the BP is antiquated his BP usage will also change in the post season. Right now HFA is rightly taking a back seat to keeping the team healthy and ready to play the post season. At some point, some of you have to realize TLR has done this before. He has got teams ready to play in the post season and won World Series.

Good inning Foster. Let's go bats !

People were thinking he could get 100 innings this year coming off 2 years of not pitching. I think it would be pretty easy to get him 100+ after he gets 55+ this year. It's just not what people here wanted. They wanted 100 IP this year and 150 IP+ next year.

I don't think it was the plan to have the RH relievers suck this year. We knew from the get go that Kopech and Crochet just weren't going to get the innings due to babying them because of lack of innings pitched in the past . About the only thing that could be said about the plan was maybe another BP arm could've been added to the off season or put Kopech and/or Crochet in the minors. But when you have live arms capable of getting MLB hitters out and you are attempting to win a World Series we all know you need every good arm available. But once the RH relievers started sucking that shortened the BP a lot. Bringing up Lopez was kind of the last ditch effort to get something out of the minors to work at the MLB level. At one point Kopech was starting to be stretched out but then he had the hammy injury and lately he hasn't been pitching all that well so going multiple inning hasn't really been an option. Most speculate he was tipping pitches but like any young pitcher who hadn't pitching the last 2 seasons it could just be inconsistency or even a dead arm period.

What was the rational behind not stretching out Kopech ? Sorry I can't read the Athletic articles ?

So what about TLR saying he expected it to be longer ?

Really? Ride him hard seems pretty self explanatory even given the context. You could've said rest him when necessary and if his arm survives through the playoffs we will revisit what kind of FA contract he will be worth.

A 10 day IL stint is and it will probably be longer . He skipped a start recently and had 8 days off between starts but even that wasn't long enough to prevent the shoulder fatigue or worse. Right now looking at best case scenario it's 2 weeks off and worst case who knows.

Since 2017 it has been. Last year was on a neutral field but still the Dodgers were given HFA (last AB).

Riding Rodon hard would've surely meant not having him for the post season. How does that make any sense at all ? It was never just about just having no interest in having him next year.