Jake

This series hasn't moved me very much. Pitching pleasantly competitive. A lot of ABs going to guys who are not really part of the plan right now.

Welp

I've been a bit of a Burke hater, but he's pretty much earned my confidence as a guy who is going to give you serviceable performance and is able to keep things from getting out of control.

Felt like Peters took a while to get that throw in

Similar propensity for "heady" plays of that kind, taking extra bases and such

Sox slowly but surely compiling these annoying-to-play-against guys like Meidroth, Vargas, and soon Antonacci

Makes no sense to me

Confirming my suspicions, Mune has barely made contact with a pitch in the outer third yet. They'll probably keep attacking him out there until he figures it out. Luckily, he hasn't chased too much and he generally kills pitches in the middle third so pitchers really need to execute to get him.

Mune tends to take some odd looking swings at pitches on the outside part of the plate

That was a horrific at bat by Peters

Not sure that Hudson will be part of the team by tomorrow's game.

It's like they got Quero trying to take more aggressive cuts in order to get into his power, but the end result has been that he's losing his pitch recognition without any of the "hitting the ball harder" that is supposed to be part of the tradeoff. This is a player who hit 12 HR in 72 games in a pretty low-offense AA league in 2024 so it's not like he's incapable of being something other than a singles hitter when things are going well. Being so young there's reason to think that a demotion wouldn't have to be a permanent thing, especially given how short his time in Charlotte was.

Pretty clear that Edgar has totally lost his confidence, he ought to at least get a couple days off. Obviously if this continues when Teel returns, they probably should send him to Charlotte to go figure some things out.

Colson might want to start leaning into those things for as long as the scouting report continues to indicate he can't hit anything high and inside.

I'm a little unclear on what Will was supposed to do today. His starter went 3.2 innings. Hicks is a converted starter who looked utterly dominant in his first inning of work. Pretty clear we weren't going to let him pitch to Gunnar, who is instead faced by Murphy who is IMO the more trustworthy of the two lefties left in the pen. Gunnar is a hall of fame talent and hit a screamer that snuck out of the stadium. s%*# happens, should have hit more earlier today.

Kinda funny because although Gunnar smacked that thing, he hit it too low to get out of that part of ballpark more often than not...but the ball carried more than you'd expect. So somebody is getting the ball to carry today!

The difference between these two teams appears to be just Gunnar Henderson and I guess I can live with that

They know what's coming so they just stick the bat out and it finds the corner twice in a row

Alexander using so much pine tar he couldn't get the bat off of his hand lol

Imagine getting jammed by a 98mph sinker in this weather

I'm calling for a complete and total ban on splitters until we can figure out what the hell is going on

Hicks getting a lot of mileage out of high sinkers so that's interesting

Did that last night too. Very strange.

My god hitting in the cold really sucks

On one hand, Acuna hit a pitch well up and out of the zone there. On the other hand, it probably would have been a strike to some other guys on the team