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QUOTE (fathom @ May 27, 2015 -> 03:18 PM) Valencia murders lefties He faced Duke last night right? Was he one of the hits?

Looks like Duke vs. Goins next? Anyone useful on Toronto's bench?

If Shuck hadn't hit the cutoff man that's a single and this is a tie game.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ May 27, 2015 -> 03:14 PM) Maybe he should be fired as pitching coach. I'll take Ventura over Cooper. In some professional sports when you criticize the fan base like Cooper does, you are shown the door. This pitching staff has absolutely earned themselves a new pitching coach with their early season perfomrance.

I do give them compliments on appropriately throwing to a cutoff man and keeping the runner from 3rd.

3-2 single by Smoak, still only 1 out, tying run on 2b.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 27, 2015 -> 03:11 PM) Not to mention you already are down one bigger bat in Garcia for Shuck. You add another singles type of bat in Bonifacio in all likelihood. Alexei Ramirez is a "bigger bat"?

Putnam and Duke look to be up. Putnam coming in?

Smoak in to PH.

Now in trouble. 2 on, 1 out.

Ok Jake, come on, let's hold this together.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ May 27, 2015 -> 03:02 PM) Ramirez needs to sit for a couple days. He's on pace for -1.2 fWAR and his defensive metrics are the worst they've been since his rookie year. Sit his ass down and tell him that nobody on the team is guaranteed a spot every day no matter how long they've been here. With Gillaspie seemingly hobbled/unable to play right now that does reduce our options.

I very strongly disagree with the concept that you should not judge the GM based on the results of their decision rather than how the decision looked at the time. It's an excuse that leaves us with a losing franchise. If a person makes decisions that constantly look correct at the time and blow up in their face every single time...then it is absolutely time to reevaluate that decision making process and that's where we are right now. The assumptions behind those moves are simply incorrect. We're ignoring defense. We're ignoring fundamentals. We're continuing to push people too aggressively. We thought we had a team (both this year and in 2013) that was ready to compete and we spent a whole lot of money based on that assumption. We are totally failing to understand this roster, this team, or how to build a competitive team. If every decision looks fine and they completely implode, then we need to reevaluate how we're judging these decisions. Either that, or every decision we made did work out, and the coaching staff completely failed in their job of getting those players ready to go. Take your pick. I'm going with "both". neither is not an option unless you're ok with winning 45% of your games.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 27, 2015 -> 02:52 PM) Oof. Anyone warming in the pen? Petricka now.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 27, 2015 -> 02:53 PM) What happened? ball up the middle past 2nd, had to range far to get there, tried to flip the ball to Sanchez, basically rolled it to him, Sanchez did a good job keeping the ball from getting away from him, barehanded it, but was too late to get the runner. Alexei wanted a chanllenge but runner was actually safe, weakly bouncing ball did not get there fast enough.

that run scoring was an interesting voyage.

Bautista was really, really angry about that popup.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 27, 2015 -> 01:25 PM) You know I've been someone who's been critical of Cooper for the massive underachieving of the pitching this year. I'm actually ok with Ventura finishing the year, as I don't think anything would change in terms of win-loss record, as too many players came out of the gates slow this season. The entire organization needs turned over. Coaches, GM, minor league staff, all of them. This failure comes from every single one of those levels.

Ok Jose, at least we got you up. Do something.

Come on, just no DP.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 27, 2015 -> 01:11 PM) The players have talent. They haven't played up to the talent. Most likely they will at some point. But fire, fire, fire. That's a meathead approach. And doing nothing with this franchise is a ".389, .451, .442" winning percentages are awesome statement.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 27, 2015 -> 01:08 PM) The players are at fault. Firing Robin or firing Hahn isn't going to make them play better. It would be like firing the guy painting your house because you don't like what the landscaper did to your bushes. Then we did a horrible job of choosing the players to bring in and we need someone else to do the job of rebuilding this debacle.

shame we couldn't take advantage of that.

This is one where I don't mind them taking this long, this is a tough one.

He might be out based on that shot. Shuck was not tagged on the initial pass but his hand came off the bag while he was being tagged on the knee.