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Robert's either not seeing the ball well in the twilight or he's completely out of sync, probably a little of both.

Smart not to give Eloy a fastball when he was up in the count. Nice defensive play there by Plesac, 101 MPH self-defense clinic as he was falling back a bit and off balance.

The Padres' underachieved in the second half and, despite some major injuries, GOODBYE Andy Green. Hello Jayce Tingler. You just the feeling other teams are more about winning/results than loyalty, stability, or the players' comfort level/clubhouse chemistry (whatever that gets a losing team and franchise that hasn't rediscovered how to embrace that mentality, like the Royals younger players 5-6 years ago.)

Here comes the set-up for the big inning with the heart of their order coming up now...terrible location with that pitch. Engel did a good job limiting him to a single instead of 2nd/3rd, no outs. Can at least get a double play ball here, possibly. Not sure Delmonico manages to hold him there.

At least 3 weeks....with a veteran manager like Renteria who's eminently predictable in his playing time preferences. Fwiw, if we need Collins to save us and Encarnacion's basically done, it's just one more scouting/evaluation error from our front office. That said, he absolutely blasted that homer onto the concourse against Minny. Timing is going to take a bit longer for older players, imo.

Their #5 starter would be our #3. That's the difference in the two staffs. Plutko is essentially their #6/swingman. And Bieber has really elevated his game since last year. It helps to have tonight's home plate owner's strike zone....that's how he got 14 Opening Day. 7 strikeouts. Not to mention Clevinger is REALLY nasty. We're missing their two best and in danger of getting swept nevertheless.

Watching Grandal with Crede's #24, makes one expect a bunch of flares into RF. Indians' pitching has been simply dominant so far in the early season, in both their series so far.

Counting down 3, 2, 1....before comment about Anderson and Giolito shouldn't be having so much fun in the dugout when their team is 1-4.

Unless you played for King or Simeon in the late 80's or early 90's... Btw, that new Rangers' stadium looks awfully antiseptic watching from t.v., and there's been very little offense so far there.

Or Alexei? Nice play by Moncada cutting across Anderson, Timmy probably wouldn't have been able to throw him out from that spot.

Leury was dead to rights there, but Zimmer slightly hesitated and spiked the throw a bit. Need to come up with a big hit with runners on base at some point. At least Giolito looks markedly sharper, so there's that.

Vaughn should be a beast of a hitting machine, too...

Nova, Santiago, Detwiler, Despaigne, Ruiz, Burr, Santana. Let’s GO! ”We can’t accurately assess the performance of Rick Hahn until at least the end of 2021 due to the plethora of injuries to strike the organization.” Checks list of starters for today, cringes at the name Frankie Montas yet again.

It would have to be a team like the Padres with surplus prospects...that it just itching to make a deep playoff run for the first time in many years. Trading Mejia for McCann seems quite possible, for example.

Should be consistent and go two seven inning games, but just this year to try it out first.

Recovery (full or even better) rate is roughly 60% for second compared to 80% for initial, but the number of starting pitchers in MLB history who have thrown 500+ innings after two surgeries/revisions (over the remainder of their careers) can be fully counted on less than two hands. Jace Fry and Daniel Hudson would be two examples in that particular category.

First, you can never have too much pitching. 2005 has resulted in a fifteen year curse. The negative side wins out today, the side that questions the very one-sided nature of being a White Sox fan Of course, thoughts and prayers, feel terrible for the guy...Burger, Rodon, Dunning, Giolito, now Lopez (the only one not to have had at least one major surgery entering 2020), Kopech, Cease, the list just goes on and on and on. That’s not even counting Eloy Jimenez. Micker Adolfo had the tools to be a superstar at one point in time (minus speed.) If it wasn’t for that World Series, we might be the “unluckiest/least fortunate” franchise in baseball. And if it wasn’t for the players acquired for Sale, Eaton and Q (and the Robert signing), Hahn would be out of a job and we’d be in the midst of a perma-rebuild. Trading one of the Top Ten players in baseball and a Top Ten MVP vote recipient don’t exactly help the cause. PS: Jared Mitchell and pretty much every Sox pitching prospect from 1998-2001 minus Buehrle and Fogg say hello. About five years ago, our primary niche advantage was keeping players healthy. That’s been turned on its head.

Yeah, prime example of that would be Jose Ramirez last year. Was back to his Top Ten MVP version after starting out in a terrible for over two months.

They already have Hedges and Mejia. Unless they're willing to trade Mejia's LH offensive potential and arm... doesn't quite seem like a good platoon split. Otoh, they definitely have concerns about Francisco's game~calling, framing, blocking pitches and overall leadership. They're expecting a playoff run as they bring up Gore and/or Patino. McCann and Hedges are both well-respected clubhouse guys.

Well, Keuchel was fine and relievers did him no favors...

It hardly feels like the coaching staff, front office and players are approaching every single game like it's a single elimination playoff game. Not much of a sense of urgency. Obviously, when you're not playing well, it seems like everything that can go wrong will go wrong and you're never going to win another game for the rest of the season. That said, every single game is essentially worth 2.7 games in a regular season of 162 games, so we're already played 13.5 games out of 162. No time to panic, and it wouldn't be the end of the world disguised in the middle of the season and not the first couple of weeks or pennant drive...need to pull their heads out of their asses and right the ship before it totally gets away from them on this first extended road trip. Talk about hitting Robert #3/4 anytime soon is pretty crazy...unless he really shows he's 100% got his feet under him after the first 2-3 weeks, then you look at possibly moving him up to 5/6. The biggest problem is missing Jimenez's bat from the line-up, not where Luis Robert is positioned in the batting order.

After 60 hours of scrambling to handle Marlins outbreak, will MLB chaos subside? It was, for another day, chaos. Brian Cashman, general manager of the New York Yankees, who were in Washington D.C., then Philadelphia, where they did not play a game, then Baltimore, where presumably they would play a game but only after calling back their equipment truck, which had started on the road back to New York, likened the whole experience to “drinking out of a fire hose.” The Phillies are shut down until Friday. The Marlins, of course, are done until at least next Tuesday, when they are scheduled to host … the Phillies. The Nationals will have the weekend off. Two games were postponed Monday night. On Wednesday the Toronto Blue Jays will play their first home game of the season — in Washington D.C. Their first real home game, which will be played not in Toronto but in Buffalo, is scheduled for Aug. 11, when they are to host … the Marlins. Because the ball will find you. https://sports.yahoo.com/after-60-hours-of-scrambling-to-handle-marlins-outbreak-will-mlb-chaos-subside-003930693.html

We've lost about 10% of our playoff probability, but still in the 7th position and have an adjusted expected record of 30-30 instead of 31-29. So "should" have gone 2-3 and we're 1-4, a one game swing in the standings. We're still without Mazara, Eloy Jimenez, and Lopez. Madrigal isn't up. No Kopech. Encarnacion can go on massive hot streaks that carry a team for 7-10 days, and he can also look like he's a week or two from walking away from the game. Most encouraging, James McCann looks really good again, and, worst-case scenario, he has tremendous trade value if he can keep this up. We're having to rely on the likes of formerly released (June) Delmonico as a clean-up hitter, and giving significant playing time to the likes of Adam Engel and Leury Garcia, who are prototypical role or bench players, not starters. The primary concern, of course, is the starting pitching. It's not like there is going to be a lot of trades made here in the first 2-3 weeks unless franchises are experiencing significant financial shortfalls already. If we simply think of Rodon as a #5/swingman (future reliever), and Keuchel as a 2/3, that puts all the pressure in the world on Giolito and Cease. We'll find out soon enough if they're mentally strong enough. Let's just hope that if we do start to fall out of this, they begin to give more opportunities to guys like Lambert and Dunning instead of Gio Gonzalez and Ross Detwiler. We're in a very similar situation to what the Braves are facing right now with their rotation. I'm going to hope that if we don't make the playoffs, we get some clarity on the roles of Rick Renteria and Don Cooper moving forward. We don't have to have the BEST manager in the game, but it would be nice if just for once we prioritized this position and really thought carefully about who was the right fit to take this franchise to the next level. Also, with the news about Mikolas also being out for the season, we can't afford to sustain another season-ending injury in the pitching staff. That much is obvious, and probably not preventable at this point, either.

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PBS still exists in the US? Just curious...I read a few stories about funding shortfalls or cutbacks, and Sesame Street fans were in an uproar.