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I can’t believe people thought this team could win 75+ games 🤣 At least Colson showed some life and Murakami looks awesome so far.

Waiting for this team to just play competent baseball is tiresome

Lol this is awesome

Well, at least Benintendi isn’t batting 3rd or 4th today.

I hope the plan is to DFA Benintendi and stick Antonacci in the OF in a month or two

Really could not have gone any worse, so there’s that at least. This is a sure fire 100 loss team if Shane Smith regresses along with Colson. Getting blown out and looking totally inept was a lot easier to swallow when the team was 90% dumpster dive players.

The Good Meidroth Murakami The Bad Everyone not named Colson Montgomery and the pitching staff The Ugly Colson Montgomery The Pitching Staff

16 strike outs, what a performance

Not even through 6 yet and they have allowed 18 base runners. Crazy.

What a brutal opening day, oh well, didn't expect them to win this one anyways.

Pitching through 4 has given up 9 baserunners and 6 runs.. woof.

I just don't agree with the overthinking on something that might not even happen in the game. Put your best, optimal, lineup out there and cross that bridge when and if you get there.

So did I hear that right, we have this shitty lineup construction today incase we may or may not have to use a pinch hitter at some point in the game?

Im not going to panic about any performances so far in game 1 but what I will panic about is the terrible lineup put together today and the continued puzzling strategy decisions. It will be better with Teel and Baldwin back, but man im worried about the pitching especially if Shane Smith isnt going to be good.

Offense sucks, defense sucks, pitching sucks.. they are in midseason form 3 innings into the season boys.

Can't give up that run in inning 2 of game 1 of a 162 game season...

Well, silver lining Misiorowski is already at 45 pitches through 2 innings.

63-66, they don't have the pitching.

I supposed you would come around because ultimately that would be a good thing, BUT you will complain that he made the team initially and cite how awful he was last season before coming around. This is my bold prediction don't s%*# on it.

Jarred Kelenic makes the team and leads them in WAR, Chicago White Sox complains about it all season and Harrold makes a triumphant return due to this.

Salary is obviously not comparable but here are two guys.. one everyone hates and one everyone thinks is one of our best hitters.. .264 / .293 / .727 - 22 HR - 75 RBI - Can't play defense - 0.8 BWar .240 / .307 / .738 - 20 HR - 63 RBI - Can't play defense - 1.0 BWar

You sir, are correct.

27th in runs scored, 20th in ERA, 20th in ER allowed, 28th in Field %, 27th in Errors. They were pretty much near the bottom for everything outside of pitching which they were right at bottom 1/3 cutoff. This is why they were "bad". I fully expect to see all those trend up this season though, maybe not pitching, but all other areas.

That's pretty much why I don't put much stock into it. Its using runs scored and runs allowed to determine an expected winning percentage. It supposed to show how many games a team should have won, but like you said if we win 1 game 12-0 and then lose 5 games in a row that were all 1 score because our bullpen sucks that doesn't exactly mean we are better than what our final record showed. We lost those games because we were bad.

I don't put much stock into pythagorean records. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory is what bad teams do. This is just saying "Hey, then only won 60 games but if they weren't such a bad team they could have won 71". Well, they were a bad team.