chw42

Yeah his change up got a lot of whiffs in that game I linked up there.

I couldn't find a lot of information on the guy. His stuff seems better than it was just a year ago. You can see his pitches here: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?gamePk=666242. This was his only start in Charlotte where they had Statcast. Fastball got all the way up to 96, sat close to 94. Throws his fastball about half the time, change up 25%, curveball 20% of the time, slider 5%. He also has a cutter and sinker but he rarely threw them. I think if he can exhibit some command he should do alright. His stuff seems better than Jimmy Lambert's.

FWIW, his defensive metrics the last 2 years have not been good cause his framing has gone back to more or less neutral. He lived off his framing with the Brewers. That's what the advanced metrics loved about his defense. The most annoying thing about him has to be the fact that he's bad at blocking pitches in the dirt and has issues catching the ball on tag plays at home. Liam threw nothing but fastballs with a runner on 3rd last Saturday. He didn't throw a breaking pitch until the bases were empty. That should tell you all about how much Yaz/Liam trust Yaz's ability to block breaking pitches. You could live with the boneheaded plays and the bad pitch calling when he's hitting like he usually does. But when he's got a .500 OPS, the bad defense really stands out.

1. No way Grandal calls for that many curves 2. No way Grandal blocks all of them.

Liam's curve is so much better this year.

It's been like this for a while. He's just not as good with guys on base. I think it's cause pitchers go after him differently with men on and his approach doesn't work as well.

We have 2 super utility players and TLR still doesn't play them correctly.

McGuire in, so Liam might actually be able to throw a breaking pitch.

Barlow is prone to one bad pitch.

Luis fucking saving us again

TA can't be pulling that.

Is it just me or should Yoan have fielded that single by Taylor? TA had no shot, but Yoan did.

Grandal finally does something on offense and decides he'll just give one of those runs back for the hell of it.

They had Lopez at home easy, Grandal forgot how to catch the damn ball.

Yaz fucking sucks

That's a dot.

This team just refuses to score add on runs and the bullpen has to do this just about every game.

Graveman doesn't look real sharp.

I can see it if he actually pitches ok. Like ERA around 4 to 4.5.

Foster getting hit a lot harder as of late.

What an outing from Cueto

He looks done.

Catch the ball Yaz

Cueto probably only good for 70ish pitches with how much he's thrown in AAA.

Isbel is playing a hell of a RF