chw42

Not just the last 2 weeks. Mune and Colson have been slumping for far longer and those are 2 of the pillars or the core. We still have no starting pitching with no signs of us developing more. The outlook of this team is far worse than it was a couple of months ago.

And now they're playing like what people were imagining pre season.

Went from on the way to win the division to finishing below .500.

Maybe you could have challenged that if you didn't waste the last challenge Kyle.

I can't believe they were trying to tell a 33 year old veteran pitcher to adjust his mechanics and arm angle in the middle of a fucking season. No wonder it's not working. Also if they didn't go dumpster diving at the deadline, you wouldn't have to do this with your biggest pitching aquisition. Getz couldn't have fucked this up any worse.

These idiots tried to fix Castillo like they know better than Seattle and he's now worse than ever.

He either needs to layoff the high fastballs or layoff the low and inside breaking ball. He's pretty much an automatic out once you get him to 2 strikes right now.

Feels like that's what kept the team afloat during the tough times before. If Pham is somehow suppressing that, then his presence is a huge drain on the team. Totally ruins the vibes this team had going.

Yeah he was definitely more of an all fields hitter last year. He only pulls the ball now. Anything he hits to the opposite field is by pure accident.

Is he friends with Pham or something?

I'm pretty sure we've been on the other side of this quite a few times this year.

I always thought teams would adjust and figure him out last year. So many of his homers were on middle cut sliders or cutters last year. I was scratching my head at why they kept throwing those to a guy who is clearly a mistake hitter. The problem is that he's not even hitting the mistakes on a regular basis anymore. Sure he'll run into a couple every week, but he also wastes so many hittable pitches that he was crushing last year. You can deal with the holes in his swing when he gives you power on a consistent basis, but now we're not even getting that.

I think it's time we all admit that this is currently not the team we've seen all season. There's a huge psychological side to baseball (and sports in general) and these guys are probably mentally drained and done at this point.

They've been resilient all season, but I can't see them digging themselves out of this hole. A game like today is probably one they would have won if this was June or July. They got guys on base, hit the ball hard, and just could not get the big hit. At this point, backing into the last wild card spot even seems iffy.

It's crazy that they tried to hide Castillo for nearly 2 weeks. The last time he pitched was September 3rd.

This went from don't get swept in Cleveland to they need to sweep to have a chance at the division.

We have never been able to hit Stanek

We also blow chances to score for fun right now.

Probably not, but it really depends on how stubborn both sides are.

At least Teel is hitting.

Just in time for a salary cap so we can't spend lavishly.

Chase too short to play SS

Isn't that gone?

What's sad is that Church is bang average defensive CFer.

Braden hit that 402 feet. xBA of .910. Just some brutal luck as of late.