chw42

I don't think Abreu's problem is his bat being slow. His exit velos and hard hit % are still really good (although not as good as in previous years). His problem is that he's hitting 57% ground balls. That's about 12% more than his career average. It doesn't matter if he hits the ball hard if it's on the ground right at the SS. You could argue that he's swinging early or cheating on fastballs so he's rolling over the ball more. But he'd also have much lower EVs if that were the case.

His career numbers in April are nowhere near this bad. It's his worst month, but he's never hit .200 in April before.

If the Mariners weren't above .500 right now you can think about someone like Haniger.

Now Eaton is hobbling

This is basically a 3 inning game now with the Indians' bullpen.

And then he walks Ramirez on 4 pitches that weren't even close.

Giolito looking much better since that dropped pop up.

Vaughn has only made one play where I felt a more experienced LFer would probably make and that was the double off his glove in Seattle. And even that isn't a routine or easy play. The defense has definitely been surprising.

Vaughn is seeing Plesac really well

That was his best inning of the game and he still got scored on.

Even if SS has that by default, he needs to call Yoan off since that was closer to 3B than SS.

Should have been out of the inning.

You can't be serious...

Is it just me or does it take Eaton a long time to get the ball out of the corner?

Well today's game has gone splendidly.

Yermin would have looked much better here.

Did that get Jose on the hand?

Gotta make him pay for that.

lmao that kid wanted to throw the ball back

Well that's probably the best case scenario right? Out at least a month?

Lucas finally threw a slider.

This is seriously a game thread out of hell. First Yermin gets benched for being late and now Luis is seriously injured. Bad luck all around.

Cleveland would probably have a few runs if it wasn't for the wind today.

He showed up late so TLR took him out of the lineup.

Right field is a death sentence today for fly balls.