SCCWS

Last year Anderson turned into very good hitter. That was his 4th year at age 26. Eloy is in his 2nd year at 23. I think he will need a couple of more years before we can see how he develops.

More than half of NBA teams make the playoffs.

Maybe not a great comparison. Rick Carlisle won the NBA Championship in 2011.Since then his teams have either been eliminated in 1st round or missed the playoffs totally. Cuban has been very faithful to Carlisle despite their lack of success in the playoffs since. George Steinbrenner would be a better example of a quick trigger finger.

New cardboard fans please

Jack: A straight platoon of Collins and EE reduces at bats for Grandal/McCann. Not sure that improves the offense.

Supposedly Tampa/St Pete before the Rays would eventually land there.

I would flip Eloy and Grandal just to break the right-handed hitters 3-5.

Agree but it means Grandal and EE will sit more and Collins will get splinters.

Excellent assessment.

Gio has it going

Last 15 games , Robert is hitting .286 w 21 S.O. and Moncada is hitting .274 w 19 S.O. I would say their struggles are pretty even. I would not say it is poor effort. In their case, both are young players who are going through a bad stretch.

Robert has also been fine considering it is his first moth. Leury is a career( 7 years) .257 hitter batting .271. I think Eloy, Grandal and EE have provided limited offensive support and TA has been hurt.

I think the issue is the offense is struggling so McCann needs to play with the bat he has been showing. That pushes Grandal to DH so Collin's chances may be limited.

Hope they wore masks

Hopefully it gets called rather than starts and then gets cancelled before 5. We cannot waste a Keuchel start with our SP struggles.

A few thoughts. As someone else mentioned, Vizquel's departure from the organization probably eliminates him. I was surprised when I saw Alomar was coaching for Francona while he was out. I would have thought Brad Mills would be doing that. Could be a sign that Sandy will take over that job sooner rather than later. I agree with your thought that "Spanish speaking part is undeniably important". But in looking around at last years playoff teams, I think only Cora and Martinez did. So maybe the staff make-up more than the manager selection is the key component.

We need Eloy to get the bat going.

I think JC was sitting next to EE

Just a gapper

Tarp coming off

Grandal also made a nice play since he was playing !B

Really. In the last 7 days he is only batting .350.

Agree, But does RR make all lineup decisions without input from the front office? I would think Hahn must meet daily with manager+ coaches on prior game and player status.

Since Indians are a half game ahead of us, I would re-word to slipped by us. I think we have a good chance to take the weekend series and slip by them. We do catch a break w Francona out for series.