Bob Sacamano

Yeah it’s whatever at this point. Hopefully he can get to 100 innings this year but I honestly doubt he will come close to that.

Makes sense: he’s barely pitched for us, majors or minors lol

Yeah, I know what I prefer for them to do and I don’t have the energy to argue it. I’ve grown numb to their decision making honestly.

No matter how good he pitches, I’m not sure he will get what he was looking for this year. He screwed himself.

Yeah and you can ease him in better down there. Deeper pitching so you can skip him more often and manage his workload. You can evaluate if you want him to get MLB starts later.

Dude has what, like 200 innings between college, minors, MLB last 7 years? I did the math last week but don’t remember.

Nah get them in working in real game situations. Bullpen isn’t the same.

Why? Let them get their work in. The end result of the game is meaningless.

Opening Day bullpen day let’s gooooo

O/U: 2.1 IP

Could think of one thing that may delay him but they don't really play the service time game.

Yeah, that's true too but I'm just saying teams usually can plan on it when there are days off. Not saying they have to anoint a 5th starter (as it seems you are alluding that I am), just saying that without a PPD, your first starter can't really go games 1 and 5. A postponement would make it possible to skip. But if you can't plan on it the first time through the rotation, you would need a bullpen game.

They don't need to commit to a 5th starter, but they would then need a bullpen game one of those first games. Example: Your second starter would pitch March 30th and then again April 3rd. That is 3 days rest. Normally, teams have 2-3 days off the first 2 weeks which makes it easy to skip a 5th starter. We don't have that luxury this year playing 12 games in a row after the first day off.

Only one day off the first 2 weeks (and it's that game). A 4-man rotation would put the Second/Third/Fourth/ starter on 3 days rest their second starts. Saying they don't need a 5th starter makes zero sense. No 5th starter to open the year = at least one bullpen game.

And do a bullpen game early on?

Lol ok Mike.

I feel like Crochet has a solid chance.

No way Kopech goes back to minors.

Moose looked way late on that

You can tell me any team from that division won the division and I wouldn’t be shocked. Wide open.

Pedro is talking. Time to mute the TV.

Why do I feel like this is going to happen? Padres selling at the deadline and get more than they gave up for him?

Prelander.

Oh yeah you can. You don’t even have to look that hard.

If he ends up sucking in bullpen, you almost think that’s the next step. Hopefully he turns it around as a reliever we can flip him.