Crede is ridiculous. As much as he has struggled this year, you just know he's going to be there when you really need him. It's insane.

Getting a lead back here could demoralize them pretty well.

I would say that's clutch.

Thank God for the Royals crapacular bullpen.

 

The best trade of the offseason for the Royals was sending Ambriox Burgos the hell away from Kaufman. He could get people out.

Clutch walk.

If Thornton still has his usual velocity he should be fine. We might need to give him some appeareances to get straightened out, and give him a full innning instead of using him as a LOOGY (which has been the case lately).

 

People have the book on him though. He's not throwing his offspeed stuff at all, so they can sit on the first pitch fastball. A lot of damage has been done on him vs first pitch fastball this year already.

God...I read it before it happened on my mlb stream.

But that's part of the problem having such a young bullpen. If Ozzie is going to use them like a lunatic, they need to be more consistent. They've done a good job of throwing strikes this year, but they're not getting the crucial outs.

I didn't see a problem with what Ozzie did. He went to his lefty and went to his righty. He didn't want to go MacDougall...lefty...than another righty, instead he was hoping he could get another out from Vazquez before turning it over to the lefty and than using Mac (made sense to me). It didn't work out but I had no problem with the move.

 

I think he's been a bit too reliant on the lefty/righty matchups but I know there are a lot of smart people in baseball that live with things like that.

Don't forget your May wallpaper, folks.

 

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Mack walks.

soria has been pretty good, rule V guy.

Getting a lead back here could demoralize them pretty well.

 

If Sox get it can they hold it!

Go go KC bullpen.

 

See, our pen could be worse.

Yeah, their pen continues to get worse. I was worried because Duckworth was a starter until this outing and had done well. Crede says f*** that!

And here I was going to say how shocking it was to have a game with no runs scored off HR....

Love Mack's plate approach.

Or Sisco. Thornton hasn't pitched nearly enough.

 

You're saying as an 7th-8th inning guy? I don't know, his lack of control scares me a little at this point, although I guess he was the main set up guy in KC.

I think the bullpen is better than what they've shown statistically.

I completely agree with you

its almost like this lineup flips a switch when they're behind and then turns it right back off when they get the lead. hopefully they realize how shaky this bullpen is right now and that they need plenty of insurance

I didn't see a problem with what Ozzie did. He went to his lefty and went to his righty. He didn't want to go MacDougall...lefty...than another righty, instead he was hoping he could get another out from Vazquez before turning it over to the lefty and than using Mac (made sense to me). It didn't work out but I had no problem with the move.

 

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I completely agree with you

I like our pen a lot.

Brian Anderson will homer.

 

unless of course, he doesn't.

soria has been pretty good, rule V guy.

Yeah, he's the only guy I'd respect right now. His K numbers prove that he isn't just getting lucky outs.

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The big problem was leaving in Vazquez until he had a baserunner. He did that all year last year, too. There was no reason to have Vazquez start the 7th.

haha, that pitch was a foot outside and Uribe really wanted to swing at it

Tazmanian Devil swing there for Uribe...don't bring that back please, Juan

Just flip one down the right field line Juan.