Everyone keeps trying to pull that offspeed pitch. Just a horribly disappointing offensive approach tonight.

Everyone keeps trying to pull that offspeed pitch. Just a horribly disappointing offensive approach tonight.

 

How many times have we had a good approach?

 

These players should be ashamed of themselves

Everyone keeps trying to pull that offspeed pitch. Just a horribly disappointing offensive approach tonight.

This is a continuing theme with this team. Low baseball IQ and has been for years.

Nice to see the power tonight! Bloop and a blast range at least.

OK Conor, got a run back and knocked out Marcum.

over/under on pitches to Alexei:

 

3

Sweet swingin' etc etc.

Another solo HR

This is a continuing theme with this team. Low baseball IQ and has been for years.

 

Considering how few of the players go on to bigger things elsewhere, I'm thinking it's just a mediocre talent level.

Sox will not score again tonight.

 

You were saying ?

So many holes on this team. I don't blame Robin for starting Jennings this inning, problem is to many players just aren't good on this roster right now.

Yeah, our bullpen is starting to look more like past years, except for the amazing closer of course.

According to fangraphs WAR, out of 176 position players:

 

- Melky is 160th

- Alexei 168th

- Eaton- 173rd

 

No other team is close to having 3 guys that low in the rankings.

I wish our guys would take pitches like this.

That's why it sucks to have a team that rarely draws walks. In this day and age of asshole umpires who squeeze when they want to squeeze, it helps if you'll take some pitches and draw some walks. Why do umpires love to squeeze pitchers? It's very boring. Make batters hit or ring them up. Geezus.

You were saying ?

1 run oh boy

If Putnam was ready to go tonight, not sure why we didn't have him in over Jennings when we needed a strikeout.

According to fangraphs WAR, out of 176 position players:

 

- Melky is 160th

- Alexei 168th

- Eaton- 173rd

 

No other team is close to having 3 guys that low in the rankings.

 

 

And that's not including Flowers/Soto and Micah/Sanchez because they don't qualify.

 

The offense is just a black hole right now. It might be tolerable if Abreu was hitting like he did the first 3 months last year.

Real impressive outing by Petricka

Why is Flowers being allowed to bat in that spot?

Hahn's biggest failure, overall, has to be the catching situation since AJ left.

 

Granted, there are no easy answers...and there aren't more than 5-7 decent two-way catchers in MLB right now...but the failure is more in accepting mediocrity (well, below that even) and not trying something/someone else.

 

 

Investing Melky's money into Russell Martin, for example.

Edited May 21, 201510 yr by caulfield12

Why is Flowers being allowed to bat in that spot?

This has been a really poorly managed, performed and umpired game

Investing Melky's money into Russell Martin, for example.

Yeah, Martin's bidding went crazy and he's still really underpaid

This has been a really poorly managed, performed and umpired game

 

Very little urgency

This has been a really poorly managed, performed and umpired game

 

 

Luckily, Cleveland fans were spared this one...and could just tune in after the Cavs' win to be pleasantly surprised their team was in the process of winning consecutive games for just the 2nd or 3rd time all season long.

 

 

At least the vendors are happy....Rodon starts have to be averaging 3 1/2 hours each time he goes out there. Maybe not so happy to be stuck at the park so long when there's a low attendance weeknight game.

Edited May 21, 201510 yr by caulfield12

Good thing we have Putnam getting Ks now right when they're most needed...

This continuously empty ballpark nonsense - brought on by continuously failing ownership - just must stop at some point. It is beyond ridiculous. Reinsdorf's horrible management of this franchise needs to either figure out a way to improve this situation, or bow out in favor of a group that can. But our ballpark game after game, season after season, being as empty as it is - completely unacceptable at this point. Time for our fan base to demand something better!

Edited May 21, 201510 yr by Thad Bosley