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[BSLMikeLowe]

I thought it was routine fly ball.  

I’d call it more of a soft liner.

[BSLSteveBirrer]

Ok soft liner. I'll go with that. Bottom line is 5 degrees either direction and its a tie game. No way I pitch to Arreaz there even though after the fact it worked.

[Pedro Cerrano]

Can’t put the go ahead run on. I don’t care what his BA is. Make him earn it

[TwentyThirtyFive]

I seriously consider it there since the guy is hitting .380. The backup C is on deck. Bad overall numbers. Also Coulombe is somehow better vs righties than lefties. At least BA. Righties slug higher but they only needed a single to tie. Add it all up and IMO you walk Arraez. Now, I dont know if Miami carries a 3rd C or has someone they trust as an emergency guy. Maybe Schumaker woulda sent up someone better than his backup C. That could change the dynamic a bit. You gave the best hitter in the world a chance to tie. Id rather go after the inferior hitter and if he gets an XBH I can deal with that vs giving Rod Carew Jr the chance to tie with a single

[mdrunning]

Cant solely throw FA money at problems. Should be a lesson for all. 

Until this season, the Angels were paying Ohtani peanuts and still couldn't make it work.

[dude]

 Instead he downplays Bradish completely. Tries to make him look worse than he is. Has said very recently he doesnt think he is part of the future rotation. It was his reasoning for giving him and his 5 years of control away for two pending FAs. The last part of this is as bad or worse than the first. Its one thing to be mistaken in an approach. TO double down on it and  trade  Bradish for the return he was proposing is maddening.

 

You guys are funny.  You want to angle off and try and make your point, cool, but that is intellectually dishonest.

 

You actually are currently looking at (now) 7 excellent starts from a guy (4.25 ERA when this started) and claiming the value of 3+ years of rebuilding.  If Bradish is an answer, great, he looks more resilient today than he did 7 starts ago.  Haven't changed a single thing I've said.  You've tried to change things to suit your narrative but whatever.  His stuff still doesn't seem as unique as his results, but he's here and producing results and the team won today so that's awesome.

 

You make decisions at every turn.  I have an opinion.  So what.

 

You seem to have an issue reading but can make up all that unstructured BS.

 

This roster and it's success (and many other recent examples across MLB) are examples for my position, not rebuilding.  You can't explain "50+Wins" from 2021, but you question how we could find them in any other year.  Apparently all you need is players that can't make other teams rosters and prospects outside the other teams top 20.

 

Defending rebuilding is defending the lowering of expectations to defer accountability of Ownerships and FOs to compete.  That's it.

 

You don't get to win because you went through rebuilding.  Other teams are failing at it and there's nothing really unique about this roster that couldn't be accumulated in a myriad of ways.  Regardless of the Talent you better figure out how to deliver the results and that's available in a lot of ways.  The 2012-2016 teams were uniquely good at it for an extended period of time.

 

Buy another ACME rocket, maybe it will work next time.  (I'm probably not spending a lot of time searching back through Game threads, so have at it)

[Mike B]

I seriously consider it there since the guy is hitting .380. The backup C is on deck. Bad overall numbers. Also Coulombe is somehow better vs righties than lefties. At least BA. Righties slug higher but they only needed a single to tie. Add it all up and IMO you walk Arraez. Now, I dont know if Miami carries a 3rd C or has someone they trust as an emergency guy. Maybe Schumaker woulda sent up someone better than his backup C. That could change the dynamic a bit. You gave the best hitter in the world a chance to tie. Id rather go after the inferior hitter and if he gets an XBH I can deal with that vs giving Rod Carew Jr the chance to tie with a single

I mentioned walking him before Arraez came up.  I would have walked him, but I know the reasons for not doing it.

[Mike B]

I’d call it more of a soft liner.

Ok, bottom line it was an easy play for Hays, and I admit to having enough time during its flight to think of McKenna.