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I think I'm fine with seeing the scorched line drive double rather than a wind addled high fly ball the gets over the fence if it is a sign of things to come.

.286 AVG and .881 OPS with RISP this season. Not very clutch? PHing for either catcher that cannot hit right now later in a game with runners on and the game in question. The result is a baseball result. Any hitter could strike out in that instance. Any hitter could get a hit in that instance. I think we can agree that risk/reward is different in that situation depending upon the hitter, right? But you would prefer to not try better odds in that circumstance and just send up the worse of two options?

I think I’d like to see him at one spot as well. 2B full time until he’s ready to move to 3B full time or 2B full time. He has a history of needing time to warm up once promoted. Give him the stability on defense to get his bat up to speed.

So let me ask you this. If Canha were due up as the hitter, you’d have been asking for either Rogers or Kelly to PH for Canha in that situation?

Well, I’m not sure how it could be a good sign. And with the degree to which folks are on social media these days,…..

I don’t mind the idea of Keith at 3B. I think I’ve read before that he’s better there than 2B and that Jung is better at 2B than 3B. The extent to the truth of that and the degree of the differences is something I wouldn’t have a whole of confidence in stating as fact. But, if that theory has some merit to it, I’d say moving Keith to 3B is fine as long as his shoulder is up to the task. Perez has been fine so far. But I don’t think I’d move Keith in lieu of Perez right now.

Gotta work on the bat flip.

Seriously, what has happened? Is this an opposing correction to the mean? Are they not really as good as the first 15 games, but also not as bad as the last 5, and things will flatten out in between?

Well, let’s be honest, I’of set my own bar pretty low to begin with.

A career .794 OPS with RISP from one of the three better bats on the roster is worthless? What a terrible post.

Greene is leading off again? That’s it, I need to find a cliff to jump off’ve.

Please bring the fielding mittens to the game.

I can usually avoid it pretty well. Usually I'm not too far behind. Last night was a bit different, but the person that could have foiled it for me knows my viewing habit and knew I'd plug into it once I was able to tune in (a few hours behind.

My guess is MLBTV doesn't allow to record and view at your leisure?

Desperation and digested McDonalds? Gross.

If I watch, I'll usually record and then start watching some time after the game has started. I can zip through the commercials.

The blame goes on miscommunication. I don't know if Meadows wasn't loud enough and/or if Perez kept calling himself (didn't see that angle) and/or if Perez ignored Meadows. One of the fundamentals of playing outfield is that the CF has priority and when he calls it, he gets it. That shouldn't take too much RF experience to understand, especially for someone that has CF experience.

Leyland did this with Marcus Thames to get his bat into the lineup a bit more. I don't the current situation with Carpenter is the same as with Thames. No one is going to accuse either of average defense in the OF. Carpenter's major weakness seems to be anything around the wall, and maybe its just going backwards in general that's an issue for him. But I think he has gotten his glove up from bad to playable. And I think his bat is more of a component for this offense than Thames was back then. I like versatility. I'm just not sure that I'd mess with Carpenter right now. That seems like a spring training experiment. That might be something to consider next March when Canha leaves and if Malloy is destined for Detroit. Then maybe toy with Carpenter/Malloy at 1B to see if either can spell Torkelson at 1B. Heck, they can do that with Malloy in Toledo now.

That was really good. HIs offense has been awful. But he's shored up his throws to first and otherwise played defense to his standards. Add in his baserunning (I know, few and far between). If that bat could just get back to around league average....

It'll be Buddy Kennedy. You're welcome.

9 of 20 games this season have been decided by 1 run. Almost 50% of games. Looking at MLB, that's a per team average of 4 out of 18 games, 22%. 41 of 162 games last season were decided by 1 run. A smidge over 25%. Per MLB team, 44 out of 162, a smidge over that other smidge, 27%. Drop that knowledge on someone today and watch their eyes glaze over with a look of.... what?

Has Kerry Carpenter ever had a successful catch on the warning track? As far as the Perez error, Meadows kept calling and calling and calling (per the TV replay). Miscommunication that could have ended up in a collision. Not ideal at all, but, given the Urshela injury earlier in the game and Ibanez, Kreidler, and Leonard (I think) on the IL, might be best to have an error on no injuries rather than an error with possible dinged up players.

My somewhat sarcastic thought: I wonder if Vegas has odds on this? My sarcasm free thought: I would not be surprised if the Vegas thing falls through and this is Sacramento's play into another major professional sports league. At the very least, this is a trial run for the metro area for the next round of MLB expansion. So, OK, question open for anyone. Where are the A's in 5 years. Oakland? Sacramento? Las Vegas? Other?

I think it’s 14 games in 13 days. Everybody is getting a day off during this stretch.

Never leave Big Shot Bob open. Ever. Game 7 of that series was pretty damn good but with poor results.