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LOL - OK - if we are all spitballing it's all good!

or Hinch just wants to win every game he can without regard to development value because his cachet as a manager is rapidly taking on water running this team. I wouldn't find that unlikely at all. >Maybe because they have already rigorously attempted to get Baddoo to hit lefties better and have determined that he simply can't do so What is the evidence to support this conclusion? - Not being combative here - serious question.

It's a moot point because this management isn't going to do it. I'm finding their approach oddly contradictory. OTOH, Harris comes in with a lot of talk about giving young guys room to develop, then they play these really strict platoons even in game situations where you could easily give the guy a chance to get in an opposite side AB in a low leverage situation. Yeah - I get the idea "get every guy in every game so everyone is on their toes." I just don't see this as the same level of holy grail they apparently do that it has to override everything else. Then again, the extened loss of Riley and ERod is going to kneecap this team anyway.

that only cost Iglesias a whole season............ 6 wks minimum anyway.

in the context of a season where we are carrying Cabrera this can hardly be a serious concern can it?

"Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand"

Re: Yips. Hate to see that - is he going to be able to get the ball to the 2b from the OF?

Yes - for a couple of resasons. Baddoo has had such a tortuous development path that he still doesn't have enough history to make much in the way of hard judgments about it - i.e. he is still under 200 career AB against LHP. The other is that in his limited time playing semi-often against LHP in 21 he did walk a decent clip (~10%) and if a guy can manage the zone from that could be hint you might have something to work with, while in his weird truncated '22 his platoon split was actually negative - granted mostly because he wasn't hitting RHP either, but if a guy can get better against one, that certainly leaves the door open that he might against the other. Lastly -- if you look at his heat maps there isn't much inside/outside bias - in fact if anything he's a little better against the pitch away, so that's another hint he might have something to work with. So yeah - it's an investment I would make.

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so extending some idle speculations on platooning: When position rosters were 15 deep and teams could and did platoon more, what would the effect on pitching have been? On a first pass I would postulate that in relative terms it must have made the slider a less valuable pitch for pitchers since they probably had to face a lot more opposite side hitters. Could that be part of the increasing level of strain for ML pitchers over all? Wouldn't it be an odd irony if the increase in the numbers of pitchers carried on rosters actually was leading to worse health for pitchers overall because it encourages the use of more hard breaking balls by insuring that pitchers saw fewer opposite side hitters? And of course in recent years up until thise one, the rise of shifting had devalued traditional advantage of LH hitting even more.

If Riley goes to the DL I think I'm buying a ticket to Tibet.

The injury wastage on this team has gotten beyond ridiculous. We have a whole starting rotation on the DL.

Sparky also had 15 position players on his roster. Be nice to see that again but I'm not holding my breath.

LOL - it's a measure of how bad the pitching has been tonight that with Rehab calling strikes down to the ankles there still have been 15 runs scored.

LOL - Dickerson finished his broadcast rights disclaimer by saying that if Anderson's family and friends want to show off Grant's debut performance they will have to call the league office for their express consent!

Mguel's first 3 hit game since last July 5th.

you probably could have stopped there

nothing - if you can persuade ownership to expand rosters enough to platoon more than a couple of positions. wait - take back the 'nothing', because you also leave yourself in a position be neutered by the 2nd pitching change.

Miguel's 3rd 2 hit game....of the season.....

yeah - relegate a 24 yr old hitter to platoon duty and you've guaranteed a self-fulfilling but unnecessary prophecy.

real 3-d chess players never let you know that's what they're playing.

and just plain wrong analysis so often.

Just let Baddoo play everyday and/or let Rogers back on the field and you don't need to play anyone else in Vierling's place.

Yeah - no way this isn't a big deal for a pitcher. We'll see him again in August - maybe. And it's another odd connective tissue injury, which seem to be an epidemic in sports recently - esp basketball. I know we are supposed to believe all is well because so much testing is going on, but the other possible contributor to otherwise weird connective tissue injuries are PEDs.

The spirit of John Beilein finds a place in the NBA without him....