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Just imagine if Tork had been sent to Toledo... lol

Gonna keep beating the horse, but today's game was emblematic of his struggles... only one K, but his other three ABs resulted in balls on the ground. He needs to start getting more balls in the air. When he does, he'll get it turned around

He may be org depth, but one heck of a game!

Unfortunately, I wasn't born a Dodger fan, so I'll be watching lol

He really does look like he's figuring it out

Good Lord...

We could also have Skubal tho. I get that pretty much everything that can go wrong has gone wrong this season... but I would rather wait to hear what happened to Skubal before assuming he's out of the lineup for the next month

I mean, that's fair, I just don't know that we'll have just Faedo and Brieske and TBD for the next month. Maybe for the next week or two.

Do we think Skubal is gonna miss a lot of time at this point? I honestly don't know, but it didn't look like he broke anything

Kerry Carpenter with 2 homers and 2 doubles for Erie tonight... Any chance he can drive down I-90 and take some hacks?

Pitching wise, they probably can. I dont see any excuse for the offense...

Lol, nobody is hiring AJ away if they win 60 or less.

And that's all folks. Gotta think Barnes is gone once Cisnero comes back, if not before lol

Hes sick

Bullshit call by the umps

Just horrendous luck for the pitching staff... nothing Skubal could do about that

Meanwhile, they're making Civale look like Bob Feller lol

F***

Understood. Just saying that strikeouts are not the hill to die on when he has roughly the same level of Ks as the equivalent guys in our system

No worse than Clemens and Kreidler, at least since he entered the Angels system.

And there's no way he's opting out if he keeps it up! Lol

He's on the COVID list.... which, in the grand scheme of things, is probably a win so long as others don't start testing positive lol

The fact that Davis can play short would seems like a vote in his favor. It's actually a pretty good pickup for a waiver wire selection.... ranked out as LAA's #20 prospect per Pipeline.

With Javy, I keep going back to the strikeout rate - Tiger fans who aren't used to watching the guy look at some of these pitches that he's swinging at and think that it's abnormal, yet his strikeout rate is currently lower than it has been at any point since 2016. The problem isn't the strikeouts - it's the quality of contact. Which has gotta be something mechanical that is causing him to top a bunch of balls and hit grounders as opposed to hitting line drives... the numbers show it as well, his ground ball % is way higher than career norms, and line drive % is lower. It's one of those things that, sooner or later, one would imagine he'll figure out and fix.