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It was always safe to assume that Grossman would regress some from last year, didn't expect him to play this bad. Almost feels like him turning around is a prerequisite for more offensive production. Especially with him leading off every game

El Rod kinda impressed me today... The grand slam was the kinda thing that could have knocked out a young starter and yet he stayed in and pitched reasonably well for the following four innings. May have earned another start by default lol

They left too many guys out on the basepaths today. Familiar theme for the season lol

Tough loss, but they didn't fold early.... Offense still not sharp enough

Robbie just not hitting anything hard... yeesh

Roboumps please!

Neifi scalded that ball! 104 off the bat lol

Migggyyyy!

Let's go ahead and not DFA Schoop lol

It was hard, but it could have been worse iirc

Impressive sequence to get out of the jam by ERod... executed two perfect pitchers in a row and got the rollover.

He is really terrible in outfield... yikes

It was the Dodger series... final game of the series iirc

Schoop!

Nice recovery for El-Rod

Elvin missing in the middle of the plate... not good lol

Saying that the "Rays knew he had vertigo when they traded him" seems like a good enough litmus test as to whether to take someone seriously or not. Just idiocy

I would have to dig back into the archives, but I don't recall anyone here saying that Atlanta and Houston didn't stand a chance of making the World Series... at least once the playoffs started anyway.

Really gonna put my "DD makes everyone he works with sound good" theory to the test lol

He is pitching tmrw.

Yeah, I don't blame AJ for trying to squeeze the juice out of the lemon. But the juice seems gone at this point...

Willi not batting second... but still batting lol

So if we are having a discussion about two different players, how can you do that without at least some consideration of data? I say this as someone who kind of agrees that data can be too heavily relied on at times... but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter or shouldn't be used in a baseball discussion either.

So what? He's a member of the 2022 Detroit Tigers and is absolutely a contributor to the short term success formula of this ballclub and he has been terrible on that front. And very few seem to notice (props to @kdog for staying on message there). And his lack of success at the plate definitely impacts his possibility of contributing to the long term success formula by not looking attractive to potential suiters at the trade deadline.... they'd be lucky to get a bag of stale sunflower seeds for him at this point lol So yeah, maybe he doesn't have a long term deal, but he somehow elides any scrutiny and it's really strange.

It's honestly confusing to me how people keep wanting to tee off on Javy, Schoop or Candy when Grossman, on the whole, has been underperforming much more than anyone else in the lineup right now. Even setting aside his career last year. I really like Robbie and want him to turn it around, but he hasn't been playing well and it was sort of aggravating to hear him try to blame the ballpark at one point for his troubles.... especially when he hits terribly both at home and on the road.