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Skenes is just doing poorly because I bet on him for cy young

Aaron Judge is statistically the worst hitter in Major League Baseball this year

Aaron Judge with a platinum sombrero so far

MUST WIN MUST WIN MUST WIN

I wonder if something happened with him? Certainly doesn’t seem warranted based on performance.

I just want Hinch to start getting away from platooning a few of these guys as much as he tends to. I’m fine with platooning Meadows and Vierling or Javy and McKinstry. But you gotta let these top prospect types play in all situations and learn to elevate their games. Keith, McGonigle and Carpenter need to be playing every day and having at least a decent degree of consistency in defensive positioning.

I’d prefer to see Javy and Meadows platoon CF, Keith at 3B and McG at SS. Vierling the typical RF and Carpenter the typical DH. (Or rotate it and let Riley be the DH every few days) Then you can mix it up a bit and have McKinstry at 3B, Carpenter in RF and Keith DH against back of the rotation RHPs. With McGonigles skill set, you play him every day or why bother having him on the roster.

I still have faith that Roberto Campos will wake up one morning and become prime Miggy.

We should be planning to deal him at some point. There’s no way he ages well.

So we will just expose him to waivers.

I doubt there will be a salary cap with a new CBA, but I can totally see something pertaining to deferred money on contracts being limited or eradicated once a settlement is reached. That could very much hamstring some of the teams that you’d think would be all in on going after Skubal.

The CBA is the hang up on us making a big offer to Skubal before the offseason. That’s it. That’s the reason.

On those starts where Skubal is dominant but gets into a high pitch count and comes out after 5 innings, it’ll be real nice to have a legitimate multi-inning guy to follow that. How many times did Skubal go 5+ and leave with like a 1-0 or 2-1 lead, only for us to hold our breaths for 4 innings worrying about if we are going to get the good versions of Holton/Hurter/Hanifee/Kahnle? Having Anderson (or even DeJesus if he becomes that also) come in and go 2-3 innings and maintain the lead will be a welcomed upgrade and a huge boost to winning the division. We pissed a lot of good Skubal starts away last year.

I feel like Drew Anderson is going to play a huge role this year in the bullpen.

Javy hits .300, has a .297 OBP

Don’t know why I put Skubal on that. That applies a lot more to Olson/Montero

McGonigle will be my next jersey buy once he has a ML number

We desperately need that since Skubal/Flaherty/Mize don’t go beyond 5+ much

Jim Adduci

Well, we could sign Andrew Chafin again. Just got cut by the Twins

Ah you’re probably right. I didn’t think he had pitched at all this spring

Brieske too, right?

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