Marlins Go 1-9 on Latest Homestand After Losing to Giants 5-2

[Fritz]

If a team plays in that stadium as the home team, TGL.


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[THE_REAL_MIBS]

"He didn't pitch bad, except for the home run balls," Marlins manager Jack McKeon said.

Volstad, Marlins can't keep Giants in the park

I guess myself and Jack (aka Mr. tells you exactly what is on his mind regardless of whether he should or not) will have to stand alone on this.

[MiamiHomer]

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[THE_REAL_MIBS]

From the same article

"I think they probably hit four balls in the air, and three of them went over the fence," Volstad said. "I guess they're supposed to. I went down and did the things I needed to. I think I got nine ground balls. I've just got to eliminate those mistakes and we'll be right where we need to be."

Again, I didn't say he was perfect. Just better. You guys seem to say that he didn't improve at all. I am contesting that opinion.

[MiamiHomer]

GIVING UP 3 HRS TO A SHITTY OFFENSE IS NOT A GOOD SIGN.

[dim]

If the Marlins could eliminate their 64 losses this season, they'd be undefeated.

[Beef]

Volstad, Marlins can't keep Giants in the park

I guess myself and Jack (aka Mr. tells you exactly what is on his mind regardless of whether he should or not) will have to stand alone on this.

oh look, you did that thing you do again

[Swifty]

Did the boat with Logan and Helms leave yet? I've got more people I want to add.

[Bobbob1313]

He only made 3 bad pitches out of 88.

Unfortunately, his margin of error is so low because he throws meatballs when he misses, that he gave up 3 home run.

So yeah, he didn't pitch well.

[nny]

While he didn't throw a shutout, even you guys have to admit this was a step in the right direction. 9/0 GO/AO ratio, 7/2 K/BB ratio and he really wasn't falling behind many hitters. He also didn't let them string a bunch of hits together.

You verbatimly said before you "don't give a fuck what his k/bb is" - but now that you can use it positively, you use it to defend him.

I heart you

[Bobbob1313]

I think the problem is that Mibs has a fundamental misunderstanding of his issues (giving the benefit of the doubt here that she's not just ignoring them):

His problem this year has not been a relative lack of Ks or a preponderance of walks or a relative lack of groundballs.

Relative to him, he's actually putting up pretty decent K:BB ratios, and his best GB% since his rookie season. So a pretty good K:BB ratio today and a bunch of groundballs today isn't really all that much of a step in the right direction, because he continued his worst trend.

When he gives up flyballs, they get hit really hard and they go into the seats.

And it's not like it's necessarily shitty luck, where he's getting a bunch of wall scrapers that barely get out, or guys put good swings on good pitches. His home runs come all too often on a flat, belt high fastball, and wind up 10 rows deep.

http://hittrackeronline.com/detail.p...3&type=pitcher

Prior to today, none of his home runs could be classified as "lucky" and only 5 were classified as "Just Enough". Most of his HRs allowed clear the fence with plenty of room. He's allowed one home run below 370 feet.

His biggest issue is that he has no room for error on mistake pitches, because he pitches like a 6'8" junkballer.
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His fastball for this season rates as 15 runs below average for this season and 30 runs below average for his career. It's just an absolute dogshit pitch.

[Party]

Volstad, Marlins can't keep Giants in the park

I guess myself and Jack (aka Mr. tells you exactly what is on his mind regardless of whether he should or not) will have to stand alone on this.

Jack doesn't sugarcoat things, but he's not going to say Volstad pitched like dog shit either. The only one he's really thrown under the bus is LoMo over the Twitter episode.

[Todd]

I am fairly certain mibs could rationalize anything Volstad does. There is no way to defend todays performance.

[Namaste]

4 ER in 6 IP. 3 HRs.

A little surprised that you would use a stat that is very reliant on luck to make a point.

[Bobbob1313]

A little surprised that you would use a stat that is very reliant on luck to make a point.

Giving up 4 runs on 3 swings isn't reliant on luck.