2022 Game Thread

[fish16]

So marlins, watching snl and at 1145 on Saturday and they spend money advertising their weekend 3 games vs the brewers

[Namaste]

Yes, the Marlins have 2 World Series titles, but other than that, they have the least to show as a franchise history.

The Dolphins haven’t won a playoff game in 21 years. Get outta here with that shit.

[Namaste]

Another meatball

[Nick]

I don’t know how this can be acceptable to the Marlins at this point.

[Namaste]

There’s one gene we absolutely would have won with Meyer instead of Meatball

[Lee Stone]

There’s one gene we absolutely would have won with Meyer instead of Meatball

Hard to say. Meyer gave up a 3-run and 2-run homer to Hiura the other night ... a player that MILW sent down to AAA because he wasn't hitting.

[fish16]

Garcia looks like he’s somewhat reverting to the mean in a good way recently. And soler has had some really terrible luck a lot this year. He has absolutely annihilated a lot of balls directly at guys so many times already

[fish16]

Sandy has been unbelievable tonight. To get through 7, let alone whether they allow him to pitch the 8th, after 43 pitches through 2 innings is absurd

[Nick]

At 4-1 I would’ve been pissed if Sandy hadn’t come out for the 8th. At 8-1 I don’t understand him still being in there.

[Namaste]

Garcia looks like he’s somewhat reverting to the mean in a good way recently. And soler has had some really terrible luck a lot this year. He has absolutely annihilated a lot of balls directly at guys so many times already

100%

Nice basically “must win” game tonight.

Jazz was 9th in fWAR in MLB before his 3 hits tonight.

[Namaste]

Soler hit 3 balls harder than 110 mph tonight

[fish16]

Soler hit 3 balls harder than 110 mph tonight

I’m glad they ruled the ball that literally went through the shortstop in the 7th a single instead of an error. That was one of the hardest hit balls I’ve ever seen directly at a fielder

[fish16]

Sandy threw 57 pitches over his last 6 innings to finish 8 innings after it took him 43 the first 2 innings . His improvement since his first year or so with us in terms of pitch count efficiency and being able to finish off hitters has been unbelievable.

[fish16]

obviously guys have ups and downs throughout the season and its hard to not have a few guys hot and cold at the same time, but given how the pitching is performing, how soler and garcia are starting to look like major leaguers again, and how the schedule is a little lighter until the end of may, it would be really nice to see them go on a little run to get back to .500 or a little over.

Especially with Meyer coming up I think sunday based off how they have structured his next outing and when poteet's second time through the rotation will be, they need to take off or it will be another season around the .500 mark with no real playoff shot.

Soler for all his struggles still somehow is around .700 OPS with projections for 32 homers and 83 rbi's. If he can heat up and jazz can stay hot, with Aguilar and Garcia coming out of their slumps and Anderson being back, now is the time they need to take advantage of games with the nationals and the braves while they are still scuffling and go on a run here. Of course last time I judged their future performance based on their upcoming schedule they lost 6 straight 1 run games, so what the fuck do I know.

[fish16]

meyer pitching tonight for jax which would schedule him for sunday as his next start along with poteet's next scheduled date. They cant possibly not call him up for sunday right? Mish went on record yesterday to say the issue is not service time manipulation reason, so I cant imagine this is not his last AAA start.

Then when Luzardo comes back in what is reportedly not too long of an absence, we're running the 5 deep rotation we've been talking about for a while now. And then we have the ghost of Sixto sanchez and Cabrera, Perez, and Eder in the wings. No idea what is going on with Sixto yet again but hopefully we can get anything out of him. If he's healthy he would easily improve the closer role a ton.

Also, not sure what the hell their plan is with Lewin diaz or if they have one at all, but at a certain point doesn't the guy deserve an extended run at 1b? Cooper and aguilar are better hitters but he's not some AAAA player yet and they are treating him as such. Bring him up and let cooper and aguilar and him split time. But this issue is exactly why I wanted them to choose one of aguilar and cooper and let Diaz play 1b everyday. IT's great to have depth but at a certain point you need to see what your young guys can do. We're gonna have the same issue with Bleday and Burdick next year if Soler doesn't opt out.