2023 Game Thread

[Nick]

Is Hampson not with the team right now? Hard to keep track. I agree Wendle has been horrific.

[fish16]

Castano has been pitching well in AAA lately. Since we didn’t pick up another starter I think we’re going to need innings out of Castano/Hoeing/Monteverde.

do we really need to do that? Sandy, Luzardo, Garrett, Cueto, Eury. That's 5 starters. Cabrera is in the minors. Very few teams have 6 starters like that. They are fine.

[fish16]

Is Hampson not with the team right now? Hard to keep track. I agree Wendle has been horrific.

i doubt he ever went to Jacksonville with the deadline coming up. The technically optioned him but i bet they told him to stick around so we didnt have an empty bench tonight.

[lou]

one thing i like about both Bell and Burger- they both hit both righties and lefties. Burger smashes the shit out of lefties but hit's righties well as well. Just a really good hitter who hits the shit out of the ball. Josh bell has a .763 OPS against lefties and an .813 OPS against righties as well. No platoons, just good players who arent subject to bad platoon splits and hit the ball really fucking hard.

Yea, I’d do this:

RHP
2B Arraez
RF/CF Sanchez
CF/DH Jazz (DH as needed for health)
1B Bell
DH/RF Soler
3B Burger
LF DLC/Garcia
SS Berti/Wendle
Catchers

LHP
2B Arraez
1B Bell
RF Soler
3B Burger
CF/LF/DH DLC
CF/LF/DH Garcia
SS Berti
CF/LF/DH Jazz/Yuli
Catchers
(Pray to god for this OF defense)

[sports24/7]

We need Sandy to get through 8 because I don’t trust any reliever not named Robertson.

[lou]

good god joey wendle is impossibly bad. why not DFA him, bring up Edwards, and have hampson as the backup SS? Wendle is an automatic ground out every fucking at bat.

You DFA Yuli or Garcia to call up Hampson on top of that just to mention

[lou]

Why is Wendle still on this team?

Because they refuse to get a real SS

[Nick]

do we really need to do that? Sandy, Luzardo, Garrett, Cueto, Eury. That's 5 starters. Cabrera is in the minors. Very few teams have 6 starters like that. They are fine.

I’m glad you’re completely confident in the health of the rotation for the rest of the year. Even if it’s out of the pen I think we’re going to need some guys that give us multiple innings. Especially coupling with Eury.

Stallings fucking sucks.

[sports24/7]

Stallings is so useless. Anyone else in baseball probably scores there. Even pitchers.

[fish16]

You DFA Yuli or Garcia to call up Hampson on top of that just to mention

They have a lot of moves to make tomorrow. Hard to guess who the fuck is on the roster anymore but ill give it a shot:


C- Fortes/Stallings
1b- Bell
2b- Arraez
SS- Berti
3b- Burger
LF- DLC
CF- Jazz
RF- Sanchez
Bench- Fortes/Stallings, Gurriel, Garcia, Wendle, Hampson

SP- Sandy, Luzardo, Garrett, Cueto
RP- Robertson, Puk, Lopez, Nardi, Okert, Scott, Chargois, Brazoban, Soriano,

Then next time Cabrera's spot comes up send down Brazoban for Eury. I'd also DFA wendle for Edwards but what the fuck do i know.

[fish16]

glad we didnt get a catcher today. We're totally set there.

[fish16]

i cant watch stallings and wendle anymore. They bring literally 0 to this team, and havent for 2 years.

[Nick]

How not to run the bases.

Tommy I can definitely put the blame on Stallings.

[lou]

i wouldnt mind it but i think there is a reason he hasnt played much SS outside of 20 games last year. He doesnt have the arm. Id give it a shot but id rather just move him to our 2b next year, Arraez to 1b, Bell to DH when Soler walks, and burger to 3b. As it is, until next year and we can move bell to DH to replace soler, our infield defense is not going to be great the rest of the year. It wasnt great to begin with so who gives a fuck but it wont be great.

Bell is historically a solid enough defender. I think the worst defender is DLC. I imagine this for 2024, setting up for the 6th offseason in a row of where is a longterm SS and then likely just a platoon OF as they can move around Edwards, Berti, and Garcia.

Fortes, _____
Bell
Arraez, Edwards (plays some CF)
_____, Berti (plays some 3B)
Burger (plays some 1B)
_____, DLC (primary DH)
Jazz
Sanchez, Garcia (they can't quit him)


If they are cheap, this is Dane/Burdick and Amaya for the blank lines.

[fish16]

i mean stallings sucks obviously, but why are you sending him there. He is jacob stallings, he runs with ankle weights on, and they would have had 2nd and 3rd with no outs for the top of the order.