Great recap of the games and subtle nuances in them I couldn’t catch as I was in nyc and blacked out from MLB.TV.
It will be really interesting to see how Shildt manages things during the stretch run. Will he platoon Crone / Arraez with Solano against LHP? Will Diaz replace Campy? How will he get Peralta ABs? Will Merrill be moved up in the order?
I get so excited when I think of a healthy rotation of Yu, Cease, King, Joe, and Perez with a expanded roster creating a bullpen in Sept of:
Suarez
Scott
Adam
Estrada
Morejon
Hoeing
Matsui
Reynolds
One of:
Jacob / Waldron / Peralta / Cruz
And a lineup with FTJ and Kim.
Please, for the love of everything good in this world, let it be so.
Fun read; excellent job at highlighting the high leverage situations that are missed in a statistical summary. Also the cat and mouse of pitching sequence which is a really fun part of baseball.
Side note: Cronenworth's rocket had an expected BA of .790. Not the highest I've seen leading to an out, but reinforces how much of a bullet it was.
One thing nagging me a tiny bit is FTJ's return. I want him back but saddened that Peralta's PA will be squeezed. After a slow start, looking at 6/8+, his RC+ is 137. Tatis' very good season to date is 134. Tatis looks like a much better defender but hard to overstate how great a pick up he has been. Hope he steals a bunch of PA's from Arraez when FTJ returns and, hopefully, his bat keeps going. Even more so than Solano, just came in and raking.
Regarding defense, both the hits on Musgrove's start (one against him, one against a reliever) were well hit but definitely catchable. I assume they pull Musgrove with no hits regardless, but a combined no-hitter would have been fun.
Excellent as always, thanks for the writeup!
Great recap of the games and subtle nuances in them I couldn’t catch as I was in nyc and blacked out from MLB.TV.
It will be really interesting to see how Shildt manages things during the stretch run. Will he platoon Crone / Arraez with Solano against LHP? Will Diaz replace Campy? How will he get Peralta ABs? Will Merrill be moved up in the order?
I get so excited when I think of a healthy rotation of Yu, Cease, King, Joe, and Perez with a expanded roster creating a bullpen in Sept of:
Suarez
Scott
Adam
Estrada
Morejon
Hoeing
Matsui
Reynolds
One of:
Jacob / Waldron / Peralta / Cruz
And a lineup with FTJ and Kim.
Please, for the love of everything good in this world, let it be so.
Fun read; excellent job at highlighting the high leverage situations that are missed in a statistical summary. Also the cat and mouse of pitching sequence which is a really fun part of baseball.
Side note: Cronenworth's rocket had an expected BA of .790. Not the highest I've seen leading to an out, but reinforces how much of a bullet it was.
One thing nagging me a tiny bit is FTJ's return. I want him back but saddened that Peralta's PA will be squeezed. After a slow start, looking at 6/8+, his RC+ is 137. Tatis' very good season to date is 134. Tatis looks like a much better defender but hard to overstate how great a pick up he has been. Hope he steals a bunch of PA's from Arraez when FTJ returns and, hopefully, his bat keeps going. Even more so than Solano, just came in and raking.
Regarding defense, both the hits on Musgrove's start (one against him, one against a reliever) were well hit but definitely catchable. I assume they pull Musgrove with no hits regardless, but a combined no-hitter would have been fun.