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MrPostman01 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 07:28 am Gallen and maybe Flaherty.

CrownRoyalCaramel wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 07:08 am I honestly believe VS2 and Walker drug this team down so bad, they have to be worth 4-5 more wins without those two and their ridiculous lack of hitting ability. I mean, how can you have 2 guys in your lineup all the time with a less than .600 OBPS? Don’t care what WAR says, it just doesn’t make sense. You replace those 2 with some league average bats with a tad bit of pop and this team makes it into the playoffs.

Punkk6 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 10:56 am Personally, I have little interest in a "playoff" team that gets swept out of the first round yet again

CrownRoyalCaramel wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 07:08 am I honestly believe VS2 and Walker drug this team down so bad, they have to be worth 4-5 more wins without those two and their ridiculous lack of hitting ability. I mean, how can you have 2 guys in your lineup all the time with a less than .600 OBPS? Don’t care what WAR says, it just doesn’t make sense. You replace those 2 with some league average bats with a tad bit of pop and this team makes it into the playoffs.

Talkin' Baseball wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 07:18 am

CrownRoyalCaramel wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 07:08 am I honestly believe VS2 and Walker drug this team down so bad, they have to be worth 4-5 more wins without those two and their ridiculous lack of hitting ability. I mean, how can you have 2 guys in your lineup all the time with a less than .600 OBPS? Don’t care what WAR says, it just doesn’t make sense. You replace those 2 with some league average bats with a tad bit of pop and this team makes it into the playoffs.

The problem includes them, but is broader than them. You can't have a lineup with them that also includes Pages, Gorman, and in most cases Nootbaar. That is over half the lineup where very little is happening. Or, 60% of a starting rotation made up of Fedde, Mikolas, and Pallante. And yet in spite of all of this, they are only eliminated from the playoffs with 3 games left in the season. Improvement at the margins from any or all of these guys would be big.

JuanAgosto wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:22 pm This team missed the WC because:

1. Bad starting pitching.
2. Too many offensive holes.
3. Too many low effort, brain dead games.
4. DeWitt and Mozeliak's half-[ashed] re-set.

Hazelwood72 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:28 pm

JuanAgosto wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:22 pm This team missed the WC because:

1. Bad starting pitching.
2. Too many offensive holes.
3. Too many low effort, brain dead games.
4. DeWitt and Mozeliak's half-[ashed] re-set.

3A. Too many brain dead games due to brain dead iPad Oli and a farm system that no longer teaches intelligent baseball.

JuanAgosto wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:30 pm

Hazelwood72 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:28 pm

JuanAgosto wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:22 pm This team missed the WC because:

1. Bad starting pitching.
2. Too many offensive holes.
3. Too many low effort, brain dead games.
4. DeWitt and Mozeliak's half-[ashed] re-set.

3A. Too many brain dead games due to brain dead iPad Oli and a farm system that no longer teaches intelligent baseball.

Wholeheartedly agree. Too often this team seemed uninspired and lackluster. Usually on weekend day games. Hhmmm......

Hazelwood72 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:37 pm

JuanAgosto wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:30 pm

Hazelwood72 wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:28 pm

JuanAgosto wrote: ↑25 Sep 2025 22:22 pm This team missed the WC because:

1. Bad starting pitching.
2. Too many offensive holes.
3. Too many low effort, brain dead games.
4. DeWitt and Mozeliak's half-[ashed] re-set.

3A. Too many brain dead games due to brain dead iPad Oli and a farm system that no longer teaches intelligent baseball.

Wholeheartedly agree. Too often this team seemed uninspired and lackluster. Usually on weekend day games. Hhmmm......

Yeah, Juan, I’ve been calling for Mozo’s head ever since around 2016 or 17. We had a brief respite when Mike Shildt brought back intelligent, aggressive baseball, and I let up on Mozo for a while. But then, what really urinated me off was when Mozo fired Shildt, then named Siri iPad Marmot as manager. After seeing the deterioration in our basic baseball fundamentals, I have been totally down on this front office ever since. The organization is a total wreck right now.