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Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 19:58 pm
by Goldfan
There is no Youth in this entire organization who wouldn’t benefit from some ML experience,……are they too scared to do this??
This was the year TO DO this
Instead we get to watch a 36yr old throw BP???
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 19:59 pm
by Melville
Contract.
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 20:02 pm
by Goldfan
Melville wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 19:59 pm
Contract.
I have an old car lacking brakes……I paid for it……so therefore I will drive it…..
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 20:05 pm
by Joseph-Magrane
Sunk cost fallacy from a poverty organization
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 20:06 pm
by Goldfan
Joseph-Magrane wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 20:05 pm
Sunk cost fallacy from a poverty organization
LOSERS….bottom line
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 20:12 pm
by icon
Joseph-Magrane wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 20:05 pm
Sunk cost fallacy from a poverty organization
Exactly. This organization has no clue about sunk costs. They blew the money on Mikolas, and it's never going to be unblown. Ditch him.
I'm redoing my bathrooms, and I ordered 2 corner stone shower caddies that looked like horrific monstrosities when I got them. My contractor told me they couldn't be returned, so was I sure I didn't want them now? I told him I viewed them as sunk costs and didn't want those ugly things in my bathrooms, and would spend a fraction of that for caddies that do the job better and look a whole lot better.
Miles Mikolas is synonymous with a monstrous shower caddy in my book.
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 20:34 pm
by 45s
Goldfan wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 19:58 pm
There is no Youth in this entire organization who wouldn’t benefit from some ML experience,……are they too scared to do this??
This was the year TO DO this
Instead we get to watch a 36yr old throw BP???
Someone has to pitch to get them through 2 months..
Bringing up a young guy before they are ready can result in bad performances and a loss of confidence
And there is an issue of innings….too many for a young guy…
and the cynic in me demands that I suggest that starting the service time clock may be an issue…
The season is shot……just let mm carry the load until the end…
Oh yeah…..bet the over..
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 20:56 pm
by sdaltons
I need to know the rationale for not starting Herrera behind the plate like 4 out of every 5 days. I realize his D was bad but let's not pretend it was costing us games. This is the perfect time to let him work through it.
Instead this will be the season where we had to move our starting C to 1B to save him and then move our next starting C to DH to save him. Which results in starts for Pages, who has no part in our future.
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 21:02 pm
by BrockFloodMaris
Goldfan wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 19:58 pm
There is no Youth in this entire organization who wouldn’t benefit from some ML experience,……are they too scared to do this??
This was the year TO DO this
Instead we get to watch a 36yr old throw BP???
Maybe your post title should be “I don’t agree with the BDW philosophy that ‘the contract plays’”. He’s always been that way.
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 21:40 pm
by Sunstroke
When you travel to the orient to scout talent, how about bringing back Asian talent instead of a washed up, skinny calved, porn star mustache sporting, cement mixer curve ball throwing white dude?
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 21:43 pm
by mike laga
Miles is the poster child for MO's swan song campaign and will crop dust us till the end.
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 21:46 pm
by cardsfaninla
icon wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 20:12 pm
Joseph-Magrane wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 20:05 pm
Sunk cost fallacy from a poverty organization
Exactly. This organization has no clue about sunk costs. They blew the money on Mikolas, and it's never going to be unblown. Ditch him.
I'm redoing my bathrooms, and I ordered 2 corner stone shower caddies that looked like horrific monstrosities when I got them. My contractor told me they couldn't be returned, so was I sure I didn't want them now? I told him I viewed them as sunk costs and didn't want those ugly things in my bathrooms, and would spend a fraction of that for caddies that do the job better and look a whole lot better.
Miles Mikolas is synonymous with a monstrous shower caddy in my book.
Maybe you can get him to stand in your shower and hold your supplies?
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 21:50 pm
by rightthinker4
Melville wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 19:59 pm
Contract.
Correct answer. Somebody has to pitch. Not to defend Marmol, but he doesn’t have a lot of options.
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 22:26 pm
by Strummer Jones
rightthinker4 wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 21:50 pm
Melville wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 19:59 pm
Contract.
Correct answer. Somebody has to pitch. Not to defend Marmol, but he doesn’t have a lot of options.
Find some AAA journeyman, then. Maybe we get lucky and get Jason Simontacci'd for a couple of months. He gets a few months MLB pay, and I never have to see Miles Mikolas ever again. Everyone's a winner.
Worst case scenario, he sucks, and I still don't have to see Miles Mikolas ever again.
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 22:40 pm
by ramfandan
Rationale ? The way Miles is pitching why not give him a 5th for each start. He certainly would be more relaxed !
Re: Rationale for starting Miles every 5th
Posted: 20 Jul 2025 22:44 pm
by icon
ramfandan wrote: ↑20 Jul 2025 22:40 pm
Rationale ? The way Miles is pitching why not give him a 5th for each start. He certainly would be more relaxed !
No, he should only start on the 5th of every month left, so 2 starts left unless those are open dates.