4/18 vs Guardians
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Yep 2 earned runs and just 10 baserunners and it’s an L. The defense just kills this team.
I don't know why. Other than his hitting, fielding, and baserunning, he's been terrific
An infamous former Son of Sam Horn postulated that the median run value of an error was two. It sounds high, and I haven't kept track, but I've noticed a lot of errors that lead to more than one run in the years since I read that post.
I feel kind of bad for him. I have to think this is in part mental, and that's probably not limited to him.
Yeah, average defense and their record is much better.
And/or a couple of the scuffing guys having a normalish season with the bat. Not even a good season. Just not-abysmal.
Baseball isn't an easy sport, but at times this does seem like very low-hanging fruit.
yeah, I wasn't going to dig into it too much because it's too annoying. But that feels about right!
Don't forget baserunning. We're playing our opponents 28 outs to 26, it feels like, every game.
The hard parts of baseball that the other team has control over are really hard. Hitting and making good pitches. To fuck up the stuff that is independent of the other team, to a significant degree at least, just makes the rest so freaking hard.
The hard parts of baseball that the other team has control over are really hard. Hitting and making good pitches. To fuck up the stuff that is independent of the other team, to a significant degree at least, just makes the rest so freaking hard.
Would you consider starting a Defense 2024 thread on the main board? And posting the games/errors there? I think it would make for an interesting dedicated conversation outside of the monthly team thread.
I wasn't too happy with going to Jacques on a completely fresh pen, either. Have the day off Monday, just because Cleveland is lefty-heavy at the top of the lineup doesn't mean you go to Jacques.
Hopefully just some growing pains that come with giving a lot of playing time to young players. Tough to watch, seems like almost everyone on the team is pressing and trying to do way too much.
Yeah, that's the optimistic case, and I think its the right one. I think the game just needs to slow down for Abreu and Rafaela. They're both clearly pressing. Hamilton is a bad fielder, on the other hand. Reyes, I don't know what's happening with him.
Sometimes, when the team is down 2 or 3 runs in the middle innings of a game, I think Cora actively makes the worst bullpen decisions possible in an attempt to put the game out of reach so that he doesn't have to make any actual decisions later in the game if the team is trying to come from behind.
To be far Jacques did his job when first called on.
1st hit: 88MPH exit velocity (-19 launch angle)
HBP
Ground ball out
Ground ball out
Maybe they could try some left handed throwers in the infield. Start a new market efficiency.
There must be somebody on the MLB scrapheap who can do better than Hamilton? Recently retired or released?
Two series against top teams at home, two series against garbage teams on the road. Also like 100 injuries affecting the homestand, not the road trip.
Well, the mental errors certainly are. Kidding aside, he clearly needs to be out from under this microscope. He's not a shortstop and while I understand the difficulties that this roster presents, they have to stop running him out there at SS.
My first reaction was "dune buggy" but it turns out that was Danny Frisella. Miley was just a plain old car crash.