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PowercatPat · « **Reply #675 on:** June 30, 2011, 10:21:06 PM »

Can we blame Dayton Moore?

pike · « **Reply #676 on:** July 02, 2011, 07:43:25 PM »

Winters · « **Reply #677 on:** July 02, 2011, 08:47:00 PM »

Lets look on the bright side Kyle Davies was trending on twitter!

jtksu · « **Reply #678 on:** July 03, 2011, 03:51:20 PM »

Since Hoch is so good for 3 innings and so shitty after that I'd be all for him being moved to the pen.

PowercatPat · « **Reply #679 on:** July 04, 2011, 09:13:25 PM »

jtksu · « **Reply #680 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:13:13 PM »

Pretty classy of Verlander to let Crow ride on his charter flight out to the ASG. Guess Mauer did the same thing for Verlander earlier in his career.

WillieWatanabe · « **Reply #681 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:27:41 PM »

Quote from: jtksu on July 10, 2011, 02:13:13 PM

Pretty classy of Verlander to let Crow ride on his charter flight out to the ASG. Guess Mauer did the same thing for Verlander earlier in his career.

what's going on? havent seen this yet.

jtksu · « **Reply #682 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:33:52 PM »

Just talked about it during the game. Verlander chartered a flight for him, team, etc. Said they had room so he asked Crow if he wanted a flight since they were leaving from KC anyway. Seems pretty classy to me.

WillieWatanabe · « **Reply #683 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:45:04 PM »

oh ok. I didn't see your edit in time. Was wondering why it was Gordon. Crow makes sense.

jtksu · « **Reply #684 on:** July 10, 2011, 03:20:34 PM »

They talked about it during a Gordon at bat, so I kinda mumped that up.

jtksu · « **Reply #685 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:08:50 PM »

Any idea why they didn't sac bunt Hosmer to third in the ninth? Seems like that would be better than letting Frenchy swing away and then have Hosmer try to steal afterwards.

k-state87 · « **Reply #686 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:18:00 PM »

Quote from: jtksu on July 10, 2011, 04:08:50 PM

Any idea why they didn't sac bunt Hosmer to third in the ninth? Seems like that would be better than letting Frenchy swing away and then have Hosmer try to steal afterwards.

Don't know, a lot of MLB players can't lay bunts down really well so that may be a reason. Maybe Yost thought Frenchy would come through with a hit or a ground ball to the right side of the infield. Didn't have the best of angle but Hosmer looked like he got his hand in there before the tag.

jtksu · « **Reply #687 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:22:38 PM »

On one angle it looked like Inge may have blocked the bag with his shin. And I'm not sure I've ever seen Frenchy bunt so maybe he is just really bad at it. Guess they were just hoping for a 2 run inning, the whole "play for the tie on the road and the lead at home" belief.

WillieWatanabe · « **Reply #688 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:40:14 PM »

I know most MLB managers are horrible. But goddamn if Yost isn't near the worst.

jtksu · « **Reply #689 on:** July 10, 2011, 05:23:24 PM »

Guess I'm just used to the Twins' style but I figured it was a no brainer to bunt the runner to third when you have no outs and you're down one in the ninth. If you have a dude on 3rd with 1 out, it's pretty easy to get him home. Even if Frenchy sucks balls at bunting, a sac bunt is pretty simple. You can rough ridin' square around right away, everyone knows what you're doing anyway.

pike · « **Reply #690 on:** July 16, 2011, 01:24:17 AM »

Well, Hosmer is just ridiculous

jtksu · « **Reply #691 on:** July 19, 2011, 08:33:30 PM »

I was expecting Moose to be a liability on the field but he actually looks pretty good at third.

Kat Kid · « **Reply #692 on:** July 19, 2011, 09:00:15 PM »

Quote from: jtksu on July 19, 2011, 08:33:30 PM

I was expecting Moose to be a liability on the field but he actually looks pretty good at third.

you know what he kind of sucks at? Hitting.

jtksu · « **Reply #693 on:** July 19, 2011, 09:11:54 PM »

Yeah, he's not hitting for crap lately.

WillieWatanabe · « **Reply #694 on:** July 19, 2011, 09:18:43 PM »

he's down to .200. Sounds like Betemit is gone before the deadline...so he needs to figure crap out.

joda · « **Reply #695 on:** July 19, 2011, 09:31:02 PM »

Quote from: jtksu on July 19, 2011, 08:33:30 PM

I was expecting Moose to be a liability on the field but he actually looks pretty good at third.

He looked pretty shaky his first couple of games in the majors, probably

, but I'm sure having a great fielding SS next to him and 1B to throw to help his confidence quite a bit. But yea, definitely wish he'd start hitting like he did in the minors.

PowercatPat · « **Reply #696 on:** July 20, 2011, 12:05:42 AM »

I think we brought Moose up too early. Jmo

Kat Kid · « **Reply #697 on:** July 20, 2011, 08:55:16 AM »

Quote from: PowercatPat on July 20, 2011, 12:05:42 AM

I think we brought Moose up too early. Jmo

My dynasty league fantasy team disagreed strongly, then says you are probably right.

jtksu · « **Reply #698 on:** July 20, 2011, 02:05:45 PM »

I don't really think we brought him up too early. Dude was just tearing up AAA. He looked solid for the first few weeks. Maybe he's just slumping a bit, everyone does.

Kat Kid · « **Reply #699 on:** July 20, 2011, 02:38:27 PM »

Quote from: jtksu on July 20, 2011, 02:05:45 PM

I don't really think we brought him up too early. Dude was just tearing up AAA. He looked solid for the first few weeks. Maybe he's just slumping a bit, everyone does.

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