All series talk goes in here. Non series talk goes somewhere else. No PBP, that can be found from other sources if you need it. All games are broadcast on AT&T Sports SW unless otherwise noted. 8-5 Griffin Jax (R) vs. Framber Valdez (L) 7:10 8-6 Bailey Ober (R) vs. Zack Greinke (R) 7:10 8-7 Michael Pineda (R) vs. Luis Garcia (R) 6:10 8-8 Kenta Maeda (R) vs. Lance McCullers Jr. (R) 1:10
Not sure what to think about Maldy at first but very tired of seeing Garcia in the lineup. Really wish we could have kept Toro and still got Graveman. Also, wish that Alvarez could play a decent 1B. I really want to see what Meyers can do with a couple of games under his belt. Need to get this W and then rest more guys this week while still winning somehow. Bench players and starting pitching need to step up.
Lineup with STATS POS L/R/S PLAYER OBP SLG OPS+ WAR 2B R ALTUVE, Jose 353 504 135 3.5 CF R MCCORMICK, Chas 298 461 107 1.1 DH L BRANTLEY, Michael 384 487 140 2.8 LF L ALVAREZ, Yordan 347 513 135 2.0 3B R DIAZ, Aledmys 348 493 130 1.3 CF L TUCKER, Kyle 338 531 136 3.1 1B R MALDENADO, Martin 276 323 66 0.5 SS S GARCIA, Robel 221 214 22 (0.6) C L CASTRO, Jason 339 303 81 0.4 BENCH SS R CORREA, Carlos 367 478 133 4.2 1B R GURRIEL, Yuli 388 490 143 3.1 CF R MEYERS, Jake 0 0 -100 (0.1)
So Correa pretty much has to be completely unavailable because there's no excuse for an off day right now. Dusty is just flat out not gonna give Meyers a start.
As innocuous as a stiff neck sounds, it could be any number of things. And I guarantee you that one thing passed on from organization to organization is to never let what happened to JR ever happen again. We now take full advantage of the Medical Center expertise available to us.
Correa getting a rest day after flying in late from the previous game on the West Coast isn't out of the ordinary for Dusty. Though of the few rest days that Straw got, I think he got 1-2 in the same situation as CF can be a lot of work like SS.
This is the worst defensive team I've seen in a long time. Hopefully robel and maldy don't kick the ball all over the infield lol
Unless I am remembering wrong it seems like Hinch put guys in the lineup almost immediately when they were called up.
