0% chance McCullers is DFA this season. If they give up on him, he will go on the IL for the rest of this season, come back and see how he looks in ST then be released.
Get the pitching and management braintrust together with him and plan his future role. Then give him a full offseason and ST to adjust to whatever it is.
He didn't have surgery in July when it first flared up....then after some rehab outings in the minors in August it shut him down again, so it's pretty obvious he'll have surgery, so he'll be back pitching in AAA next spring/summer?
You do have to wonder how much longer they will keep forcing LMJ as a starter. Maybe try him as a 2-3 inning bridge guy who spams curve balls.
Few thoughts and stupid ramblings. Win win win win and 3 game lead. Fk yeah!. 1. Watched Mariners game skipping here and there. There were 3 parties on field and 2 of those wanted M's to win. A's and the Umps. Soderstrom refuses to slide home with squeeze and overall ass play from A's. Ump refusing to call strike late for A's pitchers. M's just **** their pants and took horrible AB's whole game. 2. Our outfield. We have been scoring runs finally but if you look these last two games it's the picture of our outfield in general. Sanzhes is the only guy who has a chance to get hit. Melton still looks so weak. Whatever pitcher throws, he manages to look 100% suprised and undressed in box. Chas probably does't play for team anymore, he's playing for getting tendered at all or chance in other team next season. Teams mostly looking righty throwing lefty hitting with some pop to be bench/utility OF role and he's the opposite with sucking a*s like 2 years straight. Pretty clear that the good times were anomaly/career high point and we road them good and have given the dude every possible chance for the memories. I don't know can these arb salaries go down but if we are paying him 3m still next season Im very disappointed. 3. Pitching. I have to admit, I was also on the train of don't give up too much on deadline for SP because studs are coming back which looks like pretty silly take right now. Have to say I did't anticipate injury bug continuing and wiping out Hader, Walter, Sousa and Framber going to the dark side for good. Still I would not given Spencer for Cease, but for good starter yes. We might be only org who runs SP's to mound few more times(after TJ verdict clear) to make sure they really need a TJ and then wait forever them to come back. Garcia appearance still looks like he retired 5-7y ago and he came for some fat fun old timers day pitching. So I won't expect much from him either. Maybe we can turn this Blueballs guy into good SP next season. I trust Miller and all guys around pitching dep. to keep turning random farm hands to 4-5 starters. Key for me is Framber starting to lead the staff again. Put his ego and panic of the bag getting smaller by the day aside and turn back to the guy with cocky self confedence and going 7-9inn again regularly. This moment he's looking like uncoachable bad vibes guy who doest feel he has to back up bases or stay focused when hit by bad call. If he would have a good day and playing post season (oppo not playing for stats only) with this attitude as oppo I would just bunt against him few times and break him. Dude is whack like crack. Meaning he's bit mental but this barrell of man is one of those who you are happy to have on your side and unleash him v other team. We don't have too much accountability around this team to do things the right way and have good AB's and stuff. If Framber keeps doing things like this b****a*s act of being terrible and throwing towel right away in games and accusing others for his shortcomings we are fkd. It's clear the he feels he's too big of star to let Correa or anybody to lecture him anymore. The chance we have post season time is Hunter & good Framber going strong. We will face top pitching and with this latter half of lineup (outfield) we will not score much. And also, this is a*shole take but I don't want Framber back on nothing else than pillow deal. So many innings last 5 years that he is due for big injury and the moody drama getting old. The bad starts may been product of injury but contract year and everybody counting on him I don't trust that he would admit that.
Well, for one thing that’s not what I said so your reading comprehension seems a little weak; I said I would have Alexander on a short leash, and that Blubaugh would be next in line. Alexander is a weak-velo pitcher who has gotten by with deceptive movement that generates ground balls. In terms of whiffs, strikeouts, and limiting hard contact, he has been among the worst pitchers in the league. His savant page is a sea of blue. He is the type of BoR SP profile that can survive fine against mediocre lineups who’ve never faced him, but who gets destroyed against playoff lineups. Contrast that with Blubaugh, whose k/bb% and expected baa are among the best in the league. His fastball sits 95 and would probably sit 97 in a playoff game where he’s only expected to throw 3-4 innings. He is prone to hard hit fly balls but at least has the stuff to generate strikeouts against good hitters.
I’ve been a big blubaugh fan bc I love stuff and swing and miss, but yikes, when they hit him it goes a looooooong way.
He has great stuff just makes too many mistakes over the plate. I think experience will correct that. I think he is a future ToR starter. Much higher on Blubaugh than I have ever been on Arrighetti. I thought Garcia was going to be awesome, but I guess he just didn’t have the discipline to take care of his body. Brown is Verlander. I think Framber is gone, but we make a big swing for an Ace at the deadline next year. Javier is going to figure it out by the playoffs. Next year we start off with a rotation of Brown, Javier, Arrighetti, Walter if healthy, and Blubaugh. Maybe Garcia can crack the rotation. When does Ullola get his chance?
