No. Why did MLB treat different teams differently wrt postponing games. Explain that to me, slapnuts.
Not in how he pitches, but just the feel/vibes, Emanuel reminds me of Doug Drabek, Doug Jones, Danny Darwin, etc. Just a lil ornery and like he warmed up behind a barn, not in the bullpen.
I always thought Bregman was best for leadoff. He has as much or more HR power than springer and he gets on base more. Gets more xtra base hits too. I just figured it was dealing with ego’s.
As has been speculated earlier, the Astros were at home and had all alt site players en route and ready for the next day. And the contact tracing “only” took out those other guys, while the others may have already been fully vaccinated. Other situations have involved teams on the road (harder to get replacement players and all their **** that they bring with them), or it may have involved key trainers/staff members that were in close contact with many players. This could have also been a situation where everybody was asymptomatic (usually a less concerning “exposure” situation) while the other situation featured player(s) actually getting sick.
Twins were on the road. Had multiple players test positive. One of them may have been symptomatic. Severity of the “outbreak” obviously taken into account along with ability to get players quarantined and replacements up.
3 out of 3 has a good ring to it. so does sweeping these clowns . if nothing else, I've shut up my annoying coworker who loves the Angels.
I really hope odorizzi doesn't need tommy john. If so we will be replace Jake with framber who was replaced by jake.
Not sure what you mean by "the next day". The Astros played the night that 5 players were DL'd. The replacements arrived less than an hour before the game. MLB could have easily said that they'd postpone the Wednesday game but it would have to be made up when the Astros travel to Detroit.
Click said he heard Tuesday night that they’d be having to shelve a handful of players and they already started making moves right then/there. Even though they deny it, Altuve was removed early in the Tuesday night game in part due to this, as they probably only then confirmed his positive test. Yes, I agree that it did likely put the Astros at a disadvantage to have to play a game with a bunch of replacement guys... but if they had a full team ready to go by game time, they didn’t really have a strong argument not to play. It seems like all the other suspended games involve either more needed quarantine to verify testing due to symptomatic cases, or they just can’t get players there in time. In the end it seems the Astros were forced to play due to a combination of having replacement players closer by and possibly a less severe “case” overall compared to some of the mini outbreaks other teams have had to deal with. MLB could also just explain the whole thing.... its not like we’re dealing with national security secrets here.
Sorry, but having players that need to be in the starting lineup arrive less than an hour before game time doesn't seem to be "ready to go". Do you have a link to Click knowing about this Tuesday night? I've looked and cannot find one. I did find this which implies that he seems to not understand why they weren't postponed: "Astros general manager James Click, appearing on the team’s pregame radio show Sunday on KBME (790 AM) in Houston, said he has been in contact with Major League Baseball regarding why his club has continued to play with five players on the COVID-19 injured list while the Twins have had a series of postponements."
He said it that morning. I think it was actually on the team website (“we got wind of some things last night and are in the process of addressing” - paraphrasing). Yes, there is a ton of middle ground between technically having a roster intact with active players in the flesh... vs being “ready” to play. it’s likely mlb favors the former as opposed to the latter when deciding when to postpone games. It’s also likely a more serious deal when you have mulitple players or staffers either test positive or show symptoms, vs what the Astros apparently had (asymptomatic Altuve tests positive, other players back within a week)
Straw leading off again... day off for Correa. Straw was actually doing a tad better where he should be (bottom of the lineup). Would have preferred Brantley or Diaz batting first.
We've had like 80 days off, why is Correa getting an off day now. Give him breaks when the games start mounting.
Dusty said in the post game that he’s been the only player to not have a day off (on an actual game day) and was “running on fumes” It’s fine. Hinch probably did even more off day rotations (moreso before they had a legit DH) early in the season. I actually think they get more conditioned as the season goes on when they get through all the abnormal off days early in the season after not playing full games in spring training.
