Look up some stuff, I'm no expert. What does all this tell you? https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2024-specialpos_ss-fielding.shtml
Bryan Abreu was the one to gave up the first hit. If you mean the shutout, then yes, ruined by Hader.
It was a shift-**** single. Go back and look where the IF'rs were positioned. That ball rolled right through the exact spot where a SS would normally play
This is like an Independent League level line up outside of the top 3 in the line up… amazing we won.
ERA leaders of current playoff teams: 3.64 Atlanta 3.64 Milwaukee 3.72 Houston 3.72 Philadelphia 3.75 NY Yankees 3.77 LA Dodgers 3.87 Cleveland 3.90 Kansas City 3.94 Baltimore 3.97 San Diego 4.09 Minnesota 4.51 Arizona We're like the Jeffersons, movin' on up. The Astros now have the best pitching staff in baseball. We are a Kyle Tucker away from competing for a World Series. And a errorless defense.
Valdez and Brown both have an ERA under 2.00 since the all star break. Arrighetti has an ERA of 2.68. We are 5-0 with Kikuchi starting. We have someone named Justin Verlander..... as a luxury. Blanco has been moved to the back pages.
How much of this decline is going from Yuli to the catastrophic defensive mix of Abreu, Singleton, Whitcomb, Dezenzo, Caratini, and Yainer...
Wtf. What did Espada do wrong? He's not the fielding coach. The options to improve on defense is literally non existent if Bregman is still out.
I think we would all agree it would have been awesome had Abreu just matched his production of 2023 so we would not be trotting out a different first baseman almost every day. We cannot sustain that. Something needs to break. Dana Brown? You're up.
25 errors in 29 games. We're the worst defensive team in baseball right now, and it's not really close. How is Espada watching that happen without taking corrective action? You can cast some of the blame on Dana Brown as well for not acquiring a legit first baseman. They are both in this together. Are they going to collectively resolve this?
