gehringer_2

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yes - they are vets and I don't think individual instruction is going to matter much, but that's not all the hitting coach is responsible for. What kind of BP are they doing? Doing any live off the mound? Machine drills? How is the pitching scouting being presented and what kind of recommendations are being made? Are they pushing guys to review old video? Making sure old video is available? They may already be doing all this stuff but the point is that there is stuff a pitching coach is responsible for that is going to help even vets.

Bart, Kelenic, Rutchsman aren't even in Torks draft class, they have all been in their systems longer. The Covid year scrambled things up but Tork is still at the majors really fast. That said, some days he looks fine. Other days he looks caught in between, waiting just a hair too long to commit to swinging at the FB. Could be he needs to stop worrying about his K rate to actually control it better. Easier said than done of course.

Yeah - the options are poor. Agree Miguel does not look like he is an any kind of shape to play any 1b now! If Kreidler were OK or Clemens was showing signs his bat might play, that would free Harold to go to 1st, but I think he is about your only choice. Don't really want to see Schoop there - agreed that costs too much D at both 1st and 2nd. One other side, I don't think they care enough about Lester that having Tork take his AB at Toledo would be a consideration.

Curious - he is listed as on rehab from the Mudhens rather than assigned to the FCL. Hard to believe they think he would ready to be at AAA in 30 days! I guess maybe just where the roster spot is right now....Or maybe he is too old to be assigned there?

Pacheco has been their Steady Eddie. Looks like he's had only one dry spell of about 0/15 but conversely he has only one game >2 hits.

Oh - I know that, but my point is that that isn't how it usually works with management. We know their team's performance wasn't Madden or Girardi's fault either, but in the real world that not how the cookie usually gets crumbled.

yeah - better fastball...

The thing with MiLB hitters is that you can look at all their results and metrics and even if they are good maybe still make predictions about which guys that are doing well in the minors still don't have the ability for majors (e.g. Carpenter). But it doesn't go the other way. A guy can look perfect in the minors and still hit a wall against the quality of MLB pitching he can't get over. Bottom line, you never really know what level a hitter is going to top out at.

I don't know anything about Coolbaugh as a coach, but he has come magic kind of aura around him politically because just in terms of the normal dynamics of team accountability, we have a hitting coach presiding over a bunch of hitters performing at once in a century poor levels and the only thing you get when Coolbaugh's name comes up is a shrug. Any number of Tiger hitting coaches as recently as Lloyd have been regularly roasted over teams that performed much closer to their expected norms than this one.

one player at Lakeland with 100AB and >800 OPS, Carlos Mendoza three players at WM four players at Erie, but one is 26, one is 27 and one no-one believes can level up ONE at Toledo, a 35 yr old journeyman catcher. as of today, that is it.

and Perez 2/3 3B for Madden. Did anyone see word about Colt Keith?

"J"obe of course. I type poorly enough on a keyboard. I'm hopeless on a phone..

Likewise and ditto.

I thought I heard it was Casey's camp that was resisting the idea of surgery since the diagnosis wasn't a definitive rupture but it was just radio chatter so it might have been off base.

Foul off his foot/leg

Why is Clemens on deck?

Think of all the energy the Blue Jays are wasting tonight.

At some point you have to question the prep the hitters are doing.

Meadows had his good game for this week. You want ….. more?

Well, there certainly are nights when a ‘participation’ trophy doesn’t look so bad.

Kobe throws 75 pitches tonight. 5IP 4H 1R 2BB 4K

Greene 2/3 tonight. Really having trouble finding ‘it’

Funny, the team playing on the scoreboard video is winning easy tonight