The 2023 Running Baseball Thread

Yes, I don't know if I am willing to cringe through tonight, either. Time to catch up on Upload and Transplant.

 

He didn't lose $75 million. He won $75 million last year.

He put about $8 mil on the Astros to win this year.

 

I keep forgetting they dropped the first two episodes of Season 3 of Upload. I'll probably be watching at least one tonight instead of the game.

 

Based on how things are going, you only have to follow the first three innings.

If ball hasn't gone boom by then, it's not going to.

 

Told ya' Ball would stop Going Boom. Same shit as last year. The minute home run derby ends they have no clue how to manufacture runs. They blew it in game four as far as I'm concerned. Well, my good friend Craig Kimbrel did.

 

Man I love those compilations!!

 

They blew it last night when Kelly walked two in 1st and Bohm and Stott did zip.

 

Bohm has been absolutely worthless as a cleanup hitter outside of a couple of spots. As appreciative as I am of Thomson making baseball relevant again in Philadelphia, this is shadows of Jim Leyland with the 90-92 Pirates where Bonds, Bonilla and Van Slyke struggled and it occurred to no one to shuffle the lineup around.

 

It's a Dave Dombrowski-created playoff team. Some of us are very familiar with the disappointment that goes along with it, especially if Jim Leyland is managing.

 

I'm not sure how the lineup is going to be improved right now. A lot of people say Realmuto for No. 4, but he's not a cleanup hitter. Castellanos could be if he could hit anything at the moment. And they're not like the O's, who could trot out a platoon player in the cleanup hole (see: Ryan O'Hearn) and get results in kind. Jake Cave sure ain't that.

This isn't the popular thought anymore, but ... well ... their best cleanup option is leading off. That would get Harper protected in the order.

 

The obvious next cleanup hitter would be Castellanos, but he hasn't exactly torn it up the last few games either.

 

The 2006 Tigers hit .199 against the Cardinals. The 2012 Tigers hit .159 against the Giants. Dave Dombrowski's big boom offenses go cold at the most inopportune times.