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Guess I'll take the much-too-late fall here.

Sigh... hate listening to buck go on and on about how we have the bats to get back into it. This game was over at 4-0 in the third. Score first or mail it in. That's this years team.


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The Pillar at leadoff experiment needs to end post haste.

Lateral Quicks wrote:The Pillar at leadoff experiment needs to end post haste.

Against RHP, at the very least. His OBP against lefties is decent enough, particularly this year; against righties, it absolutely should be Carrera, whose walk rate has improved the past two seasons and is a vastly superior hitter against RHP overall.

It may be time to bring back Farrell4eva and ban him again Schad.

Which season was that? Can't remember if it was one of the nightmare seasons that turned into dream seasons, or the one that was just straight-up a nightmare.

Pretty sure it was the 2015 season just before we went on that run lol

This season will require the sacrifice of an actual poster - I nominate JaysRule

JaysRule15 wrote:Pretty sure it was the 2015 season just before we went on that run lol

For some reason I remembered it as the year previous. But sure enough, it was June 29, 2015:

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We then went on a really bad run for a couple weeks (which is probably why I thought it was 2014), so it felt like Farrell4eva had not pleased the gods and I abandoned the idea. But we were 52-39 from the day forward, so...

Wish this team wasn't in the AL East.

Rays to the Jays are the Bobcats to the Raptors.

Man the Rogers Center looked empty last night.

Yankees are up by 8.5 games. Need to leap frog a bunch of teams for the wild card spot. Players injured. Travis done for the season. Starting pitching woes continue. Bullpen being taxed and used way too often. BLOW IT UP!

Trade Bautista, Estrada, Happ, Liriano, 2Lo and Martin for prospects. Start the rebuilt. It was fun while it lasted.

Lateral Quicks wrote:The Pillar at leadoff experiment needs to end post haste.

Pillar has been horrible. Not the same after that incident and ban of 2 games. I'd take him out of that leadoff role, and put Bautista there.

Bautista
Donaldson
Morales
Smoak
Tulo
Carrera
Pillar
Martin
Goins

Carrera has a 380 OBP vs RHP, higher than JB, he should lead off.

So has The Estrada smoke and mirrors show ended? Has he been figured out?

Estrada was really good a few weeks ago, IIRC. Hard to believe it would take 2.5 years to figure him out. My guess is his control is off and he's slumping right now.

That said, I agree we should sell now.

Lol Zeke fractures his foot... on crutches and the DL. Dwight Smith Jr. is up and in the lineup.

At least Pearce is going to be back this weekend I guess. But, damn, the amount of injuries this season has been unreal.

Pompey has got to feel incredibly unlucky. If healthy he'd probably have 100-150 plate appearances with the big club already.

morales looked like he pulled a hammy running faster than ive ever seen him on that force out.