Fulmer wasn't on anyone's bingo card.
Agreed, but its not aspirations - its expectations. If they do not win that division, everyone should be fired. Hoyer, Hawkins, Counsell, coaches, clubhouse manager - everyone. Including ownership (if we could).
In Iowa? They can use 98 mph out of the pen with the big club right now. My guess is that's where he ends up an the end of the week. He's got the stuff to be a high leverage guy in the 7th. Like you said, without a third quality pitch, the third time through the order is too much. We saw that again tonight.
Ben Brown to AAA, Porter Hodge back from IL-15.
I do. It was dumb. Kyle Tucker was the most surprised player on the field when he bunted. Tucker was maybe 5 feet off third base.
Really? To what end? He made a stupid mistake. He knew he made a stupid mistake. He’s not a player with a history of lackadaisical mistakes. By all means show up a player. Even better show up your young star and take your best defensive and one of your best offensive players out of a game. Thankfully Counsel isn’t that stupid and if he did that I’d hope every leader on the team is in his office after the game pointing out the idiocy of such a short-sighted move. If you saw PCA’s interview after the game, he knew he messed up and made no excuses.
No, he shouldn't. His teammates saw what happened, his coaches saw what happened, the fans in the stadium saw what happened and a large TV audience saw what happened. He doesn't need to be benched or embarrassed further as a reminder. Now, if he had a history of not paying attention or if it happens again..... different story. The kid plays balls to the wall every game. He has saved them a TON of runs with his play in CF. Things happen.
The starting pitching has been abysmal. My concern goes much deeper than just this four game set. They haven't had a quality start in 9 games and they've left up 54 runs in 6 games, as a staff. You can recover from a poor stretch of games. You can't recover from a below average group of starters.
