What's Up Duda's Ass

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

OPS by Month:
April .915 2 HR
May .948 7 HR
June .564 One HR and it was in Toronto so it barely counts.

What's ailing him? How to fix him?

Discuss.

[Edgy MD]

I checked four different things.

I just think he's a complex emotional monster. You need to push all your crap aside to stay focused in there, and he seems to have more crap than most to begin with. And then, with attrition and other realities leaving him the burden of being the anchor or the lineup, that's more than our big bugaboo can bear.

"A very good player. Not a superstar."

[Zvon]

I checked stuff. The "other" is he needs to have his eyes examined.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I took hiding injury... it can hurt having something up one's ass
and he should have it removed pronto.

[Edgy MD]

If there's an injury, it doesn't seem to be showing up on defense.

[Guest d'Kong76]

True, I almost selected the bitch in SD choice.

[Edgy MD]

I don't think we have enough "select all that apply" polls.

I'm hoping he knocks 'em dead and turns his act around on Lucas Duda Growth Chart Poster Day.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think he'll eventually heat up and he's still doing 1 or 2 good things almost every night but he just looks all fouled up.

[Lefty Specialist]

Keith said his pitch recognition is poor. Cueto beat him with changeups all night, until he finally laid off them and walked.

I said 'hiding an injury' because that seems to be a Metly rite of passage.

I said 'plagued by self-doubt' because it appeals to the Existenialist in me.

And I said 'needs two or more days off', because he really does look beat.

[Edgy MD]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Keith said his pitch recognition is poor. Cueto beat him with changeups all night, until he finally laid off them and walked.

Yeah that was fascinating. Cueto got ahead 0-2 and then suddenly seemed to have nothing in the tank. He was pitching it all over the place, seemed to have no idea what he wanted to throw, slowed way down, had a couple of chats with his catcher, including two during a single interval between pitches. It was like old Pedro up there, but old Pedro would have been stalling in part out of gamesmanship, knowing he had enough for one more batter. Cueto just turned from a fresh Matt Harvey to a wasted �lex Torres right there with an 0-2 count on Boo. I thanked God, but I also thank the Met lineup. Even though they weren't scoring, they had least had the virtue of making him work all evening.

[ashie62]

It is hard for the Dude to loom with Wright Murphy and d'Arnaud out.

[Fman99]

Didn't he get dinged right in the knee by a pitched ball, right around the same time he started sucking big fat tuna?

[MFS62]

I voted:
Anyone can have a bad month and
Needs two or more days off.
Lucas has shown that he can be a streaky hitter, and I think he needs a few days off to get his shit together and rest.

Later

[Ceetar]

hit on knee 5/31

[Frayed Knot]

His problem is that his whiffs wind up with no exit velocity at all.

[Edgy MD]

I like to read this as a greeting: "What's up, Duda's Ass?!"

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

It's kinda weird that he looks so fouled up of late, since his plate approach-- and ability to lay off/waste stuff that previously tied him in knots-- was the most notably improved part of his game for the first 8-10 weeks of the year.

That aside, it's obviously some kind of blackmail.