Lefty Specialist

So, let's take this in the case of Lucchesi yesterday. 1. Is my pitcher still effective? YES 2. Do I find myself in an offensive situation where it's more valuable to pinch-hit for him than to leave him in the game? NO 3. Is this next hitter a good matchup for him in a tough spot? He'd already handled the upcoming hitters 4. Has he hit his pitch count? 43? Unlikely. 5. Has he hit his innings count? 4? With a bullpen coming off a stressful game? 6. Has he reached a certain number of times through the order? Had only faced the minimum 12 batters. 7. Have we reached the game/score situation that we have groomed a particular reliever for? Teams don't have 5th inning relievers. At least they shouldn't PLAN it that way. 8. Has my starter been “stretched” enough? He'd already thrown 60 pitches in a previous start, so yes. 9. Has he reached a poiont my coach and I arbitrarily came up with before the game, and inexplicably made a hard rule out of? This is possible, but then they're idiots and are not managing to the game situation. 10. Has he been pitching more innings than he had at this point last year? Yes, but this is a guy who had 30 starts in 2019. He's not a kid out of short-season A ball. So even by the new 'rules' he shouldn't have been pulled. At least pitch him 5 innings to make him eligible for the win. This one really annoys me.

I don't have a problem with it. With a runner on 2nd and no out, strikeouts are critical. Diaz is a strikeout machine. So I save him for the 10th in a tie game. I'm still scratching my head about pulling Lucchesi and not having a reliever ready.

Edgy MD wrote: Just bunt Joneshwy. All day, every day. Same goes for Lee.

WTF? Lucchesi is dealing and only threw 43 pitches. Why pull him?

Don't get too attached to these guys; as soon as some regulars get back, they'll be off to Syracuse. Or DFA'd, as Hager was today. Sucks for him, although I wouldn't be surprised if he slips through waivers.

=roger_that post_id=65164 time=1621689735 user_id=128] Going to my first Marlins-Mets game on Sunday, figured I'd learn some information about the team this year by signing up with you folks. Just finished watching last night's game on my DVR, looking forward to my first in-person game in over a year! Almost two years! I live an hour north of Miami, btw. Not much good baseball down here.

Man tries to explain to his very humpable wife why they should build a skate ramp for their son (somehow related to cable pricing). https://abancommercials.com/uploadComercial/133722.jpg> Ummmmmm....someone's about to get hit with a can of polyurethane.

Memo to Jacob Barnes: Do NOT give up a leadoff home run.

Whew, huuuuuuuuuge DP.

Loup not fooling anybody. Well, except maybe Luis Rojas.

Well, that's exactly what you DIDN'T want to do.

OK, now hold 'em, dudes......let's not get Loupy.

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When you have to rely on the guy who's struck out in his first 8 AB's.....

"You can hear the collective gasp around New York"

Well, that sucked.

Diaz mans up nicely.

Black guy has winning lottery ticket; white guy steals it.

Ugly.

Good move running for Nido here.

Frayed Knot wrote: How 'bout NOT losing via walk-off tonight? Jeurys doesn't seem to be listening.

Familia with the leadoff walk, because of course.

Nido shows some Pop of his own!

Stroman looks awfully uncomfortable tonight.