jopatura said:

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AggiEE said:

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HarryRocket said:

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All those at bats wasted on dubon.

Season management hasn't been good this year, we've just overcome it up to this point but they did a **** job of responding to Brantley going down.

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We traded for Mancini not thinking he'd totally **** the bed

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Mancini also went from playing every day to weird platoons. That had to mess with his head. Now we're back to asking him to perform every day. Yordan also seems to suffer being in the field every day. Click really should have traded for a dedicated left fielder.

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The numbers during the season showed Yordan performed better when playing the field that DHing.

That was literally the reason for getting him in LF more.

AggiEE said:

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HarryRocket said:

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All those at bats wasted on dubon.

Season management hasn't been good this year, we've just overcome it up to this point but they did a **** job of responding to Brantley going down.

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We traded for Mancini not thinking he'd totally **** the bed

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Yep.

Pretty strong move getting Mancini. No way to predict he'd suck AND that Diaz would be ice cold. No team is going to have a 3rd guy off the bench that makes a great everyday DH. That's not lack of preparation.

Yes Hensley should have gotten Dubons 50 infield ABs, but that wouldn't have magically made him David Ortiz. He's still the best option we have right now.

What is up with Alvarez… In the playoffs he's either red hot or ice cold and lately he's been ice cold. I'm ride or die Altuve, but holy crap he's been abysmal. How do you end the season on fire then disappear when needed most

Hi, Im Brett said:

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Ag12thman said:

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Not sure why everyone is so confident we'll win two in Philly, where the Phillies at much tougher and haven't lost at all in the playoffs.

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I'm thinking Houston will be favored or even in all games moving forward except Game 5

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Pretty funny and probably true. Favored in all games except when our CYA winner is pitching.

We had a total of 1 more than them. Yes, they had timely (albeit lucky) hits, but with our offense, we should make more opportunities to put runners on base. this pop up **** can't fly. The Judge catch really doesn't matter since we were clearly dominating them from the start and continued that for 4 gams straight. The Phillies defense is pretty bad and they were able to make a number of critical plays that kept them in it.

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jopatura said:

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AggiEE said:

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HarryRocket said:

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All those at bats wasted on dubon.

Season management hasn't been good this year, we've just overcome it up to this point but they did a **** job of responding to Brantley going down.

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We traded for Mancini not thinking he'd totally **** the bed

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Mancini also went from playing every day to weird platoons. That had to mess with his head. Now we're back to asking him to perform every day. Yordan also seems to suffer being in the field every day. Click really should have traded for a dedicated left fielder.

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The numbers during the season showed Yordan performed better when playing the field that DHing.

That was literally the reason for getting him in LF more.

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I thought it was that he was a better defender in left field then they thought he was, not that he necessarily hit better when he played left field.

Regardless as he's coming up on the tail end of the season, he seems tired. He hasn't fallen off quite as much as some of the others, but he's in a spell.

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aggieman27 said:

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Nothing to fear fellas, lost game 1 in '17 too.

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We have never won a WS game 1.

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And we can still win the next 4. Some posters heads would explode!

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gotta go hensley as DH in game 2, right? or do you give Mancin/Diaz one more shot?

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I wish. It seems clear at this point Dusty will never start the dude. Hope he changes his mind.

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We had a total of 1 more than them. Yes, they had timely (albeit lucky) hits, but with our offense, we should make more opportunities to put runners on base. this pop up **** can't fly. The Judge catch really doesn't matter since we were clearly dominating them from the start and continued that for 4 gams straight. The Phillies defense is pretty bad and they were able to make a number of critical plays that kept them in it.

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It isn't that last part just baseball?

They could make critical errors the next 2 games or not get to balls other teams would that could cost them the game.

Sometimes baseball is just that - baseball.

I wish the offense would have picked JV up today, but I think he'd tell you they shouldn't have been on that position at all.

Need Framber to deal tomorrow, and I think he will.
Also Wheeler has been very good most of the time, but he cannot go deep into games. If he is on his stuff, it's gonna be important to extend at bats and get him out of the game in the 5th inning or so.

The good thing about that game is they went all out on pitching. That's gonna be harder and harder to do if we can extend this series.

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Harry Dunne said:

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aggieman27 said:

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Nothing to fear fellas, lost game 1 in '17 too.

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We have never won a WS game 1.

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And we can still win the next 4. Some posters heads would explode!

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We are still +110 to win it. Not the "virtual lock" to lose that some drama queens would like

Totally agree, but we need some key pieces of our line up to start putting together better at bats. We need Altuve and Alvarez to start making a difference. If they stay cold then we're leaving it up to the bottom of our order to make things happen over the next six games.

Tuve and Yordan

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Yeah, if only Hensley played CF.

Most of Dubons ABs would (should) have gone to Chas.

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Yep.

And while Dubon is capable of playing several infield positions, I don't recall him getting the nod over Hensley after David got called up in late August.

If there is a player that did not get enough ABs down the stretch it is Diaz once he came off the IL.

I know it's technically not, but tomorrow sure feels like a must win now. Don't like our chances going to Philly for 3 straight down 0-2.

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Totally agree, but we need some key pieces of our line up to start putting together better at bats. We need Altuve and Alvarez to start making a difference. If they stay cold then we're leaving it up to the bottom of our order to make things happen over the next six games.

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Yes, I totally agree with you that Altuve and Yordan need to start putting together some good ABs with men on the rest of the way.

I think Altuve is showing signs - he just needs to do it in the big moment.

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Big Slice said:

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gotta go hensley as DH in game 2, right? or do you give Mancin/Diaz one more shot?

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I wish. It seems clear at this point Dusty will never start the dude. Hope he changes his mind.

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Other than he can't be any worse, why are you so high on Hensley? He played well in limited opportunities after being called up but nothing really wowed me enough that would indicate he should be starting ahead of players with many MLB seasons under their belts.

I'll state the obvious unless it's already been stated and I missed it.

MANY posts on here were from folks calling for the sweep after having already received two series sweeps. The baseball gods are fickle and spiteful.

Big Slice said:

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gotta go hensley as DH in game 2, right? or do you give Mancin/Diaz one more shot?

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I am DONE with Mancini

If he had gone 0-4 but put a few hard hits on the ball or worked the count to 3-2, I'd be willing to give him a chance….but he's getting up there swinging at garbage hoping to hit a homer.

Diaz…his AB kinda sucked, but at least he worked the count. His mistake is he swung into another routine grounder trying to be the hero.

Hensley…I think that kid has shown glimpses of doing the little things that can help the team and work the counts with hard at bats and taking a walk when it's given to him

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Beau Holder said:

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Big Slice said:

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gotta go hensley as DH in game 2, right? or do you give Mancin/Diaz one more shot?

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I wish. It seems clear at this point Dusty will never start the dude. Hope he changes his mind.

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Other than he can't be any worse, why are you so high on Hensley? He played well in limited opportunities after being called up but nothing really wowed me enough that would indicate he should be starting ahead of players with many MLB seasons under their belts.

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Because those veterans are playing like they've never been in the big leagues before

Hensley got brought up in September and some of yall are giving benefit of the doubt. But can't blame yall since Mancini and Diaz haven't done a damn thing entire playoffs

Took a look at Diaz and Mancini's combined stats as of lately.

Mancini
3/50
3 walks / 14 Ks

Diaz
5/49 (Had a 3 hit game)
1 Walk / 8 Ks

Combined Playoffs
1/31
1 Walk / 8 Ks

Hensley (season stats)
10/29
5 Walks / 6 Ks