This team the past three games...

[Lou]

Thaiss has an OPS+ of 22 

[Stradling]

21 minutes ago, Lou said:

Thaiss has an OPS+ of 22 

We have incredibly short memories and have a fondness for our prospects who have a good game or two.   If Goodwin had that OPS+ no one would clamor for him to play more.  

[thebloob]

To compound the potential issues for next year: we have no idea how they are planning on using Ohtani.

If they continue with the every 6th game starting, sure you get a little more of his hitting but not only do you only get 25 starts from him instead of 31-32, you also have to find a 6th starter.  If you pick up a new #1 in the offseason, will they pitch him every 6th also or try some weird hybrid thing having some of the patchers every 5th and some on the 6th. 

If the go for every 5th, can Ohtani handle that?  Also you only get his hitting 2 out of every 5 games and more 1 year older pujols.

Ohtani will help with the rotation but he is not the solution, his addition to the rotation also weakens the offense significantly.

[floplag]

the emotion ran dry and so di they i think.
It could not have come at a worse time though, we needed like 8 of 12 to justify buying...  now 7-8 of 11... to justify being aggressive.   
so close to being relevant, and yet so far. 

[Glen]

 

17 hours ago, Glen said:

We're almost guaranteed to pick up a starter from the DFA scrap pile in the next few days.