Ransom Ballard

Valencia is having a decent season. At least he can hit. Why the fascination with Featherston. His type are readily available.

One he plays defense something that is a need in the late innings because we all know Fresse gives away games with the glove, and two he is the only other player other than Aybar who can play short.

Nice job spots 1 and 4-9!

0 for freaking 21!

What was that about Gillespie, Victorino, Murphy, and DeJesus improving the team?

Oh yeah you try and improve this team with what little we have smart guy

Too bad Sherman Johnson fizzled out in 2015.

They need to re-sign HK.

Too late on HK because the Dodgers will resign him in the offseason

Halos are a .50 to sub .500 team -- what is amazing to me is that the starting rotation -- which was supposed to be a real question mark at the start of the season -- has done well and rotation's numbers for this year are among MLB's best.

And our set up guy and our closer have done fairly well (a few blown saves but that happens) pretty well, too.

so that leaves the position players and the line up. We have some weak spots to be sure -- but one would think this line up could be juggled a bit to have a better result.

and then there's the base-running -- sad to say but the Halos seem to lead the league in guys thrown out at home and at third ever since DiSar took over the third base coaching duties.

So, YES, it the management of the team that's doing something wrong here -- don't know what the fix would be.

I like Scoiscia but have never been a fan of his strict game plan approach that puts guys in certain roles and then that's it all season, all games, all opponents, all situations.

I would have Smith in for a two inning SAVE once in a while rather than bringing in Street EVERY TIME....I would mix things up.

I also would likely send Featherston back to Colorado and keep Grant Green on the roster. Why do we spend a roster spot on Featherston to play in 75 games and get less than 150 ABs this season when it's likely he won't even be on the roster next year?

because Featherston can defend and Green can't that's why.

He's awesome defensively but can't hit to save his life, lucky for him neither can anyone in our farm system so he'll be here for a bit

That's the main reason why we are keeping him.

Yeah, but he sucks

Well too bad we have to keep him.

Why is Featherston even still here?

because he a rule 5 draftee and we have to keep him on the roster the whole year because if we send him down we have to give him back to the Colorado Rockies, and also he is the one player who can backup short and is good defensively.

If we get him where are we going to put him?

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+1. They also need to stop stating Joyce in LF as well.

Sorry we can't do nothing with that one unless we platoon him to limit the damage defensively.

We discuss deadline moves every season but I'm not so sure about the guy making the moves.

I wouldn't let Dipoto make anymore moves. This is his failed plan and if I was Arte I would start looking for a new GM.

We have no business chasing the Astros and Jerry has had plenty more $$$ and flexibility to work with than the Astros GM who was hired within days of Dipoto.

We are sitting at .500 with a -1 run differential. Pull the plug Arte and let's right the ship.

Even if he did that we're still F'ed as long as Arte is still owner because he is the real problem.

Letting him move on and not stepping up to sign Beltre (along with his TUE), are possibly the two biggest mistakes of the post Stoneman era,

Actually I'm glad we didn't sign Beltre because Boars is a prick and we wasn't going to overpay.