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Wow, awful call. Randazzo is going off on the replay crew, as he should.

Not that it really matters, but I don't understand the thought process behind pinch hitting for Moniak. Yeah, he's slumping, but if you don't even think he can hit righties in pressure situations, then you're essentially admitting you have zero confidence in him.

Pinch hitting for Moniak with Thaiss. Interesting. Not much faith in Mickey!

Wow, I thought they'd have even more.

They did, but he was too busy giving his mom Wordle advice.

Nope. He and Adell are both out of options.

Adrianza.

So Suarez is gonna end up costing them this game, basically.

It has been time for a while now.

Washington's secret plan to have Adrianza start every day is slowly falling into place...

Aaron Hicks will start on Friday.

Nice to see him get out of that inning only down 2-0! He hasn't looked good today, but he battled through.

Seems like a low-energy game all around.

Well, that's certainly one thing DiChiara can provide plenty of.

I could see them hanging on to Hicks until Stefanic is ready, then dumping him. Something like that. That would make more sense to me than calling up Martin.

He's hitting .115/.217/.154 with 27 K in 61 PA. He's been flat-out terrible every year since they drafted him. He didn't really deserve to be in AAA based on his performance. I'm guessing they just sent him there to see what would happen. If he doesn't turn it around at Inland Empire, I imagine he'll be out of the system before the end of the year.

Do they really need a 5th OF, though? Hicks is obviously dead weight, but feels like if they cut him, it won't necessarily be to add another OF, especially a random off-season depth pickup.

Yeah, if he does need to go to the IL, we're right back where we were with the Adrianza call-up: there's really no one. Stefanic still isn't ready. The only other infielder currently on the 40-man is Kyren Paris and he's stinking it up at Rocket City so far. At AAA, it's sickening: total castoffs like Cole Tucker, Hunter Dozier, Jack Lopez, Willie Calhoun, Elliot Soto, or Charles Leblanc. Doubt they'd do something super aggressive like adding Fontenelle, especially since he's had a bit of a slow start at AA, too (though he is walking a lot).