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by Big_Maple » Tue Jul 23, 2024 3:41 pm
One other aspect to all of this is the impact our flaccid offense has on our starting rotation.
Miller comes in and pitches his guts out - 7 innings of 3 hit, no run baseball. To help him out, our guys scratch a single run in the first in an inning that should have seen 3 or maybe 4 runs before their starter settled in. Then, nada. Zilch. This is the norm, folks - not the exception.
Everyone talks about how great our starting rotation is. At some point there seems to be little incentive to go out there and pitch your best game when you can’t expect to get the W no matter how hard you pitch. And what pitcher in their right mind would want to sign an extension with this team?
We are kissing away our potential here as well as our future potential. What a waste.
And honestly, who care about Mendoza Crawford and his piddly .204 batting average? This guy is the top of our order?? Slot the bat boy in in his place. He could hardly do worse, and he definitely knows how to handle a bat.