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Post by kaybli on Feb 2, 2019 0:50:32 GMT -5
Spring Training is fast approaching!
Non-Roster Invitees (from RAB):
PITCHERS (10)
LHP Rex Brothers
LHP Nestor Cortes
RHP Cale Coshow
LHP Danny Coulombe
RHP Raynel Espinal
RHP Danny Farquhar
RHP David Hale
RHP Drew Hutchison
RHP Mike King
RHP Brady Lail
CATCHERS (4)
Francisco Diaz
Kellin Deglan
Ryan Lavarnway
Jorge Saez
INFIELDERS (3)
1B Mike Ford
SS Kyle Holder
3B Gio Urshela
OUTFIELDERS (4)
Trey Amburgey
Billy Burns
Estevan Florial
Matt Lipka
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Post by inger on Feb 2, 2019 4:58:07 GMT -5
Thanks for the list, Kaybli...Glad to see Amburgey on there. He could be this year's Robinson, if needed. So could Billy Burns. Urshela looked like he was going to break out in Cleveland a couple of years ago. I know he can really pick it around third. Most of those pitchers are there to get a few innings while the regulars are still stretching out this spring. Guys like Rex "Smothers" Brothers and Nestor "The Killer" Cortes...Mike Ford is up so he can be seen and then ignored for the rest of the season as he turns in decent, but not eye-popping numbers...
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Post by chiyankee on Feb 2, 2019 11:00:47 GMT -5
Good luck to Farquhar. His attempted comeback is a great story.
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Post by greatfatness on Feb 2, 2019 11:27:12 GMT -5
Good luck to Farquhar. His attempted comeback is a great story. Would love to see him put up a solid season and earn a spot on the team at some point this year. Other than him, interested to see Florial and King this ST. |
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Post by inger on Feb 2, 2019 12:20:28 GMT -5
Good luck to Farquhar. His attempted comeback is a great story. He's our "feel good" story for this year...Last year perhaps it was Estrada as he recovered from the bullet wound... |
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Post by noetsi on Feb 4, 2019 17:15:06 GMT -5
Bird's last year to show he should be a regular I think.
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Post by chiyankee on Feb 4, 2019 17:45:26 GMT -5
Bird's last year to show he should be a regular I think. You're probably right, this is big year for Big Bird. He has to stay on the field. |
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Post by inger on Feb 4, 2019 17:49:28 GMT -5
Bird's last year to show he should be a regular I think. You're probably right, this is big year for Big Bird. He has to stay on the field. And hit some balls both in and out of the park... |
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Post by noetsi on Feb 5, 2019 17:31:10 GMT -5
Hitting at all would be a plus.
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Post by inger on Feb 5, 2019 18:08:33 GMT -5
Hitting at all would be a plus. Because of the power he generated, Bird was far from the worst performer in the history of the game. He is more a victim of expectation than that of reality... I would place Bird in the rare company of Frankie Fernandez and Rob Deer as the “best” sub-.200 hitters in the history of baseball. If Joey Gallo (.206 and .209) objects to this statement, I say...”Come on down”... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 20:32:47 GMT -5
That’s what I would aspire to as a player. Be the best crappy player out of the other crappy players.
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Post by inger on Feb 5, 2019 20:35:29 GMT -5
That’s what I would aspire to as a player. Be the best crappy player out of the other crappy players. It’s Lima time!!! |
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Post by noetsi on Feb 5, 2019 20:41:55 GMT -5
Hitting at all would be a plus. Because of the power he generated, Bird was far from the worst performer in the history of the game. He is more a victim of expectation than that of reality... I would place Bird in the rare company of Frankie Fernandez and Rob Deer as the “best” sub-.200 hitters in the history of baseball. If Joey Gallo (.206 and .209) objects to this statement, I say...”Come on down”... lol a classical example of damning with faint praise.  |
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Post by inger on Feb 5, 2019 20:50:07 GMT -5
Because of the power he generated, Bird was far from the worst performer in the history of the game. He is more a victim of expectation than that of reality... I would place Bird in the rare company of Frankie Fernandez and Rob Deer as the “best” sub-.200 hitters in the history of baseball. If Joey Gallo (.206 and .209) objects to this statement, I say...”Come on down”... lol a classical example of damning with faint praise. Oddly, the modern stats lend much more credence to these type of performances than ever before in the history of the game... |
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Post by noetsi on Feb 5, 2019 20:56:48 GMT -5
I think the using of pitchers for very short periods, which makes them more effective than the past, and the shift means that it is very hard to string multiple hits together and thus drive in runs. So hitting has declined in importance relative to home runs (although Boston hit pretty well in winning world series).
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