Quote from MrPadre19 on April 29, 2019, 5:20 pm

Are you kidding me!?

One run game,one out two on base and Kinsler just stands there and watches three strikes go by?!

I mean....WTF?

Get him out of the damn lineup!

 

Quote from MrPadre19 on April 29, 2019, 5:26 pm

Unbelievable.

Is Green the only one who didn’t know Garcia was not a starting SS?

He needs to quit over thinking this game of baseball.

Put your best players at their best positions and let them play.

 

Quote from fenn68 on April 29, 2019, 5:45 pm

Whew ... an ugly 4 innings!

Let me be positive first .... a ton of credit should go to Margevicius for not falling apart after the shoddy defense and the non existent offense.

Now for something completely different ... Garcia. Both his bad plays were more reflect of his defensive chops than being at SS. Booting a basic grounder at him for one. As for the play at 2B ... just guessing but it looks as though he was not expecting (or looking for) the throw from Hosmer and the glove was just out to fake the runner ... not sure why he was just not watching the ball (unless he lost it in the background).

Had to give the official scorer a challenge. (good spot for a "team error"). Hard to give an error to Garcia based on his not touching (or even moving his glove) to catch the ball. Sort of like giving an error to an OF who misjudges a fly ball that drop a foot in front of him ... scorer would have to make a subjective standard. That leave the error to Hosmer's throw ... he did miss Garcia's glove. Having gone that route, don't know how Margot got the error for slipping trying to change direction on the bad throw. My ruling ... 3 base error on Hosmer (by the book) but a 3 base error on Garcia (by my eyes).

Offensive ... does anyone know how to take a 2 strike approach or a runner in scoring position approach that just focuses on contact?

Quote from Alex Tamayo on April 29, 2019, 6:18 pm

It just took one day to notice that a guy like Tatis is missing, I hope he heals ASAP

Quote from fenn68 on April 29, 2019, 6:19 pm

Garcia at 2B .... Machado at SS ... France at 3B in the 7th .... hmmmm, where have I heard that idea before?

Quote from fenn68 on April 29, 2019, 6:32 pm

Purely by co-incidence ... tonight in AAA

SS... Urias

RF... Naylor

Need offense, need LHH who makes contact, need a SS .... hmmmm?

Quote from MrPadre19 on April 29, 2019, 6:57 pm

Quote from fenn68 on April 29, 2019, 5:45 pm

Whew ... an ugly 4 innings!

Let me be positive first .... a ton of credit should go to Margevicius for not falling apart after the shoddy defense and the non existent offense.

Now for something completely different ... Garcia. Both his bad plays were more reflect of his defensive chops than being at SS. Booting a basic grounder at him for one. As for the play at 2B ... just guessing but it looks as though he was not expecting (or looking for) the throw from Hosmer and the glove was just out to fake the runner ... not sure why he was just not watching the ball (unless he lost it in the background).

Had to give the official scorer a challenge. (good spot for a "team error"). Hard to give an error to Garcia based on his not touching (or even moving his glove) to catch the ball. Sort of like giving an error to an OF who misjudges a fly ball that drop a foot in front of him ... scorer would have to make a subjective standard. That leave the error to Hosmer's throw ... he did miss Garcia's glove. Having gone that route, don't know how Margot got the error for slipping trying to change direction on the bad throw. My ruling ... 3 base error on Hosmer (by the book) but a 3 base error on Garcia (by my eyes).

Offensive ... does anyone know how to take a 2 strike approach or a runner in scoring position approach that just focuses on contact?

I get why Garcia didn’t get the error.....but Hosmer throw was perfect.

Everything after that was horrible.

The fact Garcia “wasn’t ready” for a perfect throw to get the lead runner on that play is the problem.

Luckily the perfect hop ground ball he booted didn’t cost us a run.

I just can’t believe Green didn’t start the game with France at 3B and Machado at SS.

 

Now Myers watches a fastball right down the middle?

I mean.....how many pitches did we just watch in a close game?

SWING!

 

Quote from WindsorUK on April 29, 2019, 11:45 pm

You're right about the bad approach Fenn.

We've had numerous occasions already this year where first and second are occupied with no one out, and we produce zero runs. Hell, a lot of the time we can't even get a runner to third in those situations!

Taking pitches, hitting behind runners, and God forbid - sacrificing! - seem almost to be no longer baseball plays.

I've always been a proponent of Andy Green but he's starting to lose me a bit. At this point I'd prefer to see France out there instead of Kinsler. And for goodness sake, if Tatis is out, our best back up SS is Machado!

 

Quote from fenn68 on April 30, 2019, 8:02 am

I watch non-Padre games on MLB Network, ESPN, FOX, and it lack of situational hitting is the NORM in MLB these days ... not just a Padre issue. Broadcasters / analysts across the country are "complaining" about this trend.

It seems to be a product of the advanced "analytics".  Now the sacrifice is a waste of an out ... SB are are out unless > 80% success rate (not the norm) .... the shift takes away the ground ball hits to which hitters increase launch angles to hit the ball in the air for extra base hits / HR .... strike outs are irrelevant .... having players "slap" singles apparently is a disadvantage to the offense vs. the potential from extra base hits per analytics.

Players are now groomed to play to the new analytics and it is very difficult for the average player to master multiple swings / approaches ... so go with the new view.

I am old school but apparently that game is out of favor. Not, in my mind, good entertainment watching more strikeouts than hits and record setting HR (which dilutes the HR as being a special event).

Plus even with the use of analytics .... teams will still lose 100 games ... probably 15 teams will have losing records ... so no real value in winning overall but just loss of quality of play. My opinion.