Series Thread: Home Against the Astros April 20th-22nd

[cezero]

Yeah, let Sucre catch full time.

 

[TheDayMan]

Dude wasted 9 pitches battling smith and then realized, 'what the hell am I doing, there's two outs and zunino and Morrison are due up...'

 

[Banned 10x]

cmon Kuma

 

[Itsmytime]

cmon Kuma

He has a real problem with leaving breaking balls hanging.

 

[SeattleCoug]

Man I had forgotten what it was like to have an actual middle of the order. It's nice!!

 

[Itsmytime]

Now Zunino was that so hard?

 

[NWinAZ]

K-Nino with his best AB. Give Smith credit getting runner over.

I have said it for decades, baseball is about quality outs. A good hitter gets out 70% of his AB's. A bad hitter 80% of his AB's. Quality outs like this inning.

 

[WizardHawk]

Now do something different and hold a lead for a few innings.

 

[cezero]

Now Zunino was that so hard?

I keep saying it. Zunino is going to be a good hitter.

I know a sac fly doesn't prove it, of course.

His catching is already great for a young kid, and the bat will get there. I'm not a patient person, but I'm giving him a few more months.

 

[Itsmytime]

I keep saying it. Zunino is going to be a good hitter.

I know a sac fly doesn't prove it, of course.

His catching is already great for a young kid, and the bat will get there. I'm not a patient person, but I'm giving him a few more months.

I truly hope you are right.

 

[WizardHawk]

How much of zuninio's problem was being called up to the majors way too early because of his well above average catching skills? He really needed a lot more help at the lower levels for his hitting. How likely is he to get his missing skill set in hitting at this level?

 

[TheDayMan]

I keep saying it. Zunino is going to be a good hitter.

I know a sac fly doesn't prove it, of course.

His catching is already great for a young kid, and the bat will get there. I'm not a patient person, but I'm giving him a few more months.

I agree, his defense makes it worth giving him a lot of time to get his offense figured out. Just accept him for what he is until he does.

 

[cezero]

How much of zuninio's problem was being called up to the majors way too early because of his well above average catching skills? He really needed a lot more help at the lower levels for his hitting. How likely is he to get his missing skill set in hitting at this level?

yeah, that's the problem

he just broke 1000 professional PA's near the end of last season.

i think he'll figure out how to better handle pitches that aren't fast balls, and put up better quality AB's, like NW was talking about. it'll just be painful to watch him grow at this level.

 

[TheDayMan]

Is that two errors in two nights for Seager?

 

[Banned 10x]

Now do something different and hold a lead for a few innings.

our pitching staff

 

[Itsmytime]

Fuck this pitching staff right now...

 

[TheDayMan]

Damn

 

[NWinAZ]

Still think K-Nino needs to be sent to Tacoma for a month or we lose his offense for good. It would be for him and his future and not for the team and the present.

 

[Banned 10x]

 

[SeattleCoug]

I agreed with Lloyd on pulling Kuma. He was leaving too many pitches dead center. Unfortunate luck for medina