The confusing thing to me is always the bullpen selections and our Friday starter. He threw our best bullpen guys tonight while down 5 runs. Burned two of them for the series. Derias was killing it, then two errors let dudes on first and second and then he brings in Fernandez who is avg and has trouble walking guys and guess what he does.. he walks the bases loaded. Then had to face their big dude who is hitting 400. I fully expected a grand slam. He did get out of it but why are you down grading pitchers and bringing in a guy who has walking problems in a situation where he already has runners on? Why are you burning your best bullpens guys on a Friday night when your team is flat as **** and down more than 4 runs?
Its clear to me and I'm not sure why its not to him that Roberts isn't who he thinks he is. He is a bullpen guy or a weekday starter who throws 92 straight had makes a ton of mistakes high. The only way that changes is if he gets a lot better command. Straight and 92 is bp. Not being able to control your breaking stuff makes it even worse. Deria or Collera needs to get looks as a weekend starter.
Torres is miserable. Right now he doesnt deserve to start every game on the weekend and its not helping him. Let him start against righties only and bring him in late for D if your up in the rest of them. Bunt him as much as possible. I just knew last night he was going to hit into a double play. At this point he looks like another Kulikowski mis eval.
A lot of the guys in the lineup are not even scrappy guys. There ABs are not great. They're not fouling balls off and fighting it's just bad pitch selection. We have two starters that strike out over 30% of the time and 5 that strike out in the 20s...
To me the lineup needs to be Ogden, Galvin, Cuvet, Dorian, Marsh and having to put Dorian in the 4 hole means once again our offense sucks.
The pitcher they threw at us was basic. I don't think he hit 90 and I saw so many 88 mph fastballs right down the middle of the plate. He hasn't made it 5 innings all year got knocked out of the game by FAU in 3 innings.