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605E5B53405858537356415205370 wrote: Don’t worry about a blustery day in Florida.  And don’t  forget Miller pitched 11 straight hitless innings to close out the 2020 season.  However, you might want to forget he walked a man per inning over that stretch!



Miller is a bit of an enigma, and I bet he will have some great games — and some stinkers like today.  But this is the ideal year to see if he can develop and put it all together.   
You mean Keller? The hitless innings was nice but probably aided by the fact that a lot of batters weren't seeing strikes to hit.
How did Polanco make out?
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Polanco is batting .438 and leads the team in HR's and RBI's!

627974757C707F110 wrote: Don’t worry about a blustery day in Florida.  And don’t  forget Miller pitched 11 straight hitless innings to close out the 2020 season.  However, you might want to forget he walked a man per inning over that stretch!



Miller is a bit of an enigma, and I bet he will have some great games — and some stinkers like today.  But this is the ideal year to see if he can develop and put it all together.   
You mean Keller? The hitless innings was nice but probably aided by the fact that a lot of batters weren't seeing strikes to hit.
How did Polanco make out?
____

Polanco is batting .438 and leads the team in HR's and RBI's!
He's always been streaky. I hope he can carry that into the season and make it last awhile.



Some career highlights and lowlights:



June 14: .288, July 2014: .214



June 2015: .200, August 2015: .330



April 2016: .302, May 2016: .317, August 2016: .221, September 2016: .191



May 2017: .310, June 2017: .183, July 2017: .387, August 2017: .125



June 2018: .306, July 2018: .301, August 2018: .218

0F222F3E39283F7F7C4D0 wrote: Don’t worry about a blustery day in Florida.  And don’t  forget Miller pitched 11 straight hitless innings to close out the 2020 season.  However, you might want to forget he walked a man per inning over that stretch!



Miller is a bit of an enigma, and I bet he will have some great games — and some stinkers like today.  But this is the ideal year to see if he can develop and put it all together.   
You mean Keller? The hitless innings was nice but probably aided by the fact that a lot of batters weren't seeing strikes to hit.
How did Polanco make out?
____

Polanco is batting .438 and leads the team in HR's and RBI's!
He's always been streaky. I hope he can carry that into the season and make it last awhile.



Some career highlights and lowlights:



June 14: .288,   July 2014: .214



June 2015: .200,  August 2015: .330



April 2016: .302, May 2016: .317,  August 2016: .221, September 2016: .191



May 2017: .310,   June 2017: .183,   July 2017: .387,   August 2017: .125



June 2018: .306, July 2018: .301, August 2018: .218




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If we had a few more guys like Polanco and a few less LMG's, I would actually have some hope for this team.

68737E7F767A751B0 wrote: Don’t worry about a blustery day in Florida.  And don’t  forget Miller pitched 11 straight hitless innings to close out the 2020 season.  However, you might want to forget he walked a man per inning over that stretch!



Miller is a bit of an enigma, and I bet he will have some great games — and some stinkers like today.  But this is the ideal year to see if he can develop and put it all together.   
You mean Keller? The hitless innings was nice but probably aided by the fact that a lot of batters weren't seeing strikes to hit.
How did Polanco make out?
____

Polanco is batting .438 and leads the team in HR's and RBI's!


All of which has won the club zero games in the 2021 season.

752335212E34242F223507202A262E2B6924470 wrote: Don’t worry about a blustery day in Florida.  And don’t  forget Miller pitched 11 straight hitless innings to close out the 2020 season.  However, you might want to forget he walked a man per inning over that stretch!



Miller is a bit of an enigma, and I bet he will have some great games — and some stinkers like today.  But this is the ideal year to see if he can develop and put it all together.   
You mean Keller? The hitless innings was nice but probably aided by the fact that a lot of batters weren't seeing strikes to hit.
How did Polanco make out?
____

Polanco is batting .438 and leads the team in HR's and RBI's!


All of which has won the club zero games in the 2021 season.


Maybe someone should be making some side bets on Polanco. Maybe we could come up with some categories. What do you think, doc?

7E40454D5E46464D6D485F4C1B290 wrote: Don’t worry about a blustery day in Florida.  And don’t  forget Miller pitched 11 straight hitless innings to close out the 2020 season.  However, you might want to forget he walked a man per inning over that stretch!



Miller is a bit of an enigma, and I bet he will have some great games — and some stinkers like today.  But this is the ideal year to see if he can develop and put it all together.   
You mean Keller? The hitless innings was nice but probably aided by the fact that a lot of batters weren't seeing strikes to hit.
How did Polanco make out?
____

Polanco is batting .438 and leads the team in HR's and RBI's!


All of which has won the club zero games in the 2021 season.


Maybe someone should be making some side bets on Polanco. Maybe we could come up with some categories. What do you think, doc?


How about these:

1.  Will Polanco miss games due to an injury before he has 10 hits?

2.  Will his injury be to an arm or a leg?

3.  Will he have more injuries than HRs?

4.  Which will be greater, his baserunning blunders or his injuries, before he's traded/released?

7224322629332328253200272D21292C6E23400 wrote: Don’t worry about a blustery day in Florida.  And don’t  forget Miller pitched 11 straight hitless innings to close out the 2020 season.  However, you might want to forget he walked a man per inning over that stretch!



Miller is a bit of an enigma, and I bet he will have some great games — and some stinkers like today.  But this is the ideal year to see if he can develop and put it all together.   
You mean Keller? The hitless innings was nice but probably aided by the fact that a lot of batters weren't seeing strikes to hit.
How did Polanco make out?
____

Polanco is batting .438 and leads the team in HR's and RBI's!


All of which has won the club zero games in the 2021 season.


Maybe someone should be making some side bets on Polanco. Maybe we could come up with some categories. What do you think, doc?


How about these:

1.  Will Polanco miss games due to an injury before he has 10 hits?

2.  Will his injury be to an arm or a leg?

3.  Will he have more injuries than HRs?

4.  Which will be greater, his baserunning blunders or his injuries, before he's traded/released?


Excellent

5. Will he hit above the Mendoza Line>



Anyone else can jpin in

How about:

1. Will Polanco lead the team in HR's.

2. Will Polanco lead the team in RBI's.

3. Will Polanco bat .250.

4. Will Polanco be salary dumped at the trade deadline.

14323520292532242C470 wrote: Meanwhile, we also get to watch Glasnow make more than a few of our hitters look silly.


Guess you didn't happen to notice the Pirates hung 4 runs on him in 4 innings.



Yeah, he dominated.


I certainly didn't say he dominated, I said he made more than a few of our hitters look silly, and he did. 7 K's in 4 innings and some of the swings and misses by the Bucs were awful.
Ah, but you certainly were making that your point following all the Keller bashing, so don't try and balance out the comment now. You certainly didn't go out of your way to mention that some of the Bucs bats made Glasnow look pretty freaking pedestrian either.
Ok, you win. Thank you for telling me what point I was making.

I thought Glasnow looked pretty good overall, at least compared to what he looked like when he was pitching for us. He seems a lot more comfortable on a major league mound now, and his control was a lot better, especially of his off-speed stuff. It should be interesting to see what his results are this year. I'll still root for him to succeed (except when he pitches against us), although that's at least partly just so his success can remind management of how bad a trade that really was. Hopefully, when Cherington adds players, its for active talent and not past talent and name value.