Official Game Thread - 8/24 - Bucs vs Dbacks

[DemDog]

Dbacks

1. Josh Rojas (L) RF

2. Pavin Smith (L) 1B

3. Asdrubal Cabrera (S) 3B

4. Carson Kelly (R) C

5. David Peralta (L) LF

6. Josh VanMeter (L) 2B

7. Daulton Varsho (L) CF

8. Nick Ahmed (R) SS

9. Madison Bumgarner (R) P



Bucs

1. Michael Chavis (R) 2B

2. Ke'Bryan Hayes (R) 3B

3. Bryan Reynolds (S) CF

4. Colin Moran (L) 1B

5. Jacob Stallings (R) C

6. Ben Gamel (L) RF

7. Kevin Newman (R) SS

8. Anthony Alford (R) LF

9. JT Brubaker (R) P



Hooray for Shelty, he's starting 2 of shedman's favorite Bucs, Chavis & Alford.

[Bobster21]

Polanco is getting a rest.

[Surgnbuck]

Let's Go Bucs!!!

[WildwoodDave2]

725F52434455420201300 wrote: Polanco is getting a rest. 
Running that ball down in the first inning definitely tired him out

[2drfischer@gmail.c]

0D202D3C3B2A3D7D7E4F0 wrote: Polanco is getting a rest. 


Let me dream for a minute and edit that for you: "Polanco is getting the rest of the season off."

[GreenWeenie]

Snap out of dream. Even after two years of Ben, Polanco's still better than any of the rest of his replacements. ((

[Surgnbuck]

6C594E4E457C4E4E45424E2B0 wrote: Snap out of dream.  Even after two years of Ben, Polanco's still better than any of the rest of his replacements.  ((
Nov 18, 2019. That's when Cherington was hired. IIRC correctly, there was no minor league season in 2020 in which to evaluate what your beloved NH left him. There was however, a truncated 60 game season (that followed a truncated spring training), one in which you will find you have made comments along the line of "could care less....not worth following.....don't follow the playoffs".



So instead of reacting willy nilly with little to go on, this spring training, and this season, are his FIRST season in which to not only "see what they have" but also to see "what everyone else has". You know, that scouting stuff, where they see actual baseball players playing actual baseball, and not some fancy high tech baseball workout lab.



Now that things have finally become closer to normal, BC has been constantly working to improve the entire organization.



At the end of this season, two things I will provide you:

1. A calendar (just google "2021 calendar" so as not to try and claim someone didn't pay up or something)

2. The Pirates winning percentage compared to last years squad. From that comparison, we can see if the team actually improved, regressed, or just treaded water.



At the very least, he still has almost three months to complete "two years".

[Surgnbuck]

0B3E2929221B29292225294C0 wrote: Snap out of dream.  Even after two years of Ben, Polanco's still better than any of the rest of his replacements.  ((
He's better than Ben Gamel?

[Surgnbuck]

5065727279407272797E72170 wrote: Snap out of dream.  Even after two years of Ben, Polanco's still better than any of the rest of his replacements.  ((
Let's see,

Gregory Polanco -1.6 WAR (that's NEGATIVE)

Ka'ai Tom -0.2 WAR

Anthony Alford -0.4 WAR

Ben Gamel 0.2 WAR

Jared Oliva -0.3 WAR

Phillip Evans -0.4 WAR

Wilmer Difo -0.3 WAR

Dustin Fowler -0.5 WAR

Troy Stokes Jr. 0.0 WAR

Yoshi Tsutsugo 0.3 WAR



Your beloved Polanco has been given the entire season to prove himself against such stellar competition.



How's he stacking up?

[Surgnbuck]

Brubaker with a 1-2-3 first inning. That's nice. Let's get him a lead