"LOOGY" is an exaggeration anyway, a term coming from the fact that we often witness pitchers coming into a close game for 1 batter only.  There has never been a true "LOOGY" pitcher who only pitches to one batter in every appearance.

 

We witness managers making tactical decisions and sort of made the wrong conclusion about what we were looking at.

 

"LOOGY" is an exaggeration anyway, a term coming from the fact that we often witness pitchers coming into a close game for 1 batter only.  There has never been a true "LOOGY" pitcher who only pitches to one batter in every appearance.

 

We witness managers making tactical decisions and sort of made the wrong conclusion about what we were looking at.

 

A pitcher should be able to be considered a true LOOGY and still gobble up the occasional low leverage inning to save other arms. Part of being on a staff. Doesn't really change the way he is used.

Congratulations to Gabriel Moya on his first inning in the big leagues and to chalking up his first K. 

 

Wait... I am on the Moya forum, right?

 

Last, but not least, the use of "lesser players"  to try to squeeze a marginal team into the playoffs and perpetuate the baloney of "Ya' never know".

hmm. kinda reminds me of a team that lost nine of 10 in august and then five straight to close the season. in 1987. baloney indeed.

 

hmm. kinda reminds me of a team that lost nine of 10 in august and then five straight to close the season. in 1987. baloney indeed.

Somebody wins the Powerball (eventually)--but it doesn't change that lottery tickets are an unsound strategy to success.

 

If Tonkin used up his chances he would not be on the roster.

 

Literally, yes, he's still on the roster, but in the figurative terms around which I was writing, he's only up here out of sheer desperation for intact arms good enough for Chris Gimenez duty. Highly unlikely we'll ever see him in a Twins uniform after this year.

Edited September 18, 20179 yr by jokin