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Can’t possibly be worse than Garver or Jeffers

LMAOOOO

Garver at the plate: https://media.giphy.com/media/l0IynvPneUpb7SnBe/giphy.gif

? If “Twinsian” is bad then I recall someone calling this bullpen “one of the best in baseball.”

He’s cooked with the stuff he has, so no.

The things with bullpen arms is that there, these days, are two kinds. You have guys who throw 95 and “slider specialists.” Are all “slider specialists” bad, well, no. But they’re called slider specialists because they rely on movement, they rely on confusing the hitters and getting swings and misses. Once that stops working, they fall apart. Guys like Cody Stashak and Caleb Thielbar are a prime example of this, batters have both of them figured out. The league is more statistics these days so batters have them figured out. That’s why it’s generally a better idea to build bullpens (and a pitching staff as a whole for that matter) around guys who throw 95, because they’re less prone to falling apart at the seams. But bad command will kill any pitcher. If a guy who throws hard (Rogers, Robles, Duffey, Alcala) loses his command he will fall apart. But the thing is “95” guys have two ways of falling apart: 1. Losing velo (which happens with age) and 2. Losing control. Slider specialists have three ways of falling apart: 1 and 2 are the same but a 3rd is them getting figured out. More on Colome: His K% was down quite a bit last year, but he hasn’t lost velo. It’s not like he’s a “softball pitcher” either, because his fastball does average 94 (which is about 95). But he has no command. I don’t want to see him past the 6th in a close game until he fixes it, or until he’s DFA’d.

He throws hard but location is just as important. He has no location and that’s the big problem. That’s the problem with the pen as a whole. It’s not a problem of the guys not throwing hard enough and their arms regressing. The only guy who’s actually noticeably lost velocity would be Duffey. Command in a pitcher can be fixed, a drop in velocity can’t. Alcala has been so bad because he hasn’t been able to command his pitches. He’s given up many HRs, he hit Jordan Luplow today, etc. So, if Alcala is to fix the pen, then we need to see him command his pitches better than he has.

Imagine if we lose 100 games this year. How embarrassing would that be? More embarrassing than 0-21.

Did you peg us at 100 losses?

Can’t this team do ANYTHING RIGHT?

What is it

Colome represents the pen. No command, whatsoever

Just strike him out

You had no reason to do so

Ouch.

I mean an actually good strike that’s not batting practice

Who else should go out there

Well that was lucky

JUST THROW STRIKES FFS

That’s right. He’s only using what Falvine is giving him. EDIT: It literally autocorrected Falvine to “Falcons.” Smh

Let’s not throw batting practice plz

Oh wow. Colome. At least it isn’t the 9th.

Was that Rosario batting there?

Tru dat

We’re not trading him, even if we lose 100