Normally I would say that is nonsense, but I honestly don’t think the opponent even matters at this point. It could be a high school team beating them. It’s not about physical ability. This is mental. This is having no confidence to get a hit against anyone. They are so far in their own heads that they have completely forgotten how to play the game.
Definitely mental.
This is where I disagree. We are a dumpster fire RIGHT NOW. We might even remain a dumpster fire for the rest of the season. But players don’t ignore the first half of the season. They will see a team who has better days ahead and who just choked it all away in 2023.
They could flip the lineup with Taveras at the top and Semien at 9 and it wouldn’t make any damn difference
Maybe yes, maybe no. But they will never know unless they try. You can either try everything you can to right the ship, or you can just sit there and be defeated and say “oh well, we just suck, might as well try nothing at all and just lose”.
What makes you think we aren't a "true" dumpster fire of a team like the Angels or Mets? Because we overpaid a bunch of players? We have the worst bullpen in baseball. We have a manager that is past his prime. We have one of the worst minor league pitching development programs in baseball . We are striking out at absurd rates, generally unseen in mlb.
If the death spiral continues, they will need to axe someone. You can’t let things go this far awry without holding someone accountable. Whether it’s Bochy, Hyers, the team psychologist, the team trainer, the team caterer… someone needs to go for this epic disaster.
I agree We need something but there doesn’t seem to be anyone really wanting to do anything and I’m talking the players
This all started when they were shut down by Detmers who is terrible.
See, this is again where you choose to focus on the negative and ignore the positive like you always do.
There ain't no more like Him.
By the end of the week he will most likely have enough.
