2021 MLB Season Baseball • Page 529

The real issue in this game: how the hell do you hit into 5 double plays in 7 innings??

 

FIVE double plays for the Mets tonight

 

were they all by jeff mcneil

 

my guy

 

the Topps Project 70 cards are so sick I wish I was rich and could buy them all

 

Wheeler should not have thrown 100 pitches tonight. Ugh.

 

Phillies pitching coaching is just embarrassing

 

I was about to say that I was 99% sure Lindor would hit into a DP but it was only a popup. Success?

 

angels bad

 

2 runs on 10 hits

pathetic

 

The Angels SUCK.

 

It takes a special kind of awful to have the opposing team literally drop two balls in an inning and to not score a single run with your three best hitters up

 

u cursed them yesterday

 

I laugh when Yankees fans want Girardi back

 

Foolish has excellent taste

 

Lmao it worked

 

Well said

 

I hope they keep it up

just not this weekend

 

The Brewers are BACK BABY!

 

@oncenowagain

Nick Anderson was a tragic but apt example last postseason of how precarious relief pitcher effectiveness can be. Forearm issues last summer carried over into 2021, when he was diagnosed with a partial ligament tear and put on the 60-day IL. He’s now made five single-inning appearances on one or two days rest at Triple-A in the last two weeks, but his stuff isn’t in peak form; his fastball is sitting 92–93, and he’s lost a few hundred rpm off his already gravity-dependent curveball. It’s possible he’ll throw harder as he continues to work, but he has been rehabbing in games for about a month now and is still a few ticks below his average 2020 fastball velocity, which was already below his ’19 velo.

In more bad news for Tampa Bay, Brendan McKay (on a long road back from shoulder surgery, then a setback during rehab) has been topping out around 89. He has slid on the Rays list, with the question of “what would this player’s trade value be right now?” driving his new lower placement.

damn

Daily Prospect Notes: AL Postseason Pitching On the Way

 

We’ve gone from bad news on the pitching front, to good news, bad again, and on and on. Just hoping we keep trending in the right direction because the Rays bullpen has been one of the most consistently strong parts of the team.