Stinking it up at the tournament again.
Can't lay an egg at crunch time. Laying a BIG ONE today. Walks, errors and Ks. But as LB says, that's baseball.
Other outs do at least have the potential to advance runners and maybe score runs, strikeouts don’t. I like Netterville and pull for him certainly, but when he’s not making contact, he has a really hard time at the plate. Anybody else may do better. You don’t know until you try.
Whether it’s pitchers or hitters Burroughs rarely makes changes as needed before things implode. We’re seeing that play out today with only 3 hits through 6 innings. That decision making won’t win this game.
It ain't Netterville's fault we are losing. Pick a player.
Any player.
Outs in play also have the potential to result in multiple outs that kill innings.
Our best contact hitter has hit into 8x more double plays than Netterville, including one in this game.
I bet you loved Burroughs bunt call at Rice that resulted in the triple play that ended the game.
In the end, you can't name a single player to replace "1/10" Netterville because there is no one on our bench better than him. Steele earned that spot in the lineup with his production all season long. It'd be foolish to replace him with a less productive player.
Yea but he hasn’t gotten a hit so far today, so there’s no way he could possibly get a hit in future at-bats!
Strikeouts don't bother me. You are seeing record strikeout numbers in the big leagues now. I believe an out is an out no matter how it happens. When Steele makes contact, good things usually happen. The ones saying Steele shouldn't be in the lineup are talking crazy talk.