good dolphin wrote:
never really thought this would happen. I didn't think it would be a top offense but certainly on the higher end of average. That speed thing they were looking for with Eaton and Johnson never materialized. Melky has been streaky. Abreu is down. La Roche was always kind of questionable.
Despite all that, the SP has been putting them in insurmountable holes in the first inning.
Despite all that, the SP has been putting them in insurmountable holes in the first inning.
Eaton has been the biggest disappointment to me -- he hit .300 last year, so even if he could hit .260 and OBP .320, you'd feel like you had a serviceable lead off guy. Maybe it is the "pitchers figure them out" thing for Eaton and Abreu. Any slugger from Washington is always on my list of suspicion since last time.
Shark has been what I expected him to be, a so-so starter, but pitching in general has not been where I thought it would be.
Seems like when they lose games, they mostly lose them badly which has to have an effect on morale. At some point, you just go into play-it-out mode... you are last in the division with no signs pointing towards a resurgence. If you lost Abreu with a strained hammy for a few weeks and then he is coming back, then maybe you have some belief in your team. My guess is if you don't see a bounce back in the next month or so, you'll see a coaching search started and a likely replacement at the end of the year (too much respect for Ventura to fire him in season.)
There's only 2 guys that are OPSing over 700 (I'm excluding part-timer Bacon from this.) Bullpen sucks with the exception of Robertson but if you can't get to him, then what's the point in having him. I think Danks is done (and we get him for one more year, yippee!) Let Rodon get his abuse in this year, and look towards 2017. And find a catcher who can hit .250.