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2024 Season | Series #1 | Guardians @ A's | March 28-31, 2024

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CBBI said:
Oakland is absolutely terrible, but it's still difficult to not be anything but very encouraged by the offense so far.
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Exactly.

Bad opposing teams still dont make it easy to hit the ball considerably harder than any time in recent memory.

Can’t remember a time where top to bottom you’re seeing EVs routinely in the upper 90s+
 
CBBI said:
Oakland is absolutely terrible, but it's still difficult to not be anything but very encouraged by the offense so far.
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A few thoughts...

1) When you manage a team that is overmatched, you have to find wins somewhere other than scoreboard.

When you manage a team against an opponent that is overmatched, you again have to find wins other than on the scoreboard.

In both cases the scoreboard is almost a given.

Did your team stay mentally sharp, perform the fundamentals, take advantage when the opponent makes a mistake, physical or mental?

Those are the wins.

The Guardians have won three games in playing well. The scoreboard is the icing on the cake.

2) We are seeing a lineup full of contact hitters progress into power. Outside of Hedges, Florial, and Arias...all who are bench pieces...all have a solid foundation of consistent contact.

If my math is right, we have 25 XBHs in three games.
 
How does Sandlin get the win when Smith clearly pitched better?
 
Wulfgar1224 said:
How does Sandlin get the win when Smith clearly pitched better?
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Because of the rules... He finished the 5th and the other team never tied/took the lead after that so he became the pitcher of record...
 
Two more thoughts...

1) It is a big advantage to open on the West Coast. I wish we could do it every year.

We get one West Coast swing out of the way before everybody else. And we do it without having to make a long flight across several time zones.

We probably have better weather conditions than if we opened at home or at one of the other ALC venues.

2) Seeing Rocchio doing his interview in English reminded me of a Jhonny Peralta story. Peralta was shy and extremely sensitive and self conscious. He knew he wasn't Omar and was treated rather poorly by Cleveland fans and media, in part because he wasn't Omar...and it hurt.

Anyway, after several years, he came to spring training and asked to do a radio interview in English. After the interview, he asked how he did. He was relieved to know he got thru it without any major faux paus.

There are many Latin players who know English, but won't do interviews in English, because they know an interpreter will fix any mistake they might make.
 
15 hits, 5 walks, 2 hit batters - 22 more baserunners today. OMG!

The bullpen goes five innings, no hits, 10 K's. Cade Smith was crazy good.

Rocchio hit a 100 mph fastball over the centerfielder's head. Wow!

Kwan on pace for a 50 homer season. Move over Aaron Judge! Gimenez is on pace to get hit 100 times.

Fry has been on base seven times in 10 plate appearances.

We have 13 earned runs in 9 innings against Oakland's lefties. Sweet.

Only 3 of the 26 runs have come on home runs.
 
Kiddo said:
If we played the As 162 times I bet we win 140 times. They’ll easily lose 100.
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They will go down in history as one of if not the worst team in MLB. They are absolutely horrendous, but it's nice to get 3 wins regardless.
 
CDAV45 said:
They will go down in history as one of if not the worst team in MLB. They are absolutely horrendous, but it's nice to get 3 wins regardless.
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I doubt the A's will have a worse record/ winning percentage then the NL 1899 Cleveland Spiders (20-134 .130 winning percentage)

Heck the Spiders lost 101 ROAD games that season....
 
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