Yo Simpdog. Don’t you dare text me unless you have some thoughts regarding game 5 of the Cup and/or the Conn Smythe.Originally Posted by simpdog
Hi, my name is Mark Prior. I blew out my arm but I want to manage your trillion dollar pitching staff.
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See Baseball Savant data below. So here you have Yamamoto in his last outing vs Yankees cranking it up to 11. Red is counterintuitive - just look at the UP arrow. He hasn’t pitched this velo this year. To compound matters Mark Prior leaves Yammy in for 106 pitches which is the most this year, needless to say.
Following the Yankees marathon outing Yamamoto complains of arm tightness. Dodgers bump his next start back a day. Yammy complains during his KCR pregame bullpen. Prior pats him on his butt and tells him to “go get ‘em”.
Yamamoto’s velocity was down to around 93 vs KCR before he was yanked. Something that might have been noticed in the bullpen prior to the game or side sessions if Prior wasn’t playing Wordle on his phone.
So it’s announced that Yamamoto has a rotator cuff issue and they are shutting him down. You may not see Yamamoto the rest of the season. Truly incredible
Kershaw is getting close so everything be fine.
Then there is Betts. I had forecast here that Betts would never make the full season. However, I envisioned an injury in the field brought about by his new position. You can’t fault Andrew Friedman for Betts getting hit by pitch.
Betts was a below average shortstop. He was not the shortstop you’d find on a World Series contending team. I’ve gone on and on over the years about Andrew Friedman futzing around with shortstop. I mocked him over the years for believing Lux was the guy.
If any good comes of this - it just might light a fire under Fraudman’s ass to get a deal done. You can drive Bo Bichette to the airport Simpdog.
One byproduct of the laughable 3rd wildcard and the pointless regular season is that every team thinks they are a playoff contender. Mainly cause they are. Even the Blue Jays. So Friedman is gonna plug in some .200 hitting solution in there - one for LHP and another for RHP or he’s gonna unload a kings ransom for Bichette. Jays should take it. It’s over in Toronto. Dodgers should get Toronto to throw in an arm. Friedman can prolly get Bassitt to last 50 innings until he too detonates.
Dodgers are annually proclaimed the greatest team in the history of baseball. I got stamina baby.
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