So, the team is losing a lot. They aren’t fun to watch. There is almost no part of the game that is going well. I guess the defense has been great.
The offense has been anemic, the starting pitching has been shaky, and the bullpen has been terrible lately.
I don’t know what I’d do if I were running things. The easy thing would be to fire the manager and/or the coaches. They tried changing the hitting coach, but I haven’t noticed an improvement.
Fire the front office? That wouldn’t be a quick fix, but maybe that’s what’s going to have to be done. If you do it now, the new front office gets time to evaluate everything before the next off-season.
I guess I’d love to be allowed to sit in when the batting coaches talk to the batters, talking to individual batters. Some nights, a batter seems locked in like there was a plan, and some nights, they look like I would at the plate. Two nights ago, Bo went 0 for 4 with 3 strikeouts, and I’d swear he didn’t swing at a strike and didn’t let a pitch off the plate go by without swinging.
Last night, Springer went 0 for 4 with 3 strikeouts, facing a left-hander whom he should have had a good idea of what he throws.
I get that batters will have bad games, but sometimes, it seems that they come with swinging at everything.
Even those who don’t go 0-for seem to have one at-bat a game where they are locked in and interested, and then go the rest of the game without a care in the world. Vlad is on a nine-game hitting streak, but he’ll have a good at bat, and then not seem to be interested in the next one.
Every game seems to have the line, ‘We should have scored more.’ A runner on season with no outs doesn’t score, and we don’t score. We have bases loaded, and we don’t score. We face a lousy pitcher, and we don’t score.
Hoffman’s two poor outings in a row worry me. We aren’t winning games 10-1, so we must lock down those close games.
Anyway, I don’t have a point to this. I don’t know how they can turn things around. I don’t know why we aren’t scoring. The collection of players we have should give us, at least, a major league average offense. Is it really Mattingly’s fault?
Let’s have a poll.