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Cards Are Handing It To UsGonzalez is on the DL with a strained MCL. No word on how serious this is, let's hope it's not very. This is probably a good thing, I was going to comment about how Mike had gone Jose Mesa style with his walks in clutch situations (pretty much costing us the game yesterday). I just really hope this isn't more serious then it could be because he's been trying to play through the nags.Greg Brown and Wehner were talking about how Tike Redman has gotten a bad rap for his defense and is at least average. For a second I almost started to believe them, until Tike botched the play in the sixth. I will say that I don't think he is any worse of an outfielder then Jason Bay, but Bay gets a few tokens because he has a better and more consistent bat (which is another knock on Redman because Bay's bat is anything but consistent). Since I declared him an everyday player, Rob Mackowiak is absolutely killing us in the middle of the lineup. He needs moved down in the order a little bit. I get the feeling Castillo is really going to heat back up this month, maybe they need to swap. I'm also going to credit the runs scored in the fifth to the ridiculous nine hour delay before the inning. Up until Castillo's homerun I was fearful that we would be ending our extra-base hit streak in a most ironic way. Although I'm also beginning to feel a little pathetic that I root for that like the playoffs are on the line. With a big lead I would kind of also like to see Vogelsong in there instead of Torres, just to get some work in a situation where he still has to try. I'm guessing we've totally given up on him as a component to success, but I don't think that's a dumb decision either. posted by Rory at 10:39 PM | |
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