To Trade or Not to Trade That is the Question

Well, looking back at last night’s game and only that game, with the Dodgers trailing, 3-2 in the bottom of the first, runners on first and second, one out, Matt Beaty hits a shot right at the third baseman. Game over.

Obviously, Tony Gonsolin pitched poorly. Why didn’t AJ Pollock start? Zak Reks? Struck out all three times. Looks lost. Why is he even in the line-up? Especially in an important game.

As to Keibert Ruiz. Will the Dodgers keep him or package him in a trade for pitching? Some thinking he will be moved at the trade deadline. But then maybe the Dodgers should keep him for the bat, for the future, can’t get enough players who can actually hit, right? They can probably pull off a trade or two or three using only players in the system. Can they pick up a difference maker or two at the trade deadline next week?

The Giants will no doubt make a move or two. Pressure on. This is Friedman vs. Zaidi.

I appreciate Mark pointing out that Gabe Kapler is a metaphysical guy. I thought he was just weird. But he has done a good job so far getting the most out of a bunch old guys, the best days behind them. Hey and Farhan hit the jackpot with a couple of pitchers.

I look at the Giants lineup and can’t believe they are a first place team. How do the Giants lead the NL in HR’s? Other than Posey they have no stars to speak of. And, Posey is load managed to keep him productive. A bunch of no name pitchers as starters and in the BP. With the Dodgers it’s one injury after another. Why does it take Bellinger and Seager so long to recover from seemingly minor injuries? It is a miracle that we have as good a record as we do. I’m not very optimistic for the remaining of the season for things to change on the injury front. And then throw in the Bauer debacle to complete the unbelievable. It’s seems one step forward and two steps back on the injury front. Let’s hope that changes soon.

It’s great to have your knowledge and comments back philjones!

It was nice to see Bellinger go to left field last night, but come on Mark, that doesn’t prove that he can make adjustments with two strikes. If he does it on a consistent basis I’ll buy in. Lately, he has had plenty of opportunities to make adjustments with two strikes. I mean even Roberts expectations are for him to just hit it forward (not strike out). How pathetic that those are the expectations for the MVP from two years ago? You would think that at this point he would at least try to lay down a bunt or just make contact like he did last night in his final AB. He drove in a couple of runs the other day with a feeble swing and a dunker to CF. I was ecstatic and thought maybe this is the start of something to build on. Nope. Remaining AB’s no real attempt for contact while swinging for the fences. He needs some time on the bench or at least get dropped to the 7-8th spot in the lineup.

It’s my opinion that Gonsolin is a relief pitcher.

To trade or not to trade.

You know where I stand.

Friedman is no doubt looking around. We need pitching. But we need our first string on the field every night to best the better teams. Like it or not, the better teams are in our Division.

When we get the varsity back on the field, add pitching, we are good enough to win 3 of 5. We will remain a blind squirrel operation because that’s just who are, so there will be olive swallowing games on occasion, please excuse the mixed metaphors, but I think the odds makers are right. We are 70% favorites for a reason. 70% favorites will win 60% of their games. And that should get us the Division.

.164 BA, .283 OBP, .276 SLG—–Bellinger

Going on ten weeks for a non-surgical bone fracture–Seager

Pennant drive and the team starts Reks and Beaty…need I say more

Vesia looked unhittable in Denver and it appears he has found his stuff, but Doc brings in V-Gon who just came off the IL—–bonehead move!

Bickford’s arm is going to fall off if he keeps being used at this rate.

Posey comes off the IL with no re-hab games and gets a two-run HR in the first inning while we wait for Seager to get right.

Giants BP was lights out last night….is their BP better than ours?

Belli went oppo on a line drive out to LF and some view it as progress while I see the numbers that look absolutely putrid and embarrassing.

It was bad news right from the start when a hot Mookie was scratched from the lineup. Maybe the computer said the team would be better off stacking lefties at the bottom of the lineup since Gausman’s splits say so. Maybe Pollock is incapable of playing seven games in a row, so they might as well give him a rest now.

With 67 games remaining there’s plenty of time to make up a couple of games and to get players healthy for a deep run. No need to put extra urgency on a July game just because they’re playing the team they’ve been looking up to in the standing for most of the season. It’s more important to give regulars some vacation time and keep the bench “relevant”.

I don’t know, sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war. Perhaps the thought was that the first game of the series would be a sacrificial lamb knowing that Gausman would be a tough hill to climb anyways. It could be that the computer upstairs knows the Giants will eventually fold. Or, AF is trying to trick the Giants into thinking they’re contenders so they don’t sell at the break and reload their farm system.

I was lucky enough to fall asleep right before V-Gone gave it up like a Bauer Instagram follower. On the bright side, Gonsolin is built up to 80 pitches. He should be good for 4 innings the next time out. Maybe Jo-jo will have a Fernando type start to his career tonight and change the trajectory for the series.

It’s obviously not optimal to have to play our rivals with Kershaw, Seager, Mookie, Knebel, Nelson and Lux on the shelf and especially against of the league’s best pitchers to open the series and to play it with a short bench. Sometimes timing is everything. I’m not going to get hysterical and jump ship just because a bucket of water has settled in the hull. I remain confident that leaks will be patched and ship will continue forward until we reach our destination.

So much for starting the second half on a hot streak. It all looked pretty rosey just a couple of days ago after drubbing the Rockies those first two games. Adversity builds character I guess. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, I’ve been told.

The Dodgers are in a world of hurt! They cannot win throwing out milb players in a Mlb game. I realize righty lefty matchup but throwing reks out there in this huge game. Well how did that work out. Struck out 3 times in a row before I went to bed. He replaced the Dodgers hottest hitter in pollock huh true. Pollock in a streak with first place on the line and he sits. As usual no urgency. Just a little contact could have changed the whole game. At least doc could have batted him 8th.

Gonsolin has been terrible and could not make the Giants rotation. He is not able to get it done. With Betts, seager, out the replacements are just not good enough. Beaty, reks , had no business being in that game. I don’t blame doc he has to play who he has. AF can’t have a 200 million payroll. We have who we have and they are not good enough. Supposedly we r frantically looking for sp sorry too little too late. We can’t give up but this current team is good but not good enough.