A.J. Hinch on pitching Kenta Maeda in the seventh inning: “We were short quite a bit in the bullpen, and we needed somebody to get to the end. We thought Kenta would be able to get below the barrel with the split.”
A.J. Hinch on pitching Kenta Maeda in the seventh inning: “We were short quite a bit in the bullpen, and we needed somebody to get to the end. We thought Kenta would be able to get below the barrel with the split.”
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First time Hinch has threw a player under the bus? Lol
“we were hoping Kenta could handle it. But bro is cooked”
Kenta has been pretty good out of the bullpen lately, but yeah, Hinch seemed pretty down on him after the game. The guy clearly has something mechanically wrong with his splitter still.
I mean whatever we only scored 2 runs both in the 9th. Scored 1 the day before. Yeah the Henderson homer was technically the killer, but the offense has to be better as well.
Kenta
Miller
Foley
All need to go
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You can only carry so many pitchers. They all have to pitch at some point. Maeda has had some really good moments out of the pen. The real problem was that we ran into a buzzsaw in Corbin Burns. We didn’t out hit or out pitch the Orioles, so we lost.
I get we are short on bullpen arms but I don’t understand why we continue to send this guy out there, he’s so bad, everytime he goes through a stretch where it looks like he’s pitching better, at the end of the rainbow he just all of sudden goes back to what he was doing before
If players are on the roster, they have to play at some point. It’s been so long, I actually forgot about Maeda. So he has done a good job at hiding him The Maeda issue is solely on Harris. Two years is amazing.
Hinch has been willing to discuss players not living up to expectations, while not blaming them for a specific game result.
On Maeda: “Regardless of anything that we do, we’ve got to get him right and we’ve got to find a way to get him to pitch more clean innings.”
On Torkelson: “You see him steadily moving down in the order and the next stop is next to me. We’re trying to keep supporting him because he’s a good player. But he’s not in a good spot.”
On Nick Maton last year: “I met with him today just to encourage him that we’ve got to see some adjustments to his swing and with the production for him to continue to get the at-bats,” Hinch said. “He’s left-handed, and we only have three left-handed hitters that are healthy right now. We’ve been facing a lot of right-handed pitchers. It’s critical, not only for him but for us, to get more out of him.””