Dodgers postgame: Dave Roberts talks Andy Pages, Tyler Glasnow’s struggles & Blake Snell injury

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1. Right now, the Dodgers have one of the worst defenses in the NL at SS, third, and CF. Shohei is still in a mini-slump. He is swinging out of the zone and missing pitches he usually crushes. The injuries to pitchers are again piling up. Pages looks like Chris Taylor, including ait his ridiculous golf swing. And still, they almost won. The defense and inexcusable bad base running can be addressed. Enough with the Betts ego-driven position change and move him back to RF where he belongs, start platooning muncy, and get someone who can play CF who at least hits his weight. If it takes trading Conforto, who is restoring his trade value, to get a decent CF (I prefer Buxton over Robert, and with the twins up for sale, they may want to slash salary. Crow-armstrong would be ideal, but the cubs won't budge on him), then do it. The team looks like a clown show when playing defense. It's embarrassing.

2. What’s going on with ohtani 1-10 wow

3. Now that we have Snell on IL, we have more reason to protect Yamamoto and Sasaki with 6 men rotation. Put Landon or Justin Wrobleski on Tuesday and Ben Caparius on Wednesday as starters so that Yamamoto can start on Friday.

4. The Dodgers have some great trade chips including Knack, Miller, Outman and Pages to get a decent Centerfielder. Keep Gonsolin for now. Hope Muncy comes around some more. His defense is not good at all.

5. Find someone that can throw strikes.

6. A lot of whinning for a team thats 9-2 in the FIRST MONTH of baseball.

7. Tyler has never had a good run with the dodgers

8. Dave needs to pull the plug on pitchers giving up walks early.

9. As a Phillies fan teams may be just as good but I trust LA hitters in playoffs. My team choke city. Pitching has to be perfect. Also wtf would MLB schedule these 2 teams this early is dumb

10. As ugly as this game was, we only lost by a run. Thanks to Teo of course. Tyler is going to be fine. Everyone is going to the be fine. Now Pages…if he does one more pirouette trying to catch the ball, we’re going to have to have a talk about replacing him. Thanks Doc!

11. Glasnow is supposed to learn from the playing conditions today , and develop ways to adapt to this set of circumstances if it ever pops up again. Although it's unlikely the next set of conditions will be exactly the same. Playing Philly in their home park with their 5 or 6 or however many solid hitters in their lineup currently affected the outcome. Muncy tries to remain too closed in his batting stance. It's amazing the way he doesn't hurt his neck the way he turns his head at such an extreme angle and looks at the pitcher out of the corner of his eyes. That's probably a big reason Max has trouble picking up spin , movement anticipation,and hand eye coordination , along with timing. Well maybe the timing isn't too bad. But he looks misaligned at the plate in his stance. Teo's a little bit like Justin Turner was years ago. Alot of upper body strength translating into something like a tank and he swings a stable turret for powerful solid contact. Muncy's trying to get extra power staying overly closed in the stance instead of being more squarely centered towards the strike zone. He got paid but he developed some bad habits with the wrong techniques. That's not necessarily a bad thing in some cases like Ichiro's hitting style. A liittle unorthodox can work. But not in Muncy's case.

12. Get rid of Pages and Taylor!!

13. Who had the best record in the majors? Not Dodgers, Not Yankees, not Padres. Give up?

    The GIANTS! 😂

14. Call up Outman for Defense only , similar to Kevin Kiermeir . Call up Hyseong Kim for his bat . Send down Landon Knack and Andy Pages .

15. Kike at 1st base has been next level! in the moment i was fuming at pages ability to track the ball in CF.

    but we are so damn early in the season to hate on players, let alone a 2nd year player. lots of growth in this team. just need to clean it up.

16. Is James outman not as good as pages in center field? He’s in the minors because he didn’t make a position that pages took over and now we’re missing routine pot fly’s

17. Tyler got unlucky with the weather and the ump was horrible to say the least. Good fight today – Pages is on a short rope IMO

18. If they're gonna keep CT3, at least make him sweat for the pay. Send down this season Pages so he can learn how to field CF (it's not like he's batting).

19. Honestly our defence has been trash so far, pitching not been that great and Ohtani is barely hitting 😢

20. 11 walks ?

21. Pages needs to go to Triple A

22. Esteury Ruiz gonna play

23. Glasnow is so weak winded and physically fragile he let a little bit of chunky dirt on his cleats mess with his head and cost the game

24. Still proud of you guys 🧢🌍

25. Can we please STOP the "what does it say about this group" questions!!! You cant ask this question every single time they come from a few runs down.

26. Can’t remember seeing Robert’s so down after a loss

27. I don’t understand the Pages experiment whatsoever. The kid simply doesn’t product at the plate at all. He can’t field his position. When he does manage to get on base, he gets thrown out because he’s a 0 IQ base runner. What more do they need to see?

28. Also RIP to Glasnow’s ERA.

29. If the bottom of our order can’t manage to get on base for Ohtani then he needs to be moved to 3rd in the order

30. How come no call was made to facilities to dry the mound? I know it was raining hard but that would’ve bought some time for the rain to pass.

31. Wait Manager Roberts didn’t know Snell was put on the IL?

32. Pages is absolutely killing me man. Send him to the minors.

33. Pages is absolutely killing me man. Send him to the minors.