DK’s Daily Shot of Pirates: Leave Mitch alone!

14 comments

1. 😶

2. In this day and age Mitch is a workhorse. There's a mental aspect to everything. When you go out there and know there's no room for error because you're getting zero run support that has to have some effect on your performance. By the time you hit the second 1/2 you're worn down mentally.

3. He would never make the phillies you would be the 15th man in the rotation. That's because of philoy's no. How to run a baseball team?
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4. 2 Games vs Blue Jays
   – 14 Hits 4 doubles (Horwitz, Davis, Reynolds, Triolo)
   – 10 singles (Horwitz, Pham, Gonz(3), Canario, Reynolds, Suwinski, Bart (2))
   – 9 BBs (Peggy, Pham, Cutch(3), Triolo(3) Suwinski)
   Everyone but IKF and Simon has reached base.
   MY take – They're still trying, despite only 35 G left in a lost season.

5. I had too many tacos. I had to pull off at a rest area and take a big cherington. 💩

6. I would care if any of it mattered. You could have a pitcher go out and throw no hitters every time on the mound and it wouldnt make the slightest difference when you play for a bum team thats nowhere near the point of any meaningful contention. Nothing that happens matters right now in the slightest.

7. No of course not. You meant Andy benes

8. All year long for every pitcher, their is absolutely no room for error. It is very difficult to grind through a long season when this is what you face.

9. He's always terrible in August. It makes him what he is: an average pitcher who eats a lot of innings. Average pitchers have value. Average pitchers who can pile up innings have more value. If you can find a team who overvalues that, then you try to make a deal. Otherwise you stick with him. He takes a lot more heat than he deserves because he's played up as a number two when he has the talent of a three or four. He'd be my first choice to be the starter who gets traded, but that doesn't mean I'd be offered the right return to make a deal. Frankly, i'd just as soon have Falter as Keller. I'd rather have had Ortiz as well until he decided to gamble instead of pitch. But Heaney I would have dealt for a bag of balls. The fact that he's still around is incomprehensible.

10. Cherington blew it not trading Mitch at the deadline when he was a hot commodity. You need bats and he was the only one that had a chance of bringing one back. I want a bat that's in the lineup daily instead of a guy who goes out once every 5 days for 6 innings at best. NUTTING get a new GM and blow this sorry franchise up.

11. DK, there’s something I’ve wondered about concerning our pitching staff. Our offense has been anemic for years. Our pitchers feel they can’t give up any runs, or the game is lost. By August, the pitchers are fried, due to the pressures of pitching perfectly, every game, every inning. Do you think there’s anything to this, or am I exaggerating it?

12. I’ve always defended Mitch. Especially with all he’s been through. But he’s always been plagued by inconsistency. He just has never been able to put a full solid season together. He’s a good 4 or 5 guy. Not a top end rotation starter. But I agree. The offense is the most glaring problem within this organization. Not Mitch. They are last in MLB offensively in basically everything. That’s why GM must go!!

13. Instead of picking on Keller, put him in the bullpen. Rather than let him fester as a starter,
    convert him to a closer, taking the place of David Bednar. It will save wear and tear on his
    arm, and restore his confidence in himself. It will also do wonders for the team, and enable
    Skenes to raise his W-L record above .500. Granted, Keller isn't the second coming of Dennis
    Eckersley, Tom Gordon, or John Smoltz, but he will be more effective as a late-inning reliever
    who brings the heat than as a fatigued and frustrated workhorse stuck in the starting rotation.

14. Thank you DK, Keep Mitch get some bats. Any pitcher at anytime can lose a game. Great show DK