Donna

This team just can't score from the red zone... oh wait, different sport, same result though! DPs killing potentially good innings.

My second least favorite pitcher.

My least favorite pitcher. Don't know how he's the starter here. He's awful!

He needs a vacation.

Thank you, Javy Guerra!

Gotcha! I really only posted at all so I didn't throw something. ?

Where else does one vent their frustrations? Barraclough is a negative... sorry, but it's true. He's blown 4 of the last six saves. It's frustrating to see the team play well and hold a lead, only to have the same guy keep blowing it.

I just don't understand why Mattingly keeps him in when it's obvious he has no stuff! Six blown saves and several more where he nearly blew 3-4 run leads. The guy does not have a 'closer mentality'. Get another closer Mattingly!!!!

Once again, like I said... this guy sucks!

Sick of seeing this guy blow wins, especially with two outs. CHANGE THE CLOSER MATTINGLY!!! You should have pulled him when there were no outs and two on! If this team only had a decent closer!!

You need someone with stones and ice in their veins to be a closer...I don't see it on this roster. Ziegler is the worst and I just knew Guerrera was going to blow it too... he looked scared out there and the chant was getting to him. Amazing what you can pick up in body and face language with the sound off. I can't stand that damn chant (I'm also a Miami Hurricanes fan... need I say more?)

None of these closers have the stones to close out a game. Five run lead with two outs and two pitchers blow it!!?? PATHETIC!

The only thing right now I'm really looking forward to is the, hopefully, speedy progress to the majors from A-Rod's nephew, Joe Dunand, and just hope Jeter doesn't screw that one up--I don't think it's a reach to say, deep down Jeter is no fan of A-Rod. Thoughts?

I was really hoping the blood-letting would stop after Gordon and Stanton, maybe just Prado... but losing Ozuna and who knows who else now, is making me sick to my stomach. I'm so tired of going through this crap every 3 or 4 years.

Well which is it....a "downvote" or "an opinion that exists in the world." Just to clarify my point however, it's not that I think Bour has more physical potential than Stanton, I just 'feel' he is improving more as an all around player and a more consistent batter for the team. It would be nice though to see him play weeks on end instead of a couple of times a week. I'm talking about before the injury.

Who, another Stanton detractor?

If that is a majority opinion [about Bour], I wouldn't know. I don't frequent this board, only found out about it fairly recent, and I'm not a wonk nor pretend to be about baseball stats, not like I am more with football. As far as 'evaluating players'....I'll stick to my gut any day over sterile statistics; that's how I hired a very successful staff to manage, and it didn't fail me then. Not to say that stats, or qualifications, aren't important, but having an insight or gut feeling into an athlete's heart is as important as knowing their stats; it's what made Jeter one of the best ever--great stats I suppose, but an even greater heart. Not sure about your "eye test crap" inference, which again, sounds like another attempt to demean something I've said, but again, having watched 'firsthand' players like Mantle and Mays, gives one a perspective with which you are most likely unfamiliar. Or maybe it's just a left brain/right brain thing. Whatever.

I never said he did. I haven't been impressed with him since Day One of his career with the Marlins. Didn't know much about him before that. Just something in my gut....no science to it, no baseball scouting IQ...just his manner, his aura, and years of watching the greats of the game and those intangibles that made them that way....sorry if this all sounds too esoteric, but again, I was never on board with this kid. I think Bour and Ozuna have more potential to be honest. They have shown progress, especially under Bonds. This guy keeps flailing at the same damn pitch outside and down that when the count is 1-2 or 0-2, I KNOW that the next pitch is going in the same place, and 9 out of 10 times he swings wildly at it. Especially when bases are almost full or loaded with 2 outs and we need a clutch hit, forget him on that. He goes for the home run and usually strikes out. I'm just tired of watching him play. I don't give a darn how far his HRs go....I got plenty of thrills with that in my youth with Mickey Mantle, one of the BEST with RISP. This guy is all muscle and no moxy. Oh, and BTW and FWIW, at the beginning of the season I called that he would be gone again down the stretch with some other injury.

I rest my case. He's a non factor for a team's supposed "centerpiece," and he's young. How many more years do we invest in him? Frankly I think this is more of a psychological problem with Stanton than a physical one. Maybe that hit in the face a couple of years ago made him gun shy because his development each year has been nonexistent, and this year at it's lowest.

Disappointed.

So you're basically saying we're 'stuck' with him? I find that hard to believe. And JFTR, can't you point out something to someone without attacking them? Wouldn't a simple, "That's not how things work, and here's why that thought is flawed....," be more constructive for conversation? Even if I wanted to learn something about what you were referring to, you turned me right off and you'd be the last one I would ask. I just don't understand the need for people to go out of their way to try and make others feel small, or is it just trying to make themselves seem big. Too many bullies in this world.

If something repeated twice, I wasn't aware. Seems I have a tougher time responding to posts from my tablet; wiggy things happen. It freezes up a lot. From the computer, no problem, so if something repeated....sorry about that.

So anything you don't agree with is word vomit? Fine, enjoy your life insulting people little man.

Anyone who resorts to calling someone an idiot is a narcissistic rude blowhard. I could give a rat's ass how the business of baseball works. As a fan of a team I've had to put up with team dismantling after successful seasons and losing beloved players, I now have had to watch the last 7 years a player who is underperforming for the most part, and all I ever hear about is how far this home run went, and at what speed the ball left the bat, and 61 homeruns at the HR Derby, and watching in futility for something special to happen other than how frigging far he can hit a ball. The number of strikeouts in crucial situations always lunging after a ball that is beyond reach to try and kill it, when patience and a routine hit could have won a game. Again, the guy is an underachiever who doesn't, more than does, play well in clutch situations and is not durable. How they handle a trade or whatever business side you have the need to attack me about, I don't give a crap. Oh and you're an idiot. This entire post is giant word vomit. I knew it! This guy can't finish a season. They're paying way too much for Stanton who every time comes up injured in the last quarter of a season. I'm sick of this guy. They need to trade him and get someone dependable inead of being enamored by his long and lofty homeruns. Big deal! Just feature him in the Home Run Derby andt let him ooh and ahh everyone there, because he sure doesn't hit them during the season. Such a disappointment. Better him gone than somebody like Yelich,who was a trade rumor earlier. Now THAT would be a loss.

The sad truth is ARod didn't even need steroids to accomplish what he did. Most of his stats were beyond the beyond and accomplished WAY before he started using 'roids. I get why people need to have a need to call out 'cheaters,' but looking at ARod's complete body of work, before and after, you can't deny his innate greatness and his meteoric pace to #s that were achieved before the "cheating" like few others before him. That is just a simple and plain fact. Sometimes you just have to let the devil have his due.