May 18, 201610 yr Wonder if there's any lingering aches and pains from his collision with Ozuna/the wall that have impacted on his swinging ability? No, he homered the next at bat, so I can't say that was the problem. Meh ... is what it is with Stanton.
May 18, 201610 yr He just needs to suck it up and spend a day with Barry. Let Barry walk through the last 10 at bats with him and talk about what his approach would've been and what he would've been looking for. Because there's no reason these guys should be tying him up with 90 mph fastballs AND making him look stupid with off-speed stuff. IMO he should've been looking for the 3-2 change up he K'd on from Hellickson. You aren't going to get a fastball in a 1 run ball game and a 3-2 count. If that what hes looking for, he's going to be wrong 70-80% of the time
May 18, 201610 yr No, he homered the next at bat, so I can't say that was the problem. Meh ... is what it is with Stanton. that's the kind of thing that could hurt more the next day
May 18, 201610 yr that's the kind of thing that could hurt more the next day Yeah, but he did have these kind of ABs just before that, didn't he?
May 18, 201610 yr Yeah, but he did have these kind of ABs just before that, didn't he? 9 ks in 10 ab is pretty exteme
May 18, 201610 yr Once the league adjusts to the Phillies they won't have these types of results. Unless of course the Phillies readjust to the league. The old Ed Lucas approach.
May 18, 201610 yr Never fails, although it took a dartmouth education to devise this strategy. Where did Ed Lucas go to school again?
May 18, 201610 yr I hate the Phillies. It makes no sense to have lost four of six to them especially watching them and realizing we were literally a break or two away from taking most of those losses. I understand their pitching has been strong but still, fuck them. That's my analysis.
May 18, 201610 yr Bour should have gotten that groundball that went through his legs and started that rally. But our offense was missing again Sent from my iPhone using MarlinsBaseball.com mobile app
May 18, 201610 yr I agree with this. But a 325M player has no business looking like what Stanton is looking like, ever. His pitch recognition skills are just awful right now. He needs to get his shit together because his ineptitude right now is just killing this team. This was no surprise when he signed that contract. If you all expected him to hit .400 and never strike out just because he's got that contract you understood the deal wrong. With health he'll be amazing through the life of that contract but these types of slumps will probably stick around for the foreseeable future. Remember, when he's good he's really good. It's easy to forget that when he admittedly looks like an idiot through his slumps.
May 18, 201610 yr Some pretty stern words from Mattingly today. And I fucking agree. "The last two days have been really disappointing," manager Don Mattingly said. "I don't think we can put everything on Giancarlo. We had some guys with good at-bats, but we gave a lot of at-bats away. We had a lot of easy outs. We went 1-2-3 [out] four times [in innings] today. We've been a little bit lackadaisical in the field. "We basically played like a team without any urgency at all the last two days. That's not how you win. That's how you get yourself in the back of the pack," said Mattingly, who appeared more disturbed than by any previous defeat this season. "We did it twice with the Phillies. We won the first game of the series at our place and we let them win the last two. And then we did it here. "This is a division that's going to be tough to win, and you just can't afford to give games away. Today felt like one that we just let get away from us."
May 18, 201610 yr All my Phillies friends on Facebook are now acting like they won the World Series. I have half a mind to unfriend some of them. They are acting like the type of Phillies fans I hate. What type of fan is that you ask? Anyone who is a fan of the Phillies
May 18, 201610 yr Never fails, although it took a dartmouth education to devise this strategy. wasn't expecting an FSU education
May 18, 201610 yr I said it before. The Marlins are the ultimate dicktease team. Hang around .500 and no further because of inconsistent play and glaring holes/needs/depth that a cheap owner failed to address in the offseason.. Turning everyone bipolar in the process
May 18, 201610 yr This was no surprise when he signed that contract. If you all expected him to hit .400 and never strike out just because he's got that contract you understood the deal wrong. With health he'll be amazing through the life of that contract but these types of slumps will probably stick around for the foreseeable future. Remember, when he's good he's really good. It's easy to forget that when he admittedly looks like an idiot through his slumps. Oh come on, you're making a straw man argument. Nobody expects him to hit 400 and never strike out. I'm sure he'll be up among the MLB leaders in strike outs, an acceptable trade off for the prodigious power he provides. But I'm sorry, this is more than a garden variety slump that we're witnessing. It's completely haywire when he's chasing virtually everything out of the zine and can't put his bat on the ball.
May 18, 201610 yr Oh come on, you're making a straw man argument. Nobody expects him to hit 400 and never strike out. I'm sure he'll be up among the MLB leaders in strike outs, an acceptable trade off for the prodigious power he provides. But I'm sorry, this is more than a garden variety slump that we're witnessing. It's completely haywire when he's chasing virtually everything out of the zine and can't put his bat on the ball. You said a $325 million dollar player shouldn't play like this, I'm just saying this shouldn't be shocking because he's always gone through periods like this, that's all. I actually agree with everything you've said because he looks horrible. I'm just not into the way you worded what u said about his contract. It's not like those $325 million are gonna change the way he slumps, not now at least.
May 19, 201610 yr Mattingly should have replaced Stanton with ichiro right after the second strike out. Would have sent a big message
May 19, 201610 yr One other thing to note here is that Koehler's velocity from the third inning onward was sitting 92-94 and touched 95. Thats what I remember him being and would like to see going forward.
May 19, 201610 yr Hope Donnie's angry would help to the upcoming homestand with the Nats,and I don't know how many "Stanton easy strike out" would coming in the future.
May 19, 201610 yr The Marlins have faced the Phillies six times now, including three games in early May in Miami. Counting those games, Stanton is 1-for-18 with a home run and 12 strikeouts. OH MY GOD.
May 19, 201610 yr We have got to play more small ball. I was really hoping we would bunt and get Ichiro over in the 8th I believe it was. I hate to play the hindsight card, but we were playing for 1 run at that point. Get him over, get him in I was thinking Ichiro should have stole second , was like okay steal, this is the right man for the right moment. But of course we hit into a double play
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