No hits tonight but I continue to be incredibly impressed by JY’s bat this year. We’ve all said for quite some time now, if he could just be serviceable with the bat he could be a big part of this team in the future and that days finally come.
Bummed for Cornelio, such a tough spot to get thrown into for your debut but that’s just life. Hope he’s not sent back to Rochester tonight for the immediate reliever churn and gets a chance to put a scoreless inning or two up soon
He’s rocking a .250 BA with an xBA of .293, and a SLG of .375 with xSLG of .402. He’s running unlucky; we don’t need him to be hitting the cover off the ball, but once they start landing more, he’s going to be serviceable or even a lil more, all with his elite glove.
can’t say enough good things about his offensive management, but I find myself scratching my head with his bullpen decisions more often than not and his answers in the post game pressers rarely seem to satiate me
Yep, Butera had maybe his worst game so far. Stubbornly sticking with the pregame plan on when to use Cornelio was not a good move. But like a lot of the players, for the manager this year is also about learning, finding out what works and what doesn't, etc.
I don't like it either. But the only purpose of calling him up was to let him do something tonight. Ever since Lovelady allowed tha 2nd run, there was technically no low-pressure situation anymore. The later Butera pulled the trigger, the higher pressure it seemed to get. Really tough spot to be a manager.
Bleh, Nats still can’t find a way to truly hit against Fedde
Maybe just a little too much pressure to put Cornelio under for his first game. Looks like he has a few good pitches.
More death by walks, seems like…
No hits tonight but I continue to be incredibly impressed by JY’s bat this year. We’ve all said for quite some time now, if he could just be serviceable with the bat he could be a big part of this team in the future and that days finally come.
Bummed for Cornelio, such a tough spot to get thrown into for your debut but that’s just life. Hope he’s not sent back to Rochester tonight for the immediate reliever churn and gets a chance to put a scoreless inning or two up soon
He’s rocking a .250 BA with an xBA of .293, and a SLG of .375 with xSLG of .402. He’s running unlucky; we don’t need him to be hitting the cover off the ball, but once they start landing more, he’s going to be serviceable or even a lil more, all with his elite glove.
Yeah, but he needs to improve on his fielding. The season’s still early but he ranks 12 out of 28 CFs who played 100+ innings in Fielding Runs Value.
I try not to second-guess Butera, but I did *not* like him putting Cornelio in that situation.
can’t say enough good things about his offensive management, but I find myself scratching my head with his bullpen decisions more often than not and his answers in the post game pressers rarely seem to satiate me
Yep, Butera had maybe his worst game so far. Stubbornly sticking with the pregame plan on when to use Cornelio was not a good move. But like a lot of the players, for the manager this year is also about learning, finding out what works and what doesn't, etc.
I don't like it either. But the only purpose of calling him up was to let him do something tonight. Ever since Lovelady allowed tha 2nd run, there was technically no low-pressure situation anymore. The later Butera pulled the trigger, the higher pressure it seemed to get. Really tough spot to be a manager.
Bring back the signs:
I don’t care how fast you throw ball four.
Shouldn't have put the newbie in such a high leverage situation and for that long.. Sorry we could have won this one, but we beat ourselves..
Like Alvarez, back to AAA for Cornelio. Probably Lara next in this Mikolas nonsense since Alvarez won’t have been down for 15 days.