Of course, you can't change coaches during the season, unless they quit.
Of course, you can't change starters during the season, unless they are fired or demoted.
Oh, dem ole baseball maxims.
Go back to the notes of last December ... a priority was "fundamentals".
Well, it is always "fundamentals first" for every team, but something must have been fundamentally wrong with the M's approach to fundamentals.
Marionette Scott Cerveza, says it will be different this spring.
How about some "show me" instead of some "tell me".
His post-mortem comments sound like apologies, not self-criticism.
It was injured starters, injured starters, injured starters a mantra of injuries.
Only in the past three weeks have I come to view him as disengenuine.
He was just an unfortunate victim of circumstance in the arms, backs, hands, legs, necks and brains of pitchers.
Mealworm mouth is what chameleon's get when they overeat.
Now he is hunkering down under the protective omphaloskeptic GM who promises next year will be different.
Acta as bench coach makes some sense what with the helmet thing and all.
I'm surprised the Rainiers skipper Listach was not brought up to take over 1B ... he knows first hand about a lot of the roster.
Brosius might be the first third base coach since the 1980's who might be able to determine the co-efficient between the M's player on the basepath and the outfield arm and infield ability of the opposition ... and actually make decisions quicky, very quickly.
This was an opportunity for DePoet to go all in and dump Throttlemeyer, but he chose not to do so, so here is another guy hanging on the GM's umbilicus ... and if the weight can't be supported there will be a lot of important goo on the floor and the field.
Thanks for the credit on Candyman, but I was totally wrong on Bogart moving up, and instead he was moved out. The background on that decision might be conspirational or persperational, but, at least might be interesting.
The denizens herein who claimed DePoet and Cerveza would go as one were correct in that there will be no excuses acceptable this time next year.
Meanwhile, I think Dyson will sign for somewhere around $8.5 mil to $9 after his ill-fated end of season.
But, that's just more money for Darvish (and ultimately, Ohtani).
DePoet's plan is in place, and deals will be struck just prior to the winter meetings ... or I will end up with another case of mealworm mouth.
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