craig01 wrote:The Real Dalic wrote:It sucks that I had to miss these last two games. The Rays offense has finally come to life, and we demolished the Yanks these last two games. Hopefully they can keep this scoring up!
It was fun to watch
Hannigan now has three dinners......want to bet he finishes the year with 6 or less? Lol.
He did have 6 rbis's.......great night for him.
And it is amazing to watch him work a game from behind the plate. BA was making a point of it last night, and hannigans communication with Archer from the ready position was very insightful. He was a big part of why the Reds pitching staff was ranked in the top five the past couple of years.
I'm a big Hanigan fan. Didn't know a thing about him until the day I saw we traded for him. Immediately became a fan because he gets Molina out of the lineup. Molina has his value in stealing strikes, aka "framing pitches", but he is absolutely hideous with a bat. Hanigan has a great career OBP, and I was excited to see us adding that to our lineup. The power bat from him early on is a pleasant surprise, but I do think he will knock more than 6 out
. I think he's got 15 in him actually. I'll split the difference with ya and say 10 is a conservative estimate.
A few things I think need to happen for us to get better.. Forsythe needs to go. His skill set is exactly identical to SRod. No need for 2 of that kind of player. Replace him with a hot bat from AAA (Sands maybe?). DeJesus is trying to play through an injury and doing a horrible job. Shelf your pride and hit the DL. Replace him with Kiermier for a few weeks. Lueke is not a major league pitcher. His minor numbers are great, but he gets smoked every time he comes up. We have too many quality relievers waiting in Durham to keep letting Lueke lose games for us. Give someone else a chance.
Unfortunately, none of those things addresses our starting rotation issue. Let's hope Ramos can give us a few more starts like yesterday, and hope Cobb and Hellickson come back quick!