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From Lin’s article today (free linked from his Twitter).
Looks like team is fully immersed in The Xanaissance! Happy 34th to X and all who celebrate Bogey going Boom!💥
“I think everybody turns into a different animal in the playoffs, either better or worse.”
After closing the regular season on a 41-18 run, the Padres reached a new level in their two-game sweep of baseball’s highest-scoring team: nytimes.com/athletic/7648767…
I present to thee a new era:
The Xanaissance,
ushered in by the “Split Grip”
Great read as usual from @Letters2AJ
New Article: Reintroductions
letters2aj.substack.com/p/re…
-Familiar Foe, Different Matchup
-Gamesmanship
-Pulling the Inside Straight
#Padres #ForTheFaithful
Evergreen all-time Doomer post
Thank you @TevinMcreynolds I never knew pointing out someone else being wrong could bring such joy. Cheers bud 🍻 #LFGSD
Thank you @TevinMcreynolds I never knew pointing out someone else being wrong could bring such joy. Cheers bud 🍻 #LFGSD
It’s the weird injury shit that the Padres players get away with on this team like this Laureano hip, Arraez/Jake/Fermin’s concussions, Joe’s kettle bell incident, X’s brittle wrists, Fernando’s bike wrist thing…it’s probably totally random & bad luck or is it an environment & organizational culture that plays it loose with their players’ long term health and emphasizes short-term “posting” mentality.
The Padres are also in the bottom third of orgs in recent years of playing time lost to the IL but that could be due to the team’s organizational philosophy of allowing their guys to play through injuries or not pushing players to self-report their injuries.
It feels like there are times when players should be on the IL when maybe they should have done so earlier.
Manny grimacing after every time he swings a couple of weeks ago during his slump is another example.
Manny boasts about posting, but should that be lauded?
It’s exactly that “old-school” selfish mentality that irks me, meanwhile progressive orgs in sports emphasize load management, injury prevention and team rotation/depth.
Some orgs emphasize or allow for certain type of mentality to be more pervasive than others. It’s about organizational culture/communication (educating players/building trust so they disclose their injuries that could be detrimental to the team), incentives and priorities.
The knock on effects aside from obvious ones of players performing better b/c they’re not hurt or hiding injuries is **consistency**.
How much of how damn streaky the hitters are on this squad (looking at you Manny, X, Jake) because they’re in prolonged slumps due to nagging injuries that could be solved by a trip to the IL?
A year ago, Ramón Laureano suffered a fractured finger and faced a "0 percent" chance of playing in the postseason. Now, three months after hip surgery, the Padres left fielder is giving himself slim odds of an October return. It's better than nothing: nytimes.com/athletic/7588127…
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This feels so much like Nola 2.0 where the org invested so much into a bad asset and are slow to move away from it. Easy to cut Castellanos who cost nothing but when you stupidly trade two controllable assets it’s harder to let go.
GoPads retweeted
Durán has much better underlying numbers than Fermin it’s a bad job by Stammen to use Fermin as the primary catcher
GoPads retweeted
Fermin 0 for last 26 over last 9 starts. Solid stuff. Avg 133 and ops 404. Zero business being in the Majors
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I swear something’s not right with Fermin, possibly as a result of that two-ish week stretch where he was just eating fouled off pitches to the face and body. And when Camp comes back, I think I prefer Duran stays up over Fermin, and it might not be close for me either.
Tatis Jr. is human; this bandwagon idiot doesn’t represent all Padres fans, certainly not me.
Nando is a Padre; I will always root for him as long as he’s a Padre - he’s given me more to cheer for in his time so far than this mistake & his recent slump…Keep the Faith.
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