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Topic	MLB and Baseball Topic #2: Jeff Wilpon is an Embarrass-met
GeneralKenobi85 07/30/19 11:40:07 PM #190:	WiggumFan267 posted... Relievers are volatile. When you trade for one at his highest possible value, you're giving up way too much and have to expect regression. This is a team that fired its pitching coach mid-season so they're pretty much admitting (even if they're wrong) that it's on them. It's not just Diaz. The entire bullpen has been awful except for Lugo. This is 100% on them and not luck, because if they had even 1 iota of competence they would've had someone else by now able to fill in at the closer role, but they don't have that. They don't have bullpen depth. Diaz being awful would not affect this team as much had they done better int he bullpen. Him being bad is luck, but his poor pitching affecting the Mets as significantly as it has is 100% their fault. Not luck at all. I never claimed their failure to build a bullpen was bad luck though. Just that the quality of the pitching was. --- Ah, yes, the Negotiator: General Kenobi <sneaky beeping> <cite>GeneralKenobi85 posted [p:925411868] in MLB and Ba... [t:77824498]...</cite> <quote>WiggumFan267 posted...</cite> <quote>Relievers are volatile. When you trade for one at his highest possible value, you're giving up way too much and have to expect regression. This is a team that fired its pitching coach mid-season so they're pretty much admitting (even if they're wrong) that it's on them. It's not just Diaz. The entire bullpen has been awful except for Lugo. This is 100% on them and not luck, because if they had even 1 iota of competence they would've had someone else by now able to fill in at the closer role, but they don't have that. They don't have bullpen depth. Diaz being awful would not affect this team as much had they done better int he bullpen. Him being bad is luck, but his poor pitching affecting the Mets as significantly as it has is 100% their fault. Not luck at all.</quote> I never claimed their failure to build a bullpen was bad luck though. Just that the quality of the pitching was. --- Ah, yes, the Negotiator: General Kenobi <sneaky beeping></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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