MIA 8, TEX 9: Rangers rain on Weathers' Marlins debut

[Ely Sussman]

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[Guest OneRegend]

The Rangers offense and the Marlins offense are complete polar opposites, and it shows in the 3.2 IP of Ryan Weathers. The difference between our offenses are night and day.

 

They had 10 baserunners against him for 3.2 IP. 6 runs scored.

 

During one of our games, we had 9 baserunners in 9.0 IP and we were shut out 5-0 against the Tigers.

 

This is not a playoff team no matter how much the fanbase nor ownership wills it.

[Ely Sussman]

The path to the playoffs hinged largely on more NL teams deciding to punt at the deadline. Huge blow that both the Padres and Cubs straightened themselves out and even made some upgrades. I was alarmed to see the Marlins and Cubs now tied in the loss column. Life comes at you fast.

[Guest OneRegend]

I'm more than willing to bet the Padres and Cubs were banking on us having a historical collapse, and if they were, they were definitely on the money.

[Guest kommenter]

Skip was recently reported as saying he is trying to win, not trying to lose. I doubt him or at least question his competence. The very fact that he had to say this is telling. When we acquired Weathers the consensus of the Twitterverse (Xerverse?) was that he was a fixer-upper and he was sent down to the minors for some coaching help to see if he could improve his 6.45 ERA performance. But before he threw a single pitch in the minors, we brought his sorry 6.45 ass up to the majors and put him in a game. But not just any game, we put him in against the mighty Rangers when we were finally leading by two runs. Predictably, he gave up the lead. Predictably to everyone except Mr. trying to win. We do have other bullpen options. Its like our recent fixation on Brazoban and his recent performance. We could have brought in Robertson. There is no rule you can't bring in a closer early to shut down an offense - the term closer is not even official. Skip is looking a lot like Mattingly lately, rather than violating unwritten norms, he would rather take a loss. Letting Wendle go 28 at bats without a hit while benching red hot Berti. Maybe Kim will intervene but she was complicit on bringing Weathers up. And the whole Eury mess is another story. Good chance he forgets how to pitch when we bring him back Monday. What we are seeing is the on the job training of a rookie manager and rookie GM. One is fine but to have rookies in both roles results in what we are now seeing. Both have the experience that after five years experience, they should be better. But now we are faced with yet another teardown and rebuild.

[Ely Sussman]

It was an indefensible way to use Weathers. His role was to mop up if the game was out of reach. When you have a multi-run lead, you need to go to ANYBODY else before him.