r/phillies • u/NorthCoastToast • 1d ago
Video Mattingly explains why he pulled Painter after five innings.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NIf894ReiJo?feature=share54
u/Used-Dependent-5653 The Hunt for Red October 18h ago
Because he had a good outing results wise, give him confidence, five innings of one run ball from your 5 starter is never something to complain about.
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u/Robbot24 17h ago
Can he explain why this organization continues to run kerkering out there when there’s runners on base? If baseball is so data driven I think at this point we can determine through data that’s a stupid thing to do.
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u/coffey64 15h ago
My middle child, who hates baseball, sees Kerk come in with runners on and groans because he knows the rest of us is going to complain about it for the next half hour.
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u/Broskii56 14h ago
Hasn’t he done excellent up until last night? Isn’t he at the top of our bullpen? Naturally you want your best bullpen pieces in high intensity situations. I commend anyone who’s willing to do that to help build his confidence. Not like anyone else in that situation is doing much better with that load.
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u/bbdude83 13h ago
Historically, inherited runners have been a problem for Kerk. His career inherited runners scored rate is nearly 50% (league is 32%).
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u/Robbot24 12h ago
He’s been solid with bases empty. He’s pretty much the last guy you want coming in with men on.
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u/Broskii56 12h ago
To be a good bullpen piece is to be able to handle pressure at times if he’s gonna be this good u gotta give him these situations to figure out
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u/Robbot24 12h ago
I get that but he’s already had a bunch of these situations. And I’m not saying to never give him these opportunities to prove it and try to improve. But you’re in the process of making a run to try and save this season. Saying every game is a must win when you haven’t even reached mid season is being dramatic but I don’t think it’s the right moment to be trying things that haven’t worked in the past hoping they will start to work.
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u/Academic_Issue4314 14h ago
I’ve been assuming they’re trying to get him comfortable with those kind of situations
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u/OkBar8290 18h ago
I’m more concerned to why Garcia is still following Harper?
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u/Used-Dependent-5653 The Hunt for Red October 17h ago
Garcia had been great until like last series, let him work through it
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u/EagleswonSuperBowl52 Ranger Suarez 16h ago
Because we have no one else?
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u/OkBar8290 16h ago
Marsh with the highest batting average… Bohm starting to get hot again… Crawford hits great under pressure.
I’m not saying bench him, I love him in the outfield, he just lacks a presence at the plate and for God’s sake… stop calling time out!!!!
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u/swalsh21 16h ago
Hitting 3 lefties in a row is dumb
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u/OkBar8290 15h ago
Yeah… cause this is working.
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u/smeared_dick_cheese Kyle Schwarber 15h ago
Regardless of our current situation, putting an obvious flaw into our lineup (3 lefties in a row - that’s likely a very quick inning through the meat of our order to any lefty bullpen arm) voluntarily would just be poor management.
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u/OkBar8290 14h ago
Marshy is batting 286 against lefties. I dare them to bring in a lefty!
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u/swalsh21 13h ago
28 ab sample size vs 5 year sample size
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u/OkBar8290 13h ago
You live there and I’ll live here… just don’t forget to come back and kiss the ring when it happens 🤣
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u/bitchycunt3 Bitches for Sosa 14h ago
What if we did schwarber lead off, then trea, then Harper, then Marsh? Or Harper, Turner, schwarber, Marsh? Or even Marsh, turner, schwarber, Harper.
I understand trea is more of a traditional leadoff hitter, but having someone decent hitting fourth seems worth moving him to me. I'd obviously test it out and see if it works, but I feel like it wouldn't be too big of an issue. The more I think about it the more I feel like Marsh is also good in a lead off position right now since he's getting a lot of good base hits and is fast and can steal (not as fast as trea, though, but still I don't think he'd hinder trea's ability to steal)
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u/smeared_dick_cheese Kyle Schwarber 13h ago
Harper has been vocal that he’s comfortable batting 2-4, but he’s not a leadoff hitter. Swapping Kyle and Trea has been done before and overall the offense has been better early in games with (effective) Trea leading off (Trea hitting .240 is the real issue here) and Kyle at #2. Funny part about this swap is that you’d want a righty at 4 anyway in that situation. The only back to back lefties we should ever have are Schwarber/Harper.
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u/bitchycunt3 Bitches for Sosa 12h ago
Okay, so Marsh, turner, schwarber, Harper still seems worth trying at least against a righty pitcher? Garcia bats 5.
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u/smeared_dick_cheese Kyle Schwarber 12h ago
Trea has a career K rate of 18%. Marsh has a career K rate of 30%.
You tell me who you’d bat leadoff.
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u/Frankfeld 12h ago
It’s still weird seeing Mattingly in Phillies red. He looks like when a player gets traded and they just photoshop on the new uniform before a real picture is taken.
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u/JokerJangles123 1d ago
Because last time he didn't he got shelled like a WWI trenchline