No one ever wants to get their ass kicked on Easter, that just can’t happen.
But it does happen when you trot out god damn 41 year-old Charlie Morton.
What does that tell you?
He got seven outs.
The same amount of runs he surrendered.
Couldn’t have asked for a worse start when the team needed someone to step up.
I liked the Tomoyuki Sugano signing but the Morton one never made an ounce of sense.
The bats right now either go crazy and score 7-8 or they score 0-1.
You just can’t.
But it doesn’t look good right now with this crew as it’s currently standing.
He just can’t.
Do you eat the money and DFA him and run out Brandon Young until Eflin comes back?
Might as well, good chance that he doesn’t pitch to a 10 ERA.
Unless you make a trade which almost has to happen.
But outside the pitching, things just seem….off.
I don’t know what it is, maybe they miss the leadership that Anthony Santander brought last year?
They need that alpha male veteran to bark at them, get the guys going.
I’m not sure who the leader on this team is right now.
Is it Cedric Mullins, a guy who’s been here for a long time?
Mountcastle who’s a veteran here as well?
Is it one of the faces of your franchise in Adley Rutschman or Gunnar Henderson?
Someone has to step up and get the guys right.
56 and 64 since July 1st of last year, that’s 120 games of bad baseball.
i don’t think they’d fire Brandon Hyde, either, not yet at least.
Firing him wouldn’t do anything, I’ll tell you that much.
Even with those guys coming back, more needs to be done.
It should have been done in the off-season and it wasn’t.
Grow the bats, buy the arms.
The plan sounds great until you just don’t buy the arms.
I do still think moves will be made and they can turn it around this season.
We’ve seen teams do it recently with the Nats and Braves a few years ago.
Hopefully they can be aggressive and make some moves to get this team where we know it can be.
Until that move comes, just keep treading water and staying in the race.
They’ll get healthy and hopefully had someone, it’s their only hope for 2025.
