and anbody with a pulse that can hit :)

you can't blame melvin 100% when the GM and owners have made some ridiculous trades and add/drops.

however, i can blame him for the product on the field. he employs the bench, hitting and pitching coaches on his staff and in total the entire coaching staff sucks. only one game this whole year have we ran - at least 5 guys on our team have 20 SB potential - but dont get the green light ever. we dont sacrifice, we dont hit and run, we dont bunt guys over, we dont steal, we dont play small ball, we dont play for one run.

even more, the hitting coach still has not preached any sort of patience in the hitters, they free swing, never choke up on 2 strikes, conor might be the only .400 obp guy but he is in a slump, lopez is our best hitter - i love that fact and hate it at the same time, and upton is now officially our 2nd best hitter as mark reynolds goes into another slump and who knows how taking a hit to the hand will help his season. this comment might be hard to say/hear for some, but im done with chris young he is getting worse and worse. he watches pitches go right down the middle and doesnt swing and then chases off-speed stuff a foot of the plate. in 1300 career AB's we have a .241 hitter with barely a .300 obp, and last night his 0-21 slump was broken by a hit to the furcal that he fielded cleanly and obviously juggled the ball in making the transfer to throw it and wasnt able to get the throw off, im glad to get that nonsense.

i want to see this josh whitesell kid we got from washington. he has had three straight .400 wOBA, three staright .420 obp and last year hit 26 HR and 109 ribs with 74 BB. So far this year he is batting a robust .356 with a .477 obp and has 3 hr, 20 ribs and 20 BB. i say time to bring him up and sit down tony clark, sit down tony the tiger for good, im sick of seeing him come up and grab starts because we have no better options.

at this point, i say bring up parra, batting .375 with a .476 obp in about 90 ABs, and cut into chris youngs ABs, we need some life injected into the team, the offense is so stinking pitiful that jeff fracking weaver on his first start in over a year and half in the bigs just toasted us and made us look very silly.

I heard about this but i was making dinner and stopped caring late in the game, but my roommate told me he took out josh wilson for ryan roberts pinch hit, ha - unreal.  his desire to switch up the lineup every day does anybody on this team have an offensive role, who is the rbi man, who is the table setter, when your batting 2nd one day and 6th the next and 3rd the next what kind of rythym and pre-game preperation can you have.

i mean if our offense if that pitiful right now, maybe a huge slump, why not just play some extreme small ball, but no instead we swing away.  example, two games ago, runners on the corners and 1 out and josh wilson comes up.  i said immediately to sacrifice bunt this guy home to score and go from there. OKAY, josh wilson got the hit and scored the run, i will eat my words.  but then melvin has doug davis lay down a sacrifice with guys on 1st and 2nd and 1 out and he hits into a 2-5-3 double play.  thats ludicrous, makes no sense, and if melvin or anybody else expects josh wilson to get that hit most of the time we are in for such a long season.