Casey starts again

1st inning blues.
We saw the reason that Brandon will never win a Gold Glove. (Well let’s be real with that award you usually have to have offensive numbers too.)

He makes too many errors on balls that should be easy to handle. The DP ball he botched was symptomatic of when he has time to analyze what needs to be done at critical times. He often makes errors under these circumstances. If it is a reactionary type play athere is no one better at third–or chasing foul balls down the line and into the stands.

It’s the ones where he has time to out mental himself into a bad play.

Rogers should have been out of that inning and that inning would have been such a lift to get out of–until the ball was hit straight at Brandon.

This is the problem I have with him and you combine that with unproductive offense then you have to admit, he is expendable.

I like him–he’s a great guy, yada yada–but those are facts.

The Royals really give us a hard time don’t they?

15 hits 4 runs.

Granderson. Wow! 3 more doubles Bud and you are in unchartered territory.

Nice job by Maggs tonight. Season is over and he displayed some magical bat tonight and he deserves that title.

I hope Carlos can get his 100 RBIs but he is gonna have to turn things around.

We’re playin’ out the season now.

I won’t jump on you, Dan. In fact, the first thing I thought when Inge bobbled the ball was “Uh oh, Dan’s gonna trade him again.”

Actually, I don’t see where that play was a mental error. He booted it, just like thousands or millions of balls have been booted over the long history of the game.

The big mental error of the game was Timo making the first out of the inning at thirdbase. Baseball 101, failing grade. This was punctated by Casey’s following single that would have scored Timo, making it 5-4 and changing the entire complexion of the game. That’s the third dumb baserunning mistake I’ve seen in the last four games. What’s up with that?

You want bad fielding, I’ll nominate Hill of Toronto. He tried his best to blow it last night and finally succeeded today. That was a whale of a slugging match they had in NY this afternoon, but after the Yankees won, tonight’s game meant little, as far as postseason aspirations are concerned. Again, pressure couldn’t be applied to the front runner.

Watson, while it’s true we need a big homerun bat, it doesn’t necessarily have to come at the firstbase position. If the big bat was a leftfielder, we’d be fine with that Casey/Guillen/Santiago triumverate at first and short. The big bat can also be a thirdbaseman, and that leads to talk of A-Rod. I’d like to have him, who wouldn’t, but personally I see him back in New York next season.

I will say that Dombrowski is going to get a stick this offseason. Don’t know who or from where, but it’s his MO. We’ll probably stick with the same pitchers, unless one goes in the trade for the big bat.

Pudge, yeah that reminds me. He really should have caught that throw from Timo and tagged the guy out at home. His defense isn’t what it once was either. That’s a tough call for management. I’m assuming he comes back. Not sure if that’s good or bad.

You will notice that I included thirdbase as a position where a big bat could be added. I’m not beyond agreeing with a change there. I do think that Inge makes the same kinds of errors that all thirdbasemen make. If that’s pressure, too much time to deliberate, or panic, I have no idea. Most of my errors at the thirdbase position resulted from bad throws on account of a lack of talent.