This. Fucking. Bullpen.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

here let me help you:

Suggested things to complain/worry about:

Rizzo's bat

how dare you, you entitled sonofabitch

I know, right?

[SKO]

here let me help you:

Suggested things to complain/worry about:

Rizzo's bat

how dare you, you entitled sonofabitch

I know, right?

Well I mean we'd already established that I was an entitled asshole.

[Quality Start Machine]

Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

[SKO]

Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

They asked him to throw his curveball less because he struggled to throw it for strikes, and he gets weak contact off his changeup? I dunno. He's not gonna K a lot of dudes without that hook though because he doesn't really have any other swing and miss pitches.

[Saul Goodman]

Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

Chris Bosio is good, and Jim Hickey is bad. QED.

[Quality Start Machine]

Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

Chris Bosio is good, and Jim Hickey is bad. QED.

More to the root cause, Epstink is terrible.

[SKO]

Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

Chris Bosio is good, and Jim Hickey is bad. QED.

More to the root cause, Epstink is terrible.

Maybe we should call him Epstunk because he's a washed up has been who hasn't done anything good since 2016.

[CBStew]

Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

Chris Bosio is good, and Jim Hickey is bad. QED.

More to the root cause, Epstink is terrible.

Maybe we should call him Epstunk because he's a washed up has been who hasn't done anything good since 2016.

ingrate

[SKO]

Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

Chris Bosio is good, and Jim Hickey is bad. QED.

More to the root cause, Epstink is terrible.

Maybe we should call him Epstunk because he's a washed up has been who hasn't done anything good since 2016.

ingrate

more like "I'm great" amirite

[CBStew]

Montgomery has been less than good this year. His ERA and FIP are up over a run, and his K rate has been cut in half, from 18.5% last year to 9.3% this year.

Oleg and I were nosing around, and swaw that he's going to his changeup a a lot more (18.3% up from 12.1% last year), and his  curveball a lot less 18.7%, down from 23.9 last year).

Where it gets really weird is that his soft contact is up about 10%, while his hard contact has dropped by that corresponding percentage. And his GB%, which is always good, is actually up from 57.8% to 67.2%.

Anybody got any ideas?

Chris Bosio is good, and Jim Hickey is bad. QED.

More to the root cause, Epstink is terrible.

Maybe we should call him Epstunk because he's a washed up has been who hasn't done anything good since 2016.

ingrate

more like "I'm great" amirite

no

[CBStew]

So Justin Hancock is on the roster because the Cubs need someone to put in there in the 8th inning when they have a 9 run lead?

[Wheezer]

Oleg and I were nosing around

TMI.

[Quality Start Machine]

Duensing is painful to watch.

[Saul Goodman]

Well that sucked.

[Wheezer]

Well that sucked.

You don't get to bill six minutes for that.