re: Blake Money on the mound

He can and will be serviceable on weekends. One time through the lineup he’s usually pretty good. He needs to throw the Chang up more and he needs to get the fastball up to 95. He cannot live at 92. His breaking ball is good, but he needs to bounce it behind the plate at least a few times once he has two strikes.

Velo is just down down down

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It will be tough for him to see the mound again.

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He’s good for eating a few innings in mid week games. Would you rather Shores or Little have to eat mid week innings?

He will have meaningful weekend innings. I think yall are over reacting a bit. His meaningful innings won't be high leverage, but he will be someone who can come in with a 5-6 run lead and eat up 3 innings to save some higher leverage bullpen arms.

I thought he looked better and his breaking ball was improved over last year. Money tends to let his FB get up and catch too much plate. With his velo down location becomes crucial for him. Those bombs he gives up are straight meat up in the zone.

They changed his delivery to help hide the ball. Velo may or may not tick back up as he adjusts to it. But, I'm not worried about the velo. I think Money looks fine - he's obviously not going to be an ace but he can provide some valuable bullpen outs/innings and I wouldn't be completely spooked if he had to make an emergency start in late portion of post season play when things get wacky.

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But, I'm not worried about the velo. I think Money looks fine

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It’s going to be batting practice against good teams. He’s already given up 4 XBH in 9.2IP ( 2 HR, 2B, 3B).

His ERA is at 5.31 over the last two seasons. How does he look fine

I’m not worried because I don’t think he’s going to pitch in any type of high leverage situation unless they really really really get behind the 8 ball

Money's fastball is just so hittable. There's no run or movement whatsoever. It doesn't miss a lot of barrels. I do think he can give us 2+ out of the pen and get through the order once. That's his ceiling IMO.

Money retired the first 9 he faced last night. Looked fine to me. Again, is he an ace? Of course not.

Look at his lines this year. Solo homer against W Michigan. Big deal. He struck out the side, by the way. 3 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs, 5 ks over the next month. Not much usage, not much comps, but those are fine numbers. Not great, not bad against A&M strictly in there to not give up a crooked number. Retired the first 9 last night, then had a crooked inning started on a fly out to cf.

Good k/bb ratio. Not the worst whip.

It's fine, especially for a guy that is working on a completely new delivery.

Hitting .182 against him, and that includes a pop out to CF, ruled a double, that Crews lost, ignited a 4 run inning. We can do this all day long. He looks fine. Collins does not look fine.