Quote Originally Posted by maroonmania View Post
Todd, first nobody here has said we don't have a significant issue with our bullpen so you can stop hammering that. EVERYONE agrees with you. However I don't know that there is any magic formula to solve that unless we bring back Lindgren and Holder. However, I am really surprised at your unwillingness to see that we have significant issues on offense as well. Let's just look at our last 14 games (still well over half of the games we've played total), we are not averaging 6.7 runs/game, we are averaging 4.4 runs/game against competition that is still not stellar. In that span we've only scored more than 6 runs in a game ONCE. Lately we've been scoring 3, 4 or 5 runs somewhat early and then we never score again. No matter what bullpen you are not going to always be able to count on winning games when that's all you are scoring. I said way back when we scoring lots in the first 10 games and winning that I could see us having problems once we ran into teams that threw strikes and played solid defense in the field and that's exactly what has happened. Yes, our bullpen has been BAD, but even if we had lost the 2 games to Bama 6-5 and 5-4 instead of 10-5 and 8-4, I'd still be just as upset about it.
Beat me to it. Todd has proven he'll defend Cohen at all costs. No one in their right minds wants Cohen fired, but he needs to get his shit together on offense. Same way Mullen needs to get his shit together on STs.