TBone14;1816584 wrote:Couple of other observations from last night.
2. I watched a lot of the postgame including interviews. My question: do we think Bauer is liked in the clubhouse? I'm starting to wonder. First of all, he's a different dude. I could see him as a little antisocial to begin with and then his general demeanor is kinda of surly.
The reason I ask...every single player I saw interviewed was obviously asked about the finger. And they all sang the praises of the bullpen....for good reason. But I didn't hear anybody say anything like, "Trevor is our guy. We wanted to pick him up." It was all, "Yea, we thought it might bleed. The bullpen was ready and they did a hell of job." Which is true but it was bizarre to see nobody talk about Bauer at all. Maybe I'm reading too much into it.
I don't know how well liked he is. There was a start, late summer-ish, he had where someone dropped a ball and he wasn't getting calls...and post-game he pretty much blamed the field and umpires. I can remember Hammy just goin in on him during the broadcast I was listening to the next day. Saying pretty much he needs to shut up, grow up, take ownership, or the clubhouse will turn on him real quick.
There was another one at the beginning of the year where he got rocked in an outing and walked a ton, and Hammy lit him up again talking about how maybe he should spend more time worry about command and control rather than trying to impress everyone with his pre-game stuff and trying to throw it as hard as he can.
So maybe the team loves him I don't know...but I get the feeling Hammy isn't a fan.
