Even with Clase the magic carpet bullpen ride of last year was never going to repeat this year.

(For one thing they burned out some arms with all those appearances IMO.

Feel bad for Cade last night!

and they have way too many AAA players in the lineup.
One mistake by the Rangers yesterday: they should have intentionally walked Jose with the bases loaded and we would have scored only one run.
Instead he doubled in 2, and then the next "heart of the lineup" followed up by all striking out with men on second and third.

Gabriel Arias looked like he could hit in July. Now he's back to normal with a perfect 4 K in 4 tries yesterday.

Another shutout loss.
Lousy start by Williams, 90 pitches in 3 1/3 innings.
Season is now over.

I'd suggest sending Martinez, Schneeman and Jones to Columbus. Bring up Valera, Noel and Halpin. None of them are very good either but 1 of them is hot [although he did go hitless today]; 1 them can play CF [and if he could sustain his 253 average in the majors would be one of our top hitters]; and one of them is a right handed hitter [who had a very solid 1/2 season with the Gs last year].

If there was an IF worth promoting I'd send Arias away too. Not Bazzana, let him spend a month in AAA.