Rebuild Rebuild

Nothing like testing the ol’ rebuild with a series against the A’s.  Now, there’s a team that knows how to rebuild from scratch and on demand.  Two games under .500 for us suddenly becomes four games under in the proverbial blink of an eye.

Dylan Covey came off the IL yesterday to pitch one-third of an inning while giving up six runs, all earned; for all you kids keeping stats out there, that comes out to an ERA of 81 for the game.  Good thing that nothing counts in a rebuild, not Covey pitching like that or catching prospect Zach Collins going 2 for 26 with 14 strikeouts (and Collins was touted for having a good eye) or reliever Kelvin Herrera raising his ERA on the season to 7.84.  Herrera, pitching coach Don Cooper and manager Rick Renteria must all be aiming at the 81.

The one tolerable thing about another season of losing is my daughter; I raised a knowledgeable baseball fan.  She stayed for dinner after hitting on Thursday and filled me in on the Charlotte lineup.  “This is what my life has come to, checking on the Triple-A games,” she said, looking up from her phone.  And yesterday she texted if I knew anything about waiver claim AJ Reed, who in essence took the place of Daniel Palka on the roster.

I called Clare back, and we talked baseball for a good ten minutes.  Rebuilds don’t affect everything.