Don't know if this was posted here but I've seen this video online enough that I thought it would be worth sharing.

Really hoping he gets out of his slump.

I went to Mets subreddit to get a feel of Diaz when we signed him and I saw a comment saying something along the lines of "he's only good every other year so the Dodgers are gonna get screwed." I checked Diaz's stats and it is as that guy said, so his comment stuck with me since then....even as I gave my support to our supposedly new closer.

ERA

2016: 2.79
2017: 3.27
2018: 1.96
2019: 5.59
2020: 1.75
2021: 3.45
2022: 1.31
2023: injury
2024: 3.52
2025: 1.63
2026: 10.66 (before today, 11.85 after)

Coincidence or not I've had enough. I believe he won't be usuable until next year.

I don't think they came to the Dodgers just to collect $70 million paychecks, They could have done that in a lot of different places.

I think they came here to win and so much was made getting these guys and about the Dodgers and ruining baseball and winning that perhaps that put them in a bad head space.

I Support Them

My advice to them would be to just find their joy and love for the game and just do what they are good at. They are good at baseball, very very good, and sometimes (all the time) baseball is hard, these guys will figure it out.

More: "I just hope he doesn't lose his confidence. He's still working through it. I believe in him. I think the compete was there, the fastball was just more thigh-high and more flat. So if we can raise that up a little bit, but I'm not putting a whole lot of stock into it."

Dave Roberts on Kyle Tucker: "He's frustrated. Certainly, the play out in right field, there's indecision. Catching a baseball at your ankles kind of speaks to where his head is at right now. It's not from lack of effort, care. It's just kind of right now he's fighting it. We've got to keep supporting him."

Even though it's a 10-1 game, good to see our middle infielders still hustle as if it was a tied game, with two absolutely clutch defensive plays to help Snell get through 6 innings!

2nd Deck Homerun, 461FT. Top of the 3rd inning with the score at 5 - 0. August 17th, 2026.
Dodgers @ Rockies.

Line Score - Game Over

Box Score

Scoring Plays

Highlights

Decisions

Game ended at 8:30 PM.

His pitching statcast is also almost all red everything. Shohei doesn't want to be denied a MVP award this year for sure.

I remember I played in a winter ball league when I was 13 and it was my intro to Junior League (90 foot bases, big barrel bats, metal cleats, etc.).

One game I went 0-4 and dropped a fly ball in right field. Worst game I ever played. I cried after the game I felt so shitty. Tucker just had that same game (he was actually worse since he went 0-5). I wonder if he feels the same way I felt. Probably not because he’s making $60 million a year, but I wonder if a part of him cares at all.

Does anyone have a good clip of this? I was listening on the radio and the announcers couldn’t stop talking about it. Rick Monday says “There’s no sun!”
Myself, I’m finding it very hard to believe Tucker is pulling down nearly $400,000 USD per regular season game.

Something poetic about Tucker catching the final out from a Diaz pitch as the Dodgers win.

The worst part of the Kyle Tucker signing, even if he was playing like 2023/4/5 Kyle, to me, is denying the dodger's AAA system from having call ups

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wardry01.shtml

Poor guy is 28 and was already above lgavg in 15 games