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MLB 2018 Season |OT| Introducing Shohei OhtAAAni
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They lost a lot of their better players, especially pitching, quickly after they won the World Series
This late night baseball is exposing me as an old.
Also, John Farrell possibly managing in 2018 this quickly?!
Also, John Farrell possibly managing in 2018 this quickly?!
It's why I love the sport. Unlike football and basketball, the best team on paper doesn't usually win.
Right. If a team wins 100 games in a season, that's an INCREDIBLE season. That means they only won 63% of their games.
Huge win by the Mets. I really expected them to get swept after blowing a 6-1 lead the other night. Onto Atlanta.
I'm sorry, but Maeda is still a jobber from that Altuve bomb, Ohohoho...
*Hooligan throws TheeFanatic
Ask the Giants.
This Jose Berrios fella can pitch eh? Aside from his start against Seattle he's been pretty filthy thus far. 29Ks/1BB in 27.2 innings should have some people turning their heads.
We stayed relevant for quite some time though. Injuries and lack of young talent depth fucked a few of our chances to go further.
Random but figured I'd take it to my ERA brehs.
So if anybody here wouldn't mind emailing Nick Cafardo, the Sox beat reporter for the Boston Globe, about his blatant lies and misinformation in his latest piece comparing Betts to Trout and whom a team would rather have, I'd appreciate it. A buddy who works at MLB advanced media tipped me too it and a few others have noted it's patent and bold faced lies, he just makes up random quotes from "scouts" it's quite bad.
Piece in question:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/...ho-gets-nod/zstyKLTtsyjUpGwCk2FefI/story.html
One such quote:
"I'd go with Trout," said a National League evaluator. "Close though. Betts is a year younger and has a better OPS over the last two years."
Which is quite literally factually incorrect and takes a 2 second google search to disprove.
Really badly done.
So if anybody here wouldn't mind emailing Nick Cafardo, the Sox beat reporter for the Boston Globe, about his blatant lies and misinformation in his latest piece comparing Betts to Trout and whom a team would rather have, I'd appreciate it. A buddy who works at MLB advanced media tipped me too it and a few others have noted it's patent and bold faced lies, he just makes up random quotes from "scouts" it's quite bad.
Piece in question:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/...ho-gets-nod/zstyKLTtsyjUpGwCk2FefI/story.html
One such quote:
"I'd go with Trout," said a National League evaluator. "Close though. Betts is a year younger and has a better OPS over the last two years."
Which is quite literally factually incorrect and takes a 2 second google search to disprove.
Really badly done.
I felt so bad for Harrison of the Pirates when he went down with the same injury, it would have been a bummer if the same had happen to Freeman. He was red hot last year when he went down.
It's down btw, the article.
That's the thing though, 2014 WS year, 2015 was injury plagued, 2016 was a post ASG meltdown and then 2017 which I'm trying to forget. That was a span of 3 years.
2015 Royals win, 2016-17 they were decent (81-81 and 80-82 respectively) and I doubt they'll turn this year around. Span of 3 years.
The difference is we all knew KC would have to tear it down because there was no way they could keep their FAs in town so the rebuild was imminent, whereas SF has kept the players who were successful but aside from Posey they've been spiralling for the past 2 seasons. Its been hard trying to be optimistic about this team for a few seasons now
Hear me out:
2014 and 2015 were fluke years and we have actually always sucked.
I don't think they were too much of a fluke. Going back and looking at who they played in the postseason, I think the AL was weak both years. Then the Mets fluked into the series in 2015, which made it practically a slam dunk that year once they got through the AL. Only team that I would say they played that was for sure good was the Giants and they almost won that. The Angels and the Orioles were both paper tigers.
Sometimes teams just coalesce and have a really strong run for a few years. Also the shenanigans against the Astros and the Blue Jays were good times.
Im just curious, why dont they just call up guys like Acuna already, why do they wait until later in the season
Is it a "you're a rookie so you dont deserve yet to be on the immediate roster" thing?
Is it a "you're a rookie so you dont deserve yet to be on the immediate roster" thing?
Yes, partly. He is past the date for when the Braves can call him up and not lose an extra year. Was a few days back.
Now they just want to have him playing well before calling him up, has been on a cold streak the first week or so of the MiLB season.
I read or heard AA mention liking to call up prospects while on a roadtrip, less pressure and so forth. The Braves play in Cincinnati after this New York series.
It's all about getting that extra year of control on a young promising prospect. Not sure if that date has passed yet but it may have. Teams also like to see a guy go through some adversity and then come out of it before bringing him up, then again, I think sometimes that is just an excuse to remove them from the extra year of control conversation.
Breh no we didn't lol. We beat the best two teams in the NL.
Considering the 3 best teams were in the same division that year, and the Mets played one of them (and arguably the weakest one), nah. Combined record against these teams in the regular season: 3-17. That's like the definition of a fluke.
Clearing room for Mr. Acuna:
The Cincinnati series would be my guess for a callup. Also here's hoping Wisler isn't his usual horrible self. He hasn't been half bad in AAA this year.
I am touching myself.
Haven't seen Trout play in person since 2011, but with that in mind, I'll go with Betts," said an American League scout.
Trout," said a longtime National League scout. "Analytics may favor Mookie, I love both, but Trout never cools."
Lmao
Trout," said a longtime National League scout. "Analytics may favor Mookie, I love both, but Trout never cools."
Lmao
We had 3-4 years prior of being relevant and we did trades/signings (some which made our draft picks go away) for the now that impacted our future which bites us in the ass now.
As a Royals fan, I would say we got a bit lucky in '14 and '15, especially with health. We didn't really have many big injuries in those years and the team had someone to stand up when someone did go down like Butler when Hosmer was down in '14 and the bullpen had enough depth in '15 when Holland needed TJS. A lot of strengths started to weaken after '15. We had injuries like the Moustakas and Gordon collision that took Moose out for the year and Cain went down for a little bit. Our pitching got weaker even with Duffy emerging that year as a great starter with Volquez declining and Chris Young imploding and the bullpens have some bright spots, but some major contributors had down years like Herrera last year. Plus, a lot of young talent was traded away for a WS title or didn't pan out. Now we have one of the weakest farm systems in baseball with most of the interesting players in the A club. Hopefully we can draft well this year since we have a lot of picks and a good pool.
That series still hurts. We had you guys backs against the wall and we choked. Oh well at least we got our championship in 2017, but the 2015 ALDS was painful.
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