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MLB 2020 Offseason |OT| - (K)BO Knows
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Good point against the team with the best record in the majors. Oh and they beat hou head to head, are on pace to crush the all time HR record and are scoring more runs than anyone else by a chunk. Teams they play aren't above .500 bc they
Keep losing to the twins lol.
Was this supposed to be coherent?
Anyway last I saw the twins were exactly five hundred against teams above. 500 it appears they've managed to get a whole four games above that.
Meanwhile the Astros have more wins against teams above 500 than the twins have played total games against teams above 500.
Or put another way, the twins schedule is a joke.
lol my point is the schedule you ply gets worse the more you win. And yes they beat Hou head to head straight up, including me watching them beat verlander live. You can only play the sched as is. Nobody commanded the royals and tigers to suck.
I wish the above .500 stat wasn't so dumb. would be far more interesting to see the stats for records against teams that were above .500 when they faced them, but no, it just counts their records against teams that are currently above .500
the shift you saw is because the twins have beat up on the white sox but the white sox are suddenly at .500 :P
CC I don't think we have much options. We don't have enough starters as is. Cessa should be DFA'd immediately. The batting practice pitcher is better than him right now.
Really C.C. seems to be a fine 5th starter still. Not amazing, but hey I would take him over a number of white sox pitchers right now :P
are two of their current starters
is one they are hoping to be a starter of the future so I understand why he is still around :P
The collective fuck up of Angels' pitching signings this off-season has been a joke. Counting on three guys with declining peripherals to all have a bounce back year was a mistake. I guess on the plus side we haven't had a TJ surgery yet this year, so progress!
want an Ivan Nova he would fit right in
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/novaiv01.shtml
:P
also yankees fans, for tonight Reynaldo López isn't necessarily as bad as he looks.
there is about a 33% chance he comes out and will limit your team to 1-2 runs over 6-7 innings
and about a 66% chance he comes out and gives up 6 runs before the 5th.
we will have to see which version of him you get tonight.
Hopefully he shows the potential number 2/3 starter stuff he has from time to time :P
though really I think his future will be as an elite 7-8th inning guy as his stuff is usually good one time through a line up just not good after.
Yordan Alvarez is ridiculous
The Astros didn't play a team with a record below 500 when they faced them until they played the angels may 4th. So they played the entire first month plus of the season against teams with winning records.
Katel Marte is an all star this year, but he woulnt get selected because he plays on a small market team and no one knows who he is.
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We need pitching damnit.....
Morales is hurt. He was the key to your success.
Why not? He didn't cost much and strengthens the offense. Also, you're not going to see Gardner play much.
Only reasons to make this trade:
- the "fuck it why not" factor. If the Mariners are going to pay you to add a league leader in hitting/HRs and all you have to do is give them a low-level prospect they gave you before, then fuck it - why not? At least the Rays/Astros/Red Sox or anyone else you might be competing with in the AL can't get him cheap and hurt you.
- to lower the leverage other teams have when its time to trade for a pitcher. The Yankees are about to get Stanton and Judge back, and it'll be easy to have Gardner play less so you can have some combination of Stanton/EE/Voit playing LF, 1B and DH or taking a day off all the time. Yankees can also trade Frazier if they want for a pitcher (I hope they don't) - and it won't hurt their depth. Also, teams won't be able to undervalue Frazier and take advantage of Yankee desperation because...well, with EE and Judge and Stanton, they're not.
- the "fuck it why not" factor. If the Mariners are going to pay you to add a league leader in hitting/HRs and all you have to do is give them a low-level prospect they gave you before, then fuck it - why not? At least the Rays/Astros/Red Sox or anyone else you might be competing with in the AL can't get him cheap and hurt you.
- to lower the leverage other teams have when its time to trade for a pitcher. The Yankees are about to get Stanton and Judge back, and it'll be easy to have Gardner play less so you can have some combination of Stanton/EE/Voit playing LF, 1B and DH or taking a day off all the time. Yankees can also trade Frazier if they want for a pitcher (I hope they don't) - and it won't hurt their depth. Also, teams won't be able to undervalue Frazier and take advantage of Yankee desperation because...well, with EE and Judge and Stanton, they're not.
the Yankees have 12 more games against the Red Sox and his numbers vs them are insane. Tampa Bay and the Yankees are fighting for position and with how bad the starting pitchers have been the front office doesn't want October to come down to one elimination game.
they need all the wins they can get.
Encarnación has hit .271/.362/.529 in his career against the Red Sox
Luke Jackson has blown 6 saves now and in his last 11 games has given up like 7 or 8 runs. I think he's had his chance, now its time for someone else in the 9th.
It's amazing to see the change compared to the opening series in Philly where the Braves just look outmatched in every facet.
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