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Post by asm18 on Jun 23, 2024 10:32:14 GMT -5
Blue Jays Fans: “We got rope-a-doped about Shohei coming here, our team has been a massive disappointment and we’re on a 5 game losing streak but surely it can’t get wor-“
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 23, 2024 11:08:20 GMT -5
Damn, and I was a little worried about Orelvis being good too
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Post by blizzards39 on Jun 23, 2024 12:12:24 GMT -5
Damn, and I was a little worried about Orelvis being good too Jays sure fell apart fast. I dont see any avenue that they can be a player the next few years. Wonder what the odds of a teardown is?
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Post by cdj on Jun 23, 2024 12:41:28 GMT -5
Yankees acquired JD Davis
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 23, 2024 12:55:12 GMT -5
Yankees acquired JD Davis Too bad. Would have been a nice piece off the bench and have been useful in Casas' absence.
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Post by threeifbaerga on Jun 23, 2024 12:55:45 GMT -5
Yankees acquired JD Davis They needed to do something about 1st, Rizzo has been pretty awful.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 23, 2024 12:57:57 GMT -5
Yankees acquired JD Davis They needed to do something about 1st, Rizzo has been pretty awful. Their 3b situation isnt that great either, so he should get plenty of playing time there, too.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 23, 2024 14:32:02 GMT -5
Yankees acquired JD Davis They needed to do something about 1st, Rizzo has been pretty awful. He also just went on the IL with an arm fracture after the collision with Bernardino. And Stanton, you won't believe this, just went on the IL as well.
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Post by cdj on Jun 23, 2024 20:03:39 GMT -5
Severino looks like a beast on Sunday night baseball
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Post by bojacksoxfan on Jun 24, 2024 13:56:21 GMT -5
The Phillies are guaranteeing Cristopher Sanchez $22 million through his arb years and in return are getting $14 and $15 million club options. Thats a team friendly one This is why all the early season talk of the Sox failing to sign Casas and Houck because they were lowballing them has always been silly imo. The Sox were not nickel and diming their players on extensions - both Bello and Rafeala signed deals that were generous to very generous. If Casas and/or Houck were asking for deals only in the generous range, I would be shocked if the Sox wouldn't have signed in a heartbeat. Both players are betting on themselves to sign massive deals. It looks like Houck's bet will pay off. Good for him.
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Post by itinerantherb on Jun 24, 2024 14:52:03 GMT -5
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Post by ixnayexxus on Jun 24, 2024 15:12:54 GMT -5
Crazy to think that the Marlins, who had all the makings of possessing perhaps the most exciting rotation in the game, are now featuring Kyle Tyler, Roddery Munoz, and Yonny Chirinos as 3/4 of their rotation output.
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Post by ematz1423 on Jun 24, 2024 15:24:12 GMT -5
Crazy to think that the Marlins, who had all the makings of possessing perhaps the most exciting rotation in the game, are now featuring Kyle Tyler, Roddery Munoz, and Yonny Chirinos as 3/4 of their rotation output. Makes me think twice about sending out legit trade chips for SPs. Sox were rumored to be checking in on the marlins SPs in the offseason. Glad they did not pull off a deal.
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 24, 2024 18:01:46 GMT -5
Patrick Sandoval's turn to ride the TJS train
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Post by seamus on Jun 24, 2024 18:49:04 GMT -5
I honestly wonder if there's anything baseball can do to reduce the prevalence of arm injuries without significant rule or equipment changes. As long as velocity provides a competitive advantage, teams are going to pay and promote guys who throw hard, and pitchers are (rightly, I think) going to roll the dice that they can make the big leagues and cash in before their elbow blows out. If MLB changes the ball to kill speed, it's hard to see how they can do that without a million other effects changing things, too (e.g., home runs, fielders throwing out runners). There's some research about flat-ground throwing maybe being less stressful, but would baseball ever even consider eliminating the mound?
There's some goofy solutions you could try, like imposing a "speed limit" such that any ball over a certain threshold is a ball, but basically I think you probably have to get silly to actually incentivize pitchers and teams to pursue things other than velocity.
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Post by mobaz on Jun 24, 2024 22:42:06 GMT -5
Bring back sticky stuff! Definitely not Spidertack but bullfrog and rosin at least. Forget which pitcher said you had to grip tighter now which activates the elbow tendons for longer at higher strain.
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Post by asm18 on Jun 25, 2024 19:47:51 GMT -5
The Houston Astros entered tonight 2 games under .500, and face the Rockies in Houston this week.
It’s already 5-0 Astros in the 1st inning of Game 1. So… Suffice to say we will likely see Houston finally break the .500 mark for the FIRST time all season quite soon. What’s the latest a team has ever hit .500 in a season?
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Post by julyanmorley on Jun 25, 2024 19:48:56 GMT -5
Gerritt Cole 4 walks, 4 HRs, 0 strikeouts tonight
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Post by kwodes on Jun 26, 2024 22:00:49 GMT -5
Gerritt Cole 4 walks, 4 HRs, 0 strikeouts tonight Did we break the Yankees?
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Post by incandenza on Jun 26, 2024 22:09:20 GMT -5
Luis Gil appears to no longer be a participant in the Cy Young race.
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Post by asm18 on Jun 27, 2024 16:44:11 GMT -5
Monty in 2024: 65.2 innings, 6.03 ERA, 4.42 FIP, 6.17 K/9, 3.15 BB/9.
I can’t imagine Boras keeping him from signing and doing a regular spring training did him any favors, but Monty is also likely past the point of “building up”. It’s not like he has a bad pitching coach you can point to either - Brent Strom knows his stuff.
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Post by scottysmalls on Jun 27, 2024 16:53:17 GMT -5
Monty in 2024: 65.2 innings, 6.03 ERA, 4.42 FIP, 6.17 K/9, 3.15 BB/9. I can’t imagine Boras keeping him from signing and doing a regular spring training did him any favors, but Monty is also likely past the point of “building up”. It’s not like he has a bad pitching coach you can point to either - Brent Strom knows his stuff. You probably can’t blame his ongoing poor performance on Boras but he could blame Boras’ strategy for potentially costing him like $100 million dollars if he doesn’t bounce back from this.
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Post by Smittyw on Jun 27, 2024 17:12:48 GMT -5
Monty in 2024: 65.2 innings, 6.03 ERA, 4.42 FIP, 6.17 K/9, 3.15 BB/9. I can’t imagine Boras keeping him from signing and doing a regular spring training did him any favors, but Monty is also likely past the point of “building up”. It’s not like he has a bad pitching coach you can point to either - Brent Strom knows his stuff. Imagine if we'd gone over the lux tax for this (or the equally disastrous Snell).
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Post by taiwansox on Jun 27, 2024 18:54:31 GMT -5
Check out the MFY score lol
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Jun 27, 2024 21:04:16 GMT -5
Monty in 2024: 65.2 innings, 6.03 ERA, 4.42 FIP, 6.17 K/9, 3.15 BB/9. I can’t imagine Boras keeping him from signing and doing a regular spring training did him any favors, but Monty is also likely past the point of “building up”. It’s not like he has a bad pitching coach you can point to either - Brent Strom knows his stuff. Imagine if we'd gone over the lux tax for this (or the equally disastrous Snell). Maybe Montgomery could have used spring training. Score another one for Scott Boras, screwed over his client financially and put him in the best position to fail so he could extract a ridiculous contract his client was never going to get. In the owners vs the players war I'm usually on team players but Boras almost makes me want to go the other way.
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