July 25, 20187 yr All 3 of those guys will be there come October. Sevy is as talented a pitcher as there is, Tanaka turns it up in crunch time, and you can never count out veteran presents. And Cashman isn’t done making moves, genius. He’ll get another starter before the playoffs. Granted the trade market for starters is embarrassingly bad this year but he’ll find a serviceable one.
July 25, 20187 yr 2 minutes ago, spystud13 said: Nice little11-run swing administered by Oak tonight. God I love everything about this team except staying up past midnight to watch their inevitable comebacks. That and the fact we're somehow still only third in the division.
July 25, 20187 yr All 3 of those guys will be there come October. Sevy is as talented a pitcher as there is, Tanaka turns it up in crunch time, and you can never count out veteran presents. And Cashman isn’t done making moves, genius. He’ll get another starter before the playoffs. Granted the trade market for starters is embarrassingly bad this year but he’ll find a serviceable one.Sevy will be pitching in the wild card game, and then if you win that you get to go up against boston or houston with Tanaka and CC starting on the road. Good luck.
July 25, 20187 yr Rangers should have used more position players tonight.Only half joking.Couldn’t have done any worse than Bibens-Dirxx who gave up 3 in the 10th...3 days after throwing 87 pitches and giving up 11 runs in 107 degree heat.
July 25, 20187 yr 18 minutes ago, Goo Punch said: Sevy will be pitching in the wild card game, and then if you win that you get to go up against boston or houston with Tanaka and CC starting on the road. Good luck. The Yankees have owned Houston & Boston this year. It’s the fluky one game wild card anything can happen shit that is concerning if it gets to that.
July 25, 20187 yr Anthony Gose throws 100 in AA for them now, good chance he’ll be up sooner rather than later.
July 25, 20187 yr I want to enjoy this Dodgers/Philly game that’s now in the 16th...except that the know somewhere Manfred is going to use this an example of why MLB needs to start a runner on 2nd in extras soon.
July 25, 20187 yr 9 hours ago, texifornia said: God I love everything about this team except staying up past midnight to watch their inevitable comebacks. That and the fact we're somehow still only third in the division. BP has Oakland at a 50% chance to make the playoffs; Mariners at 42%. All respect to MC Fresh Breath, but this A's team is fucking fun right now. Also, the NL WC race could be a doozy.
July 25, 20187 yr 9 hours ago, spystud13 said: Anthony Gose throws 100 in AA for them now, good chance he’ll be up sooner rather than later. Holy shit, I didn't realize that guy was a pitcher now...
July 25, 20187 yr 8 minutes ago, TheFlagship said: An OBP greater than SLG is something special. Someone wrote an article about this last week. IIRC, DD is the first guy to do it in several years. It used to happen more often. It motivated me to look up Lance Blankenship.
July 25, 20187 yr DD is a 4th/5th OF on a decent MLB team, but Tocci is a joke. Shows how incredibly thin the Rangers are that they are dead set on keeping that dude around.
July 25, 20187 yr Tocci is awful but he really should be in AA. The rangers for whatever reason want to see what he becomes in 2-3 years, but they have to keep at MLB level cause of the whole rule 5 thing. I cant recall the last time a team purposely kept someone so bad at the MLB level just because he was a rule 5 pick. Any others?
July 25, 20187 yr 36 minutes ago, Beau Vine said: BP has Oakland at a 50% chance to make the playoffs; Mariners at 42%. All respect to MC Fresh Breath, but this A's team is fucking fun right now. I hate baseball.
July 25, 20187 yr Edited July 25, 20187 yr by SurlyBDR just realized this is an Iowa high school game
July 25, 20187 yr 53 minutes ago, Fozzz said: DD is a 4th/5th OF on a decent MLB team, but Tocci is a joke. Shows how incredibly thin the Rangers are that they are dead set on keeping that dude around. I looked up Tocci and he's at .143/.234/.190 so now I see you're point. I didn't get why you would be upset about DDJ being sent down but...yikes.
July 25, 20187 yr 25 minutes ago, SurlyBDR said: I'm only writing this to save you the pain of a blistering reply from Spy, friend, but this was already posted on the previous page, and referenced by the top post on this page.
July 25, 20187 yr 10 hours ago, Helobious said: The Yankees have owned Houston & Boston this year. It’s the fluky one game wild card anything can happen shit that is concerning if it gets to that. yes, regular season means totally everything all the time awesome. the real question is whether aaron boone has the stones to start tanaka in the wc game, knowing full well he won't win the alds without severino going twice.
July 25, 20187 yr 23 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said: I'm only writing this to save you the pain of a blistering reply from Spy, friend, but this was already posted on the previous page, and referenced by the top post on this page. Well, shit.
July 25, 20187 yr with the trade deadline coming up, i thought this was an interesting read (not sure if posted) on the most valuable contracts in mlb: https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/2018-trade-value-1-to-10/ looks like the top al teams are gonna be on top for a while, considering most of the top 10 comes from the 4 best teams in the league.
July 25, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, dbecks said: Rays trade Nathan Eovaldi to the Red Sox for a (not very good) prospect. Depends on how he conducts himself, but Boston expects a maestro performance and thinks they can get The Four Seasons out of Eovaldi.
July 25, 20187 yr 31 minutes ago, clapclapclap said: Depends on how he conducts himself, but Boston expects a maestro performance and thinks they can get The Four Seasons out of Eovaldi. I assume this is a really good joke that went over my head because I'm a cultural boob?
July 25, 20187 yr Yoenis out 8-10 months with surgery on both heels. Good return on that contract. Edited July 25, 20187 yr by spystud13
July 25, 20187 yr if they were smart, they would go ahead and trade degrom. they'd get a really nice return and he likely won't pitch a single important game for the mets ever. i hope they don't, because he'll end up going to the red sox, yankees, or dodgers, but that's gotta be the move. no reason to keep him. although they're the mets, so they likely don't consider reasons when making decisions.
July 25, 20187 yr That has to be the biggest waste of a pitching staff ever. They have no ability to put anyone around them and need to just go ahead and cash in on the whole bunch and try and restock their garbage farm system.
July 25, 20187 yr It’s an example of why you shouldn’t build your team around young pitching. Sure you might make a good run for a season or 2, but long term it’s a poor strategy. Pitchers are more apt to get hurt or stop performing. Meanwhile the Cubs, Astros, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, etc. built around young hitters and are all well positioned for multi-year success.
July 25, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, henrygandorf said: if they were smart, they would go ahead and trade degrom. they'd get a really nice return and he likely won't pitch a single important game for the mets ever. i hope they don't, because he'll end up going to the red sox, yankees, or dodgers, but that's gotta be the move. no reason to keep him. although they're the mets, so they likely don't consider reasons when making decisions. I think the problem with trading him is that they won't be able to get the value they think he is worth from any team. You look at what the Yankees got for both Miller and Chapman, and Degrom is worth the package for both combined. Or what the Cubs gave up for Quintana and have to double it. Its just too hard to find a match to even make the trade.
July 25, 20187 yr The New York Yankees have acquired former All-Star reliever Zach Britton from the Baltimore Orioles for three minor league pitchers in a trade announced Tuesday night. The deal sends right-handed starter Dillon Tate, left-handed starter Josh Rogers and righty reliever Cody Carroll to Baltimore.
July 25, 20187 yr 5 hours ago, Helobious said: It’s an example of why you shouldn’t build your team around young pitching. Sure you might make a good run for a season or 2, but long term it’s a poor strategy. Pitchers are more apt to get hurt or stop performing. Meanwhile the Cubs, Astros, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, etc. built around young hitters and are all well positioned for multi-year success. That doesn’t even make sense especially when that starting pitching is on team friendly contracts. The Mets have done a horrible job with free agents and the draft. They should have been able to put a team around that staff and then they could weather the injuries that inevitably came up.
July 26, 20187 yr On 7/22/2018 at 8:43 PM, spystud13 said: Can’t remember if I posted this last week, but the “Only in Hollywood” episode that replays on MLB Net @ 9:00 tonight is worth a record. Thank you for the heads up. Holy shit that was great.
July 26, 20187 yr 5 minutes ago, spystud13 said: And there’s another Khris Davis bomb against Texas. And another. 9th inning comeback part deux! Edited July 26, 20187 yr by texifornia
July 26, 20187 yr And Treinen finishes it off. This series has been about finding 3 exciting different ways to excruciatingly break the Rangers' spirits. Here's to #4 tomorrow. Edited July 26, 20187 yr by texifornia
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