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Bloss has solid chance at being decent.  That was more than enough.

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    I’m just glad I survived another season of being the official thread starter. Thank you all for your continued support in this emotional time.   In more ways than one with tonight’s result:

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1 minute ago, WBT said:

I don't necessarily think Loperfido and Wagner will amount to much but there's still the opportunity cost.  That package should get way more than pop that kikuchi.

Never know. But now he can learn from him

3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Gave Yordan a hit on an auto out 

I thought it was open field behind. Oh well. Prolly shouldnt do it anyway. 

Dana Brown should be fired immediately. 

Kikuchi better not give up a run the rest of the season

I thought it was open field behind. Oh well. Prolly shouldnt do it anyway. 
It was a roller to the 2nd baseman who was easily going to throw out Yordan

Time to pull the Loperfido and Julia flirting commercial off the air.

Kikuchi better not give up a run the rest of the season

In another comparison to the DHop trade, this puts Kikuchi in a horrible position with the fan base. We fucking HATED David Johnson, through no fault of his own.
Just now, Chuckie Finster said:


In another comparison to the DHop trade, this puts Kikuchi in a horrible position with the fan base. We fucking HATED David Johnson, through no fault of his own.

It's nowhere close to that trade.

 

These are the moments I wish we still had Yuli. No one was better with less than 2 outs and a man on 3rd at scoring a run. Mr. Automatic Sac-fly

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2 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

 

This won't rival Danny Darwin (from the Sox perspective) but I can see this going anywhere from top 5 to top 10 dumbest trades we've ever made.

Just now, Pimphand said:

This won't rival Danny Darwin (from the Sox perspective) but I can see this going anywhere from top 5 to top 10 dumbest trades we've ever made.

Larry Darwin 

 

I mean Danny Andersen

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"See what we are gonna try to do is a worse trade than Larry Andersen for me. It is gonna be a tough challenge, but I believe we can do it Dana" 4abe78acd5575e2d2d0a846cf8237da9.jpg

Holy shit how fucking dumb is brown and bagwell and how did no one else see how stupid this fucking trade was?

Yeah sorry Larry Andersen 

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This ump has missed quite a few.  He sucks.

Just saw it on Bleacher Report.

I hope Dana Brown gets in his car to leave MMP and gets hit by a truck pulling out. And after a week his wife has to pull the plug. Because just dying right away is not enough about how mad I am. 

I'm starting to think Dana wasn't as big a part of the Braves front office as he brags about every time they interview him.

Point being it seems like Bagwell seems like offsetting his WAR with the franchise.

What a dumbass trade, going to end up being the Carlos Gomez trade all over.

8 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

 

Yikes, I can't believe they didn't get anything else for all that.  

Fuck it lets just sign Bregman to 400 mil contract today while we are at it

13 minutes ago, Mitch Hedberg said:

 

This is insane. Bloss is worth double the trade value just by himself.

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I'm over it.
Moving on.
Good luck with that
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Did the Houston Astros just get the best starter who will be traded at the deadline?

Yusei Kikuchi wasn’t at the top of any trade deadline list, not even our own. With an ERA in the mid-fours that matches his career number, he just didn’t seem like top-of-the-list material. But the Astros’ new lefty has a lot going for him.

He has gas. At 95.7 mph on the four-seam, only Cole Ragans, Tarik Skubal, and Garrett Crochet average a higher number among qualified lefty starters. He also has great “ride” on the fastball — it doesn’t drop as much as hitters expect due to its spin — and only Ragans combines more velocity with that kind of ride among lefties, and even if you open it up to righties you only add Dylan Cease and Tyler Glasnow and their tremendous fastballs to the list. That’s an elite fastball.

Velocity is also incredibly important for breaking pitches. At 89.2 mph on his slider, Kikuchi has the second-fastest slider among qualified starters. There’s Glasnow ahead of him, and that’s it. If you open it up to all pitchers, that kind of a slider with that type of gas and that much drop profiles similarly to the ones thrown by Jared Jones, Ryan Helsley, Cease and Tanner Scott.

An 82.9 mph curveball puts him fifth on the list, behind Glasnow yet again along with Logan Gilbert. Velo is not always great for changeups, but his 87.2 mph change is of the power variety and also in the top 20 for qualified starters — and hitters are hitting under .200 on the pitch this season.

Yusei Kikuchi, Dirty 88mph Changeup. 👌 pic.twitter.com/PTUuZdxsQe

— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) July 20, 2024

Add up all of those pitch characteristics and Kikuchi is 11th in Stuff+ among qualified starters, just behind Luis Gil and a bit back from Glasnow, Gilbert and Corbin Burnes. By strikeouts minus walks, a powerfully predictive pitcher metric, he’s 15th, right behind Freddy Peralta and ahead of Gilbert. None of the pitchers ahead of him on those lists, save perhaps Garrett Crochet or Tarik Skubal, will likely be traded this deadline.

So why does Kikuchi have an ERA that’s so bloated?

Some part of it has to be luck. Thirty-four percent of his balls in play have gone for hits. That’s the worst ratio of his career, and a number that trends around 29-30 percent among all pitchers as a group. This is despite the defense behind him being rated as positive or at the top of the league by various defensive metrics. That’s weird.

There’s also the fact that he probably doesn’t have great natural command. Earlier in his career, it was maybe even bad. Now it’s just around average, but it might manifest in an inflated home run rate. Or maybe the Astros have a different approach for Kikuchi to get the most out of his mix.

Either way, Kikuchi will have either the best or second-best stuff among the starting pitchers traded at the deadline. The White Sox and Tigers might have some say in the matter. But the Astros should be very happy with their new hard-throwing left-hander.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5667488/2024/07/29/yusei-kikuchi-trade-astros-blue-jays-stuff/

 

 

This is separate from what we paid for him

Brown job is ultimately going to come down to that pitcher I don't know’s record and stays for half a season. Anything below average he's fucking shitcanned. 

 

And where the fuck is Bagwell? Is he drinking again?

James Click being VP of the Blue Jays is laughing his ass off.  They broke it off in the Astros.

“Wait, you traded that guy that makes a highlight reel catch every game for a rental?”

James Click being VP of the Blue Jays is laughing his ass off.  They broke it off in the Astros.
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26 minutes ago, dr99 said:

Time to pull the Loperfido and Julia flirting commercial off the air.

When did you know you were elite?

If that’s the full trade it’s the worst baseball trade I have ever seen without the benefit of hindsight.  Horrible.

How much idiocy can the Astros pack into one evening and still win? We must be approaching the threshold. 

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