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Groucho Marxist posted:_______ is the GM of the Los Angeles Dodgers lol
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straight up brolic posted:there's like no way that Matheny gets fired because he's "good in the clubhouse" right? I assume he will not be fired because his team has been in the LCS every year he has managed. I'm cool with not bringing in Rosenthal but because I don't trust Rosenthal, not for the dumbass reason he gave. Using a guy who hasn't pitched in like a month instead was mindblowigly stupid though. As was leaving him out there to get shelled when it became obvious almost immediately that he couldn't control his fastball and wasn't getting any movement on his secondary stuff. MourningView fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Oct 17, 2014 |
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Oct 17, 2014 15:16
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Rosenthal's command issues started popping up pretty early from my recollection, but Matheny definitely didn't help by pitching him into the dirt all year long. I'm not feeling great about him next year either, and they definitely need to improve the bullpen depth. Thankfully that's generally one of the easiest things to do and they've been consistently excellent at it. I'm sure they'll somehow find some other 21 year old who throws 100 or something to plug in there. I know the Cards have lots of young outfield depth but I don't get the hurry to trade Jay unless they can get someone to overpay by a ton. He's a good player, and Grichuk/Taveras didn't exactly light the world on fire. It's obviously waaaaay too early to give up on either, but Jay seems like a good guy to have around.
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Oct 17, 2014 18:23
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Qwertyiop25 posted:I am surprised the Cardinals have stuck with Matheny for so long. I know he's been popular with the average fan but it seems like he's been clashing with the front office for a while now. NLCS, World Series, NLCS is hard to fire.
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Oct 17, 2014 18:47
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Holliday is slowing down, but Taveras has decent range, I thought? They were planning on making him a CF before they traded for Grichuk. That would have been bad, but he should be good enough in right that you don't need a super rangey guy in center just to cover for him. I think you can probably get by with a Holliday-Jay-Taveras/Grichuk outfield. I like Bourjos but he doesn't hit well enough to justify playing every day.
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Oct 17, 2014 19:47
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:There was a time probably 15 years ago when an ump thought Glenallen Hill was taking too long outside the box, so he told the pitcher to bring it. Hill frantically ran into the box and slapped the pitch for a single. I wish I could find video of it. There is a possibly apocryphal story about Bo Jackson stepping out thinking he had called time out but everyone else missed it so he had to jump back in the box really fast and promptly hit a homer
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Oct 19, 2014 18:50
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Even though it is the easiest thing in the dang world to figure out. Let him to pitch to one good left handed dude a game. That's it. Teach Holliday to play first base, it can't be that hard.
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Oct 20, 2014 20:43
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Scob posted:I truely believe Holliday would be a disaster at first base. I dunno, he was mobile enough to be a good outfielder at one point and it's the easiest place to play. And if he is whatever it's first base.
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Oct 20, 2014 20:58
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FairGame posted:Holliday to 1st is such an obviously smart move that I've gotta figure he's incapable of playing there or it would've happened by now. I just assume Matheny has never thought to try it or doesn't want to get Holliday out of his comfort zone or something goofy like that. I mean he might suck at it but how bad could it really be?
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Oct 20, 2014 23:11
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tarlibone posted:It's usually where you put a good-hitting, but defensively questionable, position player. Like Matt Holliday quote:Or do you platoon Holliday and Adams? yes
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Oct 20, 2014 23:34
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The Harper thing was really dumb but Matt Williams did a good job overall and got way better as the year went on.
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Oct 21, 2014 20:40
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Pujols isn't a Palmeiro like joke but he dh'd quite a bit
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Oct 23, 2014 19:27
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Groucho Marxist posted:He's really good but the lovely defensive metrics think he's bad. I think he's better than his metrics but watching him quite a bit I think he has also fallen off defensively from his rookie year. Definitely not below average, but I don't think he's in the discussion for best defensive center fielder in baseball anymore.
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Oct 23, 2014 21:56
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:If lucroy doesn't get the glove I will be so cranky. It'll be Yadi and it's gonna be funny when everyone gets mad about it.
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Oct 24, 2014 15:49
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Lucroy was a better hitter, nearly as good a catcher, and played nearly every day. Irrelavant, point against Lucroy, pretty good point for Lucroy.
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Oct 24, 2014 16:07
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The best defensive catcher possibly ever winning the award in a season where he missed a few games will be what finally proves the Gold Glove awards are a sham.
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Oct 24, 2014 19:59
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Inspector_666 posted:loving hell this is the website tribute.wmv came from. Those jokes were actually, like, funny though.
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Oct 27, 2014 16:38
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Groucho Marxist posted:In lighter hearted news, the Red Sox are already trashing Cespedes to the media. Just trading him destroyed the best team in baseball so I don't see why you wouldn't want him on your team. mentholmoose posted:There's also a bit about Rickey at the bottom: That's awesome.
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Oct 27, 2014 20:53
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Tony Phillips posted:I'm going all in. See this is how you make jokes about a tragedy
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