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Why is every highlight of Byron Buxton him running into a wall? I don't think that's a sustainable career trajectory.
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GalacticAcid posted:Yea people head straight to the ballpark after work all the time and have laptops with them etc. Just know that a security guard will go through your bag so leave the ganja at home. Lmao what. Just keep it in your pocket.
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Sydin posted:
A mariner wore PF Flyers just like this earlier in the season but I didn’t hear about him catching any flack. I think it was Ben Gamel or Taylor Motter?
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Comptroll The Forums posted:Which baseball manager is a bad enough dude to bring back the Baltimore chop to beat shifts? Showalter is so clearly completely checked out and running out his deal (to the point of admitting that he was reluctant to phantom-DL Tillman) that I can't decide whether that makes him more or less likely to do it. The last manager I can remember seeing give less of a gently caress about winning and losing is ... I don't know, gently caress, Bruce Kimm when the Cubs were just playing out the string in 2002? Timby fucked around with this message at 04:41 on May 13, 2018 |
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Josh Bell just made one of the nicest baserunning moves I’ve seen in a long time
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Sydin posted:
There is going to be a massive strike and it will kill the sport.
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Rand alPaul posted:There is going to be a massive strike and it will kill the sport. Or there will finally be a no-confidence vote in Clark.
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I think a lot of the player angst about the CBA will disappear after this upcoming offseason---when the typically more aggressive teams are spending again instead of resetting their luxury taxes. Clark should have to explain how he failed to see this past offseason coming, though.
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Popete posted:Why is every highlight of Byron Buxton him running into a wall? Real answer: he actually takes a lot of bad routes so he has to use his speed to make up for it but then he can't slow down in time Also I did not expect to get a split or better off the Angels in LA and I'm real happy we're gonna get it.
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Whatever it takes to beat the angels just keep doing it. Also: god dang LoMo is a bad DH.
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Paracaidas posted:I think a lot of the player angst about the CBA will disappear after this upcoming offseason---when the typically more aggressive teams are spending again instead of resetting their luxury taxes. I do wonder how much of this last offseason's slowness was fueled by an unusually large number of teams either 1) getting ready to tank, 2) just coming off their downtrend, or 3) already having complete rosters. It looks like a lot more teams are prepared to be contenders going into 2019 compared with how things looked at the beginning of this year.
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The unstoppable 2018 Red Machine.
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I remember a player for the Giants getting one of those letters a while back. He just got an orange sharpie and drew orange on 51% of his cleats. MLB never followed up.
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With players from the Dominican Republic, is the default in baseball to use their maternal last name ? Or does the player choose ? Like Pedro Jaime Martinez and José Alberto Pujols Alcántara . One went maternal one went parental. euphronius fucked around with this message at 14:46 on May 13, 2018 |
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Holy poo poo fire Andrew Friedman
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apropos Your Cubs being Cubs, someone may have already posted this due to its awesomeness but it owns too hard to pass up: https://twitter.com/Cubs/status/995465927087947779
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Is this a spoof of the intro to Superbad or did Superbad spoof something else from the seventies that I don’t know about because I’m not old?
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Pancakes posted:NL Central: Top 4 teams all within a half game of one another. Sellers gonna raid our farm systems. On that note, in today's "The Chicago Tribune is loving terrible and I'm glad I stopped paying for digital access ages ago": David Haugh makes the argument that even though the Cubs' farm system is bare and Epstein says he's not doing any more Chapman-esque rentals, the Cubs should let the Orioles have their pick of anyone in the minors for Manny Machado.
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euphronius posted:Where would they play Machado Presumably trade Russell or Baez (keep Javy, I like him).
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euphronius posted:Where would they play Machado Haugh argues that Russell would go in any deal. quote:The Cubs, on the other hand, face the urgency of expectations. They can win the World Series without Machado, sure. But they would give themselves a better shot at doing so in 2018 than in the subsequent years they’re trying to preserve by acquiring the superstar player while the Orioles seek a trade partner before losing him for nothing. Even if Machado still tests free agency, the team would get five months to show him how prosperous life as a Cub can be. Edit: Reminder that Adzolay is the Cubs' only Top 100 prospect, and he barely cracked the list at 95. Timby fucked around with this message at 17:24 on May 13, 2018 |
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The Russell for Machado rumors have been flying ever since the offseason, and even more-so now that Addy is struggling and Machado is having an MVP year. There's a rumor that the Cubs kicked the tires with an offer of Russell + Montgomery in the offseason, but the Orioles wanted more so they backed off. Now that Machado is slashing .342/.426/.658 I'm going to wager that price has only gone up.
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Sydin posted:The Russell for Machado rumors have been flying ever since the offseason, and even more-so now that Addy is struggling and Machado is having an MVP year. There's a rumor that the Cubs kicked the tires with an offer of Russell + Montgomery in the offseason, but the Orioles wanted more so they backed off. Now that Machado is slashing .342/.426/.658 I'm going to wager that price has only gone up. The one X-factor here is Dan Duquette. This is the guy who's so incompetent that he got tricked into bidding against himself and wound up giving Chris Davis an extra $20 million.
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Carlosologist posted:did you guys see the double shift that the Astros put on Joey Gallo? The Mariners did this first.
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Paracaidas posted:I think a lot of the player angst about the CBA will disappear after this upcoming offseason---when the typically more aggressive teams are spending again instead of resetting their luxury taxes. I wish I shared your confidence. I am guessing Machado and Harper both get hosed in free agency.
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Rand alPaul posted:I wish I shared your confidence. I am guessing Machado and Harper both get hosed in free agency. Yeah, I've never bought into the "oh, everyone was just being cheap because of the luxury tax reset" narrative that was getting pushed hard for a while. Passan did the math and for the Dodgers to go over the threshold this season, their incremental cost would have only been a few million bucks, which is a drop in the bucket for the team. The CBA did exactly what the ownership intended it to do: Impose "cost certainty"--their politically correct term for a salary cap, albeit a soft one--and give them a convenient excuse to not spend, and Clark was too loving stupid to realize what was going on because he was more obsessed with maintaining his precious decades of labor peace in his first negotiation.
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UZR IS BULLSHIT posted:Holy poo poo fire Andrew Friedman
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Sydin posted:The Russell for Machado rumors have been flying ever since the offseason, and even more-so now that Addy is struggling and Machado is having an MVP year. There's a rumor that the Cubs kicked the tires with an offer of Russell + Montgomery in the offseason, but the Orioles wanted more so they backed off. Now that Machado is slashing .342/.426/.658 I'm going to wager that price has only gone up. Just so long as its not Schwarbs. It would take at least Russell, Almora, Adzolay.
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the popes toes posted:apropos Your Cubs being Cubs, someone may have already posted this due to its awesomeness but it owns too hard to pass up: CJ looks even skinnier when he's a silhouette.
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Luigi Thirty posted:I remember a player for the Giants getting one of those letters a while back. He just got an orange sharpie and drew orange on 51% of his cleats. MLB never followed up. Feels good to remember we all eventually forgot about the zany antics of closer Brian Wilson
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that's not good. https://twitter.com/ryandivish/status/995740156580818946
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Julio Cruz posted:The O's can and should get way more for Machado than an all-glove-no-bat SS, a swingman and a fringe pitching prospect. It's just so cute that the Tribune beat guy thinks that would be enough for an MVP-caliber shortstop. Does he not remember last year when the Cubs gave up their last "good" prospect (Candelario) to the Tigers for Justin Wilson (lol) and Alex Avila (  ) and pretty much everyone in baseball, the Cubs themselves included, said their cupboard was bare?
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