Around Baseball 2023

[mellowgold]

The Mets are my new favourite team. Just did us another solid tonight.

[Nursehoneybadger]

rangers announcers trashing their team. Calling bullpen a little area to hang out in between giving up home runs.

[John_Havok]

Not that this game gains the Rockies was already as close to must win as you can get…this really makes it must win.

[hanton]

Acuna is going off again

[John_Havok]

The top 5 hitters in Atlantas lineup have more HRs between them than 17 entire teams, including the jays

[Ehjays]

 

This would not be good for Texas if this gets worse.

[Laika]

 

This would not be good for Texas if this gets worse.

 

Sounds like he's pitching with a partially torn ligament or something

[Omar]

One of the most majestic HR's I've seen this season:

 

[Stangstag]

One of the most majestic HR's I've seen this season:

 

 

Would be nice if we didn’t have to face a hot Stanton for 6 more games this year…

[jaysblue]

Would be nice if we didn’t have to face a hot Stanton for 6 more games this year…

 

Knowing the Jays luck, him and Judge will be raking at that time.

[jaysblue]

 

This would not be good for Texas if this gets worse.

 

I even recall at the end of last season with the Mets, Max wasn't 100%. He pitched awful against San Diego in the WC.

[infinitebook]

Knowing the Jays luck, him and Judge will be raking at that time.

 

I think Judge will be shut down soon, its a bit surprising he hasn't already

[Jimcanuck]

I think most of us here definitely wanted Bellinger, just not at that price. It was a huge gamble that payed off

 

Quite a few were OK with the $18M or whatever it was.

 

What could have been....

[hanton]

I think most of us here definitely wanted Bellinger, just not at that price. It was a huge gamble that payed off

 

Beli alone would have replaced KK and Belt

[G-Snarls]

Acuna is going off again

 

Has homered in 3 straight games

 

By far his best offseason ever

[G-Snarls]

Braves +241 run differential

[JFD]

Altuve sounds like ricky ricardo

[jaysthebest]

Dominguez is going to be a star.

[Nursehoneybadger]

Astros fans really helping us out, he may not have caught that Batman play

[jaysthebest]

Yanks are no joke lately lol.

[jaysthebest]

I don't know if I should root for the Rangers or Astros tomorrow.

[hanton]

Yankees converted Michael King to a starter, 5 innings today, 4 K's, 0 runs

[glory]

I don't know if I should root for the Rangers or Astros tomorrow.

 

Good news is the Jays are behind both teams by 1.5 games now, and one of the teams is going to lose every night over the next 3 days, so there's a chance to make ground.

 

The bad news is, the Jays are going to have to win their games, and even with the s***** competition that's not a certainty.

[Nursehoneybadger]

I don't know if I should root for the Rangers or Astros tomorrow.

 

you root for whoever wins the first game and hope they get a sweep. Honestly don't think you can go wrong with any of the 2 teams winning though any amount of that series. Probably want Astros to win though. It only really matters if we can at minimum split 2 with Texas.

[Masterbather]

I don't know if I should root for the Rangers or Astros tomorrow.

 

Root for the Astros. Astros schedule is easier, that's why they likely win the West, Rangers have a tougher schedule.

[L54]

Have to root for the Astros. Four games head to head with Texas you can control taking over the 3rd WC spot

[jaysblue]

Yanks are no joke lately lol.

 

Yeah people who thought they would be a walkover later this month, not too sure about that.

[max silver]

Yeah people who thought they would be a walkover later this month, not too sure about that.

 

Given what we've seen from the Jays lately they are far from a lock to reliably beat even the worst teams, but the Yankees have been pretty awful for several months now. I didn't realize how badly the Yankees have been struggling but they are a combined 23-33 from the start of July, go back to the start of June and their record is relatively better but still poor at 34-45 over nearly half a season of play.

[jaysblue]

Given what we've seen from the Jays lately they are far from a lock to reliably beat even the worst teams, but the Yankees have been pretty awful for several months now. I didn't realize how badly the Yankees have been struggling but they are a combined 23-33 from the start of July, go back to the start of June and their record is relatively better but still poor at 34-45 over nearly half a season of play.

 

Yankees have been a huge disappointment. Even on paper, I didn't think they had that great of a team. I could see them having a big offseason which worries me. I really think they go hard after Ohtani.

[max silver]

Yankees have been a huge disappointment. Even on paper, I didn't think they had that great of a team. I could see them having a big offseason which worries me. I really think they go hard after Ohtani.

 

As frustrating as the Blue Jays season has been at least the Yankees season has been infinitely worse with an even higher payroll.