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[Brownie19]

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manfredsburner on April 21, 2026: "The story of Brett Phillips and Chloe Grimes is one of those moments where baseball...

This is old, but it's a good one.  Phillips understood the assignment.  He played the game full of joy.  The way it was meant to be played.  Love this sh*t

[Orgfiller]

Drake Baldwin: new BCIB?

The defense is nothing impressive, but the offense might be getting better from last season, and the projections are buying it. Gen-Z Will Smith?

[Orgfiller]

1 minute ago, Orgfiller said:

Drake Baldwin: new BCIB?

The defense is nothing impressive, but the offense might be getting better from last season, and the projections are buying it. Gen-Z Will Smith?

The hipster answer to this is Dillon Dingler btw. Elite defense combined with 99th percentile xwOBA?

The hitting doesn't seem sustainable though, his top end exit velo is not elite and the projections don't love him, so how long can he keep pummeling the baseball with like 50 grade power? Is the hit tool better than advertised?

[Spanky__99]

46 minutes ago, Orgfiller said:

Drake Baldwin: new BCIB?

The defense is nothing impressive, but the offense might be getting better from last season, and the projections are buying it. Gen-Z Will Smith?

Holy sh*t.

[Spanky__99]

Mickey Moniak is unreal this first month.

 

[mphenhef]

4 hours ago, Orgfiller said:

The hipster answer to this is Dillon Dingler btw. Elite defense combined with 99th percentile xwOBA?

The hitting doesn't seem sustainable though, his top end exit velo is not elite and the projections don't love him, so how long can he keep pummeling the baseball with like 50 grade power? Is the hit tool better than advertised?

Plus at least a 70 grade name.

[hanton]

11 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

That's wild. Puig to the IBL!

Rodney and now Puig

[hanton]

JR Ritchie debut today, gave up a home run to James Woods on the 1st pitch, then he settled down 7IP, 7K, 2runs for the win.  Braves 7 - Nats 2

[hanton]

flipiddy flip......

 

[Omar]

The Mets

I picked up tickets to see them against the Jays at the end of June. Thought I would be watching an elite team.

[jaysblue]

8 hours ago, hanton said:

flipiddy flip......

 

The Mets still ended up winning haha. But yeah what a joke! 

[jaysblue]

7 hours ago, Omar said:

The Mets

I picked up tickets to see them against the Jays at the end of June. Thought I would be watching an elite team.

Should have waited. Tickets will probably be cheaper on StubHub or SeatGeek closer to the games.

I never buy that far in advance. Always wait day off if I'm travelling on the road to see a ballgame. Especially Yankees/Mets tickets are usually cheaper resale than from the box office. 

[hanton]

Crochet, 6 innings, 0 runs, 7 k's (for you haters haha)

[glory]

Phillies are 8-18 with a -53 run differential. Currently on a 10 game losing streak. Doubling down on that aging core and then just adding Adolis Garcia to the outfield thinking that would fix everything certainly hasn’t aged well. Losing the World Series in 2022 and then losing in the NLCS to the most mediocre team imaginable looks like their only shot with that group. Not sure how they fix it. There’s still a lot of time to turns things around this season and maybe they do but sure feels like the end of the road for that core group. Lots of money and years left on most of those players as well.

[Jonn]

 

[hanton]

Odd timing.  should have been done BEFORE the regular season

[hanton]

if you're making all those changes in April that is a true clown show over there....

[Laika]

10 minutes ago, hanton said:

if you're making all those changes in April that is a true clown show over there....

100% 

[G-Snarls]

14 hours ago, hanton said:

Odd timing.  should have been done BEFORE the regular season

Wow 

Very surprised and think it's dumb 

[G-Snarls]

14 hours ago, hanton said:

if you're making all those changes in April that is a true clown show over there....

Also means the GM has no one left to blame if they continue to suck 

[G-Snarls]

Cora has now been suspended once and fired once 

But I still think he gets another managing gig 

[jaysblue]

Grant definitely was celebrating last night. 

[jaysblue]

19 hours ago, glory said:

Phillies are 8-18 with a -53 run differential. Currently on a 10 game losing streak. Doubling down on that aging core and then just adding Adolis Garcia to the outfield thinking that would fix everything certainly hasn’t aged well. Losing the World Series in 2022 and then losing in the NLCS to the most mediocre team imaginable looks like their only shot with that group. Not sure how they fix it. There’s still a lot of time to turns things around this season and maybe they do but sure feels like the end of the road for that core group. Lots of money and years left on most of those players as well.

The Phillies have been really disappointing.

I thought their pitching would make them the team to beat in that division, especially with Atlanta’s rotation already depleted by injuries to start the season.

I still expect them to turn it around, but they need to start doing that soon. There’s too much talent on that roster for them to be irrelevant, unless all of their stars regress at the same time.

Long term, though, the bigger issue is that they have an aging and expensive core. Their window is probably only another year or two - maybe even less if these early-season struggles turn out to be more than just a rough start.
 

[G-Snarls]

At Disney World about to go on the new Tron ride. 

Florida +30

Alberta -6 and snowing 

[hanton]

Romano DFA'd

[hanton]

LOL.  wtf is going on with umps, this is so bad

[Slade]

2 hours ago, hanton said:

Romano DFA'd

I imagine he might bounce around a bit. I wouldn't be opposed to a minor league deal just to have another leverage arm with experience. 

[Stangstag]

1 hour ago, hanton said:

LOL.  wtf is going on with umps, this is so bad

How many potential outcomes like this have been erased over the years… jesus that’s bad

[Pendleton]

The A's really seem to have a knack for finding bats out of nowhere. Soon to be 29 year old career minor leaguer Carlos Cortes, with just 99 career PA (all last season) coming into the year, has been on absolute fire. He's slashing .377/.433/.689 with just four strikeouts in 67 PA, almost entirely going against righties. It will be interesting to see how he's deployed now that Rooker ( who had been struggling) is back from injury 

[Orgfiller]

12 hours ago, Stangstag said:

How many potential outcomes like this have been erased over the years… jesus that’s bad

This one always comes to mind for me: