Laika

Nobody here is MAD that the Diamondbacks are in the World Series. It's fun to see high variance youngsters like Brandon Pfaadt perform in the playoffs. It's fun to see journeyman relievers find their stuff and shove for a couple of weeks. People just take objection to all the corollary arguments. The Diamondbacks succeeding is not a conclusion to the Moreno/Varsho trade evaluation. The 2023 Diamondbacks are not a lesson in playoff roster construction that nerds should pay attention to.

I can't really see why you think they are "better" than their 162 game run differential would demonstrate, but alrighty then.

The somewhat knowledgeable fan would just be an fWAR skeptic, basically. They think Varsho doesn't have the potential that fWAR illustrates and Moreno is better than the green website gives him credit for. The more casual fans are just reacting to the obvious optics. Moreno is hitting 3rd on a team going to the World Series. Varsho was hitting 7-9th and getting pinch hit for on one of the most depressing Jays teams ever.

Pfaadt has a nasty sweeper

That definitely explains why Alek Thomas and Gabe Moreno have 7 playoff home runs!

jaysblue really cementing his 2023 LVP case connorp is trying to make it a close vote but I don't think he has enough time left

connorp are you not reading

He's good he's just not, you know, a big star

Corbin Carroll is their only star Marte is up and down. He hit 12 homers last year. 94 wRC+ in 2020. Christian Walker's 120 wRC+ this year was worse than Belt, Bo, and about tied with Vlad. If he's a star then Brandon Belt should have carried Toronto! Moreno was a 7 HR rookie, lol. He was out fWAR'd by Davis Schneider.

Sir you just quoted a 5 game sample size

sample size matters, bitch

I don't know what point you are trying to make but I don't really care because I don't respect you as a poster or a person. f***ing Alek Thomas has four playoff homers, lmao.

107 wRC+ vs 97 wRC+ But 746 runs scored by both teams Toronto was so f***ing horrible in the clutch this year. It's wild. The DBacks are better "clutch" and better on the bases by a wide margin. But everything else is edge Toronto and it's not close.

Gelof is truly a superstar, I agree.

His general athleticism was overrated as a prospect I guess. Some people thought his ceiling would be peak JT Realmuto, i.e. a 20 SB, +6 BsR catcher. Hard to imagine him ever being a positive baserunner after the -7 this year. He may be able to get close to average with practice.

Do you mean make or start? If you include the outgoing free agents... Springer, Bo, Varsho, Kirk, Jansen, Chapman, Keirmaier, and Vlad probably all start on at least one of the four semi-finalists. Biggio, Babe, probably make the bench for somebody. Belt probably is a platoon DH on one of the teams. Many of the bullpen pitchers make most of their pens. The top 4 SP on the depth chart make every team in some capacity.

JP France in game 7. WOOF.

I just think Ownership deserves the credit for raising payroll Any GM could have made some big signing and trades and driven excitement. And MANY GMs would have done it better.

Preller's string of bad trades is legendary. 2014 - Trea Turner for Wil Myers. They also dealt Jake Bauers, Joe Ross, Rene Rivera, and Burch Smith in this deal lol. 2014 - Yasmani Grandal and Zach Eflin for Matt Kemp 2015 - Jedd Gyorko for Jon Jay 2015 - Max Fried for 1 year of J Upton 2018 - Hosmer deal 2020 - Naylor, Quantrill, Gabriel Arias, Owen Miller, Joey Cantillo for Mike Clevinger+ 2020 - Taylor Trammell, Ty France, Andrés Muñoz, and Luis Torrens for Austin Nola, Dan Altavilla, and Austin Adams. 2021 - Jack Suwinkski, Tucupita Marcano for 4 months of Adam Frazier 2022 - Soto deal. 2022 - Brent Rooker for.... Cam Gallagher? To be fair, KCR waived Rooker later on. I am probably even missing a few stinkers. Yeah he's made the odd good trade too, but come oooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. This guy a f***ing idiot. He has burned so much value on trades that I am shocked he still has a job. This doesn't even mention any signing other than Hosmer. The Padres are competitive in spite of him, not thanks to him. His best contribution has been convincing ownership to raise payroll. You have to give him credit for that, at least. But most morons with a $256,000,000 payroll in a salary cap sport could be a bit competitive. The Padres missed the playoffs with the 3rd highest payroll.

Probably missing nothing. They not only went with Singleton over Diaz, they went with him over Chas McCormick too. They could have pinch hit Diaz and McCormick for Pena and Maldonado, in whatever order desired. Truly one of the worst decisions I have seen this postseason. Diaz and McCormick had wRC+ of 127 and 133 in MLB this season... Singleton was like 118 in f***ing AAA and 51 in MLB. When Singleton walked to the plate he didn't even look like a big league player. He had no chance. Jon Singleton is NOT a quality LHPH like, say, Craig Biggio's son. Astros Stats �� @astro_numbers · 9h Talk about salt in a wound... Top 3 Hitters at MMP in 2023 Yainer Díaz - 164 Yordan Alvarez - 144 Chas McCormick - 144 Guess who didn't play tonight...

I'm not sure ownership meddled or if Chaim Bloom just sucked. Like, a team with their resources should be able to remain somewhat competitive while they rebuild the system. They axed Dombrowski specifically because they just thought a rebuild was needed and he was not the right person for it. So that alone is owner meddling, I guess. The owner thinks they know exactly when a full rebuild is needed? That's a high level baseball decision. I suppose the Mookie Betts trade would have more or less been a directive from ownership... they probably poo poo'd the possibility of extending him.

Many east coast Canadians cheer for the Red Sox. Sadly.

Say it with me! Nooooobody wanted to trade for Kirk. He looks like a f***ing meatball. wOBA and framing are for nerds.

I dunno. Must be something ugly in there that people know about, or something bad about the position. I am pretty f***ing sure that Kim Ng and James Click are not turning down the interview because of the "pressure of a big market."

brother, Kim f***ing Ng turned them down the Boston Red Sox are almost the connorp of MLB baseball maybe they can find a nice Morrocan GM or something