Laika

Dustin May kind of sucks. I would be selling so hard if I owned him in any dynasty leagues. It’s the Aaron Sanchez problem

Spanky how are you doing tonight I sent you an actual fair trade in LoD. Now that you are sober you should take it

I don't think it's THAT doom and gloom. MiLB is shrinking but only by something like one affiliate per organization, at this point. Baseball is the type of sport that takes years to develop in. There isn't a chance the general structure of MiLB will change in any drastic way; there should at least be AAA/AA, A ball, short season, and rookie ball. Organizations need different levels and multiple affiliates for various systemic reasons. What has become obvious over the last few years is that MLB organizations and MLB generally are not capable or willing to provide adequate resources and compensation to all participants in their MiLB system. You can argue that it's actually ETHICAL to employ less MiLB players. If long-shot prospects want to pursue their MLB dreams, there has never been a better time to do that through Independent baseball leagues. This was true before the contraction of MiLB and it was based on technological advancements. Team can "scout" data-based factors like exit velocity, spin rate, pitch velocity no matter where a player is playing. We have seen players get signed from viral tweets of their bullpen sessions.

Sucks for Toronto but it seemed very likely once it became apparent that MiLB was shrinking. I'm just happy than Vancouver will still be an MLB affiliate.

Legit shocked that the Tampa Bay Rays of all teams would leave a SP in too long.

don't worry, beer. i'll never leave you.

Ah, I see the World Series schedule has 2 off days. It's the normal non-Covid format.

Just to double down on this... almost everyone who likes baseball enough to post here has played baseball or other sports, often at a pretty high level. Just because a lot of people here are smarter than you does not mean that you have some type of special insight into an athlete’s mindset. And you specifically said that Tampa has not done things to benefit players careers, which is demonstrably false. What players like is not strictly relevant... players can be stupid

Many, many of them go on to make many millions of dollars post-Tampa that they would never have made if the Rays did not inject their careers with relevance. And the lame nerd takes can eat my ******* with a spoon.

What was the deal with Bregman!?

Ahhh Reddick what are you sitting on

Same but we are never too f***ed up to trade my dude. Just click the buttons

This take is so f***ing tired. They boost the careers of multiple players every single year.

Hi. You didn’t respond to any of my trade offers.

Well it worked there. I think they made the right call... I know his pitch count was low enough that he could have lasted another inning at least but it was his third time through the order and Tampa has some elite relief arms

The narratives are strong tonight

McCullers was at like 80 pitches anyway. The statistically correct move is probably to pull him before the 5th if Urquidy is available... so might as well take no chances and bring in the lefty. At most McCullers is going 5 innings. Not worth any risk to try to milk one more inning out of him in a game 7. And he’s already given up two bombs! Win or die, you empty the pen.

Adames is a sick defender. I was not completely aware of this before the playoffs.

I am sad to lose Boxy. It was my fault at the end, I was mean to him. I will be getting drunk tonight to mourn him. Send trade offers in a couple hours

Yup

Wake up! Second wind. Rays game. Let’s make some DDL and LOD deals

looks like Boxcar is officially done, if anyone was wondering what was going on with his team. BlueRocky (Linc) is the owner.

Huge day for the sport of baseball

The narrative will repeat indefinitely though. It doesn't matter how many times a SP gets pulled and the bullpen does their job, or how many times a SP gets left in and blows the game... people are more compelled by veteran starters with bloody socks throwing 7+ innings and 100+ pitches, and for obvious reasons. So we will have to suffer this narrative forever, I think.

Correa is NOT a Chad!