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  1. John_Havok
    I think who they go to in that hypothetical will largely depend on what happens between now ... and that hypothetical game. I think if the WC happened right now, and it was 1-1 and all 4 of White, Berrios, Strip and Kikuchi were ready, i truly think they'd go to Stripling right now. If Berrios has that "a-ha!" moment and figures out why he's been crap and puts in consistant performances akin to his past performances prior to this season, he'd be the guy, with Strip or White ready to jump in at the slightest hint of trouble.
  2. John_Havok
    This is probably just the A's realizing that since they cant get anything for him player-wise, theyd rather not pay him for the rest of the season, plus he had a vesting option for 2023 that was very close to coming up, they would have had to pay him 15 million next season. This is a massive salary dump for no real reason other than not wanting his 2023 option to vest. That's probably why they couldnt trade him at the deadline too, as teams would want no part of that vesting option. Doesnt this kind of thing seem like the kind of thing that should have a grievance filed over? LIke, he's no star player anymore sure but he's only a shade under league average OPS this season, it's not like they can justify the release due to his on-field performance. This is simply dumping a guy to get around the vesting option for 2015. I dont think this is a good faith move. One caveat applies, in that if they allowed him and his agent to quietly ask around to see if anyone would pick him up if he was released and they found a team that's ready to take him on.
  3. John_Havok
    In a vacuum, he’s not totally wrong, Tapia has always been good at making contact with the baseball. It’s just not usually good contact outside of the last 2 months. Add in terrible defense and a brain the size of a peanut, and you still have a sub replacement level player getting way more PAs than he should be.
  4. John_Havok
    It’s a really weird team. One week they look like world beaters that cannot be stopped, the next they look like a AAA team that can’t pitch, throw, catch or hit. I have no problem with the firing of Montoyo, but the overall problem still exists - a complete lack of consistency on a game to game basis outside of a few guys.
  5. John_Havok
    I hope you're happy with yourself.
  6. John_Havok
    Yeah, it's a nice city. Too big for my small town tastes, but it's got a lot of great things going for it. And the winters are only long to people who've never lived in places with actual winter. To everyone else they're short and easy to deal with
  7. John_Havok
    Walker Buehler done for the season. Elbow surgery confirmed.
  8. John_Havok
    There's also a better than decent chance Zimmer accepts an assignment to AAA if/when he clears waivers. He has enough service time to decline the assignment, but he doesnt have enough service time to decline the assignment AND keep the rest of his major league salary coming.
  9. John_Havok
    Yeah, the problem with Texas was that they spent big to build a foundation rather than already having one in place, and spending big to add on to it. 2 star players added to a pile of crap is still just 2 star players and a pile of crap.
  10. John_Havok
    Lead off double for Mateo….perfecto and no hitter gone. Damn
  11. John_Havok
    Rasmussen coming back out for the 9th…here we go!
  12. John_Havok
    8 inning perfect. Only thrown 79 pitches.
  13. John_Havok
    Now perfect through 7.2
  14. John_Havok
    Drew Rasmussen perfect though 7.1 against the Os. I’m watching that
  15. John_Havok
    I don’t get it either. Their team is entirely made of guys who don’t strike out much and put the ball in play a lot. Should have the best defensive guys out there in the right spots.
  16. John_Havok
    Yeah that lineup is not the most defensively optimized for sure. For a contact snappy team I’d probably just stack the best defensive lineup I could. Even if it takes 1 better bat out of the lineup, you don’t need to score 8 against Cleveland to win. Pitch around Ramirez and basically their entire lineup is light hitting aside from Naylor, who you can K often enough to not really matter so much.
  17. John_Havok
    Atta boy Chappy, lets get this rolling. Tied for the team lead in HRs now i think
  18. John_Havok
    Tapia tried to f*** it up, but luckily the ball fell into his glove.
  19. John_Havok
    Bichette's xba... .490 - double play.
  20. John_Havok
    First inning, Kirk's Line drive had an xba of .920, Gurriel's was .630, and that last one there from Vlad was .560. All outs.
  21. John_Havok
    Gurriel used to punish those hangers, now theyre just warning track flies.
  22. John_Havok
    White looks decent. Curveball is pretty good, fastball is mid 90s. slider can be good. If they can develop that changeup a bit more and get it as even an average pitch, solid starter material.
  23. John_Havok
    Tapia just doing Tapia things with 2 strikes, swinging at terrible pitches.
  24. John_Havok
    so is this guy all about deception in his delivery? Stuff doesnt look that impressive but he's definitely all kinds of funky in the way he looks throwing the pitches. Skinny kid with limbs flying everywhere.
  25. John_Havok
    At 16 if she couldt still pitch competitively against the guys, she probably wouldnt be. Chances are in the next year or so though she'll start to fall behind as the guys muscle up and she doesnt. Unless of course she figures out how to throw the perfect knuckleball.
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