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Are you the commissioner of baseball? Who f***ing cares? The teams have plenty of money, the value of a qualifying offer is going up following a shortened season in a pandemic. TV money is still coming in through the pipes. The Rays are revolutionizing how roster construction and analytical scouting is made, whether you like it or not. They're maximizing the value of their players, which by the way feature some pretty exciting pitchers as we saw on display tonight, and are doing the best out of a s***** situation where they have by far the least amount of resources in the league. The Yankees can go cry themselves to sleep with their piles of money, I'm sure half of MLB's fanbase was pretty thrilled that they got knocked the f*** out by a team with a tenth of their payroll and resources. I found Glasnow, Nick Anderson, Pete Fairbanks, Choi and Arozarena pretty damn thrilling that series. The Dodgers are still in it by the way. You can go edge yourself to the millions of fans and their player contract pages, despite the fact that the team essentially follows the Rays' model with ten times the resources.

Difference between Jays and Rays. The Rays are a significantly better team and were easily the best team in the AL in the best division in baseball. The Jays are on the tail end of a rebuild just scratching the surface of competitiveness. Hmmmmm, nope it must be that one team has famous fathers and the other doesn't, that must be it!

Holy f*** shut the f*** up about ratings. The Yankees and their entitled fanbase can go f*** themselves. The Rays are a loveable underdog going up against the two villains of the league. If no one wants to watch that then who f***ing cares? Having the big market teams winning all the time is f***ing boring. It's what's happening in the NBA and except for the Raptors championship the last few Finals have been boring as f***.

Friendly reminder that Matt Vasgersian is a terrible commentator and bad for the sport, and no amount of screaming at somewhat meaningful plays will change that.

I'm looking for an upgrade at 1B, one more saves compiling reliever (ideally a good one) and possibly an elite or near elite upgrade at OF. Guys available for the upgrade(s): Brandon Nimmo Brian Anderson Jose Quintana Brusdar Graterol Bobby Dalbec Mark Canha Kiebert Ruiz Adley Rustchman Zac Veen Ethan Hankins

Kim should in theory cost a lot less than a top rotation arm anyways though right? I don't see why pursuing and possibly acquiring him should prevent us from targeting a Springer or a TOR starter.

So you'd prefer to just roll with Brandon Drury or Travis Shaw and just call it a day?

The first one was a meatball. The second one wasn't a good pitch either but at least it was at the bottom of the zone.

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I wouldn't necessarily call it lopsided, just a failure everywhere else to capitalize on the asset. Realmuto was exactly who the Phillies thought they were trading for, if not better. He gave them 7.4 fWAR in 192 games which is elite level performance, had they made the playoffs he would have been a large reason why. But my point is trading for 2 years of elite performance - at catcher mind you - for a pitching prospect is something every single team in the Phillies' position (playoff aspirations/high on the win curve) would do 10 times out of 10. Of course, they squandered his performance and now he might leave them, so the Marlins are laughing that they got a high potential starter with monster stuff and Alfaro who might not be garbage and still has several years of control for a guy who was definitely not sticking around.

So a bunch of incels on the internet who have literally never met either in real life and just see boy and girl and go "haha they f***ed" is your source? Come on man.

What has Tatis done that was absurd? Be extremely exciting and show some emotion which the fans love? Tatis up to now has shown he can dish it and take it. Machado on the other hand tossed his bat after hitting a solo HR off Kershaw which only made it a 2-run game and then he can't handle the pitcher showing some emotion following an all-time catch? Lol f*** off bud.

Groshans is expected to move to 3B by scouts because he's tall for a SS and there aren't many tall SS around because once their frame fills out they tend to lose range. That doesn't mean he will move to 3B, and the team has yet to make any indication that they view Groshans as anything but a SS. Like Krylian points out, he missed a year of development time in 2019, is 20 years old and is very far away, so he should have no bearing on our moves for the next 2-3 seasons at least. Martin was drafted as a SS, so this means the team thinks he's a good defender despite most of his experience at the college level coming at 3B - and some OF I think? How current MLB players will fit in with guys that are 2 years away or acquisitions along the way is a futile thought exercise. The question should be whether Bichette is good enough to stick at SS, and whether we should start exploring him at other positions if someone comes along who is a much better defender and a significant upgrade to team - e.g. Francisco Lindor.

The typical CB Bucknor strikezone.

Hahahahaha Hosmer. That's what you sign him for, vetrin presents AND dat defense.

This camera angle at Globe Life is so weird.

10 strikeouts for Glasnow against the best offense in baseball. Ho hum.

I can sleep well tonight knowing Arozarena, Zunino and Margot hurt other teams too.

Nice to see that happen to other teams.

Glasnow is just letting it fly.

Just because anyone can win in the postseason doesn't mean they're a good team. The Pittsburgh Pirates can win a 3 or 5 game series against anyone. lol @ saying they look like the A's, ridiculous statement. The Marlins are literally not a good team.

They really aren't that good. They're an extremely mediocre team at best that has three intriguing arms, Brian Anderson and Starling Marte. It's a team full of young high risk position players + pitching with some mediocre vets that were alright. I want them to keep winning for the memes but this is by no means a playoff team.

The Central divisions are like...really bad. The Marlins have some intriguing arms which can make the difference in a short series.

Matt "awful" Olson!

Hey Brownie, you should probably know about this Sean Murphy kid. Big reason why the A's are very good.