Looking to do a full rebuild in an off board league.. 17 team H2H Dynasty.
A guy offered me: Moreno, A Smith Shawner, Y Cappe, a 1st a 2nd (Both from one of the best teams, so late picks in each round.)
For: C. Seager. A. Cobb, E. Phillips...
Seems like a little bit of a light return, what say you?
Your right!! Doesn't matter if the pitchers were giving up 6, 8, 10 runs a game... Varsho f*** you!!! We should be playing .780% ball, suck it Varsho... Barfo more like it!!
Kinda baffles my mind they need to do some things to that stadium that I don't believe they have done at Rogers Center, nor have really talked about yet. Their stadium is over 12 years younger than the Rogers Center....
So a few things Brewer related... When did they change the name from Miller Park..? Why do they need and are being asked by MLB to complete $450 USD worth of repairs..
I was there in 2007/2008 time frame and it was an fnnnn great stadium, place to watch a ballgame etc.. One of the best baseball tailgating experiences I have seen also..
We got booted in two games in 2020, didn’t make it in 2021, and got booted in two games in 2022. That was all with Teo and LGR. So we needed to do something to change the status quo, it was not working.
In addition, with all this chest puffing about the AL East and crappy AL central, the Indians beat us 5-2 in series play last year. No assumptions we would have won the division prior to balanced schedules even if we were in the central.
Maybe this is like the s***** start in Moneyball prior to the A’s running off 22 in a row. If we trade for Rincon at the deadline you know it to be true…
A lot of talk about the putrid offense (apart from Tuesday). However, if the pitching staff is giving up more than 5 runs, it is on them. 5 runs or less it is on the offense.
We are losing a lot of games where the opponent is scoring more than 5 runs..That issue is not going to solved by hitters getting out of slumps etc..
Pitching, pitching, pitching..
Brother, if I tried to present that s*** in the board room I would be out on my ass with lot’s of time to play fantasy baseball.
It’s not going to last the whole season like this, but let’s not sugar coat it.
Was waiting for this for a while after I traded Mahle for him and another pitcher in the off season... Probably will have rookie issues.. However, looking forward to be able to put him on my MLB roster even if he does get bombed..
Ok, my bad, I thought I had wrote (or at least in my mind I thought I had referred to the 2018 season or walk-year, which is the one I called meddling. The "supposed" trade offer was also in in the off season prior to the 2018 season, so I thought that it was inferred. My bad for not being more clear.
JD played only 113 games due to injury in 2017...So your assertion he had no prior injury history is incorrect.
Bob Nightingale reported the possible trade based on a source inside the Blue Jays org. There is a ton about it from both the Cards side and Blue Jays side and Nightingale is a credible writer... Makes me think it was legit, and not just a rumor from some blogger..
He was in his walk year, they apparently got some solid offers in the off season to include a rookie Jack Flaherty. I said in retrospect, as in if we could do it all over again. Point is, I think we would have accepted the suck that year if we could do it again.
I understand your points. However, I think if you asked the fans in retrospect, if we should have traded JD at high value in the off season and some similar moves instead of waiting and having a meddling season, I think the majority would say that if they could do it over again would choose to have broken it down, sucked even more for just a bit and got some top specs from guys like JD.
The fact of the matter is, as much as Baltimore has sucked the past number of years, at the end of the day, what more do we have to show for it then them?
We made the playoffs in 2015 and the Orioles were nowhere to be found, so we have that. We then played Orioles in the WC game in 2016 and it went to extra innings. We made the playoffs in 2020, in the COVID asterisk season and promptly lost in two games.
We then made the playoffs in 2022 via WC and lost in 2 games, the Orioles last year were actually making a run for a WC spot the second half.
So, not like we can sit atop some moral how to build a baseball team high horse and lecture the crappy Orioles.