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The Phillies absolutely have to be willing to go up to $350 million guaranteed. Their roster is constructed to compete for the next 2-3 years, and they’re likely to get shut out of the playoffs because their starting pitching is short unless they add one more middle of the order bat. No way Boras turns that down for a shorter deal with SFG.

There’s just no way he subjects himself to that twice...although it’s already looking like it could be over in the next week unless he really wants to go to SFG and work out a really creative shorter term deal with higher AAV.

He was one of those kids who was 6-8 months ahead of the rest of his draft class? Looked it up. He was drafted after he had already turned 19, with a May 2nd, 1997 bday. 1st round going on 3 years ago.

Can someone cue the GIF of the villagers storming The Beast’s castle with pitchforks and torches in Beauty & the Beast, por favor? So basically “Middleton persisted” while KW and Hahn were either vacationing or golfing somewhere. Impossible to imagine Reinsdorf interrupting his Chairman of the Board duties to stay in Vegas for multiple days in order to close a deal out.

“No, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.” Just an English major, sometimes teacher...

Some of that was playing CF instead or his preferred and more instinctive RF, but the whole “Harper’s defense is falling off a cliff” in 2018 was merely based on a sum total of count ‘em...FOUR 50/50 defensive plays he didn’t make, one or two of which are balls that arguably were lost in the lights. Padres chairman Ron Fowler: ‘We’re a lot happier than the #Whitesox right now.’ Should put that billboard up in Hahn, KW’s and Reinsdorf’s neighborhoods to wake up to everyday...maybe it will serve as a source of inspiration, but probably not. They’re all too comfortable.

Lol. Watch the replay again. The SS took an extra beat or two getting rid of the ball...between a ball hit a bit in the SS/3B hole, a batter getting the advantage out of the LH box and his slightly above average speed surprising the infielder, you have the perfect recipe for an infield hit which won’t happen when scouting reports get out that Rutherford is one step faster than expected coming out of the box.

He has a nice stroke...came up in his ST at-bat and acted like he belonged out there.

An 800 ops the second half of the season...especially for a nothing salary, that might have been our biggest success of the the entire season if he was properly relegated to DH-only duties.

I think at this point they simply want to keep providing you new material in terms of total payroll committed to 1B/DH and the lack of fWAR return on their overall investment, especially from 2011onwards with the addition of Dunn and later LaRoche/Abreu. Alonso belongs 100% to that Sox tradition of inefficient resource allocation. We always say how EASY peezy it is to find production there and in LF, but never seemed to succeed at it.

Considering the scope of disappointment, lack of playoff success and lengthy record of front office debacles, he’s pretty lucky to have any fans left supporting this organization at this point. Other than the Cubs and Cardinals, few fanbases historically have tolerated/supported teams that just aren’t all that entertaining or competitive. There’s simply too much competition for attention and entertainment dollars these days. More important priorities like health care, education and having enough money to afford a decent 1-2 week family vacation take precedence.

Maybe he’s a fan of WNBA legend Sheryl?

Aguilar (Indians), Shaw (Red Sox), Moustakas (no FA market) and Thames (Japan) were all superfluous to other teams and great “value” finds. Jeffress came out of a surplus of Royals’ relief depth as well. Other than Hader, Suter and Knebel...this team on the pitching side was duct-taped together from 10 different sources, but it all clicked. Heck, their biggest deadline acquisition in Schoop was a complete flop and they still overcame it.

Because we gave them/drafted/rostered Junior Guerra, Soria, Avilan, Jennings, Gio Gonzalez and Matt Albers, lol...not to mention 100+ at bats of a 701 ops from Saladino.

Not specific comments, just generalities...

They added the Don Newcombe #36 patch after he passed away earlier this week...?

It’s about as close as we’re going to get this year...playing the team from the last two World Series matchups.

The Dodgers just have an embarrassment of riches. The juxtaposition between the two franchises couldn’t be more dramatic.

Doesn’t matter if he keeps walking everyone and not missing enough bats. Madrigal with his first hit in a big league uniform, infield single to Profar. Because of course...

Whenever hearing that term, the British Open always comes to mind...

Jordan Stephens rocked by Joc Pederson to RCF. Really posted up on his back foot, almost fell over backwards. Lol. Now we know why they brought in Santana, Nova and Banuelos.

Guyer at least gave that one a ride, but right at the LFer.

Ironically, he pitched for the Padres two years ago. Jay only looked good in a Cardinals’ Jersey, fwiw. Hits the weakest RBI single almost right up the middle, drives in Yolmer for the first Gatorade shower of the year.

The second...although the first would be more fun to watch.

Let’s hope Moncada has a better career trajectory than Jurickson Profar or we’re doomed. Timmy flies out oppo, tough play down the RF line. DJ Peterson is on fire, 3B is locked up for the next decade...#85.