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https://x.com/emmabaccellieri/status/1844162878976471188?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet The Mets have forced me to reconsider my stance that a team should only have one gimmick at a time. Coming around to the idea that actually the perfect baseball team is a tangle of fast-food mascots, roadside pumpkins, and journeyman infielders working on their music careers.

Feeling less and less confident about Royals... Also, Cleveland has to score at some point again...don't they?

aka the Gran Torino thread

https://www.cnn.com/shorts/events-mw-cnn-shorts?iid=vertical-video_entry "Surreal to see" Trop roof shredded, drone footage Good thing Rays are not currently alive in the post season...would have had to find a neutral site like Miami or Atlanta to play.

The GM is surely the one who made the call starting Cease on short rest when that has historically not worked out for him.

Portions of roof at Tropicana Dome in St. Petersburg ripped off (by Hurricane Milton) cnn.com

Or Balta, The Pro Bono Prosecuting Attorney Strikes Again

And Edwin Jackson played for an MLB record 14 different teams (46.7%), retiring at the age of 36 in 2019. Including the Dodgers.

This goes all the way back to the decision not to start him in 2020.

But who is LA going to start? SD has beaten up Yamamoto this season. London Knack? Probably Flaherty against Michael King on short rest.

Really thought Manaea was done after watching his stuff erode with SD but he has really bounced back this year. Alec Bohm the pick right before Madrigal. Castellanos discussed about as long as Joc Pederson.

Witt Jr. breaks his 0/12 post season slide and will have to steal second...and possibly third.

DCINAA In all seriousness, they should have started Martin Perez and let Cease have two more days of rest, but hindsight is always 20/20.

Royals are giving the Yankees a real battle. 2-2 going to the bottom of the 6th. Schmidt and Lugo both pitched pretty well.

Ooops...was simply thinking about Nola's role going forward and totally forgot about Zack. Well, they're going to have to get more production up the middle of the field, at SS/2B/CF. It's as simple as that. As far as Painter goes, their top pitching prospect, find it doubtful that Getz would take a pitcher so soon after TJS as the centerpiece of a deal, but that's probably the best time to strike with (relatively) depressed value. Same way the Sox were able to get Giolito, Lopez and Dunning in one strike, because of the fall in Lucas' standing after early big league struggles and concerns over mechanical adjustments after high school. If the White Sox were really creative, they'd sign Bieber but undoubtedly he'll get more guaranteed money elsewhere. It also seems like the kind of bet AJ Preller's going to make before he guts his farm system to acquire another front line starter.

Certainly the juxtaposition of lower budgeted Detroit/Benetti, Cleveland and KC getting so much national airtime isn't helping matters for Getz. The only team that came into 2024 spending a bit more than the White Sox in the AL Central was Minnesota, and they're still MUCH better off than the White Sox, but currently considering a rebuild nevertheless.

Down go the Phillies, the NL favorites along with the Dodgers entering the post-season. Where do or can Dombrowski go from here after so many near-misses the last three years? For one thing, they're clearly lacking a real ace. Nola is more like an ace-adjunct. So that means they will be also be targeting Burnes, Fried, Snell, the usual suspects.

Pretty remarkable Quintana still hasn't surrendered an earned run this post season.

Tigers Mets Padres and dare the Royals be the teams of destiny? Guardians the victims of poor hitting and even better fielding from DET. Cleveland is going to have to figure out a way to add to Kwan Ramirez Naylor. 19 consecutive scoreless innings. 4 times they had two runners on base.

https://news.yahoo.com/watch-live-tropicana-implosion-bring-070119640.html

Can't believe Edwin Diaz's arm hasn't fallen off at this point. Mendoza is really pushing that guy to the brink. Also Kopech has come a long way from months ago with the Sox.

They love the "save the Polar Bear" storyline in NYC...plus it would be hilarious if the Mets surpassed the Yankees without intentionally attempting to compete this season. Stearns just seems to have things go his way...shocker, I know.

Going into the season with that completely inexperienced bullpen and just two strong defenders (if healthy) in Robert and Moncada was already doomed to fail if you simply went by health histories. It seems they were counting on another Santos-like breakthrough from the youngsters like Measure and never got it. Otoh....look at what the Detroit Cleveland and even KC pens did this year. They were true strengths for all three of those teams down the stretch. None of them were close to being "the most expensive bullpens in the history of the game." (And then we overspent on jerks like Kelly and Graveman that didn't even want to be here in the first place. Kimbrel never fit either.)

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/rafael-devers/17350/stats?position=3B Devers is your classic 4 fWAR player...but his defensive limitations and potential for injury as he ages keep him from being a true all around superstar. More like Manny Lite, or Ortiz Lite. But Betts was the real star that got away and was irreplaceable to the Red Sox lineup.

That Tigers' win over Clase was much closer to the definition. I guess it was simply being a one run game for six consecutive innings...but neither team was really all that close to scoring after the third. For Padres' fans that were mostly expecting Suarez to collapse again in a key moment...