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Cave hoping for a walk

Double play gets Boston out of it

Newcomb got away with that one

We miss turning a lot of double plays. Good on Pasquantino for hustling.

1 run per 5 pitches is incredibly efficient.

Then there were no guys traded at the deadline who were good in a sustained way and kept that performance up. The only real success story is Mahle, who was an inconsistent backend starter in his career and was terrible with SF until the Braves identified something to fix. Foster Griffin was only good for the Nats this year, and has regressed back to a pumpkin with Cleveland. Clay Holmes has been injury prone in his career and has made about as many starts with the Cubs as Mets this year while providing a lot less value. Mize was on a huge positive outlier and has since regressed to about his career numbers. Jose Soriano has had a pretty good career but had been carried by an electric start to this season. He hasn't been good since being traded due to regression as well. Ray and Gausman are old and have been terrible. We all know what Castillo has inflicted upon us. Like I said, it's a crapshoot and you can't count on anyone being good unless it's a guy like Skubal, and you're going to pay for that. Hell, teams paid for these other guys too. Holmes and Soriano went for top 100 prospects. Mize went for the #2 Padres prospect (a likely mid-rotation pitcher). Ray went for the Padres #4 prospect. Brett Bateman went for Gausman, and he's been worth 1.9 bWAR for the Jays.

If their MVP candidate doesn't break his hand punching his bat it's more likely they could line their rotation up because they wouldn't have to fight so hard to win the division.

The only guy that would really apply to at this deadline was Skubal. The rest have either had up and down careers, were getting old and declining, and/or had some alarming signs that they weren't good. I feel like that's a pretty typical deadline - one or two studs and a bunch of random rentals you hope catch lightning in a bottle.

There are two guys on that list you'd want - Mahle and Holmes. That's the deadline for you, though. A fool's game to trade high level assets for what is essentially random luck if the guy is going to be good or not.

Hey now they scored a ton too so they'll be more likely to score a lot tomorrow. 4D chess baby.

Well that was fun!

LMAO

Sigh come on you idiot

Thanks for the context, Dave Portnoy.

There's older footage of him too. That's just how he runs.

Every time I see Portnoy's name pop up I watch that video of him running and laugh my ass off.

Just need to win one more than Cleveland does.

Charlotte with a pretty nice season overall at 81-69. Don’t think they’re in the playoffs but can’t complain about 12 over .500

Ok come on now

I’m glad it worked but now Hagen threw a ton of pitches and he maybe has one more in him. After that who knows. Just don’t agree with the move

Why can't we have anything nice?

Because this year and next year are completely separate. Whatever he does this year with BABIP luck has no bearing on next season. Hopefully next season he gets to a 90+ wRC+ and becomes a valuable backup outfielder.

There's only like 7 games left I don't care about luck due to an unsustainable BABIP. At this point I care about results, and he's been more than playable for a month.

Like I said earlier, Doyle’s at a .757 OPS over the last month, .850 over the last two weeks.

Man the As are TERRIBLE