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LOL what is that "Miami Bottom Feeders" shirt?

ABC just cut into the game to show "Trump has COVID" coverage. They said the game was on ESPN but it's not yet.

Your ace goes 7 2/3rds giving up only 2 runs and you'd think you're in good shape. Too bad the Cubs can't hit.

He needs to figure it out. You know that cERA is highly variant and overall pretty unreliable, right?

If Gio can't work with another catcher then we might as well trade him to wherever McCann goes.

Giolito and Anderson have been this good for 2 years, so yeah I expect them to repeat. Abreu might not be as good but you should hopefully have a better Moncada, Vaughn and a RF to help take the pressure off. You'd also hope to not leave 87 runners in scoring position in a series.

No, 1 WAR is not worth $10 million/yr unless you take a naive average across baseball, otherwise Trout would be making 100 million/year and Machado would've signed for ~$50 million/year. You "over" pay up front for production and hopefully end up with a not-too-bad contract by the end of it as the player declines and the AAV of other contracts go up. Contracts have not gone up that much since Heyward signed and with the overall economic downturn from COVID we'd be foolish to take on the majority of that contract when we could go out and get someone like Springer or Bauer for the same money (or a bit more).

Yeah, you're right. I can't read. Still don't want to pay him $21-22 mil/yr for ~ 1.9 WAR/yr.

No way. He was good this year in a short season but otherwise hasn't been a good hitter since 2015, he's 31, and we'd be paying him through his age 35 season.

I would love to be able to count on Kopech but he hasn't pitched in 2 years. I don't think you can. Getting Bauer would put a lot less pressure on him.

The Mets should sell. They remind me so much of the Sox 2010-2015 - a couple stars and a bunch of scrubs. They should get a haul for Degrom and trade away anyone else they can get something for, tank for a while and build up.

He clearly loves TA, had McCann on his show, fits really well on our #ChangeTheGame culture, we have a big hole with starting pitching, he's probably gonna win the NL Cy Young especially after blowing through the Braves yesterday... it's really a fantastic fit.

Eh. They do, but hopefully they learned how you can't play in the playoffs. You can't make errors, you need to get big hits, you can't walk 8 guys in 5 innings.

Benintendi regressed last year and was absolutely putrid this year. I wouldn't touch him.

Bauer, Q and Springer. I'm also on board with Joc Pederson if you think Engel makes a good platoon (I do; Adam Engel FUCKS).

Bauer and Q

Let’s go get Bauer and Springer. Maybe another league average starter too. Bring up Vaughn. Last two (or one) spots are a battle between Kopech Dunning Steiver and Cease. Too many holes to overcome on this team. Inexperience bit us too. Rooting for the As against the Astros.

Getting pitches to hit

Been the story the whole season

You guys know they can pinch hit for the pitcher's spot, right? Let's not play this game to go to extras.

They've had terrible RISP stats all year. They live and die by the home run this season. Not gonna get those consistently in a short series.

Sad

We are getting chances. They're fighting.

Good at-bat.

Thought that was a double down the LF line for a second.