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Exactly. If Holliday ends up bad or mediocre you end up with nothing. All your hopes are riding on him. Terrible trade.

Mets have been something else this year.

Eloy: "Hit the ball on the ground and use my speed to leg out infield hits"

We all told Orioles fans to be careful assuming they were at the top of the AL in the offseason. I wonder how they feel now, after they won 10 less games than last year and got swept in the WC round by a team that lost 106 games last year.

NOBLETIGER for the Orioles

If they're really going to bring in quality hitting instruction, actually give these guys an offseason plan, and make sure they stick to it, then I'm fine keeping Vaughn for one more year. He was a consensus top 5 draft pick that year I believe, so it's worth giving him a real shot with proper help after they epically bungled his growth plan. If they're not going to do these things, and just count on him fixing himself, they might as well let him go. Also if they determine he's just ruined or a bust, then they might as well let him go. Either way, what a disappointment he's been and I don't particularly care if he stays.

It's worth a shot, thanks to their idiot owner. Not sure if they'd have any use for Benintendi, though.

Tigers escape with a win. Astros had runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out after scoring a run, but couldn't capitalize.

Astros making a push in the 9th

Skubal absolutely acing the Astros

Good

I wouldn't be happy about having to play the Astros in the postseason, even though they're not the juggernaut they were.

I'm 100% down for becoming the Brewers of the midwest... wait...

Wild game 1. Braves bullpen looked like ours. Can't wait for game 2.

He got promoted and there's a NEW head of player dev! Exactly what you all wanted!

He was really, really bad in ~450 PA from 2022-2024, so I was starting to think he was just not an MLB player and there was no "learning period" for him in the pros. I would love to be wrong.

Vargas should probably DH, assuming he learns the "H" part.

He sure has. .351/.372/.518 in 21 games. .378/.410/.649 over the last two weeks (11 games). I hope he figured something out and this isn't just a late season blip.

Trying to think who this would be.

I can get onboard with spite baseball

Barons win! Gladney with the game winning single!

Blown save. Tied 1-1. Damn.

Hell of a catch by Nishida. 1-0 Barons, 1 out top 9.

Vargas :chef's kiss: on that popup

I like to think that both "the Bears needed to move on from Fields and pick a QB with a higher ceiling than him", and "Fields was held back a bit by this joke of a franchise" are true.