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The Braves are screwed. They don't even have starters for the next 2 games and Wright gave them 2 outs.

If their intention is to make an AJ Hinch hiring look good, it's working.

Joc Pederson coming back to life in the NLCS

Altuve's defense screws the Astros again

I don't think he said lately. He said he's talked to Cora and Hinch a lot, but that he's talked to Hinch more.

The Rays almost blew it. Anderson had nothing out there and Cash left him out there without anyone else warming in the bullpen. It almost backfired on him.

It could also be a huge distraction given his ties to the Astros.

Benetti is on with Dan Bernstein right now. He's saying he didn't think the Sox would clean house, but that the Billy Donovan hire may have signaled a change in philosphy for JR.

Cora and Hinch are suspended until the end of the 2020 World Series.

You can tell the clubhouse wasn't right towards the end. Winning breeds chemistry. And if you go from winning 2/3 of your games to losing for an entire week, whatever chemistry you had before the losing streak isn't going to just stay there. Especially because this team lost some absolute heartbreakers in that stretch and some of those were because of Ricky's dumbass decisions.

If Ricky didn't blow the second game in Cleveland, maybe Dallas wouldn't have needed to go 6 innings in his last start of the season. The 114 pitches in the Cubs game where we were up by 8 was also extremely unnecessary. And that was just 2 starts before he screwed up his back in KC.

At least Brantley isn't gonna hit below .200. Joc does seem like another sub .200 hitter waiting to happen if we sign him.

Hahn says a manager that can speak Spanish is important, but not essential.

Hahn basically saying McCann won't be back.

And how did he hit that well after the injury? Pretty incredible.

That's gotta be a part of it. I mean, go back and look at how good ReyLo was with the Nationals. And look how badly he's regressed in the 4 years since. That should not happen.

I still think we get Joc.

Haha, it's exactly what we needed heading into last off-season.

This is probably the best presser in Rick Hahn's tenure as GM. So much new information. Not so much lawyer speak.

I said this in the last week of the season...the losing streak at the end of the season was a silver lining. It showed the FO just how bad of a manager Ricky was and we still made the playoffs to get that experience for our young guys. In the long run, it was a blessing in disguise. Now we'll be able to re-do our coaching staff and create a new way of thinking going forward.

Ozzie is not a candidate!

Coop is gone

He definitely makes more sense than Hinch if we're gonna bring in somebody who has cheated.

Woah. It finally happened!

Probably. Their hitters didn't do shit in the regular season and have all woken up. Springer, Altuve, Correa, and Brantley are all hitting well. Their pitching doesn't need to be good when their offense is putting up almost 8 runs a game.