Bellhorn04
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Reyes is a below replacement level player. Bloom could have provided a better alternative.
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Ease up, man. I'm just jabbering like you. I'm not trying to tell you what to say, I'm just chucking my own thoughts into the mix. That question was largely a rhetorical one.
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The crapshoot is realer than real now. Just ask the Dodgers. 3 years in a row of winning 100+ and watching the Series on TV, 3 years in a row of teams with under 90 wins in the Series. Arizona not only made it with 84 wins last year, they had a minus run differential in the regular season. That's ridiculous. But it's what MLB wants, apparently.
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My recollection is that we were not in bad shape injury-wise at the 2023 deadline. If you don't believe in the crapshoot after watching the 2023 postseason I don't know what you need LOL
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You're certainly not the only one who blames Cora for the Kike fiasco. I'm a Cora fan so I'm biased, but I mostly blame Bloom for it. Bloom is the guy who signed Story, and Kike, and Mondesi, and could have acquired Andrus, or Iglesias.
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Why can't we just acknowledge that just about anything could happen in the next 3 months?
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As it turned out, sure, but who knows how much of the team's collapse was a mental one due to the lack of help/lack of commitment shown by Bloom? I believe in some of the intangibles stuff. The bottom line is the 2023 team was 2-3 out of the playoffs at the deadline. Is that out of it?
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Conversely, a couple of good acquisitions might have put the 2023 team in the playoffs. The expansion of the playoff field has added a lot of uncertainty to the deadline approach. Last year a team with 84 wins made it to the World Series, so arguably if you're around .500 at the deadline you still have a shot, depending on your specific circumstances.
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Agreed. The only thing I can say at this point is that Breslow shows signs of being a sharper and more decisive move-maker than Bloom, and that's an encouraging thing.
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I guess you could say Bloom proved the third fork in the road leads to the unemployment line.
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You're making a pretty strange argument. He "succeeded" in unloading Kike and acquiring Urias, a couple of very minor moves, when there were much more significant moves that could have been made. Saying he did nothing is a fair description.
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To each their own, for me it's just a little depressing to hear that when the team has gotten off to a much better start than one would have expected given the roster and the injuries.
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Zack Gelof with the 2 run shot!
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Only 6.1 IP.
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That was just Interest Kings stuff, man.
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It still doesn't mean Betts would be "wasted" on the Sox. That's a ridiculous statement on its face. And if they had Betts, they would likely have done some things differently. Butterfly effect and all that.
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He also said "the best team for him to be on was and is the Dodgers." Actually, I'm not even 100% sure what that's supposed to mean, so I may have misinterpreted.
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He's at -0.9 bWAR going into today. Something to watch for sure. Might see a new record this year.
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Tommy Bella Donna has been scratched and replaced by Josh Winckowski.
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I would propose that the fairest statement is that 3 out of 6 projected starting pitchers are injured.
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The Bruins practically got a first round bye with that matchup.
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If you want to throw out the champ for a pandemic year, we should probably throw out all the champs for the World War years too. Plenty of guys were not playing baseball those years for good reason too...
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1) 2020 was not the first season with a reduced number of regular season games - not by a long shot. 2) The World Series champion is decided by the playoffs, not by the regular season. 3) We all know we'd be singing a different tune if the Sox won it in 2020.
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Gratuitous literary reference: Reading some of Max's posts is like reading Kafka. The individual sentences seem to make perfect sense, but the narrative as a whole makes less and less sense as you go on.
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Also, any attempts to throw out 2020 are ********. They did the best they could in the face of a pandemic, and the playoffs were totally legit. The Dodgers and Rays were the 2 best teams at the time. Last year's matchup of the Rangers and Diamondbacks was less legit than the 2020 matchup.
