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  1. moonslav59
    We also swept TOR twice. All these teams have weaknesses, too. We just get to see ours up close and personal, every game.
  2. moonslav59
    3 games out. Hou is playing Sea, so there will be 3 losses shared, there. Tor is at Cin for the weekend. The standing might look much better in just 3 days. Key word; 'might."
  3. moonslav59
    What a difference this middle infield is on D, now.
  4. moonslav59
    Plus, Turner has been a nice back-up at 1B and 3B. Lots of key hits, too.
  5. moonslav59
    Yuppers!
  6. moonslav59
    Thanks to some nice additions from the DD and Bloom regimes, our young core of players sure looks a lot better than it did in 2020. 27 or younger Devers Casas Bello Duran Wong Crawford Houck Whitlock Winckowski Verdugo Urias Murphy, Walter, Robertson EValdez, DHam 28-29 Yoshida Schreiber McGuire Reyes Kelly Top Farm Mayer, Anthony, Teel, Rafaela, Bleis Cespedes, Wikelman, Zanetello, Perales, Yorke Joh Garcia, Romero, Meidroth, Hickey, Abreu 2020: 27 or Younger Bogey Devers Beni Verdugo Chavis, Dalbec JTaylor 28-29 Vaz Plawecki Farm Casas Bello Houck Duran Dalbec Wong Murphy Mata Downs, Chatham DHern, Groome, Song, Ward
  7. moonslav59
    This would be a nice time to start ripping the baseball[ to shreds.
  8. moonslav59
    For those who think free agency is the solution to adding an ace or solid #2 to our staff, take a look at the list of the highest paid pitchers from the FA market and extensions, ever: $M/yrs 324/10 Cole 245/7 Strasburg 217/7 Price 215/7 Kershaw 210/7 Scherzer ('15-'21) 207/6 Greinke ('16-'21) 185/5 deGrom ('23-'27) 180/7 Verlander 162/6 Rodon 161/7 CC Sab ('09-'15) 155/7 Tanaka 155/6 Lester 147/6 Greinke ('13-'18) 145/5 Sale 144/6 Hamels 140/6 Corbin 138/6 J Santana 138/5 deGrom ('19-'23) 131/7 Berrios 130/6 Cueto 130/3 Scherzer ('22-'24) 128/6 M Cain 126/7 Zito 126/6 Darvish 122/5 CC Sab ('12-'16) 120/5 C Lee 118/5 Wheeler 115/5 R Ray 110/5 Zimmerman 110/5 Gausman 108/5 L Castillo (extension) 108/6 Darvish ('23-'28) 105/7 K Brown (back in the Stone Age) 102/5 Bauer 100/5 Musgrove How many from this list of 35 were clear winning deals for the team? How many were good deals or better? How many were okay or better? Yes, some are still pending. How many were clear stinkers or look to be?
  9. moonslav59
    Why are you acting like there is just 2 choices?
  10. moonslav59
    Totally different debate, and I agree with you on this. However, every team should do this, and then what happens to salaries?
  11. moonslav59
    Not really, and certainly not for his last 4 years of the deal, and when he was on the IL for half his second year of the deal. $210M for 2.5 decent seasons. 10 Kluber+ 10 Richards + 7 Perez + 6 Perez + 7 Wacha + 5 Hill= $45M for about one decent season. If you want to count Nate...
  12. moonslav59
    Well, we know the TOR series will be a sweep by one team, and ask MVP to explain why that would be a 6 game "swing."
  13. moonslav59
    We should plan on him as SP depth, not as a 1-5 slot pitcher.
  14. moonslav59
    Agreed.
  15. moonslav59
    None of us have that answer.
  16. moonslav59
    I'm fine with saying that was the biggest mistake. I wanted Betts to stay. I do think that if our budgets stayed the same as they were in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, we'd be in the same boat with or without Betts.
  17. moonslav59
    I never thought we'd sign him after he left. I did say we could sign him, if he he became a FA like he emphatically said that's what he wanted to do.
  18. moonslav59
    Yup. Losing to them, now, will "hurt like hell," too.
  19. moonslav59
    I did say "I'm not sure," but at this point in the season, we had to win a game like this one, and the way we lost hurt like hell. Of course, "hurt" is a personal thing.
  20. moonslav59
    Of course any team rich enough can trade for Sale. It's funny how the Dodgers have a long history of doing just that.
  21. moonslav59
    What does that have to do with the point you made about there being no justification for trading him? Some fans did think we could trade him and then sign him, the following winter, but as long as the fact remained that we were not going to pay him, there was always justification for trading him. One could argue it was mandatory we do.
  22. moonslav59
    They have a long history of taking our high-priced players off our hands- the good (Betts), the bad (AGon & Beckett) and the ugly (Crawford & Price.)
  23. moonslav59
    This is the issue that "justification" can be argued for or against, and not saying the trade cannot be justified. The trade was 100% justifiable, once the decision was made not to sign him.
  24. moonslav59
    Exactly. It was about choosing not to sign him. That was the choice to be debated. The choice was made not to do it, perhaps because Betts was saying no number would get him to sign, but that's not the point, either. Once it was decided he was not going to be signed, there is a ton of justification to trade him. That's the point.
  25. moonslav59
    Any scenario would have to involve the Dodgers.
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