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The road trip could knock us for a loop, but we end the season with very beatable opponents. TOR has some easy games, too, but some tough ones as well.

Telling

I think he’ll get eased up to 95-100 pitches by season end, and when he’s on, that can get him 7-8 innings. Only Eovaldi can be trusted beyond 6 with Sale.

It was a fantastic find, and so was Whitlock. I think the Arroyo deal was nice, too.

Well, we passed the Yanks but are one down in the loss column- tied in losses with the Jays. 88-52 TBR 81-58 HOU 80-59 CWS 80-62 BOS 78-61 NYY -.5 76-62 TOR -2.0 76-64 SEA -3.0 74-64 OAK -4.0

Renfroe the one man show! (Okay, Eovaldi, too.)

Like 6 moves, or did I miss one?

I said, “milagro!”

Milagro!

Devers is your #1 hitter. Kike is your #1 defender. Barnes should be your #3 reliever.

We walked the wrong Lowe!

I know about the COVID. I know it's a lefty on the mound. I know Dalbec has to start, but Santana? We already have Plawecki up 6th and Iggy/Arauz 8-9. Watch him go 2 for 5, tonight!

Better said than I.

It is hard to get a grip on next year, which leaves a lot to be discussed. The JD opt out is not the team's choice, so there is not much to discuss, except will he/won't he or should he/should he not? We can discuss the Richards ($10M/$1.5M buy out), Perez ($6M/$500K buy out) and Vaz ($7M/$250K buy out) team options, in terms of what we like to see done. There are positional moves being discussed, but I doubt anything major, like Devers to 1B or Bogey to 3B/2B are even being discussed by Bloom & Co. There are trade possibilities and of course, FA signings to debate. Not knowing the new CBA or budget limitations makes it hard to figure much out, here, too, but we do have some identifiable high need areas. Nothing wrong with discussing those what ifs. As of now, I have to think we add a SP'er for ERod (or bring him back) and a RP'er for Ottavino as a bare minimum. That would leave this as the foundation to 2022: Sale, _____, Eovaldi, Pivetta, Whitlock, Houck (RP?), Seabold _____, Barnes, Richards(?), DHern, Taylor, Sawamura, Valdez, Brasier Vaz, Plawecki Dalbec (Casas) Arroyo, Arauz Devers Bogey Verdugo, Duran (Cordero) Kike (Rosario?) Renfroe JD M (Schwarber?)

It would have been more had they known we weren't going over the tax line 2 years and row, at least. Many felt we'd never hit a cliff due to spending so much. Others spoke in vague terms about rebuilding the farm, like it was an easy thing to do without trading pieces or tanking one year to get Mayer & others.

It's not that simple. You have to mix up your pitches or guys like Cruz will kill you, anyway.

It was not Bloom's choice. While others may be overstating the turnaround, you are understating the turnaround. Many felt it would take 2-4 years to get back to where we are, and that was assuming we'd be over the tax line after 2020 NOT 2021.

The Rays are uncatchable. The wild card winning team will almost surely face them. As for the WC, we are still 1/2 behind the Yanks, who are keeping pace with our losing. TOR is 2 back but tied in the loss column. SEA is 3 back, and the A’s 3.5 back.

My point was about Schwarber not JD.

The rises and falls of Dalbec over this season are epic. Here’s a few selected cherry-picked sample dates: .507 on 5/6 .674 on 5/15 .595 on 6/8 .705 on 6/20 .651 on 8/7 .726 on 8/14 .708 on 8/23 .785 on 9/7 He’s been over .860 since May 7th- a longer sample size than his very nice 2020 partial season.

I was almost the only guy never to say we should demote him. I was soooo close,

They swept a 2 game series vs TOR then took 3 of 4 vs NYY near the end of July, but that’s it.

I just threw that JD number out there to make a point. If he gets a $35M/3 offer, my point doesn’t change.

If you project his numbers over 650 PAs, it’s more like 35 HRs and 110 RBI. If you project just the 2021 numbers over 650, it’s more like 30-100.

It makes it harder, yes, especially when our high need areas are pitching and defense, and we don’t seem to need a fix at 1B or LF.