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  1. moonslav59
    We know one of the key teams will lose, tonight, so a win by us has to relieve some pressure.
  2. moonslav59
    Nobody but Fred, yes. I didnt mean to imply you were judging him only on that blunder.
  3. moonslav59
    The biggest one, Suarez, you guys got. Although he has shown some big power with SEA, his OPS is under .700 since the trade. Naylor had done well, and certainly better than Lowe, but not really anything spectacular. Who esle?
  4. moonslav59
    Agreed. I do think Brez did a good job building depth, as well as adding some quality (Bregman, Chapman & Gio fro '24) over the winter, so as to minimize the chances we'd need a major deadline deal, but the Devers grade undid much of that and created a must do deadline situation that went unfulfilled. I'm not defending his inaction, but I also do not think it's the only thing he should be judge on.
  5. moonslav59
    Thanks for the thorough reply. We couldn't line up pretty much means Brez refused to overpay by just enough to get it done. To me, that's not an automatic slam on Brez, since we don't know what the final offers were from each team, and then we also have to look at how many of the biggest names that did get traded have not really done great or even good. The one that didn't get traded (Ryan) has not done too well, either.
  6. moonslav59
    So, a three way tie, the first tiebreaker is head to head records among just the 3 teams? Depending on who the 3 are we are.... 4-2 CLE 4-2 HOU 0-3 DET (3 to go) 9-4 NYY 3-3 SEA___ Detroit 3-0 BOS (3 to go) 4-6 CLE (3 to go) 4-2 HOU 2-4 SEA 4-2 NYY Cleveland 2-4 BOS 6-4 DET (3 to go) 4-2 HOU 2-4 SEA 3-3 NYY
  7. moonslav59
    Today's SP'ers: Gio at Gausman Skubal (DET) at Williams (CLE) Javier (HOU) at Springs (ATH) S Smith (CWS) at Gil (NYY) Wednesday: Crochet at Scherzer Flaherty (DET) at Bibee (CLE) TBD (HOU) at TBD (ATH) TBD (CWS) at Fried (NYY) Thursday: Bello at Bieber TBD (DET) at Messick (CLE) TBD HOU at TBD ATH Martin (CWS) at TBD (NYY)
  8. moonslav59
    I wonder if Brez thought he was close enough to making a more significant deadline deal, but was surprised it didn't go down. At some point, you gotta be ready to add that last piece or pivot quickly to a plan B you already had lined up.
  9. moonslav59
    How many more times are these guys going to put their feet in their mouths? On this one, I think they actually believed the would be "buyers," and then the next question would be, do you guys really think M & M was "buying?" If they answer "yes," they are a joke. If the answer, "no," then WTF happened? They have to have known overpays are demanded at the deadline.
  10. moonslav59
    Yes, you and a few others were upset, but I don't think anyone saw Priester as "the one." We seemed to have about 11-13 pitchers we could view as capable SP'ers. Even Crawford was supposed to come back, at some point. Hell, Newcomb beat Priester out of the 5 slot on opening day, and my guess is several others were ahead of him on the depth chart. Certainly Fitts and Dobbins were, as they both started in early April. Still, a pitcher is a pitcher and we traded one away. Again, I will add that we got two pitcher back plus YRod. Time might prove this trade was okay. MIL certainly won the 2025 aspect of
  11. moonslav59
    It would give the other teams one less opportunity to gain. Eventually, the clock runs out.
  12. moonslav59
    Sounds better. We'd still get the guys I want. Our rotation would be better with Keller over Crawford, who might be headed to the pen, anyway, for us. Our 2B issue would finally be fixed, as well as a big boost to the line-up with Marte. Add the other "beast bat<" and we'd be good to go.
  13. moonslav59
    Nice summary. I liked our draft on draft day and like it more, now.
  14. moonslav59
    While TOR has played consistently well from about May onwards, they are just 2 games better than NYY and 5 better than BOS. The run differentials are: +144 NYY +105 BOS +66 TOR SEA, DET and even TEX have better run differentials. My point is, they are not clearly the best team in the balanced American league. They have the starpower. Springer is having a great year (.953) and Vladdy is Vladdy (.869.) Bichette bounced back nicely and is at .840. They have 8 guys with 11+ HRs. Perhaps, the driving force to their perch on top of the ALE is having 3 SP'ers with 30+ GS: 3.38 Gausman 3.96 Bassitt 4.06 Berrios They added Bieber, who has done okay since coming off the IL (3.57 in 6 GS.) Their closer has been questionable: 4.50 ERA and 4.81 FIP. We can beat these guys, but we need to come with our "A game." I know, How cliche?" Just win, BABY!
  15. moonslav59
    Farm Leaders: HRs: 21 Jh Garcia, 18 Encarnacion, 17 Romero (RBI leader w 76) and Hickey. SB: 42 Liendo, 34 Fergusen, 29 N Taylor, 28 Fermin, 27 Bleis BB:K: 41:32 Josue Brito, 49:44 W Turner, 50:47 Fermin, 51:56 Anthony Brito has the best OPS (over 100 PAs) at 1.102. Over 200 PAs: Anthony at .913
  16. moonslav59
    OPS Against of the Farm (60+ IP) .537 E Rivera A+/AA .547 Ehrlicher A-/A+ .568 Fajardo FCL/A- .575 Mullins A+/AA (102 IP) .580 Futrell A-/A+ .590 Tolle 3 teams .596 Early AA/AAA .627 Aita A-/A+ (115 IP) .648 Sprague A-/A+ .657 Holobetz A+/AA 30-59 IP .480 Clarke A-/A+ .504 Ladera DSL .542 McShane A-/A+ .543 Cordero DSL
  17. moonslav59
    With the tiebreaker vs HOU & CLE, we are basically up 2 with 6 to go, so they seem like the "easier" ones to finish ahead (or tied) with. If we tie DET, we'd better have swept them, because they have 3-0 record vs us, now. I'm not sure what teh second tiebreaker is, and I don't want to find out.
  18. moonslav59
    Certainly, we have better odds beating out CLE and HOU than DET, but they are playing so poorly, I gotta like our odds vs them, too. I'm still not giving up on NYY, either, but they have the easiest ride of all the teams still in it.
  19. moonslav59
    Not many people were all upset, when the trade happened, although the risk of trading a pitcher is always a concern. BTW, we did get two pretty good pitchers back (Holobetz & Phillips), and at the time of the trade, none of these pitchers were proven ML starters. We might even get some value from YRod.
  20. moonslav59
    I realize Anthony was called up before we traded Devers, but I think Brez viewed him as part of a group effort to replace losing our best bat. Had Anthony stayed healthy, perhaps we wouldn't be kicking this offense around the block, right now. As for Brez not doing anything to support the offense at the deadline, I also wish he had. I wish he'd have added a better SP'er than May, as well, but at what expense? It's just hard for me to roast Brez for not predicting we'd lose yet another key player. Part II: What if we did give up the world for.... Joe Ryan: 5.24 ERA since trade deadline. E Suarez: .698 OPS since trade. (Okay Naylor is at .811, but Lowe is at .775.) Correa .766 since trade.
  21. moonslav59
    For this idea, I'm going to assume all free agents and option players are gone, except Story. We trade Rafaela ($48M/6, but $6.3M AAV) & Crawford (3 arbs left,) for Mitch Keller ($55M/3, but $15.4M x 3 Tax line) We add about $6M to Tax line. We trade Campbell ($59M/7 or $7.5 AAV,) Sandlin, Paez & Hicks ($24M/2 or $10.3M AAV) for Ketel Marte ($91M/5 or $19.4M x 5 AAV) We add about $2M to Tax line. We sign Schwarber at $32M x 5. ($32M AAV) and non tender Lowe. That's $40M added AAV. The roster... (40 not 26) SP: Crochet, Bello, Keller, Dobbins, Sandoval (Early, Fitts, Perales & Houck to 60 Day IL on opening day) RP: Chapman, Whitlock, Slaten, Tolle, Weissert, Bernardino, Winckowski, Criswell (Guerrero, Kelly, Murphy, Moran, I Campbell) 1. Anthony LF 2. Schwarber 1B 3. Marte 2B 4. Story SS 5. Duran CF 6. Abreu RF 7. Casas DH 8. Mayer 3B 9. Narvaez C Bench: Wong, Jh Garca, Eaton, Romy (Yoshida, DHam, Sogard, Grissom, Romero)
  22. moonslav59
    Matz has been okay, but yes. I agree. I think we had about 12 capable to decent SP'ers after the Crochet deal. We traded Priester and added Harrison, but just now gave him a look-see. I can't see blaming a GM for not going 13-14 deep with SP'ers. The 40 man roster can only hold so many. I think they idea was to use some in the pen, but when 6-8 are one the 60 Day at any given time, that idea fell through as well. To me, our issue was not depth, it was lack of starpower. We traded Devers. We lost our 2024 ace (Houck) and IP leader (Crawford,) plus an .820 career OPS 1B man for just about the whole season.
  23. moonslav59
    Agreed, and the depth and bottom of the order did pretty well for us. Remember, Anthony, Romy, Toro, Eaton and then Lowe were depth pieces. Our rotation was filled by depth pieces, all year, except for Crochet and Bello/Gio.
  24. moonslav59
    Yes, and since we are tied for 7th in OBP and 13th in HRs, we get more men on base than most teams, so the odds are we'd leave more on base, too.
  25. moonslav59
    I think we won a game that had the wrong opponent listed in the title, once.
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