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Depending on what roles we want and need guys to fill, I can see a case for Wood making the playoff roster. I hate Wood just as much as the next guy. But, hear me out. Wood has been really tough on lefties this year. The periphs (BB, K, etc.) don't look good against lefties. But, he's been really tough to hit. And he has been great against them historically, too. I would be fine with him being used as a LOOGY in the playoffs, if he is used strictly as a LOOGY. None of this [expletive] you are doing with him now, Joe. One guy and one guy only. And only when necessary. If it's the seventh inning and L/R/L are due up, put in Strop. Don't you dare go to Wood in that situation. He should only be used in a situation like this: 5th inning, starter is having a rough go of it, and is in a jam. Lefty batter that struggles against lefties is coming to bat. If Strop and Rondon are healthy and the 7-8-9 Bullpen of Doom is intact, that drops Edwards and Grimm back as guys to fill in whenever necessary. That makes Cahill a little redundant. And Montgomery doesn't really have huge platoon splits. So having a LOOGY makes some sense, as long as he is just a LOOGY. Fair enough I just don't see being properly used that way.
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Cahill should make it over Wood but that won't happen, I could see 1 of Montero or Almora left off for him though.
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Russell/Cervelli were lucky not to really hurt their leg/ankle there. Also Montero couldn't possibly be slower
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I don't see how you can be too confident about that with a QB who couldn't win the job from Stave the past 2-3 years. I have no confidence to be honest. I haven't seen the line but it's gotta be large. The only time I looked I saw it at -10 and that was late last week
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Yeah, the field doesn't look like it's in the best shape but it seems to have not rained for a good 30-45 minutes
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With a long flight home from LA and a long game last night I have no problem giving Zobrist and Fowler the night off. Keep them fresh and healthy with a huge lead, just a weirdish lineup is all. I wouldn't mind seeing Rizzo get a day off soon too, to be honest. His timing seems a bit off and could probably use a breather.
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Joe's lineup wheel must have fallen off the hinges
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lol, you're using the MLB twitter account as your "marketing" definition? I don't even follow that account, actually. Try @Cut4 or @MLBGifs. MLB's Twitter has 6 million followers, Cut 4 has like 700k and MLB Gifs has 200k. So I'd say that MLB has a greater reach than either of those two. I was just pointing out how ridiculous it is the main MLB Twitter has posted more about Tebow in a few hours than Trout all year.
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Also MLB has tweeted or re-tweeted about Tebow 13 times by my count in the last 6-8 hours. They've tweeted about Mike Trout 11 times since 2016 began..... https://twitter.com/search?q=Trout%20from%3AMLB&src=typd&lang=en
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You can only post/re post clips they originally post. You can't do it of your own. Like Barstool BigCat has been banned from twitter twice for posting a video he took of Cubs stuff. Contreras's first HR he got banned for posting a video he took watching the game.
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I think MLB does plenty to market the great young players on social media. Like, they're really, really good with it. I think they are pretty shitty with it from my completely subjective perspective. They are Nazis with tweeting/vining/etc videos of of plays and ban people for it, when they should be embracing people trying to get coverage of their sport out there. My friends who follow sports easily know the least about baseball in terms of knowing how many good young players are out there right now, maybe they are doing a shitty job of following but for the amount of sports consumption they have I feel like they should know the Mookie Betts, Corey Seager's, Bryant's of the world. They already know more about Ben Simmons than they do any of them and I'd say their basketball to baseball following is identical. Again completely subjective based on my experiences but it's my takeaways from it at least.
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Sounds like a Kevin Ware type situation
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If MLB spent as much time marketing all the great young players in the game right now as they did with Tebow today on social media they might actually grow the popularity and awareness of the game and how awesome a time it is to be a fan with all the great young players that is kind of unprecedented.
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[tweet]https://twitter.com/GoesslingESPN/status/770697400977534976[/tweet]
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Yes and he wasn't even good then, IIRC, he had no college offers to play/wasn't drafted.
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I can't believe 27 teams showed up for that sideshow
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I don't see how you can be too confident about that with a QB who couldn't win the job from Stave the past 2-3 years.
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He's probably still salty he was traded for John Grabow or Matt Lawton or whoever the hell he was traded for
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Awesome
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Yes!
