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textbook slide tackle attempt by Martinez just missed his target -
Are you upset at Heyward for hitting the ball 500 mph on a line to center field
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I give him the back half the order, I bet he gets through 7 clean. Rosario/DLR ready to face pinch hitter + Carpenter.
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I know he's a terrible announcer but I love Coomer. He's grown on me just like Santo. Him & Pat together are fun to listen to. And now I wait for the ridicule. i don't particularly like coomer as a color guy, but i'm specifically referring to his play by play that would've been awful descriptively even for a televised broadcast I think I've said this before, but Coomer's PBP is the equivalent of taking normal PBP and putting it through 7 different languages in Google Translate before going back to English.
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Wildcard games are increasingly bullpen games anyway.
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For a right handed pitcher, it's not even questionable All the left handed moves are obvious balks so I'm very confident in my assessment
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Hendricks has the best pickoff move in baseball and it is not close
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Don't even need a sweep to do that. It's also unlikely, but Cubs, Tigers, Rockies, and Dodgers winning today means that the Cubs need to only win one of the final 2 to simultaneously win the division and eliminate St. Louis.
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Bryant back [tweet] [/tweet]
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Russell's administrative leave was extended through the end of the regular season.
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This is a pretty incredible series of events: - The Yankees are winning 11-0, and Austin Romine had a pitch come way up and in, not sure if there was intent or not - CC Sabathia is a few outs away from reaching an IP threshold that guarantees him 500k - Sabathia unmistakably throws at and hits Jesus Sucre - Sabathia is tossed, yells 'that's for you, bitch' at the Rays dugout, and walks off - Sabathia remains short of his 500k bonus
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They would argue that they spent $86m less in payroll than the Cubs so the Cubs should still be able to beat the Brewers without all of those pieces. And then we can start talking about the Brewers getting an extra 1st/2nd round pick every year, that their owner is capable of supporting a payroll with a smaller delta, that they themselves can narrow the gap by watching the brewers more and attending more games, etc.
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I suppose that is possible, but when you get outliers like that, I think you have to start assuming that he has a different (and very bad) approach in situations with men on base and late in close games. Just as likely(if not more so), things that are inherent to high leverage situations are disadvantageous to Schwarber. He's more likely to draw a lefty reliever, he's more likely to draw a power pitcher(which he's historically not done as well against), things like that.
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if they don’tcome back they reeeallly need arrieta to beat colorado tomorrow
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Garcia completely giving up even though kratz had no idea where he was sure is something
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I disagree. I have no problem with a closer who only goes one inning and doesn't go back to back all that often. The problem is when you don't stick to that plan. The three inning every time closer is a phenomenon that is going to destroy arms in short order and guys are going to refuse to do it in the playoffs very soon. Yeah I agree with this and is the only thing I really disageeed with in TTs post. They just need to be absolutely firm on Morrow’s usage next year and add 1-2 more decent relief options. Besides Morrow they had Strop, Edwards, Cishek, and Wilson, plus Montgomery was in the pen for 90% of Morrow's season. They lead the NL in bullpen ERA despite the injuries to Morrow and Strop. How much more depth is reasonably possible?
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I disagree. I have no problem with a closer who only goes one inning and doesn't go back to back all that often. The problem is when you don't stick to that plan. The three inning every time closer is a phenomenon that is going to destroy arms in short order and guys are going to refuse to do it in the playoffs very soon. I think there's a sizable gap between 2016 Andrew Miller/Chapman and what Morrow requires to stay healthy. Morrow was on pace for less than 55 innings, and if the Mets series(pitching 3 straight days where the first outing was 2 pitches and the last only came up when he was the last pitcher available in the 14th) broke him then that sub-55 IP pace is going to end up being problematic, especially in a playoff series.
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They whiffed on the pitchers AND had a pretty negative outcome from the offense all things considered and still are on pace to win 93-94 games. They'd be there already if Chatwood had even been mildly disappointing instead of the unimaginable trainwreck he was, so that's good. But they did whiff on the pitchers. Darvish is basically dead, Chatwood can't be counted on for even long relief for now, Morrow can't be the closer if he requires that much babying, Edwards and Quintana didn't take a step forward, Lester and Zobrist will regress because of age, Baez will regress because he can't walk the tightrope forever. There's some progression to offset(Contreras, probably Bryant, possibly Harper and/or Smyly), and the Dodgers have taught us that you don't need to have an impregnable rotation and lineup to be very good consistently, but the line between the Dodgers and the Nationals is not a thick one.
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so the mother of his first child or are there children we forgot about? I don't think it's his current significant other, here's the language the article uses:
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Rosenthal with more info: https://theathletic.com/549159/2018/09/25/rosenthal-mlb-has-additional-information-on-addison-russell-abuse-allegations-has-spoken-to-melisa-reidy/ Relevant bits since it's an Athletic article: - The blog post alone isn't enough to place Russell on leave - MLB has spoken with Melissa and 'numerous other witnesses' - MLB reached out to another woman Russell has a child with but she declined to participate - Boras/Russell are not going to force an emergency hearing - Russell rejoining for the postseason seems like a longshot - Every player previously to go on administrative leave ended up accepting a suspension without appeal, including Osuna
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I believe it was also after 10 PM and a rain delay on a schoolnight. That said, actual attendance has always lagged actual local interest.
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I have zero doubt that Bryant will start next season 100%. I'm slightly less sure how much of his current tiredness is preventable going forward, or how much preventing it might impact his performance. He's a really smart player so I'm confident he'll find an equilibrium that lets him be very productive.
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If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, Bryant's pitch selection is appalling.
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Have you heard why he changed it? He was Carlos Sanchez until a year ago, then changed it to Yolmer(a different given name he has), and when asked he said it's because there's no Yolmer Sanchez's on Baseball Reference.
