David

why is montgomery still in

are you horsefeathering kidding me?!

ok ben tie this please

that'll work too!

how about a patented rizzo 2 strike bloop double into the gap

i was 100% sure they'd get another run on a DP there lol

also prior to last year we recently had very bad teams so i'm not sure why it would be considered a big deal to lose one series a year against a team that has been pretty good It's not a big deal at all but we haven't had a lot of success here recently. It's not easy to recall many wins outside of Jake's no-hitter. prior to this year (where this is our first game there) and last, we haven't had a lot of success anywhere for a long time. what the horsefeathers are you talking about?

this is an odd post for many reasons

yesssss

get out of this please sir

mojo i feel like you should bring back some of your old sigs as throwbacks

2014...or two series ago Hahahahahah! What an [expletive]. also prior to last year we recently had very bad teams so i'm not sure why it would be considered a big deal to lose one series a year against a team that has been pretty good

2014...or two series ago

i'm honestly 50/50 as to whether JD got that reference or not

haha wow

what roast isn't even here and i'm pretty sure there are younger people than that here

With no Puig do they really have any better options? I suppose not, it just repeatedly shocks me how untalented the Dodgers are for being a 500 million dollar payroll team. they are a close second behind us in projected fWAR the rest of this year, fwiw

Gambling on a ~Nelson type talent - healthy with a good arm, high pedigree, some ML success and/or experience, and lots of minor league success - is how they found their current ace. I think it's a route they will have to go down, and are capable of going down eventually, to avoid consistently paying the super high prices for established guys via trade or FAs. That said, I would like them to get a more established guy on their next trade too, nothing wrong about targeting the obvious once in a while when it is out there. their current ace is a guy they traded garbage for to gamble on. as far as i can tell, you're talking about trading good things for such a thing.

montgomery for a future rotation spot

nice monty

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wtf ben never swings at bad pitches

is anyone going to tell mark gonzales the difference between multiplication and division?

KB is impossible to double up bizarro DPLee

Unfortunately pitchers are necessary and, whatever you want to label the arm, that trade for one is more likely to happen than not as 2018 draws closer. The farm will recover, prospects are much easier to find than actual impact ML talent. I don't disagree, obviously you need pitching and need good pitching. We wouldn't be where we are this year on offense alone, the pitching is just as important. I just think it's incredibly hard to identify and acquire the right "controlled" arm that is so often cited due to pitchers general suckage and unpredictability. Just to give an example 2-3 years ago Jimmy Nelson was a pitcher that could be defined as young and controllable with upside that at the time would've taken probably at least 1 of a Happ, Soler, Jeimer, etc. type talent for and now he's 4 ERA, replacement level, pitcher just 1-3 years later at 27. I get we are going to need pitching sooner than later, I'd rather just spend the money on them (or use a high volume of draft picks on them like recent years) than give up real assets unless they are proven guys (like Hamels last year) or if it's through a trade target a guy like Montgomery who maybe turns into something but only costs ancillary minor league pieces. also, i very much trust our FO to find guys under the radar, especially with whatever magic we have going between our defense and coaching staff.