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Or, it could be the fact that nobody cares what Kevin PIllar has to say. These are terrible takes. Three players made the thumbs down sign and one of the most prominent baseball reporters out there calls out the two minorities but doesn't mention the white guy. That's bad for a number of reasons but the main one is a racial bias. That doesn't mean Olney had a malicious intent in what he tweeted or is some horrible racist. But the difference in how minorities are described vs how whites are described in sports is most definitely a thing and affects how people view minorities in sports and in life. So while this one tweet might seem innocent, it's actually yet another data point in a larger issue with how we speak about minorities in this country. Olney should know better and should have done better. All he had to do was include Pillar in the tweet. I get why Baez was mentioned first. While Lindor is the better player, he's set contractually. Baez is a FA while Pillar has a player option for next year, and Baez is the better player and younger player. But you can't just ignore the third player here. If Pillar was, say, a back end reliever who has gone up and down this year and hasn't pitched much, it would make a bit more sense (though he should still be mentioned). But Pillar is a regular for the Mets. He's played 97 games and had 269 PA's. Just because he's worse doesn't mean you don't have to mention him.
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Welp this settles it. Molina officially has no shot at making the HOF. [tweet] [/tweet]
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Mets can’t even tank at the right time.
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We still have Heyward for 2 more years. That counts.
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Games Involving Former Cubs Megathread
soccer10k replied to Derwood's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
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Poor Chris Davis has to be in the running for worst contract of all time right? Everyone knew it was a bad idea at the time, he had the most pronounced 'old guy' skills of anyone ever, and then they gave him the GDP of a small country and he folded as a productive player immediately. There are other contracts that maybe garnered less value-to-money ratio, but this was like watching a train ram into a car from 5 miles away and the conductor being like "yes, lets do this". Prince Fielder? He wasn’t a FA but the Ryan Howard extension was horrible also. He was worth -4.8 bWAR for the deal. Chris Davis was -2.6. Prince was actually worth 7.1 over his deal, including a 4.7 year.
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And if you consider the Cards a playoff contender, since they're only 2.5 back of the Reds, the Cards have only one less game remaining against the Brewers (13) than the Reds do against teams that are over .500 (14).
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NL Central: Reds, Pirates and others
soccer10k replied to Hairyducked Idiot's topic in General Baseball Talk
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Was obviously happy with the result but the performance was good also. They let City have the ball but defended well and actually seemed willing to attack when they did have the ball, which is a big difference from the Mourinho era. Last year too often they didn't seem to want to even try to attack against the big clubs. So while the possession today was basically identical to when Spurs beat City last year (66-34), this year they took 13 shots in the game as opposed to only 3 in the win last year. In fact, in 3 games against City last year, Spurs took 13 shots total. Of course it's only 1 game and they could easily crap the bed on the road against Wolves next week.
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Only 1 game out of 5th now.
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Clearly he meant it’s the quality of a Single-A minor league game.
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First ML start ever and only his 4th appearance in the majors.
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Last 20 starts in 2015 147 IP, 76 H, 17 R, 14 ER, 27 BB, 147 K, 0.86 ERA, 0.70 WHIP, .410 OPS allowed 4 CG (3 of which were shutouts) 15 games where he allowed 0 or 1 run, 10 of which were 0 runs. Shortest start was 6 IP Only game he lost was when the Cubs got no-hit by Hamels (Cubs lost one other game where he left with the lead)
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They also started off pretty far back. In the last 10 games, they’ve picked up 6 games on Det and 5 on Col (passing both in the standings), 5 on Min and 3 each on KC and Mia. The only team they haven’t gained ground on is Washington since both are 1-9 in the last 10. They’re 3 games behind Mia for 5th right now. Only July 31 they were 6 back. 5th worst record is well within reach now.
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the last inning was awesome Too bad it wasn’t Chapman who blew the save.
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Normally this would be easy for me to say I’d root for the White Sox to beat the Brewers. But the LaRussa being the manager makes it a tougher question. I really don’t want him to get another ring.
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With his salary demands it was basically City or PSG. Just would have been more interesting going to City. I know they didn’t win the league last year but they also got less than a full seasons worth of starts combined out of Mbappe and Neymar (35 total) and only lost the league by a point. Currently -800 to win the title.
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boy is ESPN pissed. I don't think PSG has fewer interesting games than Barcelona really. They didn't even win the league last year. Plus they'll have lots of chances for beautiful goals. La Liga is a much better league than Ligue 1 so they’d at least have a couple games each against the two Madrid teams. I suppose by interesting I mean competitive as well. I know PSG won’t win every league game this year but you know what I mean. They’re going to steamroll the league. I was hoping he’d go to England at some point just to see how he would do there. This just seems like he’s going for the paycheck, to coast through most of the season and to pad his stats against much weaker competition. I know if he went to City they’d win the league again and at least one cup competition. But it would have been fun to see him in the Premier League.
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Messi to PSG is the most boring move he could have made among the big leagues in Europe. I don’t even care about seeing him with Neymar and Mbappe because they’re going to have like 7 interesting games this year at most, depending on how far they goin the UCL.
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Cards have walked 26 batters with the bases loaded this year, after walking 4 with the bases loaded in one inning yesterday. Major league record is 28. They've actually been really good overall with the bases loaded, with the lowest BA and 2nd lowest SLG allowed. However, they’ve allowed the 4th most runs because they’ve faced 171 hitters with the bases loaded, 16 more hitters than the second place team and 41 more than third.
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B in an ideal world with full fitness. But this is our, like, C- team Thanks. I knew it was our C team but didn't know much of anything about their team.
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Is this Mexico's A team?
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!!!!!! That was really close on the offsides also.
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When he walks on to the feeling smiling, I’m imagining him thinking “ah yes, the field where we crushed the hopes and dreams of thousands of Giants fans and made Derek Law cry”.
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Going to be tough to tank at least one day of every five as long as Hendricks is pitching. I know they won today but a 2-1 loss is always in the cards with this offense.