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I’d like to amend this to say just the top half was dumb. Bottom half is quite enjoyable.

This inning is dumb.

Shades of Germany-Brazil from the 2014 World Cup.

Betts tied the ML record for most career 3 homer games today with 6. It’s amazing a dude with 146 career homers has that record.

That run included a 36-2 stretch also. They had winning streaks of 10, 14 and 12.

I’m assuming it’s over the same time frame but they showed on a broadcast last week that he had something like a 17 K/BB ratio since mid 2019 and the next best guy in that span was 9. He walked two today and it doubled his walks on the year. Last year he walked 22 in March/April, 19 in May and then 15 guys total from June on. 8 of those were in June so he walked 7 from July through September.

W!

2016 Cubs only started 11-4.

Poor Atalanta.

I don’t dislike the Pelicans at all, but I think it’s kind of funny that everyone assumed that the NBA brought 22 teams to try to get Zion into the playoffs and the Pels were one of the first teams eliminated from the hunt.

I definitely think it was done because they assumed the Marlins were non-competitive. Are a bunch of the Marlins who tested positive not playing? I haven't been paying any attention to them. I see from the schedule that they postponed games for a week after the positive tests but had no idea who was playing once games resumed.

Wasn’t the whole point of the massive taxi squad so the teams could keep playing? Sorry your team has to quarantine for a week and you have to play your taxi squad but I guess your players/staff should have been more careful. Now teams that didn’t do anything wrong have their schedule thrown out of whack.

Only if you want to set the precedent of voiding any team's season who has a player test positive. They did it with two MLS teams and one NWSL team.

I haven’t watched him at all but is he worse than Soler?

It has to be a top 5 (maybe 3), 9 figure contract for a SP of all time. Finally had time to put this together. Full list of $100M+ contracts for pitchers per Cots. This isn't just free agent deals though, if that's what you meant (Verlander, for example, had two years left on his deal before his extension in 2013). So if you meant FA deals, I didn't sort for that. This is also WAR over the length of the contract, not just with the team that signed the player to the contract. It also doesn't factor in if a player opted out, like Sabathia did during his first deal. So true FA deals for guys who stuck around, Scherzer and Sabathia were definitely better. Greinke's Dodger deal would have been had he not opted out. Lee's was better because of how much value he provided in only four years. The rest either were worse or were extensions. Pitcher Years Dollars bWAR fWAR David Price 16-22 $217M 10.4 10.6 Clayton Kershaw 14-20 $217M 32.5 34.1 Max Scherzer 15-20 $210M 34.9 32.9 Zack Greinke 16-21 $207M 17.0 15.7 Justin Verlander 13-19 $180M 35.7 33.6 Felix Hernandez 13-19 $175M 16.4 15.9 Stephen Strasburg 17-23 $175M 15.2 14.0 CC Sabathia 09-15 $161M 21.3 24.5 Masahiro Tanaka 14-20 $155M 16.9 18.2 Jon Lester 15-20 $155M 13.8 17.0 Zack Greinke 13-18 $147M 29.5 23.2 Cole Hamels 13-18 $144M 26.3 20.9 Johan Santana 08-13 $138M 15.3 13.9 Johnny Cueto 16-21 $130M 8.7 6.3 Matt Cain 12-17 $128M 2.7 3.9 Barry Zito 07-13 $126M 2.4 6.5 CC Sabathia 12-16 $122M 7.0 10.0 Mike Hampton 01-08 $121M 2.9 8.8 Cliff Lee 11-15 $120M 20.2 19.7 Jordan Zimmerman 16-20 $110M 1.2 4.8 Kevin Brown 99-05 $105M 22.8 27.4 Homer Bailey 14-19 $105M 0.4 5.7 Contract not long enough: Cole (20-28), Strasburg (20-26), Sale (20-24), Corbin (19-24), deGrom (19-23), Darvish (18-23), Wheeler (20-24)

Yep. I know 6 of these are against the Pirates and Royals, but who the hell knows what's going to happen with the schedule going forward. Bank as many wins as you can while the schedule is normal.

Probably but that inning is just bad management 100% agree on that, especially since you know the velocity is already down. You can't leave him out there that long.

We’re at +13 now. The 2016 Cubs were at +14 through two games and +42 through 11 games.

Only reason I don’t think that Ross feels that way is the quick hook. If he really felt that way, he leaves him in for another batter.

Heyward!

Not to necessarily absolve Maddon from blame because 42 pitches in an inning is unnecessary for Ohtani coming off an injury, but wasn’t his velocity down in his first start also? If so, seems likely the injury was already there.

W!

Big inning please.

Looks like the Achilles. [tweet] [/tweet]

[tweet] [/tweet] Surprised they didn’t have a couple built in 3 day off periods midweek for cases like this. Would only extend the season a week. StL-Mil is easier to make up because you can just do doubleheaders. StL-Det is much harder.