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  1. Illiterate Scholar
    Caminero and Contreras' home run trots are basically Key & Peele sketches
  2. Illiterate Scholar
    Taylor Walls' defensive metrics this season and throughout his career are... confusing. Wow.
  3. Illiterate Scholar
    Manfred is going to forgo a salary cap and funnel all the best players to big markets himself after he sees the ratings of Rays v Brewers
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    It was a super weird year, but he did have a .380 obp before the trade. I would think he'd still get 8 figures for at least one year.
  5. Illiterate Scholar
    River Ryan is going to retire at 37 years old, still listed as a top 100 prospect.
  6. Illiterate Scholar
    The arrogance of having Betts and Muncy on the left side of your infield, and it working wonderfully, is a bit maddening. The Betts part specifically is also very cool, but annoying.
  7. Illiterate Scholar
    There's a zero percent chance we sign Morejon as a reliever. However, as a starter, I could see it. He'd still be expensive, but that's a potential top of rotation starter at way less than a top of rotation price.
  8. Illiterate Scholar
    Taylor Ward maybe played himself into a one year contract. Not sure what to make of his 2026 season, but he's theoretically an option.
  9. Illiterate Scholar
    Tucker has now surpassed 5 homeruns at Dodger Stadium this year
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    It's a good year for a small market v small market World Series. Not that I think it actually matters that much but just in case. Give me Rays over Brewers in a gentlemen's sweep.
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    Really? I'd say that's about right, maybe just a little low. He is coming off back-to-back sub 19% K rate seasons. The GB rate is crazy but he's not getting a huge contract. I also think the prospect cost (Rojas) appears to be more expensive now compared to how he was viewed when traded.
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    Jed obviously talked a lot about pitching in his year-end PC, including the amount of homers given up. The way he talked about Holmes made it seem like whatever happened the last few weeks didn't totally sour the relationship? Wouldn't shock me if both he and Peterson get done before the lockout.
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    I like that our offense will get to play in 70+ degree weather. Their bullpen is terrifying but as we saw last year, there is a limit to how much the main guys can be used in 3 consecutive games, if there is a game 3. Then there's our pitching... I'm hoping for batted ball luck Mt vote is eliminated in NLDS.
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    Lol at the size of the crowd.
  15. Illiterate Scholar
    He was pretty good for them last year. This season is most certainly a change, unfortunately
  16. Illiterate Scholar
    Tough night for Vic Carapazza
  17. Illiterate Scholar
    lol
  18. Illiterate Scholar
    All of a sudden feeling kind of great about Palencia heading into the playoffs
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    At least?
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    He only has an OPS over 1.000 if you go back 30, 15, and 7 days. Guy clearly needs a day off.
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    Also Ayers' defense is interesting to me. Obviously the throwing is fantastic, but in the handful of times I've seen him, he drops or straight up whiffs on some balls when trying to frame low to high. I'm no scout but his defense seems more work in progress than the highlights show. It'd make me feel a lot better if there was some data to prove me wrong on that
  22. Illiterate Scholar
    The stadium gun for Steele did not make me very hopeful. Also Wiggins somehow looked even worse than his line showed; both outs were guys thrown out at home on the same play. I guess Miller looked fine.
  23. Illiterate Scholar
    Holy horsefeathers, Kipnis is wearing a shirt with buttons. That must have been a big game
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    (That's not the takeaway)
  25. Illiterate Scholar
    The reaction in this thread had Counsell taken Boyd out after the 7th would have been, shall we say, not supportive
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