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  1. tmwiese55
    I find it odd so many people and the general narrative is that it is bad that mediocre teams getting upsets and possibly winning it all. I'm someone who's generally been against college football expansion of playoffs basically due to the fact that the 2-4 team format rewards regular season and is one of the best formats in sport to actually have the best team win the championship. Essentially everyone bashed it for 20 years but in reality it was probably the highest hit rate of the actual best team winning. So for years I've been told I'm an idiot for that take, since CBB Tourney is so great, upsets are fun, give everyone a chance to settle it on the field, etc. Just weird that people flip flop based on what sport it is. For baseball, the four teams on each side they had for years seemed to be a good enough balance and I wouldn't have changed it. What they did has helped the regular season though, I'll grant that so it's not like I'm too upset about it. But if the end of season tournament is supposed to crown the best team it is a big negative there especially in a sport like baseball so prone to flukiness.
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    And then get Trea Turner to replace him. Only to not re-sign him as well. Not sure what the thoughts were there, only thing I could think of is wanting to save that Turner/Seager money/contract for Ohtani while trying to get under the tax thing. TBF, they've also gotten really unlucky with pitching injuries (May, Buehler) along with Kershaw often regressing in playoffs. The Dodgers pitching situation is one of the thing that had me cautiously optimistic this postseason. Unfortunately we got unlucky getting AZ instead of MIA.
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    I didn't say anything about playoff eras. Again, I'm not basing this off one game and am not a subscriber to the fallacy of small sample "sucks in the playoffs" like many commentators do in all sports. If you think about, as a starter Burnes was absolutely dominant for 1.5 years. The rest he's just been good. He's gonna get paid off the 1.5 years like he's done it for years. Again, very good top end starter deserving of a big payday. But expecting him to all of a sudden go back to what he did for that 1.5 years should not be expected, but I think he'll get paid like it. ETA: did a quick glance at Verlander's career, he had way more fluctuation up/down than I would've guessed. He's probably not the best example. But the overall point I'm getting at shouldn't be hard to decipher. For the most part, its extremely rare for mega contracts to pitchers to work out well. I don't think its crazy to say I think Burnes' won't as well. Especially with how small a track record of top top elite he has and that for the last 1.5 years he's just been good, not great. Sure he has another year, maybe he'll go fully Cy Young level again next year and prove me wrong. Hope he does if he's still in MKE
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    Yes I know that even top pitchers don't throw shutouts every game. He has these blips/blow ups noticeably more often than the type of guys I'm talking about, thus not as good as them. Again, still very good but if you give him 35-40 mil per year you're probably gonna come away disappointed. From mid 2022 until now his stats are not at the level to warrant that type of pay but he's probably gonna get it in this crazy time of contracts, and my guess is their fans are going to come away disappointed in his 3s ERA and how many HRs he gives up
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    Yea and I'm not basing that off one game and I'm not saying he's not a good top level pitcher. Him being so is one of the reasons I was cautiously optimistic this postseason. I'm just saying he's not prime Verlander/Scherzer type good and that's what he's going to get paid like.
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    F the luck of that Longoria catch. game changing play there. I think I've said it before, but I think whatever team hands Burns his 250+ mil deal is going to regret it. He's good but not true top top Cy Young level like the guys who have actually lived up to those type of contracts like Max, Cole, etc.
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    Yea due to coming up at a later age so hitting FA at an older age this is why I thought he was the target to sign to an extension say 2-3 years ago to buy out 2-3 years of FA. He was at risk of having the Jimmy Nelson situation happen and if this is a major shoulder injury that could be exactly what happens here. Or he could've locked in life setting money a few years ago, but of course be forfeiting a possible say 200 mil payday if he made to FA healthy.. Of course we have no idea how any of those negotiations went so not like there is anyone to blame on either side. But overall really tough news to see. Of course for him overall, but just that this team's hope of knocking of juggernauts like ATL/LA is lightning in a bottle with these two true ace pitchers. Peralta of course has his Ace days too but also has those bad days that just end the game quickly.
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    Yea and I've figured part of the rift with MKE the whole time was knowing he'd be operating on one year contracts the whole time. I would guess he's the type who would've preferred to lock in a guaranteed contract several years ago so he could have the money in the bank. And of course a team like MKE wasn't going to give a reliver a big long contract and he's clearly not willing to give a discount in order to get the deal done. I guess I'm just saying I bet he's been in big fear of injury that could cost him his payday for years. No one is really at fault here, it's just the system in place by MLB. I'll be curious if he gets an Aroldis Chapman type contract this offseason if he'll go back to being a bit more flexible on this stuff since he has the 50+ mil in the bank
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    LA for #34 too. Shaq, Bo Jackson, Fernando
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    Yes good post, truly one of the best and hopefully he sticks around at least one more year (assuming they do a kind of final go for it with this core). The few folks going on their rants two-ish weeks to go seem not be keeping that thread going for some reason. Also, props to him and whoever else is in charge of the bullpen from all angles: scouting, acquiring, development, daily coaching/management. Every year they turn over several guys and find and/or fix more guys to fill in and they've been doing it for years now.
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    Surprising the #3 division winner wouldn't automatically get the home field. Have you checked that? I just assumed it would be that way, thinking about it I suppose it will come up in the AL this year for sure since MN is much worse than the #2 team in the AL East. ETA: quick find on MLB.com with a 'current playoff bracket' setup and it has it listed at #6 AT #3 Twins. So it seems the division winner does get the automatic 3 seed and homefield. Although on re-read of the original post I see you might have been focused purely in terms of WC in case we somehow lost division.
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    Yea in general I'd agree it would be cool and make sense for some development in the lots or the big open spaces between the park and the casino seems ripe for it too. However, I see it from the team's perspective to just leave as it is. Big development obviously would be a bunch of upfront capital on the hopes it comes back down the line. Or, invest nothing and continue to easily collect a few million pure profit per year. For folks who haven't gone to many games this year, preferred parking is now $40 on the weekends. They've essentially doubled parking prices in the last 5 years with no massive capital investment. Also, side note I don't think I saw mentioned on here. At Saturday's game it was raining/storming outside and there was some clear leaking from the roof on the 1B side.
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    Wait, so they're building it i the same location that everyone says is the main issue with attendance at the current one? They're not correcting the obvious problem? I'm not familiar with all the Tampa area geography so please correct if I'm misreading this.
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    Saw it mentioned above of the scenario of Trout for Yelich straight up is interesting question for a message board to BS about. I know its all hypotheticals due to both having no trades. Same age. 5/130 so 26 per year left for Yelich. 7/248 so 35 per left for Trout. Trout is the vastly superior player when healthy. Yelich has been healthier but was basically replacement/average the last two years and good this year before the slump now. LAA taking Yelich's anchor contract back is similar to kicking in money. Due to MKE's financial constraints I would suspect they just cannot take on this money and would say No. However, I do think I would do it and take the gamble. A year ago Yelich was completely untradeable if you can now swap him out for a top 5 player when healthy I'd do it and then figure it out lately. I just think Trout would still be the more valuable 'asset' and more likely you could re-trade down the line when you need to cut costs (maybe eating some money though). Again, I'm ignoring no trades for the hypothetical. I know it's close/debatable and I do assume MKE says No just purely financially but after seeing two years of Yelich being so bad I can't get it out of my head as what could be the over the next 5 years and I'd rather take this risk.
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    Yea I thought it was funny yesterday you could use Cruz everywhere. So it was to save him for last. I only got 7 today and gave up after 5 or so minutes. I can't believe I struggled with Phi/Stl so much, especially after seeing the top answer. Missed Det/Phi too but not surprised I don't know Det well.
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    One patch, that's all?
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    5 runs allowed in 4 games. Kinda nuts.
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    Generally speaking the body language and effort has seemed off or not good through this series. Maybe its just dealing with this pitching but hopefully that bodes well for next week and getting at least 2/3 there and wrapping this up
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    Am I remembering correctly there is a control advantage if Weimer had gone down for a few weeks too. Not that its huge as he's not some mega prospect but still. It seems sending down for 3 weeks to try to clean up the swing along with gaining that would've made sense. Bring him back up at end of year for D subs and/or pinch running if you want. Probably a AAAA type guy out there to easily grab to cover a few weeks and be passable.
  20. tmwiese55
    I might be crazy but one has to wonder what the point of hitting coaches are if they continue to allow Weimer to do what he's been doing with his hands. Like if they're not allowed to tinker with that, players reject or demand to figure that stuff out on their own etc then why are they there. He doesn't have to be sent down to work on this, he's had tons of off days and it's such an obvious thing to clean up every day in BP
  21. tmwiese55
    FYI the alternate one I linked to has Brewers on it today.
  22. tmwiese55
    Nice, only 8/9. Missed the Bos ROY. Went with Devers although I thought he did struggle a bit rookie year. Maybe would've gotten to Nomar if I spent more time but not sure. ETA: Did get 9/9 on the other today but it was also big markets. Angels/NYY took me longer than it should
  23. tmwiese55
    Yea that was surprisingly tricky because back in the day there wasn't so many Ks. But I'd have thought pitching so many more innings would balance it. and I think the same day had batters who struck out 150 times. Also a bit tricky as really that didn't happen a long time ago. Yea certainly a decent way to blow 5-10 mins a day. I'd say in general I usually get 8. Don't remember ever not getting 7. Maybe get 9 25% of the days or a bit less. https://www.crossovergrid.com/ This site also has other sports along with their own baseball one most days. I usually just do the baseball and NBA
  24. tmwiese55
    probably out but maybe was worth it in the 8th since its so late why not. OTOH, he probably shouldn't have bothered trying. Had the big insurance run at 3rd with 1 out. But it's good to see him hustling and trying along with two good games to start
  25. tmwiese55
    For sure, that is her one quirk phrase. But if you pay attention she has no "umms", "But Umms", "you knows", "uhhs". She's clearly worked to clean out all those but this is her one thing and technically its way better than all those
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