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I also agree that series MVPs could/should sometimes go to losing teams when their performances are clearly superior. Think LBJ in their first loss to the Warriors when he had no help (love and Kyrie hurt) and had to do everything himself and still won 2 games. Can't think of one of the top of my head for baseball but I'd guess Bonds would be a possibility if we went back and looked at stats.

Key word here is should. I do think it was the deciding factor between Braun and Kemp in 2011. To take it to the extreme example, do you think the World Series MVP can come from the losing team? I think this question is a good test to explain why many people prefer the MVP to come from a playoff team. True and if it is a virtual tie then sure have that be a factor, like Braun/Kemp. MKE won 14 more games that year btw. Also, playoff team vs non playoff team is often a significant difference in wins and you can make an argument of putting up stats in a lower pressure situation. If one guy is on the best team and the other the second best team and they're only 2-3 games difference it really shouldn't matter. But you're right, should is the key word. Just takes a few people to say 'derp his team won the division.' Note: personally I have no problem giving it to non-playoff players. Trout is the best player in the league, any year he's healthy he should probably get the MVP. But as noted above, one can make the arguments about pressure etc.

Which is just wrong. Baseball being the sport or at least second most that one individual player has the least impact on a team winning. So if you're within a few games of each other it should be completely irrelevant.

Yelich has definitely surpassed Baez. Great SLG does not compensate for a bad OBP, and all the talk about his versatility is overplayed. Yelich can move over to a premium defensive position and be a mediocre defender there just like Baez. Baez playing great 2B defense is no better than Yelich's LF defense. It does not translate to CF, but Baez's 2B defense doesn't really translate to SS very impressively either. I still think Cain is my leader, but I can't stick to my guns much longer at this rate. You don't have to be a slugger to be MVP if you're the best leadoff man in baseball. His OBP has basically been .400 all year and he plays premium CF defense. A lot of teams are just hoping for bonus offense if they have a premiere defender at CF, SS, or C, and the Brewers are getting a .400 OBP. It's ludicrously valuable. For all the talk of Yelich being hot at the right time, that's just narrative - not value. I think Cain's consistency has probably been more valuable. He has basically been the NL leader in WAR for position players literally since day 1 by some measures. All well said. Thing is we know how MVP voting works. The counting stats matter. We can say how it should be but that's just not reality. 310/400 with 11 HRs and 41 RBIs just isn't going to win MVP. Yelich has also scored 20 more Rs than Yelich. Also, Yelich's OBP is only 14 below Cain's right now but Cain is 130 behind in OPS. That difference in slugging is huge. Also, WAR and defensive metrics are still so unknown/flawed/inexact or whatever you want to call it that voters and even people like us have to hesitate to put tooo much weight into those things. And again it's not like yelich is some kind of liability on D to create a massive gap there as it would be if Yelich's stats were being gained at 1B or DH. Sure is nice to have two guys legit in the conversation though.

I suppose I'm biased and all but I really think he should clearly get it over Baez now that he's closed the HR/RBI gap so much. Those were the arguments the other way and they're now greatly reduced. It's really down to those two IMO.

I thought I remember basic spray charts taking his fly balls and overlaying them to MP that they expected his HRs to go up a decent amount. not necessarily into the low 30s though, more like mid 20s

I'm not sure what I posted back then (I hope it was in support if I posted at all), but to me I liked it because he was barely older than Brinson yet a proven player signed for years. And to me Brinson was overrated, especially in that if he was injured for another year and/or came up to MLB and did poorly then he'd lose all his prospect/upside/hype and plummet down the rankings/trade value. So a good time to get for sure value in return for Brinson.

I just don't see the rush when he's signed for 5 years already. No need to do it now imo. Re-assess in a couple years. You'll know more about him and if he gets hurt, you'll know more on the financial landscape after such a weird offseason, you'll know more about other contracts you'll have given out, etc. I just don't see the rush.

I was definitely one of the people who thought less of Brinson than the prospect rankings and general viewpoint here so I'm not surprised. I also wouldn't be surprised if Brinson busts out next year, hope he does, seems like a good kid. But at his age and injury history I was ready to cash out rather than have him have a bad year (like now) and/or get hurt again, at which point other teams would be looking at 25ish year old guy who still hasn't done anything in the bigs and his stock would plummet.

And the last Netflix just wasn't good. Supposedly this should be better since they've been able to get the whole cast together to do it, rather than having to film stuff separately like last time. We'll see. Someone also told me they're going to go back and recut the previous Netflix season so it flows better, not sure if there is legs to that or not.

I vouch for Last Man as well. I've liked it the whole time but feel like this is the best season.

I watched Turn when it first came out. Didn't do it for me and I am a history guy so it should have been right up my ally. I don't recall my issues but I tuned out late in season 1, maybe I watched the whole season but I don't think so

One thing to note regarding giving up Brinson and Harrison. If the supposed Cain signing also happens it basically locks all 3 OF spots for the next 3-4 years. So OF prospects become expendable a touch as you have time to get new ones or lower level guys to step up. Also, of folks talking like Santana is going to bring back these top P prospects. Thinkg about it this way, Miami couldn't get top pitching prospects back for Yelich. So, wouldn't surprise me if you end having to kick in other prospects with Santana if you're getting back an MLB ready P and/or several prospects as some have brought up. We'll see soon, I think he gets traded. Although I'm not opposed to just keeping him and playing Yelich in CF and see what happens. Simply sign Cobb and Walker and see what happens. Walker/Yelich would give you a lot of the contact that hurt us last year.

Waiting to see the final details and subsequent moves. But first reaction to me is that I'm surprised and happy none of the top starting P prospects are involved, supposedly. That was my biggest fear on this