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If Im Stearns and they tell me that a prospect is untouchable in a Hader trade i hang up the phone. Best reliever in the game. Pony up or gfy

it's too bad you weren't in the dugout to tell them that. i doubt it crossed their minds.

I can't believe they keep pitching to this guy. What a hitter! After all those years of watching Rickie Weeks try and hit breaking balls, we deserve this guy.

Imagine dropping a couple hundred on tickets, beer, food, and now you have to sit in traffic without being able to turn on sports radio while you slowly make your way home. Thanks for your money, losers!

We may as well buy a relief arm or two at the deadline and let this play out. If we don't rebound we can always have a fire sale in the offseason given that guys like Hader, Yelich, and Hiura still have a ton of team control left. Also, the value on at least Hader and Yelich can only go down after this season. There is no way they can get any better.

It's not my job to be realistic. I don't get paid to crunch the numbers or know what their budget is. I just want the team to do well. I'm also not mad when they don't make a move. They can be realistic, i'll be hopeful.

It was most certainly a condescending tone, at least the first few lines. Why go there? I dont get that. It's just bizarre. And you know what? Yes, it is our money. We invest a ton of money into this team. What they dont get from selling tickets to US, and concessions and merch to US, they get from advertisers who also sell to US and pay THEM because of US. It all comes from US. I appreciate everything that Mark has brought to this team, but there is nothing wrong with us wanting it to get even better especially considering everything that we have contributed.

Yellich is going to have the career that Braun was supposed to have.

I've got a pair of extras in Section 117, Row 20 (right behind home plate) for below face if anyone wants them. 40 each. Willing to transfer first and you can venmo me once you're in. PM me if interested.

Why even mess around?? Tell Knebel to play it safe and sign Kimbrel already. Why are on the verge. Dont waste this!

Yes, but with that few saves in that many games finished it implies that he was very rarely used in high pressure 9th inning situations.. and i would think that is the experience we are hoping he would have as that could very well end up being what we need him for at times.

I picked the ticket upgrades because I only have a 20 game pack and the rest of the options seemed pretty lame. My seats are about 20 rows behind home plate in the infield box, so i'm assuming the only upgrade they can give me is the first couple of rows. Pretty nice thing to get for free imo.

this is really the trump card to what is already a very tired argument and a strange hill to die on..

So what is the underlying assumption here? That Jimmy is so talented he was destined to have the season he had in 2017? The league is littered with very talented ball players that put up a single solid season and never amounted to much more than that one season. I'm sure in every one of those instances there were stories of tangible reasons to explain that one season. I don't think it's any less hollow to assume that 2017 Jimmy is the Jimmy we get going forward. if your definition of the word "outlier" is simply, "this one thing is different from these other things," then yes you could call the season an outlier if we were just looking at three sets of numbers in a vacuum. it's very possible that 2017 will be Jimmy Nelson's high water mark, but as that story is still unfolding I don't find it appropriate to label that season as an outlier, or an aberration just yet.