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This should at least be a game. Too many missed chances today.

I hate that we're making Cole Hamels look good, because he isn't.

Stop letting Hamels off the hook!

Damn it.

Ugh so close to a salami.

Wow was that ever a solid AB by Burnes.

Looked like his foot was in the air and not on the plate when he first crossed it.

I hope the youngsters in the rotation decision pays off down the road. Starting pitching has been awful this year.

We continue to serve up HRs on platters lately.

I don't really know why Claudio didn't just pitch this inning to begin with. There was a whole string of mostly lefties coming up.

Good grief, just get Taylor out of there before he blows a massive lead.

For fricken sake, Albers and Taylor! Are we seriously not going to be able to protect an 8 run lead without having to put Hader in to bail you out?

Oh man did Thames need that one.

Moose has made about 23 outs tonight.

I think Theo is a massively overrated GM, especially around here. He gets credit for the World Series wins he has as he should, but I wonder how much has to do with fat bank accounts and circumstance. He massively whiffed on Heyward, Quintana, Chatwood, and Darvish. The Hamels trade was genius -- until he got fooled and picked up his 20M option this year. He has mortgaged an absurd amount of young talent in Chicago to try to keep the Cubs' window open and likely turned away a possible dynasty.

Doesn't really seem to me to have the extreme splits you would want in a straight LOOGY. More like a poor man's Dan Jennings which is not much of a compliment considering Jennings is looking for work. Meh. Just depth as you said, probably very expendable.

I want to say that any generational talent just lost money on this "weak" deal. I bolded what you said about Bryant as you need to look at Mookie Betts who WON his Arb case for Super 2 year 2 at a whopping 20million this year. You do the math that is almost 10million more than last season. It actually makes you almost wonder if he goes all 4 seasons at super 2 if he'd make 100million on that Alone! Acuna's longer 1st cup of tea and 144OPS+ is higher than Betts produced prior to only last season(year 4). This in a much easier hitting environment/Division than Acuna faces. And he's done that at age 20 vs Betts' last season being 21-24 before doing so at 25. I don't know if players are looking at the next deal and predicting it's going in the way of the owners. That Arb results like Betts just got will be a thing of the past. My view though, Betts won his case and you have 2 full seasons before you would reach your first case, giving another Arb. round with increases to occur to see where year 1 stands and what Betts makes next season. That would have given him a real proper value to ask for in an extension like this that probably cost him 100million if not more on it's own. That's still 3 full years for Acuna to get hurt or have something happen and lose life changing money because he wanted to roll the dice on the life changing money for more life changing money. Also, I know Acuna seems like a sure thing, but nothing ever is. You can break a leg and never play again. You can get a concussion and never be the same again. Or sometimes you can just flat out for whatever reason not end up living up to the hype. I know it's probably not the best comparison but I remember watching Brett Lawrie just set the world on fire as a 21 year old rookie with the Jays and thinking how much we were going to regret trading him. Years later he was out of baseball for a couple years and couldn't even get a major league deal coming back to us. And he's still in his 20s today.

If he could add a 3rd pitch, I think Peralta's closest comparable in my mind would be a young Gallardo.

Why? I mean I'm happy to beat the Reds but what against DJ?

Wow, how slow is Kemp? Felt like he had time to beat that and he's barely in the screenshot at 2nd.

Put the winning run in scoring position?

Pitch 1 to Suarez was a strike.

Ughhhhh.

Wilson's pre-pitch delivery makes it look like he's shaking and terrified to be in this closing situation.

That first pitch to Votto was better than the previous 2-1 pitch.