All-Purpose MLB Thread! (2019-2021)

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Welp. Baseball lasted like four games before the wheels fell off the wagon.
 
Tetsujin said:
Welp. Baseball lasted like four games before the wheels fell off the wagon.
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How this wasn't seen as the most predictable outcome ever is beyond me. For calling things like this I was called "negative".

There is a very high likely hood that all major sports leagues will be filing for bankruptcy within a year.
 
As an A's Fan, I believe I am entirely warranted in saying that Jesus Luzardo is on pace to be the greatest pitcher of all time and absolutely nothing will sway me from that opinion.
 

Baseball in 2020 y’all!

Though if you’re craving for a dose of normality in these wild times, just watch a Samardzija start.
 
I hate the narrative I keep seeing of Joe Kelly being some sort of noble folk hero for throwing at Astros and continuing to run his mouth... when he played and won a World Series with the Red Sox just a season before joining the Dodgers.

Give your soapbox to someone who deserves it. Freakin’ hypocrite.
 
Tetsujin said:
As an A's Fan, I believe I am entirely warranted in saying that Jesus Luzardo is on pace to be the greatest pitcher of all time and absolutely nothing will sway me from that opinion.
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The Giants must be the greatest hitting team of all time then! :P
 
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Hyperbole aside, the Giants are actually the worst defensive team of all time. Lol, I can’t fathom what Flores was thinking in the 9th!
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It was the T-Wolves letting the Kings come back from an impossible deficit levels of incompetence lol
 
SLAB said:
Tank for... whoever the consensus #1 pick is in baseball next draft!
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There's still a chance of baseball being played early next year, but right now it looks like the #1 pick may be Kumar Rocker -- a big righty starter with a major league ready breaking ball and triple digit fastball.
 
SLAB said:
That was a fun series. Lol, enjoy that beautiful Bay Bridge Trophy @Tetsujin we’ll be back for it next year! Or not, idc.
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It depends on whether your manager figures out how to manage his relievers. Also on your GM getting better players. At least the Giants are willing to pay their guys.
 
Tetsujin said:
It depends on whether your manager figures out how to manage his relievers. Also on your GM getting better players. At least the Giants are willing to pay their guys.
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Kapler is a moron who manages like a robot. Everything is dictated by the piece of paper in his pocket. He has to manage the team not the dang analytics. The sooner he and Analytic Ball are gone, the better... that said, Farhan’s also apparently a huge analytic guy so I think he’ll be safe, at least until the team’s talent level improves.

GM Farhan... He’s low-key stocked the farm a bit. The current team is awful, but that’s mainly the last regime hanging onto the 10/12/14 past and trying to hold on by adding above average but non-star vets to an aging and declining roster.

I’ve actually read some analysts say the Giants top prospect, a teenage SS named Marco Luciano, will be the #1 prospect in all of baseball in a few seasons. That’s obviously huge, especially for a team who hasn’t had a prospect that hyped in ages.
 
SLAB said:
Kapler is a moron who manages like a robot. Everything is dictated by the piece of paper in his pocket. He has to manage the team not the dang analytics. The sooner he and Analytic Ball are gone, the better... that said, Farhan’s also apparently a huge analytic guy so I think he’ll be safe, at least until the team’s talent level improves.

GM Farhan... He’s low-key stocked the farm a bit. The current team is awful, but that’s mainly the last regime hanging onto the 10/12/14 past and trying to hold on by adding above average but non-star vets to an aging and declining roster.

I’ve actually read some analysts say the Giants top prospect, a teenage SS named Marco Luciano, will be the #1 prospect in all of baseball in a few seasons. That’s obviously huge, especially for a team who hasn’t had a prospect that hyped in ages.
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Even though the Giants basically got obliterated in that series, I came away impressed with what they're building. A good team can put together a respectable bullpen in a single off-season these days and that's who the A's scored all their runs off of. The Giants starters did their jobs. Yas 2.0 is a superstar in the making and they've also got an elite catching prospect due up any time now and high level prospects at most other positions. They've finally moved on from snapping up every past-their-prime former All-Star they can get and throwing a ton of money at them and I think they'll bounce back to respectability within a couple years if they stick with the young guys. That defense is a special level of terrible though! The A's had games like this a few years ago when they were rebuilding where it just seemed like they would never get to 27 outs no matter how many chances you gave them. I feel for ya but we're still chasing 1989 on this side of the Bay so only just a bit.
 
^^^ On that note I’m really disappointed that prospect (Joey Bart) isn’t up yet. It’s a lost season, the contract tolling date has already rolled past so there’s no reason to keep him stashed behind Whoever Heineman (who’s really bad) and Chadwick Tromp.
 
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