MLB Thread - 2024
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I really hope we don't buy though, at the deadline.
The plan (i hope) is let the kids play, see what they got and see if we get good Snell, Ray healthy, Cobb healthy and go from there. We very well might be in a place this off-season to go get 1 or 2 more impact players to add to the youth and the vets still producing.
SLAB
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We’ve been better whenever the youth is providing a spark. I know the vets are rounding into form, but we can’t fall into the same old trap and risk pushing them aside for rentals who may not even be worth it.
Yeah, I think we do have quite a few of the pieces here for a playoff run. But I wanna see if we get a few more of these young guys pop before we go make a "all-in" type move. It'd be such a blunder to give up on a Matos/Birdsong/Luciano for some vet that's not really going to put us over the top. We need those guys to pop first THEN we go add the vet.
Kingz19
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Bullpen is still trash.
Still fuming about that stupid umpire costing the Giants 2 runs.
Conforto watching a meatball glide past him with the bases juiced didn’t help. I miss the see ball hit ball approach. Not the guess, sit and get caught looking like an idiot approach. Thats why everybody hits .220 nowadays.
Still fuming about that stupid umpire costing the Giants 2 runs.
Conforto watching a meatball glide past him with the bases juiced didn’t help. I miss the see ball hit ball approach. Not the guess, sit and get caught looking like an idiot approach. Thats why everybody hits .220 nowadays.
SLAB
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Agree with everything except Webb. I’ve never viewed him as an ace-level guy (ain’t nothing wrong with being a good #2) so his production is exactly what I want/expect from him. Plus he’s around long-term, on a pretty darn good deal. There’s little reason to send him off unless the return is absurd, and I don’t think he’s good enough for other teams to want to send said return.
Kingz19
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Because our hitters routinely take the best pitches they’ll see in an at bat because they guessed wrong or they want to work the count…but I think that approach only works if you have a lot of guys that don’t strike out a lot. Giants have a lot of guys that strike out a ton.
Farhan mentioned it earlier in the season. The hitters take the most hitable pitches in the at bat. I don’t know if that is Burrell or just a consequence of the guess and commit approach to hitting over the last decade…probably the latter
Anyway, I’ve seen enough. This cycle will only repeat itself into an 80 win season. They’ll win 3 straight series and look like they’ll turn it around before falling on their face.
Trade the vets for whatever they can get. Trade Doval definitely. Webb should stay unless we get a farm altering deal for him. He’s still young, locked down, and he is dominant at home if only very good on the road most games.
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I'm very very nervous we might do something stupid like trade him, or Matos.
I really do like a lot of our youth. It's the vets not holding up their end
SLAB
Hall of Famer
Luciano for a one-year stop gap to help us miss the wildcard by only 3 games let’s goooooooooooooo
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
All jokes aside, this has to be studied… Nick Castellanos going deep every single time there is a tragedy or something newsworthy is legitimately unlike anything I’ve ever seen in sports history. There can’t be any type of logical explanation. No words.pic.twitter.com/XkcNJBoNOP
— Josh Reynolds (@JoshReynolds24) July 21, 2024
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Here is a list of all the Castellanos HR's during significant events
— Mobland Redux (@racjac24) July 21, 2024
-Apology for homophobic slur use on broadcast
-Career threatening injury for Tatis
- Eulogy for WW2 veteran
- A 9/11 tribute video package on the air
- Apology of opposing teams coach getting a DUI
- 10…
His first home run as a pro in West Michigan (A Ball) was the day that Osama was announced dead
— Jox (@WorldOfJox) July 22, 2024
whitechocolate
Bench
Very weak as far as coincidences go.
1) Get list of dates on which player X has hit a home run
2) Look up news stories from those dates
3) Make an ass of yourself on the internet
There have been promising debuts and breakouts for SF, some vets are performing as expected, but then some other vets are just in the way. Snell is rounding into shape, the bullpen has been overworked all season.
Matos has been ice cold since that hot streak a while ago, Fitz is a keeper, Birdsong looks like a rotation piece for the next decade, they could use Jung Hoo Lee in CF in the worst way.
They should sell vet pieces if there is a deal in place though
Matos has been ice cold since that hot streak a while ago, Fitz is a keeper, Birdsong looks like a rotation piece for the next decade, they could use Jung Hoo Lee in CF in the worst way.
They should sell vet pieces if there is a deal in place though
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