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PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 5:50 am 
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Great idea to go after more home run hitters in the off-season last year, Cashman. Pitching isn't important in the playoffs...
Yankees down 3-1 to the Astros, who have quite a stacked rotation.

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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 8:10 am 
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Great idea to go after more home run hitters in the off-season last year, Cashman. Pitching isn't important in the playoffs...
Yankees down 3-1 to the Astros, who have quite a stacked rotation.


Sad to see CC Sabathia's career end on the mound like that. Sounds like he wrecked his shoulder doing mop up duty in an error-filled inning.

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Astros vs. Nationals in the World Series. Going to be a fun one.

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Jose Altuve is one hell of a baseball player. I bet the Astros are glad he essentially fought them when they first cut him from tryout camp years ago.


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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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Great idea to go after more home run hitters in the off-season last year, Cashman. Pitching isn't important in the playoffs...
Yankees down 3-1 to the Astros, who have quite a stacked rotation.


Sad to see CC Sabathia's career end on the mound like that. Sounds like he wrecked his shoulder doing mop up duty in an error-filled inning.


I hadn't heard that. That really sucks!

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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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Well neither team is one I find annoying, but neither team is one I'm particularly excited about either.

All I know is that Nolan Arenado is likely going to use his opt-out clause at the end of the 2020 season, and most Rox fans won't blame him one fucking bit.


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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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Well neither team is one I find annoying, but neither team is one I'm particularly excited about either.

All I know is that Nolan Arenado is likely going to use his opt-out clause at the end of the 2020 season, and most Rox fans won't blame him one fucking bit.


Reminds me a bit of the Stanton deal, which was layered in a way that you knew Stanton would be traded eventually, and that he really just signed it for the guaranteed money. Same with Arenado: why say no to guaranteed $260 million with the possibility to increase that or go elsewhere if you so desire?

I have no doubt SF ownership, and likely Farhan based on what he said about wanting guys who can hit at Oracle, is ready to swoop in.

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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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Nats up 2-0 after outscoring the Astros 16-6 on the road. Don't really believe in karma but.....


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Nats up 2-0 after outscoring the Astros 16-6 on the road. Don't really believe in karma but.....


Yeah, what a fuckin' shitstorm the 'Stros started because of that moronic Assistant GM.


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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 2:40 pm 
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Yes and so poorly handled by the Astros organization which just made things worse. Are they that out of tune with sensitive social issues such as these or are they just blinded by their own ignorance and biases? Like why even pick up a player like that to begin with and then go out of your way to support him when he was arguably the least valuable Asto in the Pennant clinching game anyways?

https://www.vox.com/2019/10/23/20928466 ... -explained

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Instead of apologizing for Taubman’s behavior, the organization on Monday night released a statement attacking Apstein’s reporting — which was corroborated by multiple witnesses — as “misleading and completely irresponsible.”

Taubman’s comments “had everything to do about the game situation that just occurred and nothing else — they also were not directed toward any specific reporter,” the statement released on behalf of the organization said. “We are extremely disappointed in Sports Illustrated’s attempt to fabricate a story where one does not exist.”

As you’d expect, that statement did not go over well. So on Tuesday — right around the same time MLB announced it will conduct its own investigation of the situation — the team released new statements from Taubman and owner Jim Crane that, while striking a much more remorseful tone, also served as a tacit admission that the team’s initial statement was, at best, misleading. The organization suddenly apologized for an incident that they initially dismissed as a fabrication and acknowledged — albeit obliquely — the connection between the outburst and Osuna’s history of domestic assault.

In the new statement, Taubman apologized for using “inappropriate language,” not directly for making light of domestic violence, although he did acknowledge that “[m]y overexuberance in support of a player has been misinterpreted as a demonstration of a regressive attitude about an important social issue.” Crane, for his part, insisted that the Astros “continue to be committed to using our voice to create awareness and support on the issue of domestic violence.” (Domestic violence is a major problem baseball. Six players have been suspended for it since last July, which is more than in the two previous years combined.)

Still, no less an authority than one of the most prominent baseball reporters in the world, Buster Olney of ESPN, noted that the Astros’ new set of statements fell far short of a blanket apology for initially responding to reporting about the locker room incident by attacking the journalist who wrote about it.
as meant to spite the female reporter wearing a DV-awareness bracelet.

According to three eyewitnesses interviewed by NPR, Taubman appeared to be responding to the presence of a female reporter who was wearing a purple rubber bracelet to heighten awareness about domestic violence.

That reporter has tweeted repeatedly about the issue over the years. Taubman complained last year that some of the reporter’s informational tweets — promoting domestic violence hotline telephone numbers, for example — appeared moments after Osuna entered several Astros games in relief.

Of course, if the Astros were really as committed to taking a stand against domestic assault as Crane claims to be in his statement, they could’ve passed on trading for Osuna in the first place. That they hired him even as other teams thought better of it says something about management’s priorities. That much is clear. But what remains unexplained is why the organization initially responded to an incident that highlighted the tension his acquisition created by besmirching a reporter.

The frame of Apstein’s Sports Illustrated piece is about how Taubman’s outburst “illustrates MLB’s forgive-and-forget attitude toward domestic violence.” Fittingly, by Wednesday morning, the baseball world had largely moved on to talking about the Astros’ Game 1 loss to the Nationals. Meanwhile, the statement released by MLB on Tuesday, alluding to the Astros’ initial statement, notes that the organization has “disputed Sports Illustrated’s characterization of the incident.”


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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2019 10:23 pm 
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Aaaand Taubman gets fired.....what a circus :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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Pretty sure the new evil empire clinches the Series tonight. The Nats, beyond Soto, look weary at the plate.

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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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God...how in the actual fuck is their intial reaction to this to call the reporter a liar? They cited sources at how they arrived at that conclusion. Who the fuck were these sources?

They seem like they just don't give a fuck, can get away with it and who gives a shit about some hurt feelings that they think will be quickly forgotten.

https://theathletic.com/1317907/2019/10 ... ff-luhnow/

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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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Pretty sure the new evil empire clinches the Series tonight. The Nats, beyond Soto, look weary at the plate.


Happy to be wrong. Great Series goes 7.

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The Washington Nationals win their first World Series. Good for them.

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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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Yep, good for them, still a bit bittersweet in light of 1994.


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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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Gerrit Cole. Stephen Strasburg and Anthony Rendon are all free agents. They're about to get seriously PAID...well, in March probably.

The other free agents might have more difficulty. Grandal gets paid because there are no other catchers. Maybe Will Smith because he's the only experienced closer?

I suspect the Nats will be in on Strasburg and Rendon, but hometown teams of San Diego and Texas have a ton of money to throw their way. If that happens, the Nats will probably go short-term on Donaldson and Hamels and hope the kids keep improving. Either way, I'm not too worried about them.

I think the Giants will be in on a lot of middle-range free agents, especially rebound candidates they can flip. They also stand to add two compensatory picks by offering Bumgarner and Smith qualifying offers, which they will. Some upside plays for them: Gregorious, Keuchel, Puig, Pineda, Betances, Garcia, Porcello, Miley, Lindbolm, Schoop, Dozier etc.

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Boy, Cole could not have slammed the door any harder on his way out if he had tried. Didn't even bother wearing a 'Stros cap for his final interview after the game.


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 Post subject: Re: 2019 MLB Thread
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Boy, Cole could not have slammed the door any harder on his way out if he had tried. Didn't even bother wearing a 'Stros cap for his final interview after the game.


He backtracked a bit after and said he was mad they lost, but c'mon dude, you knew what you were doing. He'll get his 280M from the Angels. I don't think the Stros ever had any interest in bringing him back.

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If the Jays want to build something around Bichette, Biggio and Vlad Jr for competing a year or two from now, then now is the time to front-load a deal to a top-tier free agent pitcher or two. You can't rely on everyone being both available and willing to come the winter you decide you're ready. Fuck that.

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