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Cpl. Long Dong Silver said:
Am I retard for thinking Cash needs fired? It worked for the Jays.
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I think you're overreacting about Cash, and I disagree with the Jays statement. Toronto benefitted from a pretty weak schedule after the Montoyo firing and they've gone right back to sputtering again lately (including getting dominated tonight by Cleveland.) They still have a serious lack of pitching depth and I don't see them lasting long if they win the Wild Card Series and have to play the Yankees or Houston.

Tampa Bay likely will miss the playoffs, I agree, but I see them as a victim of the injury bug more than anything and if all you do at the trade deadline is get a 34 year old David Peralta and Jose Siri, well you're not exactly telling me that you have a lot of serious aspirations for your team this season. Peralta's still a nice pickup don't get me wrong, but he's more of a guy you add to a team like Houston or the Dodgers, you know? More of like a really good depth piece for a potential World Series team than the big acquisition for a team that's going to be clawing at a Wild Card spot which is where Tampa is.

I wrote a whole longer thing but it was a bit too long winded and deleted most of it lol.
 
Local Fed said:
I think you're overreacting about Cash, and I disagree with the Jays statement. Toronto benefitted from a pretty weak schedule after the Montoyo firing and they've gone right back to sputtering again lately (including getting dominated tonight by Cleveland.) They still have a serious lack of pitching depth and I don't see them lasting long if they win the Wild Card Series and have to play the Yankees or Houston.

Tampa Bay likely will miss the playoffs, I agree, but I see them as a victim of the injury bug more than anything and if all you do at the trade deadline is get a 34 year old David Peralta and Jose Siri, well you're not exactly telling me that you have a lot of serious aspirations for your team this season. Peralta's still a nice pickup don't get me wrong, but he's more of a guy you add to a team like Houston or the Dodgers, you know? More of like a really good depth piece for a potential World Series team than the big acquisition for a team that's going to be clawing at a Wild Card spot which is where Tampa is.

I wrote a whole longer thing but it was a bit too long winded and deleted most of it lol.
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Feel free to PM me your thoughts in full. I agree with your points on the injury bug and weak acquisitions. As someone who attends or watches every game I appreciate an outside opinion.
 
Vaughn Grissom is certainly looking like that dude so far. Definitely throws a wrench in the Dansby negotiations this off-season, I think.
 
Got to see Shohei and Trout IRL tonight. Trout is fucking massive even when sitting in the outfield. He crushed that homer right over our heads in left.

Most importantly though Rays win 11-1. I think they might be turning a corner now that they have Ramirez and Margot back.

Also if anyone wants to read about Joe Maddon shitting on the game:
Old Man Yells At Clouds Kinda?
 
Cpl. Long Dong Silver said:
Got to see Shohei and Trout IRL tonight. Trout is fucking massive even when sitting in the outfield. He crushed that homer right over our heads in left.

Most importantly though Rays win 11-1. I think they might be turning a corner now that they have Ramirez and Margot back.

Also if anyone wants to read about Joe Maddon shitting on the game:
Old Man Yells At Clouds Kinda?
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It's really nice to see Trout back. It's such a shame with his injury past and I've long felt like he gets nowhere near the respect that he deserves as a player; the guy is legitimately at legend-tier trajectory even despite the time he's missed. I don't necessarily mean in the same vein as Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron, but undoubtedly in that class of player where 50 years from now your grandkids will go "No way, you got to watch Trout play?" If only he focused on being some kind of activist and/or played for the other LA based team. People sometimes try to use the fact that he's barely tasted the playoffs, but I can't understand how that's a knock on him when the Angels never have much in the way of pitching and hand out some mega contracts that don't pay off (Pujols outside of the first year, Upton, and now Rendon.)

Also the Yankees are breaking out of their slump and they're doing it against some impressive starting pitchers. 3 straight wins now and it was against Alek Manoah of the Jays, and then Max Scherzer and Taijuan Walker of the crosstown Mets. Oddly enough, all three games ended up with a 4-2 score. Aaron Judge went homerless in 9 straight but now has back-to-back games with a homer to get up to 48. I hope that he can still make it to 60. Unless he has a horrific final month of the season I don't see anyone else winning the AL MVP. I can only see Ohtani really challenging him for it.
 
Local Fed said:
It's really nice to see Trout back. It's such a shame with his injury past and I've long felt like he gets nowhere near the respect that he deserves as a player; the guy is legitimately at legend-tier trajectory even despite the time he's missed. I don't necessarily mean in the same vein as Babe Ruth or Hank Aaron, but undoubtedly in that class of player where 50 years from now your grandkids will go "No way, you got to watch Trout play?" If only he focused on being some kind of activist and/or played for the other LA based team. People sometimes try to use the fact that he's barely tasted the playoffs, but I can't understand how that's a knock on him when the Angels never have much in the way of pitching and hand out some mega contracts that don't pay off (Pujols outside of the first year, Upton, and now Rendon.)
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It's not the injuries. It's the fact he chose to stay in Anaheim that is why nobody talks about him. How often can you talk about Trout when it's always the same. "Trout finished the season hitting .443 with 63 home runs and 145 RBIs and the Angels finished 62-100." Shohei should be looking at the success up there in Seattle and ponder jumping ship up north when his contract is up in LA.
 
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