wow
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
whoa
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
scooter gennett to the gnats
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
The Astros are fucking stacked
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
#MNTwins acquire Sam Dyson from Giants.— Dan Hayes (@DanHayesMLB) July 31, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
Your 2019 leaders in WHIP:1-Justin Verlander 0.812-Zack Greinke 0.945-Gerrit Cole 1.00That's your Game 1-2-3 starters in Houston. Scary.— Jayson Stark (@jaysonst) July 31, 2019
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
Astros heavy favorites unless injury strikes. Holy shit
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
you know a pitcher is good when you have to count on them being incredibly unlucky so far and for that bad luck to suddenly stop, in order for them to be a viable SP
the Brewers are incredibly desperate for starting pitching right now
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
Jedd don’t call me Gyorko apparently headed to Dodgers
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:24 (five years ago) link
xp I see that!
I mean three of their SP went on the DL within a week, including the one guy who wasn't a horrible disappointment
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
Greinke signed through '21. Is making $31.5M this year, will be paid $32M in '20 and '21.— Alyson Footer (@alysonfooter) July 31, 2019
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
This year's Astros vs Dodgers World Series rematch will be epic.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
none of this makes the jays look good
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
Tanner Roark to A's
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
wonder if the prospects the Astros sent were any good, they're probably just thrilled to be rid of that contract. they got a playoff game out of it at least.
still bummed that Seth Beer hasn't come to the Brewers (yet)
― frogbs, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
arizona gets houston's 3rd, 4th, 5th and like 20th best prospects. hate to not get tucker or whitley, and bukauskas has had a rough season, but that's pretty good
also: fuck the pirates
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
weird day for dombrowski
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 20:56 (five years ago) link
return for gyorko is tony cingrani, who is still a professional baseball player, and jeffry abreu, who i know nothing about, and is 19
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
somehow i missed castellanos to the cubes
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:18 (five years ago) link
Pablo Sandoval is trying to trick reporters by walking around and hugging teammates goodbye. He fooled @extrabaggs “for an eighth of a second”— Stephanie Apstein (@stephapstein) July 31, 2019
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
@MartinJGallegos Tanner Roark told Cincinnati reporters he was sitting in an Arby’s parking lot eating a Beef n Cheddar and curly fries when he found out about the trade to the A’s.
my man
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
glad it wasn't that silly chili
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:32 (five years ago) link
Braves get right-handed closer Shane Greene from the Tigers for left-hander Joey Wentz and outfielder Travis Demeritte.
Today's game a good example of how badly they need that closer.
― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
I will be bandwagoning hard for Greinke to earn a World Series title.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:48 (five years ago) link
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One of Dombrowski's strangest quotes of the day: "If we can get in and play a one-game playoff -- for example, Houston made big trades today. They’re really good. They were good beforehand. If we play Houston, it will be in the playoffs, right? So we’ll see what happens."— Jason Mastrodonato (@JMastrodonato) July 31, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
On a conference call, Jays GM Ross Atkins says the team's moves have 'turned 14 years of control into 42 years of control'.gonna be tough for the marketing folks to work that into a slogan.— Scott Stinson (@scott_stinson) July 31, 2019
like to see the Twins (or the Rays) win the pennant tbqh
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
Yeah I didn’t see much of a future for Stroman and Biagini and Sogard and Hudson with the Jays, trading Sanchez is a little more confusing.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
Anyway, there ain't much to dislike from a Jays perspective imo.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
they could've/should've gotten way more for stroman alone
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
I don't know about 'way' more, but yeah more perhaps.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
b4 you cede the next two WS titles to Houston, I remind you of Maddux-Glavine-Smoltz
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 August 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah but did they have José Altuve?
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 1 August 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
this year's Altuve is kinda like Mark Lemke
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 August 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
>Anyway, there ain't much to dislike from a Jays perspective imo.
every Jays fan i know right now is red-lining with rage about the last two days.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 August 2019 02:44 (five years ago) link
They should stop reading Cathal Kelly.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 1 August 2019 02:49 (five years ago) link
two main things:... no, three: the return for Stroman was light. we coughed up a (admittedly fringe) prospect for an outfielder no one thinks much of (along with Sanchez and Biangini). the return that Bauer, and to a lesser degree, Grenkie got make the Stroman deal look much worse (even tho, yes they are both better – they pulled in *a lot* more).
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 August 2019 02:54 (five years ago) link
xpost - i'm not sure who this is.
Toronto baseball fans can sometimes be the worst. a lot expect every trade to land us joe Carter or Josh Donaldson. so there's a base level insufferable to every move. but there's more than a few people feel this deadline was a missed opportunity. also doesn't help that immediately after the Sanchez deal, the main guy we just landed two days ago got destroyed in his first start for the AAA team.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 August 2019 02:58 (five years ago) link
I suppose i'm higher on Fisher than most. Or lower on what Sanchez and Biagini could contribute over the next 2 seasons.
No one was going to get Bauer's haul. I'll admit that something closer to that would have been great, but it doesn't make the Stroman deal a bust. And I'm not super convinced Stroman compares to Greinke.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 1 August 2019 03:07 (five years ago) link
Grenkie is obviously better, but the return was so disproportionate. And I had through the consensus on Fisher was he was a bust?!
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 August 2019 03:27 (five years ago) link
That was a big money move by the Astros, kinda nice to see a different club pull it off.
― earlnash, Thursday, 1 August 2019 06:24 (five years ago) link
So....RIP mlbtraderumors until November? More like mlbdfarumors now.
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 1 August 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
Honestly, I feel good about the Orioles standing pat rather than giving up the competent part of the team for garbage. Villar, Mancini, Alberto, Givens, etc. make the 2019 team a lot more fun to watch, and just for that their value to the Orioles is higher than their trade value on the market. And I am not on board with the theory that the team should actually strive to lose 120 games and "beat" the Tigers to the #1 draft pick.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 1 August 2019 16:32 (five years ago) link
VHS: What is it you're seeing in Derek Fisher? Just looking at his career box, I'm missing it.
Having said that, on the call-in show last week, after the team let Pompey go, one of the hosts said that the Jays, because of Bautista and Encarnacion, should know better than most franchises the danger of giving up on someone too soon. So I guess Fisher's the other side of the that.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 August 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
Joe Pos with a neat observation on Greinke - he's not the only HOF'er (lets assume) to play for 6 different teams, but he might be the only to switch teams so often in his prime. Bobby Bonds and Sheffield maybe come close but its not like Zack, where he's pretty clearly been in his 'prime' state for nearly his whole career (minus a couple of seasons I guess)
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 August 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
xp Fisher was never going to develop nicely in already stacked Houston. I think he is a fine project that will be worth 1-2 WARs in a position of need (outfield) for next few controlled years to come. Acuna he is not, but I am not even sure Sanchez + Biagini combined were worth 1 WAR over the last 2 seasons, in positions the Jays have more depth in.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 1 August 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
xp also kenny lofton (not a hall of famer, but pretty close!)
though most of his team-switching was after his prime
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 August 2019 18:10 (five years ago) link
reds claim kevin gausman off waivers from the braves
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 August 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
― frogbs, Thursday, August 1, 2019 10:52 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
maybe the closest guy to Greinke would be Gaylord Perry? when it's all said and done i can see them winding up w/similar WAR numbers. Greinke just cleared 70 on bWAR, Perry finished w/90.
― omar little, Monday, 5 August 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link