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**2015 MLB Season Thread: This is how the chapter ends (5 Viewers)

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 1m1 minute ago

Sources: #Marlins' Stanton has broken bone in hand. Exact details not yet known.

 
The Phillies aren't just terrible with scouting and trades, they started a game today when they knew the rain would be all over for most of the day. Middle of the 2nd now and this game is gonna be in a long rain delay, probably done for the day.

 
San Diego's starting infield

1B "no pop" Alonso Stagg

2B Cory Hamburgler

SS Alexei Amarista

3B Yangervis Solarte

Basically they found the worst Hispanic prospects and sprinkled in a German guy so the fans feel comfortable. That is the worst infield in baseball, no doubt. Cashner, Ross, and Shields are all pitching below par, Kemp is underachieving, and they have Will Venable in CF. Hard to believe they even have 35 wins to be honest.

I do love their old curmudgeon radio play by play guy though. Awful franchise.

 
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Encyclopedia Brown said:
Doctor Detroit said:
That is the worst infield in baseball, no doubt.
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When Jose Abreu DH's, and Laroche is at 1B, that South Side infield is atrocious.
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Padres are terribly built though. They have a stud down on the farm who plays the OF, and they have no room for him. Instead of getting Kemp, Upton, and Myers, maybe they should have traded for a 3Bman or something. White Sux at least have the excuse that Alexei Ramirez has just fallen off the planet after a near career year, and their 2B prospects just weren't ready. But them and the Phillies were the other two teams who entered my mind.

 
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Doctor Detroit said:
San Diego's starting infield

1B "no pop" Alonso Stagg

2B Cory Hamburgler

SS Alexei Amarista

3B Yangervis Solarte

Basically they found the worst Hispanic prospects and sprinkled in a German guy so the fans feel comfortable. That is the worst infield in baseball, no doubt. Cashner, Ross, and Shields are all pitching below par, Kemp is underachieving, and they have Will Venable in CF. Hard to believe they even have 35 wins to be honest.

I do love their old curmudgeon radio play by play guy though. Awful franchise.
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I loved all of gunz's optimism about this crap team this offseason.

"We'll get Will Myers and just play him in.......center" :lmao:

 
Hard to play a guy at all that is perpetually injured.

I think Yasmany Tomas is going to be a pretty good player, guy can flat out hit and will find the power he had in Cuba. Gonna be tough in that ballpark unless guys like Archie Bradley excel, and trading top prospects for expiring contracts is bad shtick. Some building blocks there though.

 
Cashner is strange to watch. On one pitch he throws a Nolan Ryan-ish heater, and then on the very next pitch he grooves one like Jamie Moyer. It's like there is no middle-ground with this guy.

 
Capella said:
Doctor Detroit said:
San Diego's starting infield

1B "no pop" Alonso Stagg

2B Cory Hamburgler

SS Alexei Amarista

3B Yangervis Solarte

Basically they found the worst Hispanic prospects and sprinkled in a German guy so the fans feel comfortable. That is the worst infield in baseball, no doubt. Cashner, Ross, and Shields are all pitching below par, Kemp is underachieving, and they have Will Venable in CF. Hard to believe they even have 35 wins to be honest.

I do love their old curmudgeon radio play by play guy though. Awful franchise.
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I loved all of gunz's optimism about this crap team this offseason.

"We'll get Will Myers and just play him in.......center" :lmao:
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They might take an L on every single one of those trades. They strip-mined their system to make a run at it this year, and I don't think they're even going to get close.

Tbh, I know that park sucks and their offense was terrible last year, but I think they just needed to stay the course and wait for their young guys to help out. They'd been putting up win totals in the mid-70's, it wasn't good but it wasn't the Phillies either.

"Going for it" in baseball is pretty dumb, given that you basically just need to luck out to win 3/4 serieseses.

 
Limp Ditka said:
Doctor Detroit said:
Before the game gets started let me just say, #### YOU CASHNER!!!!!! :thumbup:
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Right up there with Shark. If you're going to suck, at least look like a professional while you're doing it.

Get a ####### haircut, you mulleted hick.
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Shark looked good today. Really good actually.

 
Good Posting Judge said:
Capella said:
Doctor Detroit said:
San Diego's starting infield

1B "no pop" Alonso Stagg

2B Cory Hamburgler

SS Alexei Amarista

3B Yangervis Solarte

Basically they found the worst Hispanic prospects and sprinkled in a German guy so the fans feel comfortable. That is the worst infield in baseball, no doubt. Cashner, Ross, and Shields are all pitching below par, Kemp is underachieving, and they have Will Venable in CF. Hard to believe they even have 35 wins to be honest.

I do love their old curmudgeon radio play by play guy though. Awful franchise.
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I loved all of gunz's optimism about this crap team this offseason.

"We'll get Will Myers and just play him in.......center" :lmao:
Click to expand...
They might take an L on every single one of those trades. They strip-mined their system to make a run at it this year, and I don't think they're even going to get close.

Tbh, I know that park sucks and their offense was terrible last year, but I think they just needed to stay the course and wait for their young guys to help out. They'd been putting up win totals in the mid-70's, it wasn't good but it wasn't the Phillies either.

"Going for it" in baseball is pretty dumb, given that you basically just need to luck out to win 3/4 serieseses.
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If the Twins manage to stay in wild card contention despite their 4th order wins projected over replacement per inning pitched, I'm hoping they realize this and don't make any significant trades just to "go for it." Stay the course, and if they hit the playoffs a year ahead of schedule so be it, maybe they can get lucky and win a series.

 
Top ten hitters with percentage of batted balls over 100 mph

10. Ryan Howard 30%

9. Jorge Soler

8. Danny Valencia

7. Yoenis Cespedes

6. Miggy

5. Joc

4. Trout

3. Randall Grichuk

2. Giancarlo

1. Carlos Correa 36%

-Baseball Savant

 
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Long Ball Larry said:
E-Z Glider said:
Cano the current worst contract in MLB?
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depends on how you are defining it, but Verlander is probably close. Owed $140 for this year through 2019. I would guess that there is a better chance that Cano re-gains some semblance of his form.
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In the first two years of his deal JV returned a 4.8 and a 2.8 WAR. Ryan Howard is a cumulitive -2.1 in his 4th year of a $125 mm contract. So one more decent JV year and nothing woukd still end up being a better deal than Howard. So that has to be the worst current contract in baseball, at least JV and Cano have a chance to recover.
 
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