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Tyler Glasnow got the W, Austin Meadows hit his 33rd home run, and those two clinched the Rays' first playoff berth since 2013 lat night.Glasnow pitched 3 innings, 0 ERs with 7 Ks today. This is his 2nd start coming off a serious injury. This is against the Boston Red Sox. That's who we gave up in a package including Meadows and our top pitching prospect for Chris ####### Archer.
Hurdle had to go but we all know the real problem is ownershipMcBokonon said:
You guys are small market team that does it right. We are a small market team that does it completely wrong. The fact that you took maybe the most talented team in the history of baseball (this might be a slight exaggeration) to 5 games is nuts.Capella said:
Makes me mildly nauseous.fred_1_15301 said:
He's the best pitcher in baseball. Pitching "guru" Searge ruined him in Pittsburgh. But I suppose canning Hurdle will solve all of the team's short and long term issues. :Championship:
The Archer trade puts us at least 5 years from even attempting to make any noise. The system is depleted. They wanted too much for the child molester and now get nothing. Sell everything but Bell at this point.
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Yeah but they should have a pretty good rotation with Cole, Taillon and Glasnow. Also, their outfield with Polanco, Marte and Meadows is one of the best in baseball.
And the sorry a@@ ownership drives the franchise further into oblivion. Worst owner of any of the major sports and it isn't close. It's a shame this piece of garbage of an owner gets away with it, but everyone needs to quit going to games so he can't make any money.
For the record, I wasn't making fun of your post (I have nothing but complete respect for you as a poster and especially your baseball wisdom). I was just laughing at the thought of any type of revenue being invested towards the actual product on the field. And what on Earth would make anyone think that this ownership would be "willing to spend" at any point in the future?
The guy hit .203 last season. I think he has a pretty good case that he wan't using performance-enhancing drugs - or if he was using PEDs he should be seeking a refund cause they didn't work.
Nothing will come of this of course. As long as Nutting can make money fielding a crappy team there really isn't much incentive to try to pt together a winning team ad potentially lose money.
I am fine with not spending money in years they aren't going to be competitive as long as the use it in a future year or put it into player development.
Yeah, no chance for us Bucco fans, but rule changes would hurt effective small market teams.Yeah, Bob Nutting has a great history of doing this.
This would be a great way to spend now for future success:Godsbrother said:Yeah, Bob Nutting has a great history of doing this.
I dunno; I was impressed with your catcher during this series. He knew that the Indians hitters are still suckers for low, off-speed stuff and he kept urging his guys to keep their pitches low. Of course, a lot of stuff ended up in the dirt because...well, they suck, but he stopped everything. Tom Hamilton liked what he saw out of the kid and I do too.
They put a smackdown on the Cubs these past few games. I wonder if the Cubs batters were as distracted by Brault's arm tattoos as I was watching from home. Then the next day the Cubs made Trevor Williams look like Doug Drabek, and today was just an old-fashioned beating.
Well a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while and the Cubs already have the division locked up
Odd is a nice way to put it. They aren’t even attempting to put a good product out there. It’s a disgrace.
