The Atlanta Braves

>This guy bought a tent for half the price
>imagine if he did that with a house

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What did he promise satan in exchange for his gifts?

What team should I root for? I’m an honorary aryan (Honduran)

Why did the Dodgers hire Andrew Friedman from the Rays?

- sent from my MacBook

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>smart teams like the rays and the brewers

>>154261587
I didn’t say this but only clueless retards would disagree with this desu, post all the epic reaction images you want.

>>154261586
(((Friedman)))

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>brewers
>rays
>smart
pick one

April
April In the D

>>154261599
if they are so smart why don't they win a ring?

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They haven't been this dogshit in years.

>>154261572
DH positional adjustment

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>never winning a world series in 56 years

>>154261587
How are the Cubs doing, faggot?

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>smart teams like the rays and the brewers

I'm going to miss the San Diego crowds when Padres inevitably relocate

gaysconsin! KEK!!

>>154261623
Because their owners don’t spend on retaining the talent they have or signing free agents, and you can forget them actually trading away their prospects for impact veterans. Did you unironically just start watching baseball?

The team that always makes the playoffs despite having a bottom five payroll, they’re actually bad heh. Where did we get Friedman from anyway?

imma tell you
like you told me
cash rule everything
around me

>>154261574
Atlanta Braves is America's team. Do with that what you will.

>>154261702
welcome to Amerikkka

Sup bros, it's me seeking refuge here again because some bulgarian troll is ruining /nba/ by pretending me

>>154261707
Funny you mention the Braves cause they're the only team with a Honduran player, Mauricio Dubon

>>154261625
They were broken last year
Sometimes it just takes 1 truly haunting series to break a team. They’re actually going to end up like the lions from a few years ago.

we dont take kindly to apehoopers around these parts

Wow you mean the teams that literally applies the principles developed by smaller market teams that have to win with less go out and apply the same principles with the addition of adding players via free agency or trade win in October? That must make those smaller market teams are actually bad.
I am very intelligent

>>154261712
I'm in charge of Malaysia!!!

>>154261719
I promise i'll be a good boi...T.T

>>154261715
Dubon is a fun player. Plays a lot of positions for the Braves and decent hitter.

Teams that have more worlds ‘eries than the sewers and the tampon gays since the invention of television
>marlels (2)
>mest (2)
>sneks (1)
>dwight’s ox (1)
>anaels (1)
>cubbie bears (1)

>>154261722
Come here, i'll treat you to a meal of bak kut teh

>>154261719
99% of doyerpacos are spiritual apehoopers

Those fucking bulgerian gypsies

>>154261732
Post lockout Brewers is gonna hit like crack. You're gonna beg us to stop winning.

My teme is very smert

Which team invented the shift? The rule they had to ban because it was so effective. Who was the first team to use an opener. Newfag here please be kind

>>154261718
>They were broken last year
What a stupid thing to post.

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>smart teams like the rays and the brewers

how can one
Little street
Cause so many lies

>>154261759
Idk about the shift but I'm pretty sure the Dodgers started the opener thing.

The Cleveland Indians (now the Guardians) famously "invented" the modern extreme infield shift on July 14, 1946, specifically to stop Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams.
Baseball History Comes Alive
Baseball History Comes Alive
+1
While various defensive realignments had been used sporadically as far back as the 1920s against Cy Williams, the strategy became legendary as the "Boudreau Shift" after Cleveland player-manager Lou Boudreau. He devised it during a doubleheader after Williams hit three home runs in the first game. Boudreau moved nearly every defender to the right side of the field, famously leaving only one player on the entire left side.

When did Sewersfags get so uppity? They've only.been good for like five years max, they've been a fucking laughing stock for decades prior while the Cardinals and Cubs were dominating the Central.

>>154261762
See me in 3 years you will understand then

The Evolution and Ban
The Modern Surge: While the shift was used for decades against superstars like David Ortiz and Barry Bonds, the Tampa Bay Rays pioneered its widespread, data-driven use in 2006. Manager Joe Maddon used advanced analytics to apply the shift to a much wider range of hitters, a tactic that was quickly copied across the league.
The Ban: Because the shift became so effective at reducing batting averages—especially for left-handed power hitters—it was officially restricted by Major League Baseball starting in the 2023 season.
New Requirements: Under the current rules, teams must have two infielders on each side of second base, and all four infielders must have both feet on the infield dirt when the pitch is thrown.

>>154261783
It's the sort of retarded thing you could only post without knowing they missed the playoffs by 1 single game for the two years preceding last year.

My Braves were broken by the Rhys Hoskins bat spike in 22 and have only just now started to recover

>Cy Williams
aka ohtani

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>>154261788
I thought you said you added that new muncy pic to your collection

>>154261759
The Rays invented the opener.
And the Indians popularized the shift but apparently managers were doing it for a while so it's not really known who the first team to do it was.

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Joe Morgan is the only 100 WAR player under 5'9

>>154261781
>like five years max
Its closer to 10 now. The Brewers problem is they always choke in the playoffs.

How do the Rays produce so much personnel and staff for other teams? Is it just an attractive place for front office people to start their careers there?

>>154261572
He ate his vegetables and skipped rh noodles and sodiun

>>154261913
Torre?

>>154261913
Ryback

joe morgan

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>>154261922
Yes, Joe "The thumb" Torre!

Drug test Muncy NOW!

do u remember

gay barfs

>>154261572
Does he and Shohei shower together?

Lake Huron rolls
Superiors steams

>>154262026
flyover lakes

>>154262049
Why did ohtani say that?

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Alex Rodriguez is my all-time favorite player

>>154262071
>696

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>>154262071
For me it's the Iranian prospect

>>154262078
got cucked

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>>154262093

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kek

its time for us to have a toast

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>>154262239
a toast to

peepeepoodres

>>154262239
a toast to the Mests and Philthys competing to be the shittier team

the filthys in those ugly unis with the awful minor league tier pitcher and nonexistent hitting against the braves' worse was by far the worst thing put on the field so far in the '26 season

>>154262239
Go red socks!

mettie doo eh

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nippon twitter has better baseball discussion

>>154262357
Mariners nip twitter is teaching me the kanji for suicide.

>>154261552
every team in the league will go through a 7-13 stretch. it's all meaningless, nothing has changed. te phillies sawx, astros, mariners, and mets will all make the playoffs

>>154262405
How many teams will go though that stretch and have a 360M payroll?

>>154262423
doesn't matter move on

>>154262405
>mest

To whoever chimped out at me when I said the Braves were going to be good this year, I forgive you.

Smart teams like the Mets and Braves

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>>154262357
>Taiwan Walker
Sensible chuckle

>>154261721
name 1 team that does that

Smart people like government workers

Richfags like MacBook owners

The smartest teams simply do not need to win the World Series, their fans are too intelligent to gawk at shimmering metal trophies or enjoy parades. Winning games is enough.

Subhumans like MLB posters

good thing I post in /mlb/

Smart fans like Cardinals fans

>>154261586
Any word on this?

I lack the ability to reason or abstract, each year there is one smart team and 29 dumb teams the smart team is the team that hosts the trophy I deserve your time and you have to take my opinion seriously because I’m here all a day and I take any post that doesn’t grovel at the dodgers feet as a slight against my super special team and a slight against me as a person

smartly bunting my way to a DS exit

>>154261586
can a smart baseball fan give me an update on this?

>>154261586
Anyone want to take a shot at this?

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>smart teams like the brewers

How could another organization be well run if it’s not my team, the team that I root for? Doesn’t add up

>Too smart to win the World Series

>>154262570

>>154262589
>>154262576
How is it relevant in any way? The Rays lost a good gm that never won them
a trophy. Smart!

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Can it be late May already so our stars stop sucking dick

Nobel Prize winning teams like the mariners

>>154262624
I think he’s (incorrectly) trying to claim that the Rays would have likely won a World Series by now if they had the Dodgers payroll, which is just obviously not true.

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We're the Brewers too smart to win here?

>>154262674
Brewers were smart to win 4 more games when it really counted tho

No but actually now I’m curious how does Brian Cashman and Andrew Friedman being the lead executives at the two biggest teams in the world after getting their start in Tampa have anything to do with Tampa as an organization?

>>154262704
>>154262674
Hey we get it, your argument is they’ve never won a World Series so they can’t be well run organizations. We all know this, thank you for your insight, you are a special boy

>team spends 4 billion dollars
I JUST LOVE HOW SMART MY TEAM IS

>>154262570
Brutal

Literally only the most retarded simpleton doyerpacos won’t admit that the rays are a well run org that is often at the forefront of strategic changes in /mlb/. I think deep down even they know that but there’s this new trend where they want you to pretend like the dodgers are innovative and at the cutting edge of the sport, not just financial bullies that spend $500m in payroll. Sad! Insecure!

In hindsight it was such a smart move to give Yamamoto the largest contract ever for a pitcher before he had even thrown a pitch in MLB. Rays and Brewers weren’t smart enough to do that!

>>154262717
That’s a bit of an unfair characterization; the brewers have also not won a pennant since 1981 kek

>>154261808
that was a different muncy poster but I also added the pic to my stash

>>154262639
Cal not shaking Randy’s hand made the baseball gods curse him

Smart fans realize that a 0 is a ring in and of itself

Reds won with 3 hits on Tuesday and four hits last night.