>tfw no qt 3.14 white sox editionPrevious >>157994888
First for dancing on pickcincy’s grave
cardinals
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>>158005408I look like that and wear that hat
If a 23-year-old position player gave your ballclub this level of production, how satisfied would you be?
>>158005408
All the Cubbies girls are dead,RIP
dodgers
I'm a zombie. A Cubs zombie!
JLH
>>158005454They all transitioned (to Southsiders)
I'm a girl. a Sox girl!
gayce shartper kek
>>158005454
>>158005469https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcGb24n9hvM
The Guard Dogs are getting put down.
I swear to god there is a pitcher on my OOTP team that the second there are enough runners on base to blow a save he gives up a homer every time. It's like he just waits for the worst time to give up homers or walks, weak contact and then a homer. I got another guy with 70 stuff out of 80 and dude can't strike anyone out. he's holding batters to like a .153 batting average via week contact early in the count but he only had like 4.5 k/9
>>158005500Would you like to watch the white sox game with my after church?
philthies stuck with a lot of bad contracts. will be even worse next year. dumb dumbrowski kek
>>158005567does this pepe not load for anyone else?
Harper to the Angels for Schanuel straight up unironically
>>158005582
>>158005576i doubt it. their rotation gives them a pretty high floor.
>>158005594it does but they can't hit and they have some big contractsSchwarber's fine but frankly I never understood the love for big HR numbers when you're struggling to break a .900 OPSlike Scharb had ~45 HRs and an ~.850 OPS this season. is that really so great?
>>158005615yes, they have big contracts. but many of their big contracts are to good players. harper, schwarber, luzardo, wheeler, sanchez.nola's contract is not great, but he was pretty good in the second half. there isn't anything they can do about turner except hope he turns it around. realmuto not much to do except get a backup who can play more.they have ~$40m coming off the books with Bohm, Garcia, and Castellanos' dead money.
kek philthies
>good players>harper
>>158005642marte for painter who says no
When the white sox win the world series, this genny will be subject to an inquisition. All recker posters, cubs "girls", and other degenerate posters will be burned at the stake.
>>158005675i don't think painter is available. he pitched pretty well in the 2nd half and is still cheap.i think the phillies will probably try to sign seiya suzuki or sato, but don't think they'll land either. jp crawford coming back wouldn't shock me.
>>158005642true but the offense has been exposed in the postseason like 3 seasons in a row now, and they are only going to continue to age and decline. and because the contracts are expensive and long, it restricts how much the Phillies can maneuver around them to continue building win-now teams (which has always been Dombrowski's MO)
>>158005711they should trade for Manny Machado to round out the look
>>158005582works on my machine
>>158005711right, but there's no in between. they either blow it up completely or they keep trying to make it work. because of the pitching staff, they will do the second.
>>158005738do you think they will be able to make significant acquisitions or do you think they will try to make short-term value plays?>>158005722he kinda gives off bad vibes but the Padres are doing well so who knowsis he still playing plus defense at 3B? I remember when he used to be a wizard
>>158005769>do you think they will be able to make significant acquisitions or do you think they will try to make short-term value plays?i think they will try to bring someone in. i don't know how successful they will be, so they might have to go to plan B. like i said, i think suzuki solves a lot of problems for them even if he's another older player.
what do the mets need to do to be world series contenders in 27?
>>158005785I imagine they will be in the running for Sato since they're letting Bohm walk. and if Bichette opts out (unlikely), they might try to get him again
last night... I dreamed... I dreamed I was a Cubs girl...
>>1580057922 #2/3 starters (King, Rasmussen, Holmes, etc.).800+ OPS production at 1Bone of Voit/Pitre/Rojas to break through so they can get Semien out of the lineup and off the fieldhonestly, that's about it. it's not a big lift. this year was a mix of really bad luck and some bad bets, but the pieces are mostly there
>>158005769Machado will start making 39m per season starting next year until 2033. That's 12m more a season than Trea Turner at the same age for the same amount of time.
>>158005708He needs surgery on a shoulder and doesn't really have anywhere to play. It's more likely my M's stupidly give him another year at 3b.
>>158005510
>>158005701mfw
>>158005818*Machado is almost a full year older than Turner
Someone explain to me why this chick gets clowned on so hard just for being a passionate baseball fan.
As a dodgers lifelong I think it’s over for us. Murakami is just to charismatic and likeable, it’s over for us and for Ohtani :(
>>158005845Elon coded body type
>>158005819stott and turner are the only non-1B infielders under contract next year and i'm not sure turner is locked into the infield.
>>158005855she has a weird face and body
>>158005818>39m per season starting next year until 2033holy fuck that's brutal. is that the worst dead contract in the MLB?8 MORE YEARS??????
/mlb/ better stop insulting women or she's going to show up at your door and kick your ass
>>158005875I imagine it will be viewed as the worst deal in baseball sooner rather than later.
Alright, from now on, it's SOXGERS instead of CUBGERSLet's cheer for each other until we reach the World Series
>pay baseball players each week based on fixed rates per production statistic>tax the owners heavily>use the 80% drop in bloated salaries and siphoned revenue to make the fan experience super affordableI just fixed baseball. y'welcum
39 players had more WAR than juan soto
>>158005892Do they let you take pictures with the chimps at the zoo?
>>158005926I would hope so considering he missed a third of the season and has never been rated for his defense
We’re hunting sock teams
>>158005915I like the argument against taxing the wealthy means there will be fewer jobs available
>>158005792>stearns at the wheel A shotgun
>>158005926he only played 1/3 of the season
>>158005888yes
>>158005855her face is built like a dreidel
>philthiesKEK
>FOX moved the Dodgers game to 1pm local time so it doesn't interfere with their Saturday night college footballHow can we make baseball compete with college football?
>>158005888She fucked me
Very cool. Now let's look at Kyle Tucker's contract
>>158005972it's only 3 more yearsbut it brings me great joy to know that the criminal fraud surrounding the Dodgers means they will have to start being much more tight with their budgetfucking disgusting fake criminal team
>>158005888>Pins you down and farts in your faceWhat do you do next?
king cuck kek
>>158005989*sniiiiiffffff*
>>158005972That's not the same thing, Dodgers can afford it and will probably overpay on another good free agent just so no one else gets them. For teams like Padres and Phillies they need every dollar they can get and a bad contract can set the team back years.
Now that the dust has settled, what exactly has Brian Cashman missed out on by not signing Bryce LARPer?
>>158005993Dodgers aren't affording shit lol, Walters has liquidated literally every other sports franchise he owns save for the Dodgers. they are the last domino standing. fucking faggot team is gonna go through years of penny pinching. joy to the world!
>>158006011That’s why you respect superior GMs like Brian Cashman.
>>158006002harper would have been a very good fit with the yankees. i'm not sure what this post is supposed to be getting across.
>>1580060021-2 rings
>>158005862His range is bad and he fielded like half a dozen routine grounders into the 1b camera well this year.
>>158006002they'd have a rightfielder to replace aaron sludge
>>158006033As evidenced by?
>>158006031The Yankees front office obviously disagrees with this statement.
>>158006055It came to me in a dream
>>158006045The Yankees have 4 outfielders + 2 utility guys who can play the outfield any time.
Now that the dust has settled, what has Brian Cashman missed out on by not signing Yoshinobu Yamamoto?
>>158006002He has the same amount of World Series wins as Harper since he entered the league. Zero (0).
>>158006092is that cashman on the weekends? would
>>158006100Brian Cashman entered the league in 1986.
>>158006106Come and get me big boy
>>158006111Bro…
>>158006062they've been wrong plenty of times. and there is the payroll context. they still spend a lot of money, but they are clearly more gunshy than they used to be about really big time players/acquisitions. whether that's more steinbrenners feeding off the yankees, the stanton contract, the massive bill from the ballpark nobody needed, i don't know.
>>158006138is that his world series mvp trophy?
gird your loins, yunkees
>>158006148It’s someone’s cat, or at least it was.
>>158006143They have the highest payroll in the American League. You're an obese gremlin with a hamburger for a brain.
white sox really feel like the team of destiny this year. i say that as a cardinals fan
>>158006153Yankees will win in 4.
>>158006143>translation: the Yankees are intelligent with their contracts, value run prevention, and have the best farm system in Major League Baseball.
>>158006166Soxinals?
>>158006184and none of that would be meaningfully different if they had signed harper to play 1B, which is what was floated. the dodgers offered bryce like $40m a year to play for them (short term contract, but still) and they're the best run team in baseball.
>>158006188
Any news on how long the girlcott is going to go on for?
>and I say that as a *team name* fan
is ohtani even playing in the division series? feels like i havent heard his name in a month
>>158006215i hate that shit regardless of the sport
>>158006217yes
>>158006215I look like this and i say that as a cubs fan
lotta coping doyers in this genny
>>158005954>phillies vs cubs nlcsKWABOTY alert
>>158006215post your team, coward
"I'm drunk. I'm drunk. Yesterday, maybe hungover. No, not yesterday, tomorrow. Sorry, I don't speak English." -Munetaka Murakami
>>158006205>if they had signed harper to play 1B.In the winter of 2018, Bryce Harper had played exactly zero innings at first base. Committing $330 million to teach a 26-year-old outfielder a new infield position on the fly isn't smart roster construction. Harper didn't play first base until five years into his Phillies contract, and only out of absolute necessity because Tommy John surgery kept him from throwing from the outfield.>the dodgers offered bryce like $40m a year>they're the best run team.The Dodgers refused to give Harper the 13-year megadeal he demanded. They offered a short-term, high-AAV contract specifically to avoid long-term risk. Harper rejected it because he wanted the 13-year security Philadelphia offered. Even the smartest front office in baseball (by your belief) refused to commit 13 years to him, which proves the Yankees weren't foolish to pass on that decade-plus commitment as well.>roster construction.The Yankees had just absorbed Giancarlo Stanton's $325 million contract 12 months prior and already had Aaron Judge in right field. Tying up over $650 million in two massive corner outfield/DH profiles, while praying one of them could miraculously learn first base at the major league level, would have completely paralyzed their financial and positional flexibility.
>>158006292He's a great teammate.
>>158006292I want to hear him pronounce Malört.
>WAAAA WAAA THE DODGERS ARE RUINING BASEBALLGo cry more faggots
>>158006298harper was an acceptable 1B immediately. the scene from moneyball is a meme. we've been playing this game for over a century, guys move to 1B all the time.
>larper is already 33what the fuck
kek he's not ready for the lock & cap
Votto is crashing out. Somebody needs to take his phone away
If a wild card team defeats their division's winner in a postseason series, that team should be the division champion.
>no baseball todayWat do
What went wrong cubtrannies?
>>158006215I say this as an Orioles fan
>>158006215>”team name” fan here, I come in peace
>>158006215I’m a dodgers lifelong and I never say this
>>1580063754chan gave me an Asian fetish
>>158006348>harper was an acceptable 1B immediatelyNo he wasn't. He spent months undergoing daily drills with Phillies coaches before ever seeing the field. He is also a generational athlete with a relentless work ethic and a terrible baseline for positional swaps.>the scene from Moneyball is a meme.The movie exaggerates the dialogue, but the gist is real. A first baseman is involved in almost every infield out. They have to master blind footwork on the bag, pick bad throws in the dirt to save errors, and handle cutoff throws. A bad first baseman tanks the entire infield’s defensive stats.>guys move to 1B all the time.Teams move aging or injured players to first base out of absolute necessity to keep their bat in the lineup, not due to how easy it is. It’s used as a hiding spot to minimize defensive damage. There are massive discrepancies in Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) and Outs Above Average (OAA) between natural first basemen and converted sluggers.
>>158005701>Using girls in parentheses Aaand you have been cursed. Enjoy
>>158006375these are corrupted asian staciestraditional Japanese girls mog them
>>158006435> A bad first baseman tanks the entire infield’s defensive stats.Evidence: 2026 Mets. Retard Stearns claimed his focus was run prevention, got rid of Alonso, who was supposedly one of the worst first basemen in the league, but the infield was much worse in 2026.
>>158006448>parentheseswe got her
>>158006474Young actually graded out as a plus defender compared to Stearns. It's just that he was hurt for a while early in the season and Mendoza was also running too many split-based lineups.
>>158006497>compared to StearnsFreudian slip, you acknowledge even if only mentally, that Stearns is bad. Got em.
Why did the big team from Chicago with all the fans get humiliated and the rival one with zero fans and zero regulars on the genny win (against the worst team in the playoffs mind you)?Does God hate cubtrannies and autistic discord freaks?
PCGay kek
Mest fans that defend Stearns have to be the biggest retards on earth
>>158006375imagine the smell
>>158006512We (me) all hate Stearns
kek gayce shartper
>>158006527kek
>>158006542ABGs like that usually smell good.
158006521One of the all time most retarded posts on the genny. Not sure if chikaner or doyer newfag.
>>158006497Young was not part of the equation when they made the decision to dump Alonso. He was a career minor leaguer who was an all or nothing type hitter in his big league cups of coffee. And again, this is still ignoring the point that the Mets would have been better with the best possible hitter and figuring out the rest later.
>>158006497Their actual plan was Polanco replacing him not Young
>>158005955CTEegg > Slopswing
>>158006512Well, I'm sure even Pete is a plus defender compared to Stearns lol>>158006594>>158006581I understand, but baseball is full of wrinkles and heroes coming out of nowhere. Young still got an invite to ST and made the Opening Day roster because management and the FO saw his value. He then made the most of that opportunity based on Polanco's injuries.I'm hopeful that Polanco will be healthier next year and give us more production. He's at least capable of being a replacement-level player, which would be a decent platoon with Young.Hopefully Young also fully recovers from the concussion.
>Only a few more weeks until NBA tips offThank fuckin god. I'm already bored from baseball.
>>158006594>>158006609I never understood the Polanco signing because at best he was going to be a DH or occasional 2b. M's really ended up getting his last good year.
>>158006609this whole tangent started because you're a fucking retard who thinks the yankees didn't miss out on a great player by passing on harper. i don't really want to keep going back and forth with you, especially now figuring out you're the same mets retard who has been trying to sanitize the alonso decision for months.
>>158006631No one understood anything the retard did last off season except the Nimmo trade to make room for Benge and Ewing. Pete did it his way and humiliated him by getting the entire stadium to call for his head.
>>158006632I'm not the anon you've been discussing Harper with. Calm down.>>158006631He was brought over with the intent of playing 1B because theoretically it is easier to adapt to it if you can play average defense at 2B. He just didn't play enough for us to see if that would end up holding true.For what it's worth, it did benefit Bichette, who went from being below-average at SS to average at 3B.
The Polanco that Stearns thought he was getting.
>>158006375americanized asians are the worst
The Polanco that Stearns actually ended up getting.
>shartper white knight still in a meltdown hours laterkek
>>158006662>bait fishing
>>158006644>>158006654I mean just with his injury history it didn't make sense. 2024 Polanco was pretty mediocre and it seems odd Boy Genius just seemed to ignore that and assume he was getting 2025 Polanco.
>>158006688True, Stearns probably based his decision on something even more arbitrary like Polanco’s ethnicity as opposed to his most meaningful seasons (with Minnesota).
>>158005954I love it when casual baseball fans who don't ever watch the Phillies just see all the big names and start hyping them up. Particularly the offense.
>>158006609The point is that Stearns’ process was bad. Replacing Pete with Polanco was a retarded move day of. It got worse in hindsight. Even people who bought into his run prevention bullshit should be able to grasp that a much worse offense more than nullifies a slightly better defense, even if his plan worked, his plan was retarded.
Jorge Polanco is going into the Hall of Fame as a Twin.
>>158006723Seasisters…
>>158006435Bro, 1B is where you shove the fat fuck who can't run or field. It's the easiest position in baseball.
>>158006707It was a bet that didn't pay out, but nobody could have reasonably expected Polanco to deliver the first-percentile outcome.That said, I think your and >>158006698 anon's overall point is true: Stearns should not have attempted to replace Alonso with a player known to be injury-prone. However, I think the plan was to use Polanco on a short-term deal while one of Reimer, Clifford, or Vientos earned the spot. Unfortunately, all of them took major steps backward this season.It's definitely one of the things Stearns has to fix. We need more firepower from 1B. However, it's equally true that Alonso still being on the team would not have resulted in it being a winning team, which is exactly what people were upset about in 2025. We'd get the pleasure of watching him hit 40 home runs and continue building his legacy as a great Met, but that would have been independent of postseason success.
>>158006481Fuck you
>>158006731Too dishonorable for my club.
>>158006735That's only because the bar has been arbitrarily set very low. Watch Keith Hernandez in his prime play 1B. An elite infield glove at 1B carries ballgames.
>>158005408you may only reply to this post if your team won as many wild card rounds this year as the filthies while also having never lost a playoff series in head to head competition against the filthies.
>>158006735That’s what the Universal DH is for. if a guy can't field, you don't give him a glove. First base handles the ball more than any position besides catcher, and a bad defender will turn routine outs into errors.
>>158006747keef didn't carry shit when he was in cleveland and couldn't hit anymore
>>158006747This. Then watch Mike Piazza play 1B, lmao.
>alec bohm is a FA>mattingly isn't coming back to Philly Jerry you fucking retard this is the easiest move in history and all you gotta do is pay them.
My dick
>>158006754Philthies kek!
>>158006764brother he was a rough 36 after 15 years of coke lol
>>158006779So many options but I'll just order 25lbs of her ass for the table.
>>158006779/mlb/ is not for gooning
>>158006779I want to bury my face deep in her ass crack
>>158006784KKEK
>>158006779Ass is too big.
>>158006814Nigga u gay
>>158006791Mike Piazza was always bad at 1B. He got converted to catcher right after the draft.
>>158006723WAR is fake and gay but it does please my autism greatly how his just gets worse and worse each year
If you're a true San Diego sports fan, you would also be supporting the Chargers.
These are quite some picks for starters but I guess managers are trying everything these daysWhat do you think the velo on Murakami's screwball is going to be?
>>158006826I'm talking about Chief Kief's last season; he played with CLE
>>158006835>WAR is fake and gayWAR is the reason PCA is getting a fraudulent MVP
>>158006779hnnnnnnnnnnnnnng
>>158006779Wonderful ass>>158006814I want Ireland to leave
Bros… I should have called!
>>158006850based Bill. umpie legend.
>>158006889what the fuck
>>158006889
>>158006889>>158006914this is insane
>>158006754They had an interim manager and a lower payroll than the Mets. Incredibly, they were able to right the ship with a glorified hitting coach at the wheel. How do you get surpassed by THAT?
>>158006889enjoy getting ass raped in prison, fucker
>>158006814same
>>158006889What have you done
If the Guardians get swept, I'm cutting my dick off.
i thought the games were today and planned my entire day around it.
Was this guy any good as a pitcher?
>>158006907>>158006914>>158006938>>158006973Please show mercy ;-;
>Chris Sale on the Boston Red Sox ownership group philosophy…: “They put it on the players, ‘if you guys give us a good first half, we’ll do what we need to do to facilitate winning a World Series.’”And now their goal is the third wildcard every year... which they can't even do that! LOL!
>>158006889twas nice knowing you (depending on who your team is)
philthies kek
Tampa Gay
>>158006758Come off it. It's always where your worst defender is. I don't care how much action they get that action doesn't require the same athleticism as other positions. There's a reason you shove the big guy there. You're not putting Frank Thomas at short. Stop trying to rewrite reality.
I just got out the shower and now you're gonna make me fap
>>158006774Fuck Mattingly. Dude was completely checked out and was letting the inmates run the asylum.
>>158007038A-at least there's college foobaw on tonight.
i'll never say "cubbies." that's for women who unknowingly has the government as their father figures and for wanna normalfag males. wannabe nornalfags are loser types who long to drink and party every day because that's what they think 90% of adults do every other day
>>158007133Nobody is saying that first base takes shortstop athleticism; the point is that the least athletic position isn't the same as zero skill required. Putting a slugger at first works when he knows the bag. Handing $330M to Harper (an outfielder) who had literally never played 1B in his life and expecting him to be magically elite at 1B is just dumb.
>>158007163The cubbies deserve a chance
>>158006889CALLBEFOREYOUDIG!but seriously tho, there's way more shit in the ground now than ever so.
>>158007082They sold the farm this year though, isn't that what you'd want as a player?>>158007149There's no faggot blowhard on the M's like Harper, and there's no way he could be a more useless 'aw shucks' than Dan Wilson was.
>>158007163based retard
>>158007183you're allowed to say it because you're either a woman who uknowingly has the government as her father figure or a wannabe normalfag
>>158007082that seems like a pretty reasonable and realistic philosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc8uj8eId7E
>>158007203da cubbiebears!!
>>158005915>pay baseball players each week based on fixed rates per production statisticThe mob and bookies will bribe pitchers and hitters to throw games.
You could've listened to our friendly warnings. Instead, you're going to jail.
>>158007254i know. you're allowed to say it because you're either a woman whose father is unknowingly the government or a wannabe normalfag dude. not me, though
LMAO
>>158007258The 1970s were 50 years ago anon..
I have no phone and I must dig.
