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Even better OSU Oregon game...clock management and OPI on J.Smith decided it. Next week Alabama at TN and elimination game UGA at Texas... Ofc UGA would be the first to get into a playoff with three losses... Lincoln Riley, Brent Venables, Sherrone Moore on the hot seats...finally, who's going to stop Iowa State?

"Jose Ramírez met with local media to talk about his performance against Detroit that day when he was asked about the team's new outfielder. But the news had broken while he was on the field. He didn’t know the Guardians traded for anyone. When he was told it was Thomas, he paused, trying to remember which team he was from. “The Nationals,” he was reminded. “Ah, yes. Good player,” Ramírez said in English. "Lane Thomas was it when it came to the offense at the Trade Deadline. He was the same type of high-contact guy that the Guardians have coveted in their organization for years now. His success against lefties was intriguing. His ability to tap into power would be icing on the cake. He seemed like someone who perfectly embodied the Guards Ball style of play. Cleveland knew this would be the right match. It just took a little longer than anticipated to prove it. In his first 25 games with the Guardians, Thomas hit just .145 with a .430 OPS. Prior to the trade, he had been back in action for merely a month after spraining his left knee earlier in the season. From trying to get his feet back under him to getting acclimated to a new environment to experiencing a hefty slump for a club that traded for you to improve its offense, the weight of the world was on Thomas’ shoulders." https://www.mlb.com/news/lane-thomas-starred-with-guardians-after-trade

Benintendi would love that...freedom and one large JR check.

Hahn was just never comfortable in that environment...like he knew he didn't belong as a non athlete.

Berroa/Santos?

This was one of the numerous issues with Hahn...

Awesome crowd in Cleveland...they're a better overall mstchup with NY. Carpenter a pain to deal with...but Clase with just one more inning to go.

Suddenly got interesting again... Detroit not going down easily. Two more innings to score 2.

Man SCarolina had their chances... to take down Bama. And they still are alive. Great game.

Not the wisest move if you're prepping to sell off the franchise, though.

Minnesota was never going to give up one of their Top 3 though...

Angels and DBacks before they got good.

Well that's that. Skubal just had the inning snowball on him.

Poor Benetti stuck doing Washington at Iowa while his Tigers are going to start in forty minutes.

These arguments go round and round,.. No way SD makes the postseason without Cease. Was it worth losing Thorpe and Zavala and Iriarte? Well it just might have saved Preller's job...SD has 2025 and maybe 2026 before they really start running into budgeting/payroll issues.

Even with Machado and Tatis on the White Sox today with their existing contracts…which is pretty much impossible to imagine JR giving ONE $340 million extension, what would their record have been this year? Let’s throw in Zack Wheeler as well. $766 million total contract dollars…or about half the Padres’ remaining debt load through 2040. 12.2 fWAR gives them a 53-109 overall record. And a non-Grifol manager that has them even with their Pythagorean? Up to 60-102…or four games better than the 2023 Royals.

4 years/$28M (2021-24), plus 2025 mutual option signed by San Diego as a free agent from South Korea 12/20 may earn additional $4M in performance bonuses based on plate appearances 21:$5M, 22:$6M, 23:$7M, 24:$8M, 25:mutual option $2M buyout (2022-25 figures are estimates) There's a mutual option on HaSeong Kim, so guessing he's MOST likely to elect FA with Adames his main FA competition at SS, and pretty sure Gleyber Torres...but he is going to be coming off a major shoulder injury/surgery. Bogaerts at this stage in his career is now much better off playing 2B rather than SS everyday. Doesn't even say the amount of the option, logically feels like it would be $9 million, though.

Our number one pitcher Joe Musgrove is out until 2026 Stuck with Bogaerts until 2040 Kim not signing with us as Boras is the agent Machado looks like he is aging rapidly Cronenworth has been abysmal at the plate for 2+ years Dodgers have all of their star starting pitchers coming back next year who were hurt and this relief staff that made us look like the White Sox Ohtani will pitch next year and be even better at the plate Done. Check back in April when hope springs eternal fan post from gaslampball.com https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterchawaga/2024/07/01/125-billion-commitments-drive-urgency-for-padres-at-trade-deadline/ Those figures mean that, as of now, the Padres rank 15th in spending this season but are currently on the hook for MLB’s largest payrolls in 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030. But the productive windows for most of those players appear to be closing quickly and this could be one of the final chances to capitalize on the commitment. https://sports.yahoo.com/san-diego-padres-2024-offseason-preview-what-needs-to-happen-for-the-padres-to-keep-up-with-the-dodgers-in-the-nl-west-024114746.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9zcG9ydHMueWFob28uY29tL21sYi8_Z3VjY291bnRlcj0x&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJNnd9IR-M7GBMBizvAKvmzyYb8wyY7wN3AdJIW_fxdZLXgLanWeiMcF_FF9ZKLsNi6ju-V2LKaPlPw1xcepjFofXMsqXhBE4Dcdw-bCenpCiTa1cdGG6_DtpJA95x9BC7nYyji9_QTciR3x7iZohq4MHLnCJLgy6ALaykScJuDZ

They were quite fortunate the bullpen held up in G3. 25 innings in a row without mounting a semblance of an offensive attack should get you bounced. And Cease never should have been pushed into a short rest start in the first place, that's on Preller/Shildt.

Kind of anticlimatic after Games 2-3 but the Dodgers were supposed to be the best team in baseball this year, just that nobody expected pitching to carry them these last two games. Ohtani just 4 games away from the World Series now...MLB must now be praying it's against the Yankees but who knows what those pesky Mets will do. Hard to imagine a NY team AND Steve Cohen would be the "underdog" casual fans are rooting for.

Kopech at 101.6 with the K 1-2-3 inning probably goes to Treinen next to close it out

2-0 Dodgers Bottom of the 7th Padres' offense just completely shut down for two nights in a row now. Yamamoto came through for them, so some ROI on that $300+ million.

Pham went from a 710 ops with the White Sox down to 654 with the Cardinals and finally finished with a 2024 Soxish 587 in over 100 at bats in KC. 5/15 in postseason, but only a 646 ops, and his defensive metrics are always negative. So he got worse and worse during the course of the year, simply wore down, probably. The White Sox would still have finished with 100-105 losses even with those two KC starters inserted. 99% sure their combined outfield OPS was 29th or 30th in MLB in 2024. Probably right there with the White Sox, actually. The writing, though, might have been on the wall for the Royals offense after they limped their way into October. From Aug. 28 to the end of the season, the Royals went 11-18. And in that 29-game span, 18 of those games saw them score three runs or fewer. As a team, they ranked last in MLB in wRC+ (59), AVG (.200), OBP (.268) and SLG (.303) during that 29-game span to close the season, according to FanGraphs. In terms of the ALDS in particular, what wasn’t as expected was the silence of the two main bats in the Royals’ lineup: 1/16 Bobby Witt Jr. and Vinnie Pasquantino. After a year that put him in the AL MVP conversation with a .332 AVG, a .977 OPS, 32 HR and 109 RBI, followed by a Wild Card series that saw him drive home two of the Royals’ three runs, Witt was virtually nowhere to be found in the ALDS. justbaseball.com

Just watch. JR is going to use the Twins’ example, how their bigger contracts for Correa, Lopez and Buxton make it impossible for them to fill out a competitive roster for less than $130 million. If there’s a more similar operation than the Pohlad’s and how that three generation is now in the process of running that team into the ground but in a more competitive way with a newer stadium by twenty some years over GRF. In Minnesota, Chip Scoggins wrote the Twins had a “collapse of the ages” as they went from “playoff shoo-in to playoff phooey in a matter of six weeks is a special kind of meltdown, and now the blame game kicks into overdrive.” The Twins went from 70-53 and a five-game advantage in the wild-card race on Aug. 17 to 82-80 by the end of the year. Scoggins wrote his “message to the Pohlads: Get serious or sell the team. Those are the options. Either or. Because the approach this season was shameful.” The Twins ownership’s “inability or unwillingness” to recognize the negative impact that a payroll dump would have on the momentum and fan re-engagement generated last season is just “mind-boggling.” Scoggins added the fan base is as “angry as it has been in a long, long time.” Scoggins: “The organization has a lot of damage to undo to win back fans. It’s not a coincidence that the Twins rank in the bottom third of attendance despite being in a playoff race until the final week.”

Dumping Robert and Vaughn would shave off another 25% or so...essentially leaving only the Benintendi deal.