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The GM is surely the one who made the call starting Cease on short rest when that has historically not worked out for him.

Portions of roof at Tropicana Dome in St. Petersburg ripped off (by Hurricane Milton) cnn.com

Or Balta, The Pro Bono Prosecuting Attorney Strikes Again

And Edwin Jackson played for an MLB record 14 different teams (46.7%), retiring at the age of 36 in 2019. Including the Dodgers.

This goes all the way back to the decision not to start him in 2020.

But who is LA going to start? SD has beaten up Yamamoto this season. London Knack? Probably Flaherty against Michael King on short rest.

Really thought Manaea was done after watching his stuff erode with SD but he has really bounced back this year. Alec Bohm the pick right before Madrigal. Castellanos discussed about as long as Joc Pederson.

Witt Jr. breaks his 0/12 post season slide and will have to steal second...and possibly third.

DCINAA In all seriousness, they should have started Martin Perez and let Cease have two more days of rest, but hindsight is always 20/20.

Royals are giving the Yankees a real battle. 2-2 going to the bottom of the 6th. Schmidt and Lugo both pitched pretty well.

Ooops...was simply thinking about Nola's role going forward and totally forgot about Zack. Well, they're going to have to get more production up the middle of the field, at SS/2B/CF. It's as simple as that. As far as Painter goes, their top pitching prospect, find it doubtful that Getz would take a pitcher so soon after TJS as the centerpiece of a deal, but that's probably the best time to strike with (relatively) depressed value. Same way the Sox were able to get Giolito, Lopez and Dunning in one strike, because of the fall in Lucas' standing after early big league struggles and concerns over mechanical adjustments after high school. If the White Sox were really creative, they'd sign Bieber but undoubtedly he'll get more guaranteed money elsewhere. It also seems like the kind of bet AJ Preller's going to make before he guts his farm system to acquire another front line starter.

Certainly the juxtaposition of lower budgeted Detroit/Benetti, Cleveland and KC getting so much national airtime isn't helping matters for Getz. The only team that came into 2024 spending a bit more than the White Sox in the AL Central was Minnesota, and they're still MUCH better off than the White Sox, but currently considering a rebuild nevertheless.

Down go the Phillies, the NL favorites along with the Dodgers entering the post-season. Where do or can Dombrowski go from here after so many near-misses the last three years? For one thing, they're clearly lacking a real ace. Nola is more like an ace-adjunct. So that means they will be also be targeting Burnes, Fried, Snell, the usual suspects.

Pretty remarkable Quintana still hasn't surrendered an earned run this post season.

Tigers Mets Padres and dare the Royals be the teams of destiny? Guardians the victims of poor hitting and even better fielding from DET. Cleveland is going to have to figure out a way to add to Kwan Ramirez Naylor. 19 consecutive scoreless innings. 4 times they had two runners on base.

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Can't believe Edwin Diaz's arm hasn't fallen off at this point. Mendoza is really pushing that guy to the brink. Also Kopech has come a long way from months ago with the Sox.

They love the "save the Polar Bear" storyline in NYC...plus it would be hilarious if the Mets surpassed the Yankees without intentionally attempting to compete this season. Stearns just seems to have things go his way...shocker, I know.

Going into the season with that completely inexperienced bullpen and just two strong defenders (if healthy) in Robert and Moncada was already doomed to fail if you simply went by health histories. It seems they were counting on another Santos-like breakthrough from the youngsters like Measure and never got it. Otoh....look at what the Detroit Cleveland and even KC pens did this year. They were true strengths for all three of those teams down the stretch. None of them were close to being "the most expensive bullpens in the history of the game." (And then we overspent on jerks like Kelly and Graveman that didn't even want to be here in the first place. Kimbrel never fit either.)

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/rafael-devers/17350/stats?position=3B Devers is your classic 4 fWAR player...but his defensive limitations and potential for injury as he ages keep him from being a true all around superstar. More like Manny Lite, or Ortiz Lite. But Betts was the real star that got away and was irreplaceable to the Red Sox lineup.

That Tigers' win over Clase was much closer to the definition. I guess it was simply being a one run game for six consecutive innings...but neither team was really all that close to scoring after the third. For Padres' fans that were mostly expecting Suarez to collapse again in a key moment...

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-playoffs-2024-padres-show-they-arent-intimidated-by-the-dodgers-or-anyone-else-in-nlds-game-3-victory-063924389.html https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41665721/mlb-playoffs-2024-san-diego-padres-nlds-peter-seidler For his postseason career, Tatis is 17-for-40 (.425) with six homers. The only players with more homers in their first 11 postseason games are Carlos Beltrán with eight while Daniel Murphy, B.J. Upton and Nomar Garciaparra each have seven. Tatis also has five homers lifetime vs. Buehler over the regular season and postseason combined.

So far this postseason, Tatis is 10-for-18 with four home runs, seven RBI and a 2.151 OPS. His career 1.528 OPS in 36 postseason at-bats (including two series in 2020 against St. Louis and LAD) is the second-highest in MLB history, behind only that of former big-league outfielder Colby Rasmus.2 days ago. Tatis Jr.RF 4 1 1 2 0 0 .556 1.969

This sounds like an all-too-familiar argument around these parts... Maybe hire someone from the Padres, up until today, every single thing they've done for the last calendar year has worked out exceedingly well. And they've had a Top 3 Latin American operation, along with the Dodgers and Rangers. You can EVEN see the the pitchers SD identified to bring in over past seasons, Manaea Lugo Wacha and Nick Martinez, three of those guys are pitching effectively into the postseason, and Michael King (slight blip tonight) was another one the Yankees definitely let get away (while paying the likes of Carlos Rodon a lot more than King in the process.) Balta will like this, the ONLY pitcher who really "failed" in SD among starters acquired was Clevinger (and he pitched well for most of 2022 until the NLCS), and that was one of the biggest bust trades of the AJ Preller career transactions list. PS DRAFT/SIGN guys who can play C/SS/CF and 2B (at least 2 of those 4 spots)...with up the middle levels of athleticism, then, if you have to, put them on the corners where they will be overall pluses from a defensive standpoint.

Looks like SD has Cease listed as the G4 starter. Martin Perez would be the other choice...G5 theoretically Darvish on short rest. London Knack countering for LAD, probably...tough spot for a rookie starter with the weight of the world on his shoulders. No idea who for G5, maybe Yamamoto but he just gave up 5 runs in his first playoff start.