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It works both ways .. yes the team is markedly better but you also can’t know how this same group would do pre and post wall.. because the getting better was only after the wall was already in place. If the wall was returned to its previous place for next year, then that would be a more accurate measure of how it affects the hitting and pitching stats of this squad of players. But wall is in place ..and they are winning for whatever reasons . I am fine with it.

Some people liked the years of barely over the LF fence homers .. not my favorite part of the game ..

Quirky .. that far corner near Mr Splash will see lots of exciting balls rattling around in there with strange angles and bounces. You wonder if triples to left have gone up?

Acuna sure pummeled Lynn yesterday lol

Yeah like that scene in Jaws .. cue the shark !

I bash him all the time ..but you must not understand how waivers work.. it doesn’t matter if Angelos would spend 50 million, the player was picked by CLEVELAND!!

I disagree .. i think his hitting AAA well was before he was called up , then he was absolutely awful, not just sort of bad, but abysmal in his callup and has not impressed back at Norfolk. I would rather have had Kjerstad, Ortiz or Holliday, but we shall see.

Cowser and Krehbiel ..the calvary has arrived.. sheesh. We shall see.

In fact . Since 1969, only 14 teams with the best regular season record have won the World Series. So 40 times, a team with less than best record has won the Series.

Cleveland picked them.. has nothing to do with Angelos

You will like it in 100 years

Like that green eyesore in Boston? .. lol

My first World Series was 1966-the Dodgers of Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, etc against us .. we had Moe Drawbowsky and Wally Bunker I went to the first game 1969 World Series … our Orioles were the 1927 Yankees .. 109 wins .. HOFers everywhere. The Mets had Ron Swoboda and Al Weis. Yes, the “worse” team not only can win the World Series, they usually do.

You think? Lol … usually only having a 7 in your hand doesn’t beat a full house. He had and has zero leverage in this. He can sign the lease or his franchise will be suspended by MLB as not having an approved venue for 2024 schedule and his value goes from 1.7 billion to something else. He is too narcissistic and too stupid to have realized this yet. oh and likely no such offer was ever “on the table” to be now “taken off the table” .. only his grandiose delusion was “on the table”

Yep .. it will be something

Reality could be the Rays tear off another 13 game win streak at any point. 2/3 isn’t going to cut it

After the reserve clause was overturned, Finley proposed that exactly. Every player become a free agent every year recognizing that a flooded market would suppress prices. Marvin Miller was later quoted as bring terrified of that very proposal but knew other owners would not listen to Charley. ”Yes, we could not have just come out publicly opposing MORE freedom. It would have set back what we were doing” he said Ultimately Miller manipulated and outthought the owners to get a limited release of free agents and contracts exponentially piggybacked on prior year contracts.

I agree..

Fuji is a head case

Sad for Felix .. best wishes for him and praying for his recovery!! Next man up, either one of the others steps up and pitches well in that role or you rotate around till you get the guy who does best. I would start with Cano and then Coloumbe,.. Wells is my dark horse

Ask me in a year

Even a blind squirrel.. lol

They exerted zero effort against TB and looked like a joke ..as the eternal pessimist, of course, i expect them to sweep lol

Winter of 1933 began second teardown of second dynasty by selling Mickey Cochrane etc .. … Great 3 volume biography of Connie Mack by Norman Macht