25 Nuggets

We will never win again, ever. Book it

It's nuts that the Rays lost so many pitchers and can still trot out Civale, Eflin, Glasnow and Littell for this series. Civale is certainly doing his part so far.

That's great news that he's postseason eligible. I mean I like McKenna and he provided some fun plays on defense recently but Kjerstad's bat is a major upgrade. So long as Mullins and Hicks are healthy.

Seconded.

Snapshot as of today, 9/7 before the Sox game: OPS (OPS+) Player 834 (128) O'Hearn 826 (125) Santander 802 (119) Henderson 800 (119) Mountcastle 799 (119) Hays 788 (119) Rutschman 781 (117) Hicks 766 (110) Mullins It's fluctuated from week to week but it's been like this most of the season. Those are their top eight hitters so close together. Is this just a coincidence or is there an underlying reason from a development standpoint? Also a question for the statisticians - would this even distribution be a factor in the team overachieving? They are 7th in the AL in OPS, 6th in slugging, 8th in OBP, 9th in BB, 10th in HR... and yet they are 4th in runs scored while 11th in team AB. The answers could very well be nothing but noise; I just want to toss the subject out there for discussion.

It's a joke. Browns and Cardinals fans have suffered a long time so they should get the original lyrics. Maybe throw in the Lions too. And now, having explained it, the joke is dead. Press F to pay respects.

This is going to be a fun thread. Thanks Frobby

They should only play that for teams like the Browns and Cardinals

Looks more like an Ibis to me.

I nominate "I Hate Myself For Loving You".

I agree - I think it'll be Hicks back, McKenna down, then Cowser or McKenna back up.

Mountcastle and McCann getting going has been a big boost to this team. They've been operating above Pythagorean all season, but in the month of August they're sitting at +33 runs with seven games to play. This is going to be the most interesting September in a long time.

Very clearly going to be bringing up two players from the 40 man, which makes sense. Pitcher: Wells, Means, Hall, Baumann, Baker, Vespi, Zimmerman, Krehbiel, Gillaspie all available. Position: Ortiz, Cowser, Stowers or Vavra. Or Hicks depending on his IL stint.

I wasn't sure whether or not to start a new thread on the Rays so it's good to find this one. The Rays are going through quite a bit of adversity all of a sudden. They've been 15-21 since July 1st. Like FlaosFan says, McClanahan is done. He's been out for a while, but now they know they can't rely on him for the playoff race. Their rotation does still include Tyler Glasnow, Zach Eflin and Aaron Civale, but they've had to rely on "openers" like Shawn Armstrong and Jalen Beeks to fill it out. Then we have the Wander Franco situation. Now that the subject matter has been leaked... even if he is innocent of any charges coming his way, this would be a stain on his reputation/career. If not, he's going to prison. And it has the potential to be a huge distraction. Not to mention, they've lost their All Star shortstop who was OPSing 819 with stellar defense. He was second in the AL in rWAR (behind Ohtani of course) and fourth in fWAR. So they've brought in brand new rookie Osleivis Basabe. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/08/rays-to-promote-osleivis-basabe.html Nice prospect, but it's still a huge downgrade. Now all that said, they beat the pants off the Giants 10-2 yesterday and the Orioles are currently losing by 7 runs, so nothing can be taken by granted. It's just that the road is looking rougher for them.

Merely getting swept by Houston and ending that streak will cement this topic in place for a long time.

This won't bring repercussions. The lease is the real story.

We could turn this into a "blame Kevin Brown for everything" meme, he might get a kick out of that Rain on game day? Kevin's fault

Oh man Marge Schott and her Saint Bernard... what a character

I guess they better win then! no pressure?

Reminds me of a certain non-US country... can't say which w/o the politics hammer but I think y'all know which one

I like to say that when Snyder was caught stealing money from the other owners, that's when he really got in trouble.

Great, now the next time I have a wet dream it'll be interrupted by the Angelos family staring at me

It is funny how many of the early outspoken responders to this came from New York. Would we expect any different? But yeah, it's been posted a dozen times already

Fingers crossed mate.

He is supposedly letting the baseball ops people do their thing, hands off - and I certainly hope that continues. The hands are obviously still on the broadcast side of things.