Thursday afternoon May 4: rubber match in KC, Orioles try to win 7th straight series
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By IllinoisOsFan · Posted
I wish we had a manager like Stephen Vogt. -
Talent plays in the matchup. LAD isn't benching Ohtani or Betts. SDP isn't benching Machado or Tatis. ATL isn't platooning Acuna or Olson. NYY isn't platooning Judge or Soto. We aren't platooning Gunnar or Santander. But every team has players that are platooned to some degree. There are definitely places to sit Renfroe or JD Martinez. If Hinch doesn't sit Carpenter against most LHP, that's gross negligence. Almost as bad as if HOU didn't platoon their 1B. NYY brought in Verdugo as a platoon-type. Scope-wise MIL, TBR, SFG seem to platoon as much as we do. Just a swag on my part. Deep benches are important for the marathon. But Carl Lewis and Usain Bolt need to anchor the 4x100 relay to the WS. -
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By SilverRocket · Posted
6 pinch-hitters have been used in the Guardians-Tigers game today. -
Ole buddy emptied out the bag of tricks in the bottom half though. Hit and run, followed by safety squeeze. That’s gold. No real idea why Jobe was in there, in a one-run Game 4. But CLE made it happen. -
You mean like not letting Cowser face lefties all year, even though he hit them in the minors, and then having him take the biggest at bat of the entire season against a leftie? Someone is obsessed with L/R & R/L matchups, even in the face of reverse splits, to the detriment of the team. -
I think Soto has a good chance to at least earn most of a 500 million deal. He has 7 years to go before he reaches Trout's age, which is more than half of his projected deal. If he continues to average around 6 WAR a season for that time period he will earn about 3/4 of his deal by the time he's 32. If he goes bonkers and puts up 8 win seasons like he did in 2024 he'll practically make the entire contract before that time. I absolutely think it's worth it to pay him a little bit of a premium to maximize our chances while we have the band together on a historically good run of draft picks. Elias (or any GM) is pretty unlikely to draft 3 straight ROY candidates + numerous complimentary pieces again; even before the anti-tanking rules were put in place this run of farm system success is pretty unprecedented, and required a lot of good fortune. Now that you can't get a top-5 pick more than twice in a row and you're not even guaranteed one if you have the worst record in the league it's going to be really hard to rebuild via 1:1 with 120 loss seasons.
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