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fast cars loose anus posted:Dang good for him They're 4 games off the 2001 Mariners pace Get it done Stros!
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The AL outside of the Astros are real bad this year. Oakland is the worst team in the AL and is only 5.5 games behind in the wild card. This means the Mariners, despite going to hell and putting up starters from AAA and waiver wires still have a chance to be in the playoffs.
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Inspector_666 posted:https://twitter.com/Brewers/status/871744403823616001 Ugh, I hated that trade when I heard about it but this adds a new level of sting.  edit: On the bright side, Pablo is looking sort of OK since coming back.
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Intruder posted:They're 4 games off the 2001 Mariners pace Yankees eliminating them in the ALCS would be cool, I suppose. seiferguy posted:The AL outside of the Astros are real bad this year. Oakland is the worst team in the AL and is only 5.5 games behind in the wild card. I think the NL is worse. Close spreads mean the league is more competitive, not less.
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Inspector_666 posted:https://twitter.com/Brewers/status/871744403823616001 Shaw has definitely paid off. All told, we're doing better than most expectations this year (which simply were "better than last year"), but I think a lot of fans are waiting for them to fall off big time. Oh well, none of us are expecting playoffs anyway.
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The only thing keeping me from full-throated Astros fandom in the AL is lack of updates on Collin McHugh. Astros fans: Will he likely have a seat at the table when he returns?
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iospace posted:Shaw has definitely paid off. I was telling Ice Fist about this and realized that Milwaukee actually has the lowest overall payroll in the MLB. They're looking pretty impressive as an overall organization right now.
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Pancakes posted:The only thing keeping me from full-throated Astros fandom in the AL is lack of updates on Collin McHugh. Astros fans: Will he likely have a seat at the table when he returns? Unless Morton blows everyone away when he's off the DL, I'd pencil McHugh as the 4th starter behind Keuchel, McCullers, and (trade deadline pitcher) after the All-Star break.
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Inspector_666 posted:I was telling Ice Fist about this and realized that Milwaukee actually has the lowest overall payroll in the MLB. They're looking pretty impressive as an overall organization right now. counterpoint: gently caress the Brewers
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seiferguy posted:The AL outside of the Astros are real bad this year. Oakland is the worst team in the AL and is only 5.5 games behind in the wild card. I think we can call the NL East and AL West a wash and go from there, at which point they look pretty similar all-Rush mixtape posted:Unless Morton blows everyone away when he's off the DL, I'd pencil McHugh as the 4th starter behind Keuchel, McCullers, and (trade deadline pitcher) after the All-Star break. I don't know Peacock looks absolutely filthy and could be a legit #3 starter I could see the rotation being Keuchel/McCullers/Peacock/McHugh/Musgrove or maybe swap Musgrove out for Paulino
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Poque posted:counterpoint: gently caress the Brewers counter-counterpoint: gently caress the Cubs and the entire bandwagon it's riding on right now. You're cool though.
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Inspector_666 posted:https://twitter.com/Brewers/status/871744403823616001 Eh, I don't trust Travis Shaw further than I can throw him. He put up a similar hot streak at the start of last year then cratered hard in the second half. If he's figured poo poo out good for him, but the existence of Devers makes it hard for me to super hate any 3B trades.
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Intruder posted:I don't know Peacock looks absolutely filthy and could be a legit #3 starter Small sample size and everything, I'd just like to see how McHugh does when he comes back.
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iospace posted:counter-counterpoint: gently caress the Cubs and the entire bandwagon it's riding on right now. Everybody should love the crew of 10 twenty-somethings in front row seats right behind home plate, all wearing brand new gold-numbered jerseys and dabbing every time the camera gets anywhere near them  in reality the Brewers are doing it absolutely right and will almost certainly be competing to be the 2018 or 2019 team in the Royals-Cubs-Astros-2018 chain
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Poque posted:counterpoint: gently caress the Brewers Your avatar works too well with posts like this.
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seiferguy posted:The AL outside of the Astros are real bad this year. Oakland is the worst team in the AL and is only 5.5 games behind in the wild card. I suspect you might have waited until the exact day that the Royals or White Sox weren't in this position to make this observation. The AL Central will out-suck everyone in the end! e: I'm actually kind of terrified the Royals will believe they're 'in it' and not try to rebuild the farm.
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Jun 5, 2017 17:29
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Hot take: I hope Mike Trout retires without a ring
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Perhaps I could interest you in a....Gerrit Cole, Intruder? Would only take 1x Francis Martes, 1x Derek Fisher, and 1x Franklin Perez. Who says no?
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Kirios posted:Perhaps I could interest you in a....Gerrit Cole, Intruder? The Pirates
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Three top 100's and 3 of the top 6 prospects, including the #1 for the Astros wouldn't be enough? No way in hell I'd want Quintana for that. Maybe someone like Daz Cameron would be added as a high risk / reward prospect
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Honestly I think Fisher has played his way onto the big league club. I'd like to DFA Aoki (sorry guys) and call him up, but doesn't seem to be in the cards If Fisher falls on his face in the majors you still have Marwin and Jake who can play the third outfield spot Aoki has almost no value. He's giving you a 77 OPS+ from left field
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Intruder posted:Hot take: I hope Mike Trout retires without a ring
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Second NL ASG voting update is out. I don't know where to find that convenient graphic with all of it but Rizzo is no longer leading at 1B so good job baseball nerds
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bawfuls posted:Second NL ASG voting update is out. I don't know where to find that convenient graphic with all of it but Rizzo is no longer leading at 1B so good job baseball nerds Heyward still in third among outfielders  CATCHER 1. Buster Posey, Giants: 917,359 2. Willson Contreras, Cubs: 511,029 3. Yadier Molina, Cardinals: 478,406 4. Matt Wieters, Nationals: 300,980 5. Yasmani Grandal, Dodgers: 241,497 FIRST BASE 1. Ryan Zimmerman, Nationals: 670,671 2. Anthony Rizzo, Cubs: 657,702 3. Freddie Freeman, Braves: 401,982 4. Paul Goldschmidt, D-backs: 363,431 5. Matt Carpenter, Cardinals: 214,324 SECOND BASE 1. Daniel Murphy, Nationals: 1,149,130 2. Javier Baez, Cubs: 715,928 3. Brandon Phillips, Braves: 185,862 4. DJ LeMahieu, Rockies: 175,435 5. Kolten Wong, Cardinals: 171,848 THIRD BASE 1. Kris Bryant, Cubs: 895,752 2. Nolan Arenado, Rockies: 613,571 3. Justin Turner, Dodgers, 362,952 4. Anthony Rendon, Nationals: 295,369 5. Jedd Gyorko, Cardinals: 275,281 SHORTSTOP 1. Corey Seager, Dodgers: 604,783 2. Zack Cozart, Reds: 547,750 3. Addison Russell, Cubs: 537,688 4. Chris Owings, D-backs: 328,217 5. Trea Turner, Nationals: 323,751 OUTFIELD 1. Bryce Harper, Nationals: 1,459,235 2. Charlie Blackmon, Rockies: 979,961 3. Jason Heyward, Cubs: 498,079 4. Ben Zobrist, Cubs: 472,114 5. Matt Kemp, Braves: 457,586 6. Kyle Schwarber, Cubs: 423,394 7. Giancarlo Stanton, Marlins: 398,569 8. Marcell Ozuna, Marlins: 392,973 9. Yoenis Cespedes, Mets: 327,116 10. Dexter Fowler, Cardinals: 268,545 11. Jay Bruce, Mets: 245,634 12. Jayson Werth, Nationals: 236,367 13. Adam Duvall, Reds: 234,099 14. Yasiel Puig, Dodgers: 206,743 15. Ryan Braun, Brewers: 188,192
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Kirios posted:Three top 100's and 3 of the top 6 prospects, including the #1 for the Astros wouldn't be enough? For 2.5 seasons of an established ace? Nope.
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iospace posted:I wonder how much of a boost Harper got from the fight. The article I grabbed those numbers from said he got like 550k since the last update and kind of hinted that the fight caused him to have a huge increase, which is hilarious.
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only brewer even on the list is ryan braun who has barely played this season because he is a fragile glassman without his special juice.
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cis autodrag posted:only brewer even on the list is ryan braun who has barely played this season because he is a fragile glassman without his special juice. He's been fragile with it. What I'm saying is he needs to go.
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Well also don't forget: gently caress Ryan Braun
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At least he's on the DL, so it leaves a roster spot open for someone else.Some Numbers posted:What's the Ryan Braun story? Between him and Prince Fielder, they helped shepherd in the Brewers in the late 00's as a pretty good team that made it to the NLCS one year (losing to the Cards). Signed a huge deal with the Crew, won MVP, proceeded to get busted for PEDs.
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Some Numbers posted:What's the Ryan Braun story? he's holding matt kemp's mvp hostage and sent a cut-and-pasted letter through the mail saying he will only give it back in exchange for a knapsack full of syringes and pills
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iospace posted:At least he's on the DL, so it leaves a roster spot open for someone else. And then Aaron Rodgers bet to give a fan his salary if Braun had actually taken PEDs, so sure was he that it wasn't true No word on how that went
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iospace posted:He's been fragile with it. yeah, i was yelling all last year how stupid it was that they weren't trying to sell him off when he had like 3 months of uninjured high-performance baseball. his trade value hit a high watermark somewhere around last August and they just did nothing with him. probably because his contract is really fuckin big and he's a dick with a reputation for being injury prone. it shouldn't be any surprise that they're pushing guys like Thames, Arcia, and Peres as faces of the franchise now because braun is toxic even among brewer fans. we ignored what an rear end he was through the steroid thing because he was good and helped our team. but now he's just sitting with dumb injuries all the time and he tried to murder jean segura with a baseball bat so we're all just kind of over him now.
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Some Numbers posted:What's the Ryan Braun story? He's a cheating fraud gently caress who stole the MVP from Matt Kemp by shoving needles up his rear end, then wiggled out of it because of a dumb technicality around the delivery of his urine sample. He's also a huge rear end in a top hat who does cool things like openly make fun of a mentally handicapped bat girl while the camera is on him in the dugout. Basically gently caress Ryan Braun.
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Remember when we Astros fans were telling everyone Hunter Pence is so much better and cooler and more handsome than Ryan Braun and kept getting shot down? 
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Also https://twitter.com/AdamMcCalvy/status/842500432031186944  sorry for wasting your time, guy who makes like 19 million a year
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Some Numbers posted:What's the Ryan Braun story? Braun got popped in 2011 for elevated levels of testosterone. In February 2012, he challenged the test on a chain of custody issue (the guy who took the sample, instead of immediately shipping it to the testing facility, kept it in a refrigerator in his basement over the weekend before taking it to FedEx), and actually suggested that the sample-taker was an anti-Semite. Ultimately arbitrator Shyam Das upheld Braun's challenge, saying there was enough validity to the appeal that his suspension was to be overturned. MLB was absolutely livid about it, and actually fired Das over the decision. Anyway, Braun held a press conference after his appeal was upheld, and had the balls to say this: quote:“Today is for anyone who has been wrongly accused and everyone who stood up for what’s right. It’s about future players and the game of baseball.” A year later, his name popped up in connection with Biogenesis, and he wound up being suspended for the last third of the 2013 season plus the playoffs.
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