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Who's your 2022 MVP?
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Shohei Ohtani 50 59.52%
Aaron Judge 19 22.62%
Hey, the national league has an MVP too you know! 15 17.86%
Total: 84 votes
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Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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For the first time in their 140-year history, the Giants have finished at .500 exactly.

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Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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How would you even trade Ohtani? Soto got maybe the most insane package back ever and Ohtani's even better. No one could match what he'd be worth.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Unfortunate that 1B and Outfield (after Judge) is so thin, those are both areas where Giants could make sizable upgrades.

Though I think they'll be fine with a 1B cobbled together out of some combination of Villar/Flores/Davis/Longoria, especially if Casey Schmitt is able to come up to MLB and hold down 3B.

More concerning is the outfield. I don't think Joc should be back, he gave up everything he contributed with the bat back on his lousy defense. Keep Yaz/Slater as a centerfield platoon and try to find players who can both hit and play defense for the corners.

Obviously any of the top ticket shortstops would be an upgrade on Crawford, most likely, but I feel there are more pressing concerns. Shortstop X + Judge won't be enough by itself to turn the team around, IMO.

Belt probably won't be back, but I think that's fine. As great as he's been with the team before this year, the Giants need to get younger and less injury prone. LaStella just needs to be cut, he's contributed nothing these past two years and using him as our 78 OPS+ DH forced us to use so many below par defenders this year. Thairo Estrada is more than capable at 2B.

Also re-sign Rodon.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Kilometers Davis posted:

I’ll take it tbh

We gotta grab a good catcher/veteran bat/combo of both

Wilson Contreras is available in free agency.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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That was quick. I have no idea who this is though.

https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/1579653857038471168

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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If no one traded for Rodon because he could have opted into one year for $11 million if he got hurt, no one would have given anything for Correa.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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elentar posted:

Welp the Braves finally ran out of fumes, this sorta crash has been coming and I’m amazed it took this long. Fun that they overhauled and doomed the Mets, but just as clearly the Mets doomed the Braves by making them go so far into the red for the division race. Hard to complain otherwise, Phillies always play the Braves tough and were obviously better this series.

Team should be still pretty solid next year, and maybe properly rested. Keep Dansby (or snag an upgrade), get a real left fielder, and do the usual pitching carousel. Also the best time to ditch the name and the chop was yesterday but today or even tomorrow will do just fine.

This is the second year in a row two 100+ win teams exhausted each other in a narrow division race and crapped out in the playoffs. They really should re-seed the playoffs based on win total.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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ilmucche posted:

how much is the guy plus the extra roster spot worth though?

Not much, considering it's the Angels.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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every time I see a Dodgers season it's like “the team had three separate 28-game win streaks en route to a 137-25 season while the lineup did something that hasn't been done since ‘The Massacre Men’ of the 1886 Allentown Boatswains, as Los Angeles lost in the NLDS 3-1”

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Kirios posted:

What grade do you even give the Dodgers season? F for not getting past the ALDS? A for the regular season?

What a very, very weird year they had.

This might be the Dodger-est season of them all.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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It rules when you have no skin in the game

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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FWIW I do think the playoffs should be re-seeded based of record. This is the second year in a row two 100+ win teams exhausted each other in a narrow divisional race, only to get bounced early on.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Bochy rules, congrats Rangers fans.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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punto.gif remains my favorite baseball gf of all time.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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The impact of a manager is hard to quantify via stats, but I have a hard time believing it doesn't exist.

Have none of you had a lovely boss before? That sort of thing definitely affects workers.

Anyway Boch rules and this is a great pickup by the Rangers.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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lol what
https://twitter.com/StevenRissotto/status/1586631578054283265

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Tony Phillips posted:

Quick check and Howard wrecks Sosa for lower bWAR/HR

14.7 / 382

Adam Dunn at a nearly equal but ever so slightly better 17.9 / 462

By the metric of bWAR/HR, the greatest player of all time is Bartolo Colon

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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mcmagic posted:

Judge ... should go to the Giants.

You heard it here first, folks.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Yankeesposters vs Astrosposters slapfights are the worst loving posts in these threads and that's including idiots getting mad at what some team's social media guy posted

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Hot take however annoying you might think McMagic is he's absolutely right the Yankees aren't winning any time soon with Cashman and Boone in charge.

But equally this level of not overspending and almost being good enough is exactly what Steinbrenner Jr. wants so...

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Lol that winning the World Series only gets you a one-year contract extension from Jim Crane.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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The GM meetings are starting and you know what that means

https://twitter.com/ByMcCullough/status/1590437872955707392

https://twitter.com/ByMcCullough/status/1590440808339341312

https://twitter.com/PavlovicNBCS/status/1590441167287513088

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Aw that's too bad, it'd have been cool to see Judge on the Giants.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Not sure why they'd give Joc the QO but I guess we're seeing him back on the Giants again. His bat was good even if his defense cancelled all of it out.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1591126280225062912

I assume Bob is acting as Crane's mouthpiece here

If Bob's acting as Crane's mouthpiece, he's not making the guy look any better.

LMAO Astros. Not getting rid of Crane is the worst punishment MLB could have levied against the team.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Also all fans and all teams are dogshit

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Agreed, the Dodgers should acquire no other players this offseason.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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It also pisses me off that Cashman didn't trade the farm for an Ace is Carlos Rodon at the deadline, so I agree with everything he's saying.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Traxis posted:

when do we enter the deal zone?

Stuff doesn't usually pick up until the Winter meetings (in December).

Do the Astros have a GM yet?

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Vacate all the Dodgers' wins since 2013. This is worse than any can banging. Didn't read the article BTW.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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bawfuls posted:

yeah this is 100% not something the Dodgers FO gives a poo poo about

Well, clearly

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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A bunch of nerds are going to pretend to be angry when the obvious choice, Aaron Judge, wins AL MVP.

Of course the obvious and easy solution to the Ohtani/Judge problem is for Judge to sign with an NL team, then for Ohtani to follow him to that team a year later.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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In order for Ohtani to win MVP people have to be willing to watch Angels games and that's just not happening.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Sydin posted:

Honestly I'm at the point where the bulk of my annoyance the Astros cheated isn't about the integrity of the game or their fraudulent 2017 title, but rather that every time it comes up it makes this thread largely unreadable for a full day. Which is unfortunate because SAS is like the one place I've found on the internet where you can discuss sports in a way that doesn't immediately devolve in to rampant racism, sexism, and death threats.

Yeah this. I beg of you, make a new thread for the Astros cheating circlejerkery and shut up about it here.

It's always the same handful of posters too.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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From my experience, Bryan Reynolds is worth about a half-season from a broken down Andrew McCutcheon, so it should be pretty easy to get a deal done.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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lol

https://twitter.com/EvanWebeck/status/1600257413659054080

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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The hot stove is on but the igniter is broken so it's just leaking gas.


https://twitter.com/cmkuiper/status/1600261277795786753

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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bawfuls posted:

look again, they clearly put livelier balls into Yankees games, particularly in September, to help ensure Judge got to 62

The Goldilocks balls aren't the juiced balls though. They're the "not lovely" balls they use in games that matter (and Yankees games, apparently).

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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I think it's real

https://twitter.com/GrantBrisbee/status/1600288190774247424

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Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

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Giants get their man. :cool:

https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/1600301856877838337

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