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Zero in the top 100 is a shocker, given how bad KC has been and how high they've drafted. Then again, they haven't had much veteran star power to dangle for decent prospects come trade time.
That said, they did win it all quite recently, and as a small market fan, I'd happily trade one world series championship for 5 100 loss seasons.
Comedy Central from the Yanks rumor mill
.....MLB Network insider Joel Sherman reported Monday in the New York Post that the Yankees would consider trading their upcoming free agants. It appears to be a sign the Yankees are at least partially in sell mode, although Sherman wrote Sunday that New York could both buy and sell at the Trade Deadline.
Center fielder Harrison Bader, utility man Isiah Kiner-Falefa and pitchers Luis Severino and Wandy Peralta headline the Yankees' incoming free-agent class.
"Sell mode"?? "Headline"??
As a supporting piece, Canha is fine. That's what the Mets overpaid him to do. But as the centrepiece of your trade deadline upgrade, it's gotta be better than Santana and Canha if you're serious about winning.
I hope I'm wrong and the Brewers make a move of consequence, but judging on previous seasons, they might be done.
Nooooooo.... Canha's cheap, for sure, but not as cheap as Brewer's management.240 lifetime with 6 HRs this year. How does that translate to winning in October?
Barring some surprising deal before the deadline, this is looking more and more like last year. First place in the division is fading away. The Reds are hungry and the Cubs are making deals that actually might have an impact.
No need to waste any hot bats with Seve pitching.
Wins and losses is right up there. Or at least the expectation of wins and losses considering payroll!
The Mets are paying all but $22.5 million of the salary as a part of the deal, a source told Feinsand, meaning New York will cover a total of $35 million through the end of 2024.
What a frickin joke! Scherzer for 2 seasons of playoff chances for 22.5 million in exchange for a AA shortstop who plays the same position as another guy you've signed for 2 endless eons and are hugely overpaying.
If the Mets are committing to a re-build, why wouldn't you shitcan the guy who built the scrapheap you're trying to get rid of? I could see hanging on to Eppler (and Buck) until the end of the season if you were playing for a post season spot, but what's the point of moving on if you're keeping the same front office team that put you in this spot to begin with? This team has totally lost its way. The only silver lining is that Cohen and his massive ego has been shown for the embarassment that he is, to Mets fans and baseball in general. Every single organisation in MLB is loving it!
It's about time to pull the plug on the Julio Tehran experiment. Giving up 6 in the 1st is no way to win a division.
I'm thinking Willie adames would look great in a Mets uniform. Fill the void left when you didn't ink Correra.
How long can you stay in 1st place with a guy hitting .204 with average power and an incredibly high K rate in the 3 hole? In any other other line-up he's hitting 9th, and that would include pre-DH era, when he'd bit behind the pitcher.
From Brodie to Billy.
How do these guys gets these jobs?
Verlander has been looking great lately. If he was signed for this year only, I'd be happy to have him on the Crew. It's the 43 million next year that's an issue, and really, the Mets have paid 43 million for half a season of Verlander this year because he was useless until July.
There aren't too many available arms who you'd be happy to have start a game 7. He's one of them.
I'd love to play Cincy 10 more times! We play Atlanta now, which is a massive opportunity to lose games. Cubs are lurking too, though they've got a pretty big hole to climb out of.
Best news for Brewers fans this season has been the strange and comprehensive collapse of the Cardinals. I can't believe they're this bad, even worse than the Mets considering that the NL Central was theirs to win.
As for the Yankees, the WC teams in the AL seem to run hot and cold as September approaches. If Judge comes back strong, they could reel off a run like the Bosox are on now. Or they could end up at .500 with a payroll disaster for 2024.
Awful deal. And to salt up the wound, within the division. I'm not quite sure what the Mets plan is, but you've got a lot of players that nobody wants. At least for the price the Mets are asking. 2 rookie ball guys for a reliable late inning bullpen piece sets the bar really low on Pham and the other veterans.
Mets fans just have to hang in there for Stearns to take over and put a real plan in place. I really thought that the Mets would catch fire and make a legitimate run at a WC spot, but they've gotten harder to watch as the season progresses.
It's definitely time to decide on the core and let the youngsters play every around them. If you can dump Max or Verlander, do it.
Brewers going all out at the deadline with their massive deal for.... Carlos Santana....he of the .321 average and 12 dingers.....
Would prefer they paid for the original Santana to belt out "Black Magic Woman" at a post game concert than waste 2.5 million on yet another low OBP bat with little pop. Sigh.
Guess everyone needs a scapegoat on the payroll, so probably a good idea to keep Voggy around for a while. Looking at the line up Buck trotted out tonight, almost every Met player is within 15-20 points of Vogelbach's BA. Point is, there's plenty of underperformance to go around in Flushing this season. This team has issues well beyond Buck's stubbornes: basically, every player on the roster has taken a solid step backwards, with the possible exceptions of Baty and Alvarez. That includes pitchers.
No. Cashman is the devil you know and Jr Boss Hal has none of the old man's convictions. Cashhole will chew through a few more managers before his reign ends. He's just another one of the overpaid jurassic losers in the great pantheon of washouts he assembled.
You won't see Ohtani breaking the record in Skanky pinstripes. By all reports he wants to play for a contender.
Yeah, Yelich has found some redemption after a couple of dog years. I'd take Pham. Or almost anybody for this line up. It's been a pathetic season with the bats, with exception of Yelich and Contreras.
On the other hand, the expectations are so low, a hit or two can really keep hope alive. Sort of the opposite of the Mets.
That was huge. The Reds were playing hot baseball, but with that pitching staff, they were bound to come back down to earth.
The Crew needs to win every game they can when facing mediocre pitching. Their line up is shabby, completely inept against a live arm.
Management says that the Crew will be buyers at the deadline. I have my doubts.
Fastball Freddy comes through! The Crew 1 hits the Reds in Cincy to step into first. That's a pretty decent lineup to shut down in a very friendly hitters' park. One thing the Crew has consistently managed is the 7,8,9 inning bullpen guys. This has been their staple strength for 5 plus years now. Hopefully they'll spend a bit at the trade deadline for a change. Gonna be a bumper crop of veteran rental bats available this season.
Mets treat their home crowd to a Saturday night special: 1 hit. The Dodgers are a really good team but after a bit of a run into the all star break, the Mets dared their fans to believe that maybe, just maybe...
Can't remember the last time Verlander walked 6.
Belliniger was available this year for one reason: he was absolutely TERRIBLE the past 3 years. There's a reason the Cubs got him cheap (ish) and it isn't because they were more cleaver than the other teams in MLB. Bellinger would have been yet another iteration of the Hicks, Doanldson bloated-veteran signing that has driven Yankees fans crazy. Had he been signed, Bellinger would have most certainly become tainted by the "Cashman effect" and seen his average crumble to .186 by the All Star break.
And weren't you one of the many crying for Oswaldo to get more ABs and reps in the line up?
Wasting Alvarez in the 8 hole. Big win. That's the kind of win that you need if you're going to make the post season. Padres fans must be ready to see the backside of Preller.
Could very well cost them the game. Agreed. He should have taken at least a pitch or 2 the way it was going.
Marte has been a DP machine lately. He definitely helped the Brewers out a lot in their last series with the Mets.
Wild series in Milwaukee but they managed a split. Gotta send that runner every time no matter who the outfielder is. It's a question of who's in the line up.
Brewers should be awarded half a run every time they get a runner on 3rd.
Good news for Yanks fans is you might get to see Doanldson on the mound in the 9th. Unless IKF has 2 innings in him tonight.
How good does Senga have to pitch to win a game? Reminds me of Degrom's run of games when the only run support he got was when got some hits.
Alonso looked terrible. He was swinging at trash that wasn't even close. Looking every bit the .215 all-star.
Hard to believe Pham is the best hitter on this team. And it's not close.
But did you see that amazing Brewers comeback from 6 runs down to beat the Cubs? That's not what the Crew does. Adames even had a couple of hits!
Donaldson pulling an Ohtani with a perfect inning of relief to go along with his scorching June bat. What can't the man do??
Wonder what it's like for Trout now, knowing his reign as consensus best player in all of MLB is now reduced to not even the best batter on his team, not to mention Ohtani's pitching.
When Ohtani leaves town at the end of this season, Trout will never be able to capture the heart and soul of Angels fans and merchandise brokers like he once did now that the fans have known something greater. Trout could play out his days as the Bonds/Griffey Jr/Ted Williams of his generation.
What's even funnnier is that the Nats are now only 2.5 games behind the Mets!
The NL is Atlanta and everybody else. If the Braves don't win the pennant, it's because 1 team gets red hot and Atlanta stumbles. I can't believe how much better they are playing than every other team in their league right now. This team has no holes to fill and plenty of spare parts. If they stay injury free, who's going to stop them? Except the Brewers of course!
Aroldis Chapman heads to the Rangers. Nice job by the Royals to leverage Chapman into some decent prospects. Looks like the bullpen race is on!
Beating bad teams is a good first step to not becoming a bad team. Yanks aren't a bad team now, but they easily could become one. If Rodon ever pitches this season, Severino keeps improving and Cole goes deep into his starts, the Yanks should be right in the thick of it for a WC slot. To have their record with that Judge free pathetic line-up isn't so bad.
Could be worse. Could be the guys on the other side of town!
If it's dumping players for basically free with a couple A leaguers tossed in to pretend to restock the farm, they'll have no trouble moving veterans. But I agree, there's not much on that roster that's going to bring back a haul at the trade deadline.
That post is true pain! Look, you're a year off from being a playoff team. Alonso you have to keep. And pay. You gave up too much for Lindor, both in prospects and salary, but it could have been worse if you signed his thumbs down partner Baez. Or maybe even worse, given 331 million $ to Correa. Marte and Canha are worthless in that they'll bring back nothing in prospects and you'll have to pay all of their salaries. And they're not the only ones. Even with Verlander and Scherzer, the days of a savvy GM cleaning out the farm for the hope that one of them will lead their team to the promised land at the trade deadline are over. Did that work for the Dodgers 2 years ago when Max had even less mileage on his arm?
It's pretty clear that Stearns is just biding his time until the end of the season, when his contract in Milwaukee ends. Cohen needs a shrewd, modern baseball mind to rein him in, and those guys are hard to find. I'm sure every single owner in MLB is delighted to see Cohen flail and flop and make an absolute laughing stock out of the Mets, as are fans in every MLB market.
The Mets aren't a tear-down IMO. Definitely need to ID key pieces to keep moving forward, but there's a nucleus in the line-up to build around.
The pitching? That's a different story. Some teams have it figured out pretty well, like Tampa, Cleveland and Milwaukee. The Mets have been pretty average in evaluating pitching IMO. Carassco hasn't worked out. Your 86 million dollar duo has been a joke. You let 2 decent starters sign with the Phillies, Wheeler and Walker. On the other hand, you let Degrom and Thor leave town and drain someone else's bank accounts, which was absolutely the right decision.
Well, Cohen is on the record saying he'll eat the money to move unwanted players. There will definitely be takers for most of your veterans if the price is the MLB minimum. I'd take Pham, Max or Verlander for prospects and no money....chuck in McNeil and Narvaez too.
It ain't easy to win 3 of 4 and lose ground in the run differential category, but that's Brewers baseball. The bullpen has been fantastic, used to their best advantage and ability.
Brewers fans are very grateful Marte was in the line up tonight. Grounds into DP with the bases loaded in the 7th and K's to end the game with the equalizer on 3rd.
Very happy to be leaving town with 3 out of 4, especially with the Crew's pathetic offense.
And jacked his average up to .132! I can see why he felt entitled to storm into the manager's office and set Boonie straight about playing time. Take him out of the lineup and there goes your "championship caliber" team. Donaldson's gotta be feeling good about single-handedly carrying the team's offense last night against an easy-to-under-estimate Oakland club.