Not a cornerstone, but I love him.Originally Posted by nsacpi
Not a cornerstone, but I love him.
tremendous job McCullers
I do have to point out that both Morton and McCann left the Braves pre-Triple J Ranch era.
jpx7 (10-22-2017), The Chosen One (10-21-2017)
McCullers threw like 20 straight breaking balls to end that game and the Yankees couldn't do anything with them.
If Astros win it all, they will have beaten the Top 3 payrolls in baseball. (Boston, Yankees , Dodgers in succession)
Forever Fredi
jpx7 (10-22-2017), Runnin (10-21-2017), UNCBlue012 (10-22-2017)
To be fair, Houston is like the 4th largest market.
jpx7 (10-22-2017)
THANK EFFING GOD Houston won. Now I can watch the WS if I have the time to.
It's the WS that I wanted. It's going to have the Braves old guards' heads spinning. The two most analytical teams in the WS.
Aggression with prospects is fine, but being stupid is not. There should be a way to find a happy medium between a Pirates like idea of being overly cautious with prospects and going stupidly fast with prospects.
CK86 (10-21-2017), UNCBlue012 (10-22-2017)
ESPN is officially in a state of mourning.
"Donald Trump will serve a second term as president of the United States.
It’s over."
Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
Runnin (10-22-2017), UNCBlue012 (10-22-2017)
Happy for our ex-Braves. Down with the Dodgers.
FFF - BB, BB, 2B, HR, 2B, HR, 1B, BB, BB, 1B, BB, BB, HR
It's going to have their heads spinning how they ever thought trading Alex Wood for Hector ****ing Olivera was a good idea.
CK86 (10-21-2017)
I know it went 7, but I still maintain that Indians/Astros would have been a better series. There were some good games in this series, but none that could have been considered classics.
And now it all means nothing because they lost to the Astros anyway.
The Astros went 12 years between pennants. The Braves have now gone 18 and counting. Let that sink in.
Very happy for Brian McCann, Evan Gattis, and Charlie Morton
Chopping With The Braves And Rolling With The Tide
CyYoung31 (10-22-2017), Dalyn (10-22-2017), jpx7 (10-22-2017), Metaphysicist (10-22-2017), nsacpi (10-21-2017), The Chosen One (10-21-2017), UNCBlue012 (10-22-2017)
It may have been better but the Yankees were a great team. 3rd in run differential this year. #2 and #4 in run differential in the WS now. Not bad.
Hopefully Altuve doesn’t suck on the road again in WS.
Forever Fredi
Dodgers have a ton of dead money on players who dont play like Ethier, Kazmir, AGon etc. Other than Kershaw, no one on their 25 makes an absurd amount.
Yankees the same, still paying Tex, ARod, and Ellsbury, Headley, Gardner, CC, Tanaka make up 3/4 of their payroll. Most of their 25 man roster is pretty cheap.
4th in market
18th in payroll
"For there is always light, if only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be it." Amanda Gorman
"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
I'm not sure what you're arguing.
Are you saying the luxury to take on dead money without playing those players is not an advantage? We trotted BJ and Uggla out there long after they had nothing left to offer our team, because we paid them heavy contracts and had to try and get some value in them. They were either going to get back to acceptable levels of production or get hot enough to be able to flip them. We're doing the same for Kemp right now but nobody is really going to bite. If Olivera didn't have the domestic abuse thing I have no doubt they would have kept trotting him out there to try and make it work.
It doesn't matter if Ethier, Gon, and others are not playing. The Yankees and Dodgers will be better suited to re-sign their players like Judge, Sanchez, Seager, Bellinger to market or above market contracts than a team like Houston or we will. The Royals aren't going to keep their core that won them the WS, and Houston will eventually have to decide on keeping Correa or Altuve if they aren't going to bump their payroll up. If both continue to be superstars, they're not going to be able to afford both unless they enter the Top 5 in payroll. If Clayton Kershaw were on our team, there's no way we would have been able to pay him 30 million a year, nor would we have been the team to risk it. If Kershaw gets hurt, they can likely buy another pitcher to be serviceable enough to replace him if not go out and acquire someone like Greinke so they can have both toys.
Forever Fredi
Now, let's all pray El Oso Blanco single-handedly beats the crap out of the Dodgers.
Astros did their re-build right.
Braves haven't
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