Bryce Harper Megathread

Oh so you have an out either way? How are you going to prove your statement that they are the best team in baseball?

"Nobody has a top 3 like they do"

You wouldn't take Verlander, Scherzer, Sanchez over them? Lynn, Wainwright, Miller?

The Dodgers have some offensive talent, but people are really overating it. What happens when Puig comes back to earth (.452 BABIP)? Gonzalez, Ramirez, Kemp (if healhty?)

Give me the Tigers any day over the Dodgers. Give me the Cardinals. Give me the Rays over them.
 
thethe said:
Maybe I'm a bit greedy but I feel like the team should be better than they have been. There is just so much damn talent on this roster.
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You are. The Nats supposedly have a ton of talent and are fighting to stay out of 4th place. The Red Sox had a ton of talent last year an were awful. We are on pace for 95 wins and a chance at the top seed in the league.
 
gilesfan said:
Oh so you have an out either way? How are you going to prove your statement that they are the best team in baseball?

"Nobody has a top 3 like they do"

You wouldn't take Verlander, Scherzer, Sanchez over them? Lynn, Wainwright, Miller?

The Dodgers have some offensive talent, but people are really overating it. What happens when Puig comes back to earth (.452 BABIP)? Gonzalez, Ramirez, Kemp (if healhty?)

Give me the Tigers any day over the Dodgers. Give me the Cardinals. Give me the Rays over them.
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Why do I have to prove my opinion? That is my opinion. You can have yours. The Dodgers are absolutely loaded and nobody will want to play them.

Since when does the best team in baseball always win the world series?
 
ChapelHillMatt said:
Keep in mind that we have collapsed and blew big leads before.

Let's stay focused. We are up by 10, let's try and win by 20. More importantly let's switch our focus and go for the best record in the NL
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If I have learned anything in my life as a Braves fan, it is to assume nothing.

Aside from the years in the "good old days" when I felt comfortable we would keep the streak going, I do not feel fully at ease until things are official.

Hopefully the players see things the same way. Get overconfident, get sloppy, IMO.
 
thethe said:
Why do I have to prove my opinion? That is my opinion. You can have yours. The Dodgers are absolutely loaded and nobody will want to play them.

Since when does the best team in baseball always win the world series?
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Dodgers better than Tigers and Cardinals?
 
As Braves fans know, baseball can be pretty humbling. I wonder how the Nats organization and fans look at the Strasburg shutdown in light of this season's performance. It showed confidence (well-founded, IMO) in their core, but I can't help thinking they just assumed they'd get another crack at the playoffs this year.
 
thethe said:
Maybe I'm a bit greedy but I feel like the team should be better than they have been. There is just so much damn talent on this roster.
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I feel the same way. Especially seeing how BJ has performed all year long and Justin since April. We arent as good as we showed during the 12-1 stretch and not as good as we are showing now, but ive felt all year long we were better than what we played since the 12-1 start and until now.
 
IMO the Dodgers are the best team in baseball as well. They were a sleeping giant all season. Puig might come back to life but LA has awaken and they might not win the WS, but they are very talented, very hungry, and going to be a tough out.
 
thethe said:
And I did. Their top 3 is the best in baseball. They have star hitting talent throughout their lineup and their bullpen is really good.
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Why do you feel their top 3 is better than the Cards or Tigers that have better numbers?

Are Ellis (2), Uribe, Crawford considered stars?
 
Julio3000 said:
As Braves fans know, baseball can be pretty humbling. I wonder how the Nats organization and fans look at the Strasburg shutdown in light of this season's performance. It showed confidence (well-founded, IMO) in their core, but I can't help thinking they just assumed they'd get another crack at the playoffs this year.
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It does, if nothing else, join a lot of the recent NL East drama in demonstrating how impressive our division title run was.

Go back to 2006 when the Mets won 97 games and lost in seven in the LCS. There was a lot of age on that team, but there was also an incredible core (Beltran-Wright-Reyes), all the resources in the world and every reason to think they'd dominate the division for a few years. Instead, you have an epic choke the next year, another in 2008, Madoff and the franchise spun into the gutter.

The Phillies won five straight division titles, including a 102-win campaign in 2011. They had a staggering amount of talent, enough resources to get anyone they wanted and a GM who had no hesitation about making a decisive move to acquire the likes of Lee and Halladay. And then they got very old, very fast, and they become a mediocre club with some massive contracts choking up the books.

The Nationals win 98 games in 2012 and seem poised for even more dominance this year. They have every sign of a team that should be at the top of the NL for another decade, led by Strasburg and Harper and supported by a skilled front office with ample funds. But there are some injuries, guys inexplicably struggle, things go awry and they're almost certainly not winning the division this year.

Weird things like that happen; you get unlucky, projections fail, good players fall apart. What made our run so incredible was that it just didn't happen to us. Well, it did, but it took 15 years.
 
MadduxFanII said:
It does, if nothing else, join a lot of the recent NL East drama in demonstrating how impressive our division title run was.

Go back to 2006 when the Mets won 97 games and lost in seven in the LCS. There was a lot of age on that team, but there was also an incredible core (Beltran-Wright-Reyes), all the resources in the world and every reason to think they'd dominate the division for a few years. Instead, you have an epic choke the next year, another in 2008, Madoff and the franchise spun into the gutter.

The Phillies won five straight division titles, including a 102-win campaign in 2011. They had a staggering amount of talent, enough resources to get anyone they wanted and a GM who had no hesitation about making a decisive move to acquire the likes of Lee and Halladay. And then they got very old, very fast, and they become a mediocre club with some massive contracts choking up the books.

The Nationals win 98 games in 2012 and seem poised for even more dominance this year. They have every sign of a team that should be at the top of the NL for another decade, led by Strasburg and Harper and supported by a skilled front office with ample funds. But there are some injuries, guys inexplicably struggle, things go awry and they're almost certainly not winning the division this year.

Weird things like that happen; you get unlucky, projections fail, good players fall apart. What made our run so incredible was that it just didn't happen to us. Well, it did, but it took 15 years.
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Great points. As impressive as the run was, it sucks that the Phils was much shorter, but they still got the same number of titles.
 
The Dodgers have the best team in baseball? LOLWUT?

I'll also take STL, TB, TX over LAD's top 3. With PIT and DET being close or a step below.
 
BRule said:
The Dodgers have the best team in baseball? LOLWUT?

I'll also take STL, TB, TX over LAD's top 3. With PIT and DET being close or a step below.
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..and thats your opinion. Everyone is entitled to have one, and all of us can make an argument as to why we think so and so is better than so and so. We dont have to PROVE to anyone why we think the Dodgers are the best team, but since they have gotten rather healthy, they havent lost many games and look VERY good. Those teams you listed are very good as well, but one thing that I think seperates the Dodgers from those teams are that they seem to be the hungriest team in the majors.
 
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