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  1. Riverbrian
    I frequently use the term "bullpen serious". When I say I want them to get "bullpen serious". I am kinda talking about what you are talking about. Take a tour around the rosters of the other MLB teams. The guys who are producing the high K/9 rates, the guys who are hanging the hard zeroes and destroying the come back hopes of the other team, were primarily guys that Keith Law didn't have ranked. Our guy Taylor Rogers wasn't one of those guys, he was a failed starter and look at him now. Ryan Pressly was a rule 5 pick. Everybody wants Taylor Rogers now but they wouldn't paid much for him 3 years ago. Who was Kirby Yates? We know who he is now. How Bout' LeClerc? Did we know who Edwin Diaz was when he arrived on the scene with the Mariners? When I think about Gallegos with the Cardinals... I think about the Islands but the dude is blowing batters out of the water right now. Amir Garrett? Diekman? Who was Kahnle when he showed up with the White Sox? Workman? Brad Hand nobody knew who Brad Hand was until he became Brad Hand. Alverado and Roe with the Rays? We've all heard of Kimbrel... He excites us because we've heard of him but there are bullpen arms that we haven't heard of, arms that can hang hard zeroes and destroy hope for the opposing team. Nearly every roster has one or two, including the ones who will be selling.
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    I don't know why Molitor was let go. I seem to remember a quote from either Derek or Thad stating that they were looking for a manager that was little more future focused or something along those lines. I do remember a recent quote from Falvey on MLB radio that they were aware of Pressly's potential but were having trouble in execution. All of these are just clues that may or may not mean anything. However... when I look at it from the outside. Pressly is an example we all keep bringing up and I agree... but I can at least justify it because we got some value back... but... to me a bigger question is this. How can there be a reliever currently pitching with the Marlins striking out 45 batters in 24 innings while we had Matt Belisle on the roster during a season we are going nowhere? We have to be able to make better assessments then that? We should have been able to realize that Nick Anderson was worth a run up the flagpole instead of Belisle. This is what has to stop and if Molitor played a role in this... maybe it's part of the reason he is gone.
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    "liability" "pray" "sentenced" I disagree 1,000,000% and in my opinion... it's a horrible waste of prayer.
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    The Rays have two starters to get past. 60% of all games. It is bullpen from start to finish. Watch tonight
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    https://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-tampa-bay-rays/ 2 man Starting Rotation: Check 11 Man Bullpen: Check Lots of players on the disabled list: Check No big name position players: Check Everybody plays: Check 64 Million Dollar Payroll: Check This team has everything it needs.
  6. Riverbrian
    If Sano loses by one vote!
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    I've seen Buxton over run balls before. Not only does he get to the ball. He is so fast that often times he over runs it and has to reach behind him to make the catch.
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    Pole Vaulting began a long time ago. Europeans used to use poles to cross water filled canals with the goal being distance and not height. In the late 1800's they started competing for height. They used Bamboo Poles with a sharp point on the end. The competition was held on grass and the pole vaulters landed on grass. The record back in 1896 was 10 feet 2 inches. As time progressed they improved technique and materials and the record of 10 feet 2 inches started increasing until pole vaulters were falling too far and landing on a hard surface, naturally injuries started to occur. The injuries would have stopped the sport all together if it wasn't for the... Umm... MAT and as pole vaulters continued to go higher... the mat was replaced by the full scale landing pit because they realized that the mat needed to be improved. The history of all sports is to go higher and faster than ever before. Telling a baseball player to lay up goes against the history of all sports. Improving the surroundings in the name of safety so the athlete can go higher and faster is how it is supposed to work.
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    I don't want him to stop doing that. Pad the walls with Marshmellows or something. On a hot summer day... Let Buxton come out of the wall looking like this with the ball in his glove.
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    In all seriousness... This is what baseball needs right now... this very second and shouldn't wait until tomorrow. They need to market their players and their stories. Baseball sucks at this. The baseball audience is primarily old white and male. They are not going to grow trying to get more old, white and male audiences. They will grow by reaching all the others. Telling the stories of players will help baseball reach new audiences. My wife will sit and watch Survivor, the Bachelor and the Voice just to see who gets voted off. She watches the produced biographies of each contestant and she listens to what they have to say and why these moments are important to them and she lets those production pieces determine who she wants to get chosen and then she watches to see who gets chosen. While my wife watches these shows... I tell her that Baseball has all of this ten times over. Players are voted off the island all the time but baseball does a crappy job of telling their stories and as a result... declining numbers and poor name recognition beyond the baseball fan elite. I told my wife about Smeltzer surviving cancer as a 9 year old... She listened to his parents being interviewed... She watched the game and cared about Smeltzer. I love the Smeltzer story but there are a lot of stories that need to be told. Tell them and baseball has a chance of increasing it's audience base.
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    I have no idea what is happening in that clubhouse but I do know this. I've seen Momentum. I've seen teams that win continue to win and you notice the confidence, good times and good play. All of that is a natural by-product of winning. I've seen teams that lose continue to lose as they smash water coolers trying to figure out why things are just not happening for them and I've seen the finger pointing when the missed cuts occur and all the frustration that is a natural by-product of losing. Chicken or the Egg? I have no idea but if all it takes for winning is clubhouse chemistry and happiness. Put Bobby McFerrin on a loop over the loudspeaker and go wins some baseball games with the positive mojo that you create for yourself.
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    After watching Smeltzer last night. This morning I'm thinking."I really love baseball".
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    Last year the bullpen was over used. This year the bullpen is under used. I've have some friends who are farmers and it is either not raining enough or raining too much.
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    The big question for me with Jefferies is this. How in the... did he catch that ball?
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    Yeah.. Milwaukee can play. Sometimes the other team plays well.
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    People like you make it hard to hate the Indians.
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    I've never tracked it and I haven't looked it up... But I'm thinking that we've had quite a few years over the past couple of decades when the team home run total for the ENTIRE YEAR would be around the ball park of where we are on May 26th this year.
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    There are no slouches in major league baseball. Every team is going to win 54 and every team is going to lose 54... The other 54 games will determine the order of the draft. The Giants can beat the Dodgers on any given night. THEY JUST CAN"T BEAT THE TWINS (HIGH FIVE).
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    I have to remind myself every once in awhile. "Oh Yeah... We got Cruz to". It's pretty incredible when Cruz on the DL is easily forgotten.
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    I don’t approve.
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    I gots lots of stuff that needs work.
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    Interesting Well if that's the case... Once you move Kluber and Bauer... You gotta move Lindor. I'm sure they will pretend that Lindor is face of the franchise and tell all the GM's that they are keeping him... but that would make no sense to have Lindor standing next to a pile of remains as the face of the franchise. I'll guess: Bauer to the Astros Kluber to the Dodgers Lindor to the Phillies (Segura to 2B) Hand to the TWINS!!!!
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    They made enough moves and didn't make enough moves to strongly suggest that they were trying to move Kluber and Bauer and probably others. They basically walked into the shallow end of the pool during the off-season. They are already wet. They might as well submerge. From my couch, from the sideline with binoculars and a couple of pine trees blocking my view... just like the rest of us mere mortals. It looks to me like they would have traded Kluber but nobody met the ask is my guess. I believe the Indians are trying to avoid paying the club option on Kluber next year and the Arb dollars that Bauer will get. If they move now they should get a larger haul of prospects back in return to kick start what is sure to be a rebuild. I think they will move Kluber, Bauer for sure at the deadline. I think they will probably move Brad Hand. They will also try to move Kipnis or Santana if anybody wants them (Nobody Does). They will probably keep Ramirez and Lindor but this might be a full scale rebuild. They will probably want to extend Lindor but If they can't lengthen Lindor's stay in Cleveland with a longer contract he will become a free agent while the club is rebuilding. In other words... why would Lindor sign an extension when the team isn't trying to improve right now and self inflicting damage for the future. Especially if they trade Kluber and Bauer. If he doesn't extend... or at least indicate willingness to extend... why would Cleveland watch him walk as a free agent, getting nothing in return, in the middle of a rebuild, when they would love the prospects he would bring back via trade. So Yeah... Might as well move Lindor and then... why not Ramirez. The Twins window in the A.L. Central is BIG.
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    I’m making the prediction and predicting with 90% accuracy that Indians are selling at the deadline.
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