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  1. Cap'n Piranha
    IN my opinion, increasingly poorly.
  2. Cap'n Piranha
    But if Astudillo gets hurt, and Garver gets a sunflower seed in his eye, we'd have to give up the DH.
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    "Challenge Accepted"
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    Hell, I'll go one further and say Perfect Game.
  6. Cap'n Piranha
    All good things must come to an end.
  7. Cap'n Piranha
    Are any of these free streaming sites approved by MLB, or are they the Napster of video streaming?
  8. Cap'n Piranha
    I think of tarps.
  9. Cap'n Piranha
    Don't look now, but the Twins lineup is on pace to be the worst of all time.
  10. Cap'n Piranha
    Always good when your first two batters make outs on 3 pitches total.
  11. Cap'n Piranha
    Yeah you know me?
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    Cy Berrios!!!
  13. Cap'n Piranha
    Don't look now, but the Twins pitching staff is on pace to be the best of all time.
  14. Cap'n Piranha
    Yes, I know how to do that. When you try and listen, it plays it in a tab in which you cannot also view Gameday--it only shows the player.
  15. Cap'n Piranha
    Which do you think will be the bigger issue for this team; OBP or OPP?
  16. Cap'n Piranha
    I'm in Seattle, so the only time I see the TV broadcast is when it's the Free Game of the Day. In the past, every game has been so designated on opening day, but not this year. Cheap-ass Manfred.
  17. Cap'n Piranha
    My first MLB.com complaint of the year. They have not figured out how to embed the radio player into Gameday, so I have to have two separate tabs. Not a huge deal, just feels like something they should be able to figure out.
  18. Cap'n Piranha
    TIBN just ran a radio commercial that started out "Well, there's the end of the inning." Feels like pretty shoddy ad slotting to me.
  19. Cap'n Piranha
    Score tied at 0, top of the first; this has been your circus boy update. Now it's MLB season.
  20. Cap'n Piranha
    Lineups posted. Cleveland Leonys Martin--CF Jose Ramirez--3B Tyler Naquin--RF Carlos Santana--1B Hanley Ramirez--DH Jake Bauers--LF Roberto Perez--C Brad Miller--2B Eric Stamets--SSMinnesota Max Kepler--RF Jorge Polanco--SS Nelson Cruz--DH Eddie Rosario--LF CJ Cron--1B Marwin Gonzalez--3B Jonathon Schoop--2B Jason Castro--C Byron Buxton--CF Is it just me, or does our lineup seem significantly better than Cleveland's?
  21. Cap'n Piranha
    I've always said if, when it comes to whether they would be able to get 3-4 players. Every trade has risks. I dismiss the 20% playoff odds because they're in reality 12% (4% chance to win the division, 15.5% chance to get a wild card, and therefore about an 8% chance to win the wild card game). I don't count losing in the wild card game as making the playoffs, anymore than losing in an NCAA tournament First Four game counts as making the NCAA tournament. Even if the odds were 20%, that's nothing to get excited about, so reducing my chances to 10%, or even 5% means nothing to me, so long as 2-4 years from now I can have 50% or better chances to actually make the playoffs. For the last time, Upton's contract is an albatross to the Angels because it prevents them from obtaining additional pieces that they need to get above a 20% chance to make the playoffs. He is a fine complimentary player, but the Angels need multiple more fine complimentary players in order to truly compete. Upton keeps them from doing that, UNLESS the Angels are willing to spend $200M, $225M, or more to get even better. The fact that they haven't in the past, and didn't this offseason suggests they are not willing to do that. With that, I'm going to move on from this thread. It seems we have very different concepts of value and what a team's purpose should be. I've had a great time debating you, and I completely respect your ideas, I just don't think either of us will convince the other. I'm sure I'll see you in other threads, and I look forward to continuing to interact with you.
  22. Cap'n Piranha
    The Trout contract is in a completely different class than Stanton/Machado/Harper. It is at least $100M more than all 3 of those--Machado is the only one close, and even his AAV is $6M less than Trout. If Machado wanted 12 years, I'm guess though his AAV would have gone from $30M to $28M to $27M. They are not comparable contracts. To repeat a point I've made before--if the Angels have the resources and the willpower to spend on Stanton/Machado/Harper players, why aren't they doing it now? Seriously, the next 3 years will in all likelihood be the best 3 years Trout has left--why aren't they trying to maximize those? The only explanation is they lack either the resources or the willingness. And if that's the case, then what is the point of signing Trout so you can finish 83-79 for the foreseeable future?
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    Maybe they won't all win 100 games this year, but they all have projections above 95 wins for 2019, but all 3 are all-in on winning this year, next year, and in 2021 as well. They will all 3 be committed to doing whatever it takes to maintain their standard. Waiting for any of these teams to seriously falter is the epitome of foolishness.
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    They were the only two you mentioned; while you didn't explicitly state those two are the only options to move the needle, nor did you so much as allude to any other options to move the needle. It's not ridiculous to infer that those two options are the only ones you're referencing. Except you were saying it's pessimism to suggest 85 wins is the ceiling. I don't think its optimism to suggest 85 win projections are possible, I think it's optimism to suggest 85 win projections are the floor.
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    I don't think getting 3-4 players capable of putting up 2-4 WAR a year is "settling". It's hard to win with quite possibly the best player ever if he doesn't have support, as the Angels have been proving for half a decade now. I'm not sure why you're struggling to understand why Upton has more value to an NL team than the Angels currently. The Angels have an 82 win projection WITH Upton. The NL teams have an 82 win projection WITHOUT Upton, making Upton incremental, and driving them to the 85 win range. NL Central and East teams are also chasing projected division winners with projections of 87.3 and 90.5, as opposed to the Astros with a projection of 97.7. The Angels need to add 15 WAR despite already having Upton to match the Astros projection. An NL Central/East team needs to add at most 7 wins to match their projected division winner. Upton is more than a third of that. Perhaps the Angels won't be able to swing a deal for prospects. If that's the case, I have to believe that the Angels are in a pretty tough position.
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