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1. Los Angeles El Hombre of AnaheimThey would have to play 59-35 (0.628) in the 94 remaining games to end up with a 90-win record. Yet there are people who keep hanging on. They're a .450 team because that's their record. I see nothing on the horizon to convince me that they will improve from being a .450 team. All the beat reporters tout this 11-game home stand as "important"; well, Fedde gave up the early lead yesterday and Grack Zeinke never looked back. If not for the rain delay it's likely he would've gotten himself a Maddux, he was pitching that well.
If the Nats can't beat the middling-to-good teams, then it's a lost season. Might as well evaluate your system and plan for next year. Such a waste of talent, though.
Apparently Meghan King Edmonds was one of the 6 featured characters on Real Housewives of Orange County seasons 10, 11 and 12 (2015-2017). That makes her infinitely more of a celebrity to readers of People Magazine.
BUT.
a) who says they need to win 90? You? Fangrpahs and BBPros has ATL winning 90 and 88, respectively. Both sites suggest 87 wins would be enough for at least a wild card. Especially if Wash goes 57-37, thus beating many of their fores along the way.
b) You "see nothing on the horizon...". So you think they have played like a .450 team? The amassed evidence that a team's BaseRuns or Pythagorean record is superior than raw W-L to project the future doesn't work for you? BBPros has them as a "true" .500 team. I'll take their estimate.
c) Grack Zeinke is not exactly the poster child for a game against a middling team, methinks.
d) Fangraphs has the Nats with the 6th best postseason odds in the NL. Maybe they are wrong, but what teams typically take the advice of "Might as well evaluate your system and plan for next year" in that position?
Now, do I think Wash will win the NL pennant? Naah. But if you gave me 30-1 I would take it!!
Wrong on both counts.
I think Trout catches this guy by the end of 2019...
Tonight, he just hit his 9th of the year. The whole team is maddeningly mediocre, but Carpenter's failure to thrive in 2019 is probably the most painful sore spot.
Shitty starting pitching will be my guess ...
What do I win?
EDIT: And Matz---who I was sure was going to be lifted for a PH leading off the bottom of the 5th as he's around 100 pitches through 5---blasts a homer of his own, cuts it to 4-2.
You took AP classes in 8th grade?
That's nice ... can they pitch?
What can I say? I'z just smrt.
Don't worry, Severino will come back after the All Star break and Montgomery - at best a fifth starter - in September, and Cashman will give his "it's like adding two pitchers at the deadline" party line. Glad they signed a 36-year old pitcher to a three-year deal and pinched pennies on Keuchel. smh.
Watching Monty before the TJ, I though he had Pettite-light upside. After the injury (especially just coming back), you're likely right.
But fuuuuuuugh, at this point, I'd be happy with 5th starter quality, if it came with 6 innings a start.
...that was popularized by Mike Rizzo after sitting on his hands at the deadline.
Haven't been watching, but is that why the Cubs are once again unable to hit with RISP?
Also, I don't understand the Kyle Ryan fascination. Bringing him in with runners on base seems like a guaranteed extra run for whoever he's replacing.
Pete McCarthy
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Mets committed $50m to jeurys Familia and Jed Lowrie. Yanks committed $51m to Adam Ottavino and DJ LeMahieu
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