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It’s still early! Definitely want to see your team trending in a better direction though. It appears the Red Sox are starting to heat up. I don’t want to see that.
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The Jays lost in Cleveland last night. Finally scored more than 1 or 2 runs, and they let the Guardians score more I don’t get it. The team is getting hits, it’s just their numbers with RISP that are bad. That’s gotta fix itself soon, I hope. Need more timely hits! The Yankees are in first place and their run diff is looking very nice. The Jays are negative right now
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It’s about time they did something re: Bauer. His leave just kept getting extended for the longest time, kicking the can down the road. Nice to see action taken, and tough action at that. Osuna and Ozuna (and others) should have received harsher punishments too IMO.
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I'm kinda surprised to see the M's and Angels at the top of the NL West right now. I wasn't a big believer in the M's last year despite their successes. I guess I'm still not convinced about that team from last year. But they're still winning games here in 2022 so I guess they're better than I thought! I also just expect the Angels to underwhelm despite having Trout and Ohtani. They've never really managed to put a good team around Trout in the decade or so he's been around. Dude's a perennial MVP candidate and usually the teams is going nowhere fast. I hope they're actually good this year. It's weird to see them winning so many games The Jays won again last night. Come-from-behind, extra inning win over the Red Sox. You can never count this team out of a game!
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The Reds cleaned house a bit this off-season. Guess they’re tanking this summer. Doesn’t help that most of the lineup seems to be slumping.
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I think the Red Sox will experience a bit of a drop-off this year, but I still expect them to be in the high 80’s. I need too see the O’s win a few more games against the Sox, Yanks, and Rays this year! Help the Jays out a bit plz.
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Well, the Jays came out of Opening Weekend with a 2-1 record, so I guess I can live with that. Keep winning 2-of-3 and that's an 108 win team! Pitching really hasn't looked sharp though. They had to come back from a 7-0 deficit to win on Opening Night, and yesterday they were up 6-1 and ended up taking a 12-6 loss To the Rangers' credit, it looks like they've put together a pretty solid team this year. Maybe they can take a run at the AL West if things all work out for them. Nice to see Seattle sitting at 2-1 too!
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Jays getting killed by the Rangers in their home opener. Berrios got pulled in the 1st inning. edit: And they came back to tie it up and then take an 8-7 lead edit #2: They held on to win 10-8!
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I hope the M’s are good this year too. I felt they were a bit of a mirage last year, out-performing their actual talent level a little bit, but I think they’re an improved team this year. Guess we’ll see what happens. Projection systems and analysts all seem to be fairly high on the Jays this year, which is cool, but I’m not totally convinced just yet that they can win the AL East. It’s gonna be tough. Super high hopes though.
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Opening Day is here! And somehow trades are still going down https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/04/twins-padres-trade-chris-paddack-taylor-rogers.html Paddack has really disappointed the last couple seasons after his exciting rookie performance.
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Season starts tomorrow! It's been a weird spring what with the late start. Even up to like yesterday there have been some trades happening. There's been a stupid amount of chatter about Jose Ramirez getting dealt, which I thought was the dumbest idea ever, but apparently the Jays were pursuing a deal for Ramirez so I was hearing/reading a lot about it lately. Apparently the Dads were trying hard to trade for him too. It's good to see that he got an extension and will stay in Cleveland at least for now. I'm tired of hearing about it Cleveland hardly has any money on their books, so despite being one of the teams that cries poor, they can afford to extend him. And they just re-branded and probably want to sell a bunch of jerseys. And the season hasn't even started yet so fans can still be optimistic, especially since they play in a weak division. They'd be fools to trade him before the start of the season.
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I dunno about the Giants. I thought it was a mirage, but... they were really good all year last year, and baseball is a long season. So maybe they're legit. I don't think they'll be that good again this year though. The Dads seem doomed to disappoint. I want them to be good I have no clue why Bryant signed in Colorado. Like, I get why he'd take the money, but if he wants to win anything then that's not the place to go! But if he just wants to be 'the guy' and make big money then it makes sense. He instantly becomes Colorado's "Franchise Player" by signing there. And his stats will probably get padded by playing half of his games in Colorado. It's still a head-scratcher to me though... Hard to expect anything of the D-Backs either. Dodgers should steamroll that division unless the Giants surprise them again this year.
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But speaking of dangerous lineups... The Dodger's should be very scary too
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I would still like to see more pitching, but I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about the Jays this year. I am hopeful that their team of pitching coaches can help Kikuchi unlock something and become more reliable. He’s shown flashes of being good in Seattle. Peter Walker and co. have been quite good at helping pitchers get better. Here’s hoping! I also like the trade for Chapman. Now they have 3B covered. And the Jays’ lineup is already dangerous enough that they don’t really need him to hit too much. He’s dropped off at the plate the last couple seasons.
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https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/03/yankees-acquire-josh-donaldson-isiah-kiner-falefa-from-twins-for-gary-sanchez-gio-urshela.html Wow.
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Ohhhh yeah! That’s worthy of a new season thread. @webhead can you split this into a new thread starting at Eizan’s post? 2022 Baseball season here we come!
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I was thinking the same thing. Don’t make any sense to me. Many things about the HoF don’t make sense to me
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Ortiz is in, Bonds (and Clemens) are out. I don’t get it. I would argue that Ortiz was not as good of a hitter as Bonds was, and Ortiz didn’t really have any other skills while Bonds was a very good base runner and defender on top of being an incredible hitter.
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Barry's gotta be in the HoF, to me that's a no-brainer. IIRC he is alleged to have used PEDs started in the late 90's..? Look at his stats from the decade before that. He was obviously already on the HoF fast track. His numbers were insane. Steals, HRs, average, OBP, I think 2 or 3 MVP awards when he was still on the Pirates, numerous Gold Glove awards in the outfield. Bonds is no doubt in my mind deserving of a place in the HoF.
