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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#122 » by Lateral Quicks » Mon May 8, 2023 2:01 am

Belt not being washed would be huge.
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Post#123 » by Raps in 4 » Mon May 8, 2023 3:27 am

Fairview4Life wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:The Rays are losing another series to a >.500 team. These guys are the Derozan-Lowry Raptors of MLB.


I blame you for their comeback.


Ok well **** the Yankees. They're barely even a .500 team now.
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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#124 » by Parataxis » Mon May 8, 2023 3:43 am

Lateral Quicks wrote:Belt not being washed would be huge.


It's really nice, not having him act like our Designated Strikeout.
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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#125 » by Boogie! » Mon May 8, 2023 3:50 am

Who would've thought coming into the season that after 35 games, kikuchi would have the most wins and the best era on the team. That's great for kikuchi but also sad for the rest of our rotstion. If manoah specifically pitches st last years level we probably have at least 3 more wins. Just from the way manoah has looked this year though, he looks like a blowrios level of implosion.
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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#126 » by Raps in 4 » Mon May 8, 2023 7:24 am

Boogie! wrote:Who would've thought coming into the season that after 35 games, kikuchi would have the most wins and the best era on the team. That's great for kikuchi but also sad for the rest of our rotstion. If manoah specifically pitches st last years level we probably have at least 3 more wins. Just from the way manoah has looked this year though, he looks like a blowrios level of implosion.


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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#127 » by Fairview4Life » Mon May 8, 2023 11:27 am

Raps in 4 wrote:
Fairview4Life wrote:
Raps in 4 wrote:The Rays are losing another series to a >.500 team. These guys are the Derozan-Lowry Raptors of MLB.


I blame you for their comeback.


Ok well **** the Yankees. They're barely even a .500 team now.


Just another fraud team the Rays get to play.
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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#128 » by Boogie! » Mon May 8, 2023 12:26 pm

How long before we just accept the rays are good. Their offense seems to be stacked this year and their pitching has always been good.
mdenny wrote:In anycase....Masai is probably gonna make Fred the first active player/head coach in franchise history now that Nurse is out of the way. That's been the plan all along.
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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#129 » by Parataxis » Mon May 8, 2023 1:26 pm

Boogie! wrote:How long before we just accept the rays are good. Their offense seems to be stacked this year and their pitching has always been good.


I don't think anybody doubts that the Rays are good - we expect them to make the postseason.

The issue is that they're not 'historically great' levels of good.

The Rays are currently 'on pace' for a 129 win season. That would be the best season in history, by a margin of 13 games. No team is that good.
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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#130 » by duppyy » Mon May 8, 2023 2:08 pm

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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#131 » by tanuki1031 » Mon May 8, 2023 3:00 pm

Missed the game, lost track of pitching schedule.

Saw score, saw listed starter.

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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#132 » by Boogie! » Mon May 8, 2023 11:56 pm

Parataxis wrote:
Boogie! wrote:How long before we just accept the rays are good. Their offense seems to be stacked this year and their pitching has always been good.


I don't think anybody doubts that the Rays are good - we expect them to make the postseason.

The issue is that they're not 'historically great' levels of good.

The Rays are currently 'on pace' for a 129 win season. That would be the best season in history, by a margin of 13 games. No team is that good.


What if they are.
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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#133 » by Schad » Tue May 9, 2023 12:10 am

Boogie! wrote:
Parataxis wrote:
Boogie! wrote:How long before we just accept the rays are good. Their offense seems to be stacked this year and their pitching has always been good.


I don't think anybody doubts that the Rays are good - we expect them to make the postseason.

The issue is that they're not 'historically great' levels of good.

The Rays are currently 'on pace' for a 129 win season. That would be the best season in history, by a margin of 13 games. No team is that good.


What if they are.


They aren't. No team ever has been and no team in our lifetimes will be. The best regular season team in MLB history won 71.3% of their games. That's the best out of a couple thousand team seasons. The Rays winning 80% of their games isn't just bettering that, it's bettering it by several standard deviations. It's just on the threshold of impossibility. Like, if you took the best 25 players from 2022 and made a team out of them, I'd probably set the over/under in the 115-120 range.
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Post#134 » by SharoneWright » Tue May 9, 2023 12:40 am

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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#135 » by Randle McMurphy » Tue May 9, 2023 12:54 am

The Rays are about to win again by the way. Orioles are a fraud team, though, so it doesn't count.
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Re: Toronto Blue Jays (18-14) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (20-12) 

Post#136 » by Parataxis » Tue May 9, 2023 1:45 pm

Boogie! wrote:
Parataxis wrote:
Boogie! wrote:How long before we just accept the rays are good. Their offense seems to be stacked this year and their pitching has always been good.


I don't think anybody doubts that the Rays are good - we expect them to make the postseason.

The issue is that they're not 'historically great' levels of good.

The Rays are currently 'on pace' for a 129 win season. That would be the best season in history, by a margin of 13 games. No team is that good.


What if they are.


Then they're the greatest team in the history of baseball, past or future.

Is that possible? I mean, I guess? Is it likely? No.
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