2025 ATL Thread - Burnes to have TJ surgery

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Watch Preller give up Ethan Salas (only half-joking, who knows with that idiot).

[Kerb Hohl]

Watch Preller give up Ethan Salas (only half-joking, who knows with that idiot).

I'm probably jumping the gun but there are some legitimate red flags on him - granted, he's been playing like 3+ years above where he should be for the most part.

[Kerb Hohl]

Astros got Jesus Sanchez, now working on Cease? Padres are really turning that roster over.

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[Ryan5UW]

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"Slugger"? That seems a little excessive, no?

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Twins basically trading away their whole team.

[Bucks4005]

Padres all in it seems. Didn’t realize they were only 3 games back from the Dodgers though, them dropping 6 against us kinda screwed them. Maybe they think they can take advantage of the Dodgers pitching injury woes and steal a bye with the Mets and the Phillies and us and the Cubs ready to duke it out.

[coolhandluke121]

Padres all in it seems. Didn’t realize they were only 3 games back from the Dodgers though, them dropping 6 against us kinda screwed them. Maybe they think they can take advantage of the Dodgers pitching injury woes and steal a bye with the Mets and the Phillies and us and the Cubs ready to duke it out.

They always do stuff like this, and it always backfires hilariously. They're more likely to miss the playoffs completely than they are to get a top-2 seed, although the most likely outcome is a wild card berth of course.

I'm almost starting to think that a short-sighted team-building strategy affects player motivation somehow. Maybe the laziness/incompetence of the front office just sort of trickles down throughout the organization somehow.

ETA: Maybe players start to see front offices like that as gullible suckers who they don't have to play hard for, so they mail it in. Or maybe they just don't respect those organizations, even though they're happy to take their money.

[Bucks4005]

Padres all in it seems. Didn’t realize they were only 3 games back from the Dodgers though, them dropping 6 against us kinda screwed them. Maybe they think they can take advantage of the Dodgers pitching injury woes and steal a bye with the Mets and the Phillies and us and the Cubs ready to duke it out.

They always do stuff like this, and it always backfires hilariously. They're more likely to miss the playoffs completely than they are to get a top-2 seed, although the most likely outcome is a wild card berth of course.

I'm almost starting to think that a short-sighted team-building strategy affects player motivation somehow. Maybe the laziness/incompetence of the front office just sort of trickles down throughout the organization somehow.

ETA: Maybe players start to see front offices like that as gullible suckers who they don't have to play hard for, so they mail it in. Or maybe they just don't respect those organizations, even though they're happy to take their money.

Does it? They’ve made the playoffs twice in the last 4 years in a division that basically has a team that just kinda screws all of baseball with their payroll and made an NLCS one of those years. I mean, you kinda have to make aggressive moves because otherwise, you’re basically ceding the division to the Dodgers every year. I mean, before they adopted this aggressive mentality, they hadn’t made the playoffs since 2006, so them changing it up hardly seems like it “backfired” in comparison.

In a sense, since the Padres have won playoff series, you could argue they’re more successful than us the least 5 years. I mean, I’m pretty sure they suck’s for a while, it’s kinda weird to say it backfires every time when they’re basically a contender for the playoffs every year. I mean, yes, we do it more cheaply fir similar results, but hard to say their results backfired and ours fir example succeed just looking at results.

[coolhandluke121]

Padres all in it seems. Didn’t realize they were only 3 games back from the Dodgers though, them dropping 6 against us kinda screwed them. Maybe they think they can take advantage of the Dodgers pitching injury woes and steal a bye with the Mets and the Phillies and us and the Cubs ready to duke it out.

They always do stuff like this, and it always backfires hilariously. They're more likely to miss the playoffs completely than they are to get a top-2 seed, although the most likely outcome is a wild card berth of course.

I'm almost starting to think that a short-sighted team-building strategy affects player motivation somehow. Maybe the laziness/incompetence of the front office just sort of trickles down throughout the organization somehow.

ETA: Maybe players start to see front offices like that as gullible suckers who they don't have to play hard for, so they mail it in. Or maybe they just don't respect those organizations, even though they're happy to take their money.

Does it? They’ve made the playoffs twice in the last 4 years in a division that basically has a team that just kinda screws all of baseball with their payroll and made an NLCS one of those years. I mean, you kinda have to make aggressive moves because otherwise, you’re basically ceding the division to the Dodgers every year. I mean, before they adopted this aggressive mentality, they hadn’t made the playoffs since 2006, so them changing it up hardly seems like it “backfired” in comparison.

In a sense, since the Padres have won playoff series, you could argue they’re more successful than us the least 5 years. I mean, I’m pretty sure they suck’s for a while, it’s kinda weird to say it backfires every time when they’re basically a contender for the playoffs every year. I mean, yes, we do it more cheaply fir similar results, but hard to say their results backfired and ours fir example succeed just looking at results.

It's not just that we do it more cheaply; it's that we also do it sustainably, whereas they hand out terrible contracts that are obviously absurd from the moment they're signed and trade way too many prospects for short-term success. They've built some so-called super-teams much like the Dodgers, and it's not at all impressive to make the playoffs only 3 times in 6 years since trading for Machado considering how much they've invested. They could have probably done better just by keeping more of their prospects, and they're currently in financial hell.

Hosmer, Snell, Darvish, Bogaerts, Soto, Machado, Hader... I could go on and on, but the point is that they frequently underachieve and can't even get to .500 despite always being one of the few teams making the splashiest moves. It's dumb and I'm so glad I'm not a Padres fan.

ETA: For 6+ years, they've been more like the Dodgers before Friedman took over. Remember the Ethier/Crawford/Gonzalez/Kemp era when the Dodgers were just getting the biggest names with the biggest contracts and still rarely being a serious contender? You have to be more discerning about moves like that and complement them with some shrewd team-building, even if you're the Dodgers.

[MickeyDavis]

3-3 in the 8th Reds Braves. Braves score 8 in the top of the inning. Reds score 8 in the bottom of the inning.

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Tony Gwynn!

[ReasonablySober]

Every time I see a high strikeout number I think of Rob Deer.

[Mags FTW]

[Kerb Hohl]

I hate to be "that guy" - but the "players strike out too much these days" is like 10% due to the approach (yeah, hitting homers/XBH is like the NBA 3-pointer revolution) and 90% about the fact that these guys are facing 4+ different pitchers throwing 98 MPH with a nasty slider whereas Tony Gwynn and Hank Aaron faced 1-2 guys maxing out at 93.

[MVP2110]

Caballero also let a ball go through his legs lmao

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Caballero also let a ball go through his legs lmao

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Yankee announcers absolutely melted down.

[ReasonablySober]

Yankees somehow didn't have the worst loss of the night.