2017 MLB Season Thread

[JZsportswhiz]

the cubs who i openly called overrated are back

Obviously they proved me wrong.

But i still have the same questions about them

From rotation age, to outfield defense(schwarber), to heyward, to how good baez and russell actually are, zobrist contract and age, etc

They'll be fine. Rotation age is a concern, but they have deep pockets and young talent to flip. Zobrist won WS MVP so idc if he hits .150 the next 2.5 years his contract was glorious. He's weeks from turning 36 so I can see the concern but he will be a nice bench guy in the coming years and Theo has even stated that in the past.

 

[snipezo]

Lmao the Jays #5 hitter is Ryan Goins. How they have more than 5 wins is pretty puzzling.

 

[Mexi]

Bellinger 4 roy

 

[Mexi]

Lmao the Jays #5 hitter is Ryan Goins. How they have more than 5 wins is pretty puzzling.

blow it up

 

[PWNdroia]

The Red Sox officially suck.  All the talk this year was how good this team was, but there's nothing special about this team.  Looks very average.  Teams that don't have anything special don't win.  We won in 2013 on career years from all of our players, but that's not happening here.  David Ortiz being gone is a big hole, much more than I thought.  It's ironic how there is more talk about Ortiz being gone in Boston than there is about our actual current team.  Sad.
 
The Yankees, on the other hand, have everything special about them.  Their rookies are rolling, Ellsbury has resurged, and although I chose them for wild card, they might just win everything.  Orioles are the same.  They just keep winning.  If anything, the Yankees will slow down, but at least they're an exciting team.  I didn't even have Orioles in the mix, but Showalter refuses to lose and he wins with a lot of low average but high hitting homerun players that just know how to grind runs.
 
I'm second guessing Dave Dombrowski here.  He is highly overrated.  I'd take 3 bad years of Cherington and 1 championship year over Dave Dombrowski.  Cherington found some gold mines for 2013, but Dombrowski just tries to get the best players, and that formula has failed so many times for so many teams.
 
Oh, and you don't win games by scoring 17 runs on one day and scoring 2 to 3 runs the next 3 to 4 games.  Doesn't work that way, but seems to happen to the Red Sox a lot.  Feast or famine is not how you win games.

 

[snipezo]

they should but they probably won't. jays have been hit with bad luck with all the injuries, but the lack of young talent in the upper minor leagues does hurt them as well.
 
i do agree that they should blow it up though. they're all broken. 

 

[PWNdroia]

they should but they probably won't. jays have been hit with bad luck with all the injuries, but the lack of young talent in the upper minor leagues does hurt them as well.
 
i do agree that they should blow it up though. they're all broken. 

The Dickey trade depleted everything from this team.  That and the Tulo trade.  Both pretty much set them up to fail because they got back aging players for their young talent.
 
Stroman might've been the MVP of the WBC, but he's really not a high tier pitcher.  He's only a slightly above average pitcher, just like everyone else in their rotation. 

 

[snipezo]

they didn't really give up any prospects of value in that tulo trade
 
 
castro's already been dfa'd once, because aa fucked up his development. and jeff hoffman has looked meh. 

 

[Teagz]

I'm second guessing Dave Dombrowski here.  He is highly overrated.  I'd take 3 bad years of Cherington and 1 championship year over Dave Dombrowski.  Cherington found some gold mines for 2013, but Dombrowski just tries to get the best players, and that formula has failed so many times for so many teams.

I might be misinterpreting, but how is Dombrowski trying to the best players a bad thing? If you're talking about mortgaging the future to make the current team better I agree with you, but DD has a solid track record when it comes to acquiring players. He's obviously had some misses, but they don't outweigh his hits imo. 

 

[Teagz]

Vintage Ausmus pitcher management tonight.

 

[PWNdroia]

I might be misinterpreting, but how is Dombrowski trying to the best players a bad thing? If you're talking about mortgaging the future to make the current team better I agree with you, but DD has a solid track record when it comes to acquiring players. He's obviously had some misses, but they don't outweigh his hits imo. 

Overpaying for David Price.  I guess maybe I'm overlooking it, but he definitely overpaid for this guy.  And every reliever he acquired has been injured (outside of Kimbrel), but I guess I can't really blame him for that.  But he really didn't improve this bullpen massively.  He took chances on pitchers who don't have a huge track record of success (Abad, Thornburg, Smith) and let our better pitchers go (Uehara, Tazawa).  Tazawa did decline the past few years, but he's still solid and I'd take him back over a new question mark like Thornburg or Carson Smith.

 

[Phil The Thrill]

We won 13 on the complete momentums of career years and the events of the boston marathon. Most flukey world series victory ever

 

[Mexi]

We won 13 on the complete momentums of career years and the events of the boston marathon. Most flukey world series victory ever

fluky as fuck

God damn that papi grand slam

 

[Mexi]

I literally went to the dodger game tonight to get the kenley bobblehead and then immediately left lol

 

[PWNdroia]

We won 13 on the complete momentums of career years and the events of the boston marathon. Most flukey world series victory ever

I pretty much said that in one of my last posts. Still, many championships are won mostly with passion these days, then talent is secondary.

The 2017 Red Sox have talent, but no passion.

 

[snipezo]

It's may

 

[Teagz]

fluky as fuck

God damn that papi grand slam

I still have nightmares about that.
 
 
Underrated part of that moment: Torii Hunter could have conceivably caught the ball. I think it still would have been a home run because he fell over the fence, but it would have looked awesome. 

 

[Mexi]

You guys are so lucky you dont have to play at coors 9-10 times a year
Hell on earth stadium

 

[PWNdroia]

You guys are so lucky you dont have to play at coors 9-10 times a year
Hell on earth stadium

If the Rockies play into it, it's a blessing in disguise.

I'm surprised at the Rockies, but I think maybe they could hold up all season. Just maybe. Even if they dont, they'll still give the Dodgers a run for their money, along with the Diamondbacks.

 

[Phil The Thrill]

I pretty much said that in one of my last posts. Still, many championships are won mostly with passion these days, then talent is secondary.

The 2017 Red Sox have talent, but no passion.

 
I concur. Don't see us in the playoffs