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Mets are good, but they're pitching is performing way over it's head. They're SP's have given up a grand total of 6 HRs combined in 28 starts. Their entire pitching staff has a combined HR rate of .45, which is .27 ahead of the next closest team at .75. In the last 10 years, no team has finished with a staff HR rate lower than .83. In other words, they are due some major regression.
 
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vols 30 said:
I loved playing 18 division games every year. Made rivalries that much better.

Now We play the Mets and Phillies less so we can play a series against The A's and Royals. 🤪
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I’m definitely not one against change but this has been horrible.
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I thought 19 division games was too much especially if you had two bad teams in the division, but there needs to be more balance in terms of games and when they are scheduled. The fact we haven't played the Mets yet and won't until late May is ridiculous.
 
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I thought 19 division games was too much especially if you had two bad teams in the division, but there needs to be more balance in terms of games and when they are scheduled. The fact we haven't played the Mets yet and won't until late May is ridiculous.
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Edit: The Braves first game against the Mets isn't till June 17th!
 
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Man the Rockies are REALLLYY bad. Even their Pythagorean W-L record is only 7-21. Glad we took game 1 with Elder against their "Ace."

For the rest of the series, pitch around Beck and Goodman every opportunity that you can. The rest of their lineup is trash.
 
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Carp said:
Man the Rockies are REALLLYY bad. Even their Pythagorean W-L record is only 7-21. Glad we took game 1 with Elder against their "Ace."

For the rest of the series, pitch around Beck and Goodman every opportunity that you can. The rest of their lineup is trash.
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Because it's baseball in Colorado, that ownership group does not get enough **** for being truly terrible and one of the worst in sports. They clearly have little idea what they're doing.
 
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If/when Olson can get his launch angle corrected, he is going to go on an absolute tear. He is sporting career bests in K%, BB%, average EV, and Hard Hit%. Dude is absolutely murdering the ball, but he's getting no loft. He has a 70! point delta between his wOBA and his xwOBA.

May could be a really fun month if Olson can get that figured out, combined with the return of the king.
 
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Carp said:
Man the Rockies are REALLLYY bad. Even their Pythagorean W-L record is only 7-21. Glad we took game 1 with Elder against their "Ace."

For the rest of the series, pitch around Beck and Goodman every opportunity that you can. The rest of their lineup is trash.
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There are poorly run franchises among the big 3 sports that have more of a spotlight on them, but I'm not sure there is a more poorly-run franchise in professional sports than the Rockies. Maybe the Charlotte Hornets?

The thing about the Rockies is that they operate with exactly zero sense of direction. At least a team like the Browns, even though they make terrible decisions, seem to have some kind of plan. It's usually a dumb plan, but at least it's a plan. The Rockies do stuff like not wanting to pay Nolan Arenado and trading him and letting Trevor Story walk, then signing a washed Kris Bryant for $182m. They operate like an 8-year-old playing GM mode in MLB The Show.
 
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There are poorly run franchises among the big 3 sports that have more of a spotlight on them, but I'm not sure there is a more poorly-run franchise in professional sports than the Rockies. Maybe the Charlotte Hornets?

The thing about the Rockies is that they operate with exactly zero sense of direction. At least a team like the Browns, even though they make terrible decisions, seem to have some kind of plan. It's usually a dumb plan, but at least it's a plan. The Rockies do stuff like not wanting to pay Nolan Arenado and trading him and letting Trevor Story walk, then signing a washed Kris Bryant for $182m. They operate like an 8-year-old playing GM mode in MLB The Show.
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Hornets just changed ownership group in the last two years. My top 5 would be Sabres, Rockies, Athletics, Browns and Kings in some order. Raiders is pretty close as well.
 
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05_never_again said:
There are poorly run franchises among the big 3 sports that have more of a spotlight on them, but I'm not sure there is a more poorly-run franchise in professional sports than the Rockies. Maybe the Charlotte Hornets?

The thing about the Rockies is that they operate with exactly zero sense of direction. At least a team like the Browns, even though they make terrible decisions, seem to have some kind of plan. It's usually a dumb plan, but at least it's a plan. The Rockies do stuff like not wanting to pay Nolan Arenado and trading him and letting Trevor Story walk, then signing a washed Kris Bryant for $182m. They operate like an 8-year-old playing GM mode in MLB The Show.
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The Angels have to be on that list as well. At least the Rockies can develop their own stars at a semi decent rate. If I recall correctly, after drafting Trout, the player with the most career WAR that the Angels have produced from their own farm system is Kole Calhoun with 14.7 bWAR in a 12 year career. I mean this is a team that constantly drafts inside the top 10-15 and they never produce any quality Major league talent. Although, it looks like Zach Neto might be bucking that trend.

Not only that, but they had the 2 best players, bar none, in all of baseball together for 6 years and they couldn't manage even ONE winning season. That takes a really special level of ineptitude. Granted, some time was missed due to injury, but there is zero reason they should have been as bad as they have been given their resources.
 
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The Angels have to be on that list as well. At least the Rockies can develop their own stars at a semi decent rate. If I recall correctly, after drafting Trout, the player with the most career WAR that the Angels have produced from their own farm system is Kole Calhoun with 14.7 bWAR. I mean this is a team that constantly drafts inside the top 10 and they never produce any quality Major league talent. Although, it looks like Zach Neto might be bucking that trend.

Not only that, but they had the 2 best players, bar none, in all of baseball together for 6 years and they couldn't manage even ONE winning season. That takes a really special level of ineptitude. Granted, some time was missed due to injury, but there is zero reason they should have been as bad as they have been given their resources.
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The Angels are bad but having Trout + Ohtani and never managing a winning season or making the playoffs is also a function of baseball being a different game than basketball or football.

If they had 2 players of that caliber in an NBA lineup, they would not only be making the playoffs but probably would have been making playoff runs. In football, they might have at least been a playoff team if they had a guy at QB of Trout or Ohtani's caliber? In baseball it's hard...Ohtani was the SP 20% of the time, and you can pitch around 2 guys in a 9-person batting order.
 
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zjcvols said:
Hornets just changed ownership group in the last two years. My top 5 would be Sabres, Rockies, Athletics, Browns and Kings in some order. Raiders is pretty close as well.
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The whole Jack Eichel/Sam Reinhart ordeal with Buffalo is still mindblowing.

Jimmy Haslam's seeming desire to want to associate himself with scandalous or edgy situations is wild. This is a guy who has now drafted Johnny Football, signed Deshaun Watson, and drafted Shedeur Sanders. I don't know how many of y'all closely followed the Pilot rebate scandal from several years ago, but IMO he was incredibly lucky not to have been charged with serious crimes. There was a lot of evidence uncovered that sure looked like he was aware of what was going on, if not directly implicated in it. Oh, and his brother was Governor of Tennessee at the time. I wonder if that had anything to do with him skating.

You also know what's wild about his Browns investment? He's made likely about 5x his money on it since 2012. And has no clue what he's doing. It's good to be a professional sports team owner. It seems to have gotten him to pay less attention to UT though, which is great for us.
 
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The Angels are bad but having Trout + Ohtani and never managing a winning season or making the playoffs is also a function of baseball being a different game than basketball or football.

If they had 2 players of that caliber in an NBA lineup, they would not only be making the playoffs but probably would have been making playoff runs. In football, they might have at least been a playoff team if they had a guy at QB of Trout or Ohtani's caliber? In baseball it's hard...Ohtani was the SP 20% of the time, and you can pitch around 2 guys in a 9-person batting order.
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I mean it isn't hard to fill out a roster with another 6-7 league average position players/starting pitchers. That itself would be enough to get you over .500.

Hell, in 2018 they had Simba with 5 WAR and Justin Upton with 3 WAR to go along with Trout and Ohtani. They still couldn't manage a winning record.
 
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