/mlb/ general - August edition

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Post players who've been figured out.

For me its the Washington Nationals vs The Los Angeles Dodgers.
These two teams have what it takes to be elite. The elite rotation complimented with frightening bullpens will be a baseball fan's dream come true. The offensive fronts of both teams will prove lethal to any pitcher coming their way. Two of the greatest teams in the majors this decade will spar in a glorious matchup! Cant wait!!

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>>77419126

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jints

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pic related

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Based son of David

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>tfw I really, really liked Joe Smith

the historical comeback + WS walkoff just won't be the same without him

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Where does Sidd Finch rank among the Mets all-time greats?

>>77419119

can't wait for the 2020 olympics

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Why no watch Yakyu, Onii-san?

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>>77419133

>>77419154
Based Japan bringing baseball back for 2020.

Otani will bring the world to its knees.

>>77419157

If it was mlb player I totally get me a japanese gf

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>>77419158
>kongs

fuck bartman, attention whoring crybaby
him and that fucking faggot marlins man

>>77419130
Well, they are currently the odds-on favorites to meet in the NLCS, no?

The pitching matchups could be really great to watch. Scherzer and Kershaw, Darvish and Strasburg if he's healthy, Gio gonzalez and alex wood, too.

>>77419165
kys

>>77419162
would be cool if he pitched to a 0.00 ERA in 25 IP while batting .400/.500/.700 with 10 dongs at the olympics and then came over to the MLB

he should be here in 2019 though barring injuries or really horrible regression, right?

>catch a foul ball
>get sent into the witness protection program
>the 3rd world hamlet of Chicago

If London ever got an MLB or NFL team, I'd name them the Werewolves

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>>77419163
Kenta Maeda got himself a kawaii and playful wife

>>77419189

...that might actually be cool

>>77419189

awoooooooooo

>>77419151
>Metsfags were so desperate they actually believed it

can't make this shit up

TIBETAN FASTBALL
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>>77419189
with checkered uniforms of course

it could take off desu

>>77419190
She's a top-tier QT

>>77419204
She looks like an alien you silly faggot

>>77419181
nobody knows, cause the posting system isn't in place.
most of NPB teams want a limitless system, while the rich NPB teams (the Giants and Hawks) and the poor MLB teams want no limit.
Honestly, MLB is always trying to fuck over the Japanese and it's really getting to them. They started hunting the Japanese prospects and taking them from Japan, which there was a gentleman's agreement to not do so.
Also, these Japanese stars are so important that a guy like Shohei Otani is the only reason the Ham Fighters are still around and getting a new stadium. MLB either turns these NPB players into studs (see Darvish), or wastes their talent (see Daisuke Matsuzaka). MLB now wants to cap that at $20 million, a fraction of what Shohei Otani is worth.

>>77419211
oops, I meant the poor MLB teams want a cap.

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>>77419164
>shorks

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>>77419227
>implying I'm a shorks fan
that's a good one

>>77419211
>>77419216
>poor MLB teams want a cap
why? if everyone is capped at 20 million, what japanese player is going to go to milwaukee or tampa when LA/boston/NY can offer the same amount, and it's even less of a financial stress on those big teams?

>>77419232
Fine then

>retard is so butt devastated he has to post about /hoc/ on /mlb/

And then he posts a pic of some guy drinking chardonnay

Typical bay area faggot post

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>>77419202
Or something that looks like the English royal guard would look sick

>>77419211
sad desu. though from reading about Ohtani, he seems passionate as fuck and would kill for a chance to play in Babe's league. let's hope his agents/advisors/family don't put it off until he gets a 400million dollar contract from the outset

>>77419256
Theme teams, let's do it. It's working out great for the DBacks. Everyone gets a theme. Cleveland's theme is a heroin overdose corpse.

>>77419268
cleveland's theme is now elite sidearm action

>>77419211

The MLB didn't "waste" Matsuzaka's talent. It wasn't like what the Mets did with Syndergaard where the team and staff overworked and physically destroyed him. His first year in the MLB was getting signed to the team that would go on to win the world series that year for 52 million dollars. The Red Sox made him a starting pitcher and when he was no longer competitive in a major league way. The problem is not the MLB, it's just delusion on your end for falling for the hype and thinking "Matsuzaka was entitled to a hall of fame or at least multi Cy Young worthy career!". He was given a thousand times the chances most prospects ever get and he couldn't get the results.

Not to mention, the MLB can't swoop in on any of these guys without the senior ownership/league/handler guys interceding or approving. Picking up a Japanese prospect is nothing like a Latino one.

Then there is the fact that the NPB, though impressive for a foreign country, is still basically a joke compared to the MLB. The NPB clubs make short sighted, 'irrelevant to winning baseball', management decisions that embarass most MLB clubs. There are shitty owners and GMs in the MLB (Marlins especially atm) but there is definitely a sense of parity and a will to win.

>>77419282
Matz helped the red sox win the WS in 2007.. what more do you want?

>>77419289

I didn't argue that point. He was a great number 3 starter after Beckett and Schilling that year. The gentleman only said the league "wasted his talent", which is absurd.

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>>77419268
>It's working out great for the DBacks

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>>77419211
You know, for a country as baseball crazy as Japan, i'm surprised the NPB doesn't do better financially. They certainly get the attendance, but it seems like they have a real problem with financial management. Pretty much every team outside of Hanshin and Yomiuri would be in the red if it wasn't for their corporate sponsors. Considering the population density of Japan, a 12 team league feels pretty small as well.

You also get weird situations like the Orix Buffaloes, which is a merger of the former Orix BlueWave and the Kintetsu Buffaloes. They split their home games between Orix and Kobe, the former locations of the two franchises.

>>77419282
Syndergaard isn't physically destroyed.
Go ahead, give me (you)'s, I don't care. But there's no proof that he's physically destroyed.

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>>77419268
The old uniforms were objectively better.

>>77419319
Not until he attempts to come back and has lost velocity, no.

>>77419239
I think they have some agreement where the club selects where they go.
I don't know the specifics, but it's seriously retarded.

>>77419267
I agree 100%. MLB has it's head up it's ass to the point that they're destroying the game worldwide. They destroyed KBO by plundering prospects, if NPB doesn't dig it's heels in then they'll die too.

>>77419282
Biggest issues:
1. Making him the most expensive Japanese player
2. Making him a $100 million player
3. Not letting him train how he needed to
4. Not having him be properly trained to adapt to MLB, because a 6'5 pitcher will be fine while someone smaller needs better training to adapt
I know what I'm talking about because one of my professors is a longtime sox fan and also wrote an entire book on Daisuke.
Also, you know jackshit about NPB and should really stop acting like you do. NPB isn't a joke, it's a high quality league that is the best non-MLB league in the world.
Also, Japanese players can be poached before they sign NPB contracts and have been poached. MLB has more money to offer and before now would have never tried to interfer, but now is trying to disrupt the natural flow.

>>77419317
Blame the J-League for competing with NPB and the new generation of Japanese people. Orix is a weird situation but that's mostly the fault of the league rather than the teams. They wanted to expand but only had one potential team, so they contracted.

>>77419347
that's the Japanese soccer league, right? Didn't realize it was doing that well.

>>77419347
>Biggest issues:
>1. Making him the most expensive Japanese player
>2. Making him a $100 million player
>3. Not letting him train how he needed to
>4. Not having him be properly trained to adapt to MLB, because a 6'5 pitcher will be fine while someone smaller needs better training to adapt
>I know what I'm talking about because one of my professors is a longtime sox fan and also wrote an entire book on Daisuke.
>Also, you know jackshit about NPB and should really stop acting like you do. NPB isn't a joke, it's a high quality league that is the best non-MLB league in the world.
Also, Japanese players can be poached before they sign NPB contracts and have been poached. MLB has more money to offer and before now would have never tried to interfer, but now is trying to disrupt the natural flow.

This is cringeworthy. So, Matsuzaka being treated like a prima donna and not being treated like a prima donna was his ruin? Sorry, you can't have things two, three, four different ways and going full Matsuzaka Internet Defense Force with childish arguments like "you don't know shit" and ">muh professor" is comical.

Get fucked, he was mediocre at the MLB level.

>>77419375
He was an elite pitcher in 2008.

Then he got injured like 3 seasons in a row and that fucked him up forever.

>>77419395
Yeah, special training to acclimate to a MLB schedule is no joke. Dice-K's body didn't adjust and it showed.

>>77419362
It is doing actually pretty well. Enough to take away attention from the NPB. But, even as a whole Japan isn't really intrested in sports like they used to. The same thing happened in MLB, where guys like Mantle and Mays are seen as gods and cultural icons while nowadays we have Lebron James and Connor McGregor. who are seen as celebrities and superstars. Gods don't exist anymore.
Also, since Japan has had so many potential Legendary players leave, many Japanese teams don't have the same stars that they used to. Along with this, baseball used to be a massive cultural event as it was what pretty much brought the country out of the shithole post-WW2 and gave the Japanese something to be proud of. You think you love baseball? You should see how much they loved it. It was their only constant in a world that seemed chaotic and uncertain.

>>77419375
you really know nothing about how Japanese pitchers are made, do you? These are players who in high school are regularly pushed to the limits. The only comparison I have ever heard to their training is the Soviet athletic system. Japanese players as a whole push themselves to their physical limits, further than 99% of US trained players. Why do you think a legend like Larry Doby couldn't even cut it? If the league was so shit wouldn't he be great in it?
>Get fucked
That was more childish than anything I said.
Also, training has nothing to do with being a prima-donna. You have to help a young player develop in the right way, but not discourage him from what he knows. What if Hank Aaron was told to not hit so hard and be a contact hitter, because he was only 170lb? He wouldn't be in Cooperstown, that's for sure.

>>77419404
Another great point, NPB only plays 66% of the games that MLB plays.

>>77419282
you act like syndergaard is preparing for advanced Tommy John and his career is fucking over. I want him to fail as much as any insecure doyer fan but he has a torn lat, not an overworked elbow ffs

>>77419425
Why the fuck would we give a shit about a team with their fluke tier pitchers that isnt even gonna make the playoffs?

Keep projecting tho canadabro

>>77419347

NPB is AAA level, hardly impressive. Considering Japan's population and baseball being relatively more popular there than it is here they produce a pathetically small amount of quality baseball players.

And I'm pretty sure the J League has little to do with NPB not being financially successful, MLB faces much stiffer competition than that. NPB is still the most popular league in Japan, MLB is not even close to being more popular than the NFL. NBA, NHL, and NCAA are popular also yet MLB manages to be wildly successful financially, all of our big sports leagues are. NPB is just retarded as a league, partially voluntarily since the teams just act as marketing for their parent company instead of like an independent business.

>>77419411
You seem to be the one who doesn't understand Japanese pitchers.

Kenta Maeda literally underwent special strength training over the offseason to adjust to the 9 inning, 162 game schedule.

Dice K's body fell apart wishing a couple years of MLB.

I hope i can get tickets to this game man, the traffic at this time of day is crazy

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>Cubs finally face off against someone with a record above .530
Time for this rape train to enter high gear

>>77419541
yeah man me too

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I'm going to watch the dodgers in Detroit with my cousin

I'm thinking of getting a hotel close to the park

Please tell me I'll be safe from niggers if I pick a downtown hotel like Greek town , Marriott or Hilton hell maybe the park hotel
I wanted to get Greek town since I could just walk to the park without paying the stupid parking fee

>>77419565
>>>/pol/

>>77419565
pussy faggot like you ain't safe anywhere bby

I was gonna go with my dad to see his favourite team (pirates) play the blue jays, but now since both teams are such a shit show it would probably be depressing

>>77419634
Go with your mom and have sex with here

>>77419646
nty

>>77419687
Don't ask me for advice ever again

>>77419565
Why would you be scared to walk downtown before 4pm in a heavily populated area?

I call em the "Blow Gays"

>>77419569
>>77419601
>>77419708
Listen to these guys
You got nothing to worry about white boy just make sure you bring richael and keeshaw wit u-you*

>>77419828
You're a bit of a coward my friend

>Steve Bartman gets his own world series ring
http://wgntv.com/2017/07/31/steve-bartman-to-receive-2016-chicago-cubs-world-series-championship-ring/

>>77419966
Fuck that crybaby

>>77420106
>at least the boystown fags have finally gone from "murder that crybaby" to "fuck that crybaby"

>>77419202
>>77419256
>>77419268
As long as they aren't purple, we will be good

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>mfw Brandon Kintzler

>>77420106
>crybaby
>had to be escorted out of the stadium by security because of asshole fans
>had to lay low for years because of asshole Cubs fans
>never cashed in on his fame because he's a humble guy
>didn't come out from hiding when the Cubs won the World Series, instead chose to continue on with his quiet life
This is why people hate Cubs fans.
>m-muh friendly confines!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnR-cAalFIg

Kino.

>>77420509

surely there's better slags in washington

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>>77420747
>clipshit

but based mattydaves

>>77419634
baseball game is fun no matter what honestly. their playoff pictures are irrelevant on gameday, just go have fun watching a game with your dad you dumb faggot. most fun game I went to last year was against the assletics and we lost

>The idea of trade value being defined by prospects’ place on a list somehow has come into prominence, and it is the height of absurdity, as if being top 50 on one person’s subjective list, as opposed to top 75, makes one particular trade more valuable than others.

/mlb/ absolutely btfo

>Steve Bartman has a WS ring before Kershaw does.

>>77421527
Clayton Kershaw is the best starting pitcher in baseball

>>77421577
t. Regular Season

I don't think we can stop the dodgers this time bros

>>77421665
Maybe it's finally their time? Like it was the Cubs last year.

>>77421675
Honestly, this is the beginning of the greatest dynasty in baseball history. We're talking a 10-peat, at least. Unstoppable.

>>77421687
>trade away your farm for a rental nip
>dynasty

>>77421687
>Starting Ace is so bad in the Post Season that you need 6 starting pitchers to make up for it.

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How do we stop him

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>>77420509
>Still dies in postseason

>>77421775
Wait for him to pitch in the postseason

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEi7CsB7j3g

Kershaw sucks.

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Just a quick question. Can anyone stop us?

Year of the Dodger

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>>77421880
How do we stop this bros

>>77421878
>>77421880
>>77421891
see
>>77421830

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/ranking-the-prospects-traded-during-deadline-season/

CALHOUN SECOND ON LONGENHAGEN'S TRADED PROSPECT LIST

>BUT BUT MUH DOYERS WIN
>BUT BUT RAGS

/mlb/ IRREVOCABLY BTFO

>>77421878
>keeping a picture where you obscure the letters of your team just in case you get traded

darvish is a cunt

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>>77421920
>doyers gave up a #2 prospect for 2 months of a japmeme who has a 5+ ERA in the postseason
Can't make this shit up!

>>77421952
>>77421920
(You)

>>77421976
seething

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>cueto still injured, drops out of Class A san jose

>>77419537
Gotta give credit to the Dodgers, when it comes to talent scouting in Asia, they have made a stronger effort than other clubs to try and make it work.

>>77421920
I'm a Doyer fag. Calhoun was never going to work in the NL. He plays go Defense. But his bat can work and work big time. Honestly he could be Jose Altuve but with more bombs instead of hits.

The Dodgers won that trade because we were able to keep Verdugo and Buehler. Verdugo is a good athlete who will hit for average like Nick Markakis (.300 hitter) and Buehler has a chance of being a really good number 2.

I like the other 2 prospects we gave away tho. They both seem like high upside players who could potentially be MLB starters down the road. All I know is that Texas got better players than any that Detroit got for there trades.

Yankees are in full attack mode again. I think the team finishes with 95 wins.

>>77422412
>The Dodgers won that trade
The Rangers won the trade. Getting literally anything for a player whose contract is up at the end of a hopeless season is always a win. Whether the Dodgers benefit from the trade will depend on Yu's performance, you can't call it a "win" yet.

>>77422542
This.

Remember when people thought the Giants and Dodgers had a rivalry? LEL!

>>77422636
Honestly I'm hoping St. Louis somehow wins the NL Central. They have been the Dodgers rival this decade and I'm sure Kershaw wants to finally overcome his demons.

>>77422542
I guess you're right. Good luck Texas bro. I've been pulling for you guys ever since those recent World Series and like your uniforms. There clean.

>>77422636
True Dodger fans know that the Dodgers true rivals are the Yankees, Red Sox and Cardinals

Giants fans are obsessed with us
We are obsessed with history.

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Just gonna play out the next sixteen months or so until the 2019 season when shit gets real again...hopefully

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HOLY SHIT NICKYD COMING UP

Get well Willy ;_;

>>77422656
No Kershawy, you are the demons.

>>77422668

doesn't help that every rangers player looks like a meth'd out slob

>>77422670
>We are obsessed with history.
Like how your post season history in the last 30 years is abysmal?

>>77422670

unless they can prove themselves in the postseason, the Dodgers are more irrelevant than the White Sox or Braves in the modern era.

Pete Rose is the ultimate scumbag. Bets on the team he coaches, has tried, on mutliple occasions to end other players careers/lives, and now admits to having sex with children?

>>77422851
>>77422854
In the last 30 years, the Dodgers have never finished last in the division. in the past 10 years, the Dodgers have the best regular season record in all of the MLB

>>77421695
>Trading Willie Calhoun and literally whos = trading the farm
lol

"The farm" just produced last year's ROY, this year's ROY, and probably next year's ROY.
>Seager, Bellinger, Pederson, Urias

In progress
>Verdugo, Buehler, Alvarez

Willie Calhoun has a great bat, but he's not an elite fielder. He'll be a fine DH for the Rags.

>>77422542
By the same logic, you can't call it a "lose" until Darvish pitches in the postseason

AND

Calhoun plays in the majors.

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Sucks that it took a freak injury to get up but still congratulations Delmonico on the call up. Good luck up here kid.

post yfw 2020 White Sox-Phillies World Series

>>77422935

Without postseason victories, those are just ESPN-tier stat dives.

The premier objective of baseball is to win the world series, to fall short of that and earn a pennant is noteworthy. Anything can happen this year and no team looks better at the moment, but the Dodgers have a history of being paper tigers.

>>77423054
>no team looks better
>Dodgers literally 74-31

k.

>>77423081

I said no team looks better than the Dodgers because of that very same win loss column.

What exactly are you disagreeing with or contradicting here? Is English your second language?

>>77422935
>In the last 30 years, the Dodgers have never finished last in the division.

That's not an accomplishment

>>77423161
Then why hasn't any other team done that then?

>>77423203
No other team has spent 3 billion dollars over 30 years and not even won a pennant either. You want a banner for that?

>>77423203

I hate the Giants more than I do the Dodgers (in fact I even sort of like the Dodgers) but it's more impressive to have 3 world series wins in a 5 year span and fluctuate through the division standings than it is to have a thirty year "dynasty" that never wins anything. It's an obscure stat dive and something a loser would pull out to justify losing.

You're missing the point. A regular season win's bottom line value is to put your team in the playoffs.

>>77423292
How is that obscure that the Dodgers have the best MLB regular season record THIS DECADE?

Hell, the Dodgers have 63 more regular season wins this decade than the Giants do.

>>77423364
And still have 3 less WS victories

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Who wants some players?

How would shopping Odor to the Bluejays sound?

>>77423393
memetastic

>>77422404
Only few teams really have an upper hand in that. The Dodgers, Mariners, Rangers, and Yankees might be the only proven successful teams in that regard. The Red Sox and Mets being the biggest failures in that regard. Aside from this, the NPB to MLB flow has substantially decreased since the past decade, the only reason why people are conflating the flow is because of Ohtani's fanfare, in which he won't cross until next year at least. Teams have been holding onto their stars more than ever and players like Matsuda on Softbank decided to take long term deals over playing in the MLB. So I don't think the NPB is in tatters as much as many here do. And as someone who goes to Japan almost every year, I can confirm the NPB remains the most popular league and baseball remains the most popular sport based on culture alone. From high school tournaments to Koshien to college leagues like Tokyo Big 6 and yes, to the NPB, it's what they have as we do to football.

>>77423373
And are still in last place this year

>>77423486
But [spoiler] Won a WS [/spoiler] 3 years ago

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>>77423364

We keep going in circles. The objective is not regular season wins, it is World Series victories.

A logical team does not say "how do we have winning regular seasons over the next 30 years?", it says "how do we win the World Series or put ourselves in a position to win the World Series?". A 30 something win record for the White Sox is justified if the moves they make result in a World Series victory in a few years. For a team to never have a phase where it is utterly abysmal is perhaps a sign thay it did not have the spine to completely reconstruct themselves.

The Royals were undoubtedly one of the worst, if not the worst, teams of the 00s but they went to the World Series twice and won big once in the 2014 and 15 respectively. To leap from total obscurity to ultimate victory is an accomplishment. To remain perpetually above average and never win big is sad and depressing.

>>77423494
Cool >living in the past there

I can do it too

LA Dodgers: 5
SF Giants: 3

who are the 5 dodgers bart wants to fuck the most?

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Tony Gwynn is the all-time leader in LBA, or Legitimate Batting Average

>wins world series three years ago
>"huehuehue we're still relevant!!!!!!1!"

hiv does things to your mind i guess

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why even bother feeding them attention now? just wait and then spam "HOW DO WE BEAT THE DODGERS BROS?????" when they inevitably choke themselves out of the NLCS, it'll be great

>>77423548
>Wins world series 29 years ago
>"huehuehue we're still relevant!!!!!"

>>77422935
>CIDF
>REGULAR SEASON

>>77423563
I'm waiting for a Wojak and the words "We couldn't beat the Dodgers Bros!" it will be glorious.

>>77423523
Now do dodgers and giants

>dombrowski has traded away 24 minor league prospects for 9 league ready players
>dombrowski has traded a full mlb team for an mlb lineup

>>redsox will defend this

>>77423632
LA Dodgers 5
SF Giants 3

The Dodgers are the Yankees of the NL West. The Giants are the Tampa Bay Rays.

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>>77423656
>5 wins
>Comparing yourselves to the Yankees

>>77423393
would be toppest of kekkingtons seeing Bautista and Odor celebrate a pickoff or something

>>77423679
This. The Yankees drove both teams west and won like 14 of their titles off of them

>>77423515

Bear in mind teams like the Marlins have won two World Series in the modern baseball era despite an ownership and payroll that forbids alternating playoff opportunity seasons. Same for the Royals and White Sox. The Astros and Rockies can at least lay claim to winning the pennant.

The Dodgers are the least succesful big market team of the modern era.

>>77423708
>who are the Chicago Cubs

>>77423597
not even a dodgers fan but you're so obsessed with them aparrently
you should just submit to the daddy dodger dick

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this thread needs more gregg zaun

>>77423731
>not even a dodger fan
I can see through the lie

>>77423723
Cubs won a title

Literally every other NL West team has won a pennant since the Dodgers last won one

this thread needs less leaf and more dodger posting

>>77423723

They just won a world series, which makes them infinitely more succesful than the Dodgers.

Modern era: Jeter/Griffey/Ichiro/Steroids/Atlanta Barfs/Selig 90s baseball to the present.

Beautiful day in Ol st pete

>>77423775
I'd call the modern era when free agency started, so right around the late 1970s

This thread needs more cowbell.

https://youtu.be/Q_MWeOs8Ffg

>>77423743
>Literally every other NL West team has won a pennant since the Dodgers last won one

Wow is that what counts as success? Only winning a pennant? How about winning a WS, what about that?

>>77423781
How would you say is the weather down there?

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heard you needed to walk off the dodgers in game 7 of the WS with a grand slam

Dodgers own this and quite a few other generals

This thread needs more Mets posting

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>>77423855

>>77423856
it's too bad they can't own their own gamethreads

What would you give for your team to have sustained regular season success like the Dodgers?

>>77423920
Probably not my team's world series titles

>>77423920
a ring since 1988

>>77423820

The baseball Carl Yastrzemski, Pete Rose or Dennis Eckersley played is so vastly different. The 83 Pine Tar game seems like it was played in a distant universe. Today's players grew up with Jeter and Griffey and Pedro Martinez.

One watershed event does not drastically alter things; rather, it is a totality of small, accumulated things.

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>>77423887
On it.

>>77423947
The game that Randy Johnson played was so different, nigger

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how assblasted are you right now that this is my lunch?

>>77423986
>five guys

criminally overrated

>>77423986

I have a Five Guys a hop and skip away from my apartment.

did you get your burger all the way, i.e the only way?

>>77423986
I'm happy for you, anon. Even if that is just a picture you pulled off Google.

>>77423986
very

>>77423986
I like 5 guys. I dig the peanut thing too.

But they are ridiculously overpriced for a fast food joint.

>>77423986
flag checks out

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Called up and immediately start in left

Damn I'm excited

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>there are doyers fans still pissed at that 2015 NLDS

Daniel murphy should be in blue again come 2019.

>>77424194
Anyone who watched that series know that the Dodgers got umpballed out of a sure series sweep.

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>>77424194
Nah man, let the past be the past, right?

The current season is the only one that ever matters.

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>>77424215
that's a big one lad

>>77424215
>Sure series sweep

Mets won that series from the start. Degrom, Harvey, and syndergaard all knew how to beat them, and utley being a dirty son of a bitch didn't help at all. Now, this team has gassed two of the three arms, and has to rebuild because the medical staff can't keep anyone healthy

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w-we'll surprise you guys soon
j-just wait

>>77424215
>MUH UMPBALL

Literally the only excuse any doyers fan can say.

>>77424224
LMAO

>>77424224
>Wins NL west
>Goes into playoffs with home field advantage
>Gets fucking swept by the diamondbacks


This will happen

>>77424260
>greinke gets the clinching win

pottery

Being a Sox fan is pure suffering

all great teams have had hall of famers on them, so lets look at who will make the hall from the 2017 dodgers

kershaw, jansen, a-gon are locks
ryu can go in as the greatest korean pitcher ever
darvish needs like 4 more good years and he will get in as a dodger
utley is a veteran and past champ, so he can get in
then bellinger and seager might be on their way to hall worthy careers

what do you guys think? should we include puig?

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>>77424194

Not at all, the Mets were a more complete team. That play by Chase WAS dirty but he was the only Dodgers player on the team that showed heart and hustle, while everyone else sort of gave up.

It's a real shame what happened to all your pitchers, I was honestly looking forward to a post season rematch but that probably isn't happening for a couple of years. As a Dodgers fan, I like the Mest and their fans.

Who has a better starting rotation than the yankees right now?
I guess the dodgers is a given?

>your team
>when your season ended

Jints
April

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>>77424215

>>77424296
Thanks. I mean, the dodgers run is insane this year, but they'll choke it up because something is going to happen. It's like you know that they can do it, but wood will either fuck up or darvish is a shit pitcher. At least us Mets fans are glad we got some new prospects and rosario is finally up. I just want Noah back and healthy again

>>77424337
White Sox
December

>>77424347
Mets will be fine next year.

darvish tied the record last year for most home runs given up in a single postseason game lmao

>>77424253
How was that not umpball? Did you watch the different strikezones that Kershaw and Greinke got compared to the Mets pitchers?

It's ok because they got BTFO at home by the Royals then by the Giants and won't make the playoffs this year while the Dodgers won a playoff series last year.

Fucking NYCLippers

>>77424368
Not really. Edgin and smoker will still be in the bullpen and the medical staff will stay the same. At least SS looks to be in a better condition and smith can be a better first basemen then duda was. This team needs speed and a catcher, since that was the main reason they lost in the WS

>>77424368
*basement dwellers

>>77424215
Bye week, right?

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>>77424392
>BTFO by the royals then by Giants


Mets got screwed over by shitty defense and no catcher. D'arnaud is one terrible throwing catcher and cespedes kicking the FIRST PITCH was a terrible play. That game against the Giants should have gone to extras. Too bad familia threw a meatball and tossed the season in the trash

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>>77424291
nice try, but the Puig line gave it away

>>77424291

Kershit is probably a lock unless his arm falls off next year.

Postseason glory and sustained performance will maybe put Jansen in.

Gonzalez's 43.3 career WAR is pretty middling stuff TBQH, plus there's no major postseason victory to speak of. Utley is probably in, plus he has the postseason chops.

Puig is only 'good'. Bellinger and Seager are great but they are 'ifs'.

>>77419329
Arizona is retarded for going away from this.

>doyer fans post sincere posts and then more doyer fans call them out as jints false-flaggers while false-flagging themselves and calling everyone else out as a false-flagger

look at yourselves

>>77424452
>>77424452
puig is the best defensive right fielder since clemente and is a five tool player just like him
you cant have one in the hall of fame and not the other
puig just needs a ring to start padding his resume for the hall of fame

>>77424471
>Kershit is probably a lock unless his arm falls off next year.
>Postseason glory and sustained performance will maybe put Jansen in.
>Gonzalez's 43.3 career WAR is pretty middling stuff TBQH, plus there's no major postseason victory to speak of. Utley is probably in, plus he has the postseason chops.
>Puig is only 'good'. Bellinger and Seager are great but they are 'ifs'.

sup giants fan!

>>77424401
Basement will occupied by le failed rebuild team

>>77424485

You're the Canadian Jints fag who has 2 teams, right?

>>77419565
I'm from the detroit area, you will be safe at greektown and the like. You will also be getting ripped off enormously. Go stay in oakland county.

>>77424487
jesus christ please stop posting.

even if you aren't a falseflagger, you're making the base look awful.

Puig isn't anywhere close to HOF level right now. Yeah 2013 and 14 were great, but he's lost his bat since then. great fielding doesn't get you in by itself.

Just keep quiet and hope >we win the WS. Then you can shitpost about Puig in the Hall.

How did the 2010-2014 Detroit Tigers never win it all with peak Verlander, Scherzer and Price?

>>77420509
>implying you even knew who Kintzler was before yesterday

>>77424505
The barves? Yeah most likely

>>77424529
How does some newfag ask this same question every month despite the answer being simple as fuck?

>>77424504
>muh boogeyman
>must be a giants fan!!1
>I cannot begin to distance from myself and think about the game objectively for a fraction of a second!

wow kys

why are dodgers fans such cancer?

>>77424549
No, the one without any good players or prospects

So can anyone explain to me how the Dodgers haven't won a pennant since 2008? They've been to the playoffs almost every year. You'd think they would have at least one.

>>77424504
He's not one.

Falseflaggers mostly post obviously untrue things and pretend to complain about umpball from multiple seasons ago to make the fanbase look bad.

>>77424392
I suppose you also think that a single bad call that took a run off the boarc in last year's NLCS made up for the 20 runs the Doyers lost the series by?

>>77424569
Look at the Braves

>>77424569
Better teams won.

Lately the problem has been the bats going cold in the postseason, though. But I am optimistic about this year's team.

>>77424563
you really think "sup giants fan" was a serious reply from a Dodger fan to a poster making realistic observations?

The falseflags are pretty obvious.

>>77424525
puig IS a five tool player, he has all the tools
and he IS the best defensive right fielder since clemente, just ask literally any analyst from reputable websites
maybe he isnt hall worthy yet but at least one ring and several other good years will make it hard not to put him in as a legendary cuban player

>>77423986
>not being vegan

>>77424563
>>77424581
stop replying to me if you cant talk maturely
if you want to be uneducated do it somewhere else

>>77424337
Detroit Tigers
in 2016

>>77424639
I like Puig too, man. But I don't see the reputable sites you're talking about. Statcast has the top RFs as:

>Mookie Betts, Red Sox

>Adam Eaton, White Sox (now with Nationals)

>Jason Heyward, Cubs

>Peter Bourjos, Phillies (now with Rays)

>Steven Souza Jr., Rays

Puig is a great RF, and he could very well have a great career, but don't be obtuse about "best fielder since ____" when no one is really saying that right now.

>>77424529
bullpen + veneshitlans that go cold in October + prince fielder's lardass

>>77424696
Where is Judge?

>>77424584
>what is momentum

>>77424743
Non existent

>>77424549
Welcome back WSGS, hows the shack coming along?

Alcs preview tonight, make sure to tune in

>>77423957
Was the highlight of Mets franchise history beating the Dodgers in 2015? Serious question

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>>77424517
I like based barry, don't really care for the jints except for how much they bootyblast our resident screaming autists

>>77424813
The Giants don't even get a reaction nowadays

I seem to remember them being the worst team in MLB.

>>77424796
Is having the best regular season record for the last ten years without a single WS appearance the highlight of the Dodgers' franchise history? Serious question.

I consider LA the better sports town and place to live.

>>77424845
they trigger the fuck out doyersfags to the point of immeasurable obsession, and everyone knows this as fact

you WILL reply to this post

>>77424796
No but it was pretty fucking satisfying.

>>77424853
>LA
>sports town

lol

>>77424796
It still is buckners fucking blunder and that miracle run in '69. This is one of the best series that they've played though because of utley killing tejada

>>77424853
>LA
>sports town

>>77424853
Not even good bait

>>77424919
Its not bait its true. I been to both places

>>77424866
>5th place
>just got swept by the Doyers

Uh huh.

>>77424296
>That play by Chase WAS dirty
You never played above kinder ball fuck off

Bottom of the 9th, judge steps up to face the best pitcher in baseball

Can someone depict in words what will happen if the Dodgers lose the pennant again this year?

>>77424980
Chris Sale?

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Dear autistic dodger posters,

please stop being so god damn stupid. >we haven't won a world championship since 1988. get over it. regular season success is nice but just about meaningless without a World Series crown to cap it off. It could happen this year, but it might not. get over it.

Kershaw has blown some postseason games. get over it. you will see webms and screencaps of him giving up those home runs. get over it.

Also, some giants fans (and others, I guess) like to impersonate dodger fans. don't engage. that's what they want.

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How does this make you feel?

>>77424984
On /sp/? Nothing, because all of the Dodgers fans are false flaggers, they have zero fans on this board.

>>77424958
>sweeping the jints is like winning the World Series to doyer fans

it's so perfect cause it's so true

>>77425001
>Australians posing as dodgers fans now

>>77425017
Insignificant and unaccomplished.

>>77425021
No beating the Giants is no different than beating the Padres to us

In fact, any Dodger fan will tell you the Angels are bigger rivals than the Giants are because they play close by. The Giants are Rockies and Dbacks tier.

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>>77425041

>>77425041
tell me more about exactly how the jints fit into the NL west hierarchy, you seem well versed on the subject

>>77425041
>interleague rivalries bigger than division rivalries

come onnnn

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Oh hey are we talking about the dodgers again?

>>77425072
Beneath the Dodgers.

>>77425081
You don't understand how deep the Angels-Dodgers rivalry runs here.

>>77425072
The Diamondbacks are more successful than the Giants. That's how much us Dodgers fans could care less about them. The real NL West rivalry is Dodgers-Diamondbacks because of Greinke being a snake to us and plunking Puig twice since his departure. Bumshit is too pussy to even try us.

>>77425090
are you sure? I remember the jints winning a shit ton of rings recently and the doyers... well...

>>77425081
It's the battle of LA and goes further beneath just that. Colors actually play a role here. It's like Crips and Bloods here regarding the Angels rivalry at times.

>>77425125
I also remember them being 35 games back of the Dodgers

>>77424790
>He reappears after disappearing the entire weekend

>>77425178
>being 35 GA of the jints is like winning the World Series to Dodger fans

that's literally what you just said

>>77425200
Winning the World Series is like winning the World Series to Dodger fans, leaf

>>77425220
>Winning the World Series is like winning the World Series to Dodger fans
How would they know?

>>77425220
wait no, it was actually

>being 35 GA of the jints is like winning 3 World Series in 5 years to Dodger fans

can't make it up folks

>>77424696
puig is way better than eaton, heyward, souza, and i've never heard of the other guy
have you not watched puig play baseball and defense? the BEST SINCE CLEMENTE

>>77425103

it would make very little sense for the teams to hate each other since they see each other so infrequently. Sure, Yankees and Mets fans hate each others teams but it's not like Brian Cashman is going to go tooth and nail to block the Mets getting a great prospect because they are in no real danger from them. The Red Sox, however...

use your brain

>>77425259
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>77425270
LA isn't New York

Our local rivalries actually mean something and the Giants just don't register

In fact many laker fans here cheer for the warriors and a lot of NFL fans are 49er fans

>>77425316
>In fact many laker fans here cheer for the warriors
That's just the LA mentality

>>77425331
the casual bandwagon mentality

>>77425331
Yet we never cheer for the Clippers, Angels or Chargers

Hmm

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>>77425356
>Yet we never cheer for the Clippers, Angels, or Chargers

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>>77425356
>Look at how brave we are, cheering for teams that are good instead of ones that suck!

>>77425180
it's very interesting how that works out, huh?

>>77425248
Actually, winning the World Series is like winning the World Series to Dodger fans

Nice try though.

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>we only talk about the dodgers when the conversation is forced

I should have screencapped those faggots the other night. I guesd i could always go to the archive but im not that obsessed.

https://streamable.com/s8uii

what did Mikie Mahtook mean by this?

>recorded on my shitty phone sry

how can anyone even doubt the Dodgers when the most advanced metrics known to man back up the fact that the 2017 Dodgers are the greatest team in history and it will be impossible t o stop us?
it seems all but likely that the Dodgers will sweep the playoffs and make this the most deserving championship in the history of american sports

We've swindled 3 teams so far

>>77425629
Would you consider the Chapman trade a swindle considering the Cubs got a WS out of it?

>>77425417
but you just said being better than the jints is better than winning a shit ton of rings

>>77425629
Cishek is hit or miss.

>Dodgers' fans actually make FUCKING LEAFS seem intelligent

>>77425640
I didn't watch, but didn't he have a few bad games? Cubs won because they were able to overwork the Indians bullpen

>>77425600
He saw his life flash before his eyes

>>77425718
The Cubs won because of the DH

Found Daddy Greinke, he is at it again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA5OzZ4sSMQ

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>>77425356
>Yet we never cheer for the Clippers, Angels or Chargers

the majority of LA roots for LAKERS and DODGERS. why the fuck would they go and cheer for the clippers and angels!?!?

as for the chargers:
>rooting for a team that left their fans high and dry because of monetary reasons
fuck that shit.

>>77425718
>but didn't he have a few bad games?

Near the end, yes. However the Cubs probably wouldn't have won up to that point without him.

>>77425741
Schwarbs da legend. Guy really belongs in an AL clubhouse

>>77425687
K

LA Dodgers 5
SF Giants 3

And for championship organizations like ours, winning a WS is like winning a WS. Regular season doesn't even matter to us.

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Be honest, would you watch it?

>>77425783
This.

It was literally something that some Hollywood writer came up with.


Now the real question is, who is cast as Schwarber in the movie?

>>77425816

how many rings have the dodgers gotten since you've been sentient?

>>77424337
Ducks
July, but Anjewlos keeps trying the shock paddles

>>77425759
>rooting for a team that left their fans high and dry because of monetary reasons

hate to break it to you but monetary reasons are the deciding factor for everything. but i get your point.

>>77425759
You forgot RAIDERS when teams that LA cheer for

>>77425848
>monetary reasons are the deciding factor for everything
Explain why Wrigley field hasn't been renamed yet?