If you can win the WS without your best all around player and one of the best players in the game. What kind of flexibility and hope does that give you for next season? Or not at all? Baseball is such an interesting sport in that way.





>My Cards will be a non-participant, this post-season...so I'm
>just along for the ride. Might be time to blow the GM outta
>there, but that's for another post.
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>The division leaders are...leading, lol. With the exception
>of the NL West and maaaaaaybe, the NL East, shit's sewn up.
>The Wild cards are a different story. Some observations.
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>I feel like, yesterday, the Mets were 5 games up...now,
>they're 7 back. Lindor has been AWFU this season and Baez
>hasn't done much besides his first game after the trade.
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>The Yankees just had their longest win streak since JFK was
>president...and they could still end up in a 1 game, winner
>take all, with Boston.
>
>The Giants...what on Earth? Shit, they're good. Quiet good.
>Somehow, Buster Posey hopped in the DeLorean with Doc and
>Marty and went back to like 2012...then they added Kris
>Bryant.
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>I thought the Braves were going to fade into Bolivia (c) after
>Acuna went down, but Freddie Freeman is having none of it.
>Philly is nipping at their heels, though and Bryce Harper is
>balling.
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>Houston is Houstoning...and they just got Alex Bregman back
>from injury.
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>The Dodgers have the best pitching staff in baseball...even
>after losing that guy. It's true. They can throw
>Max/Clayton/Walker/Urias at you. That's fucking tough.
>
>So, the White Sox and the Padres walk into a bar and played a
>bunch of teams that were below .500. One of them barely broke
>even, the other is in first place by 10 games. Gotta beat bad
>teams, man.
>
>The Brewers are beating up on a bad division. Shout out to
>Joey Votto, though...that team is going to have a shot at an
>upset to get in and he is a huge reason why. He's literally
>made the decision to go from On-Base Daddy to Launch Angle
>Home Run Bro. Dude is that good, that he changed his style to
>fit the current state of the game.
>
>Tampa really does this baseball shit better than most. That
>Nelson Cruz pickup was a great look. They're D'Angelo
>cruisin' in a division where the two teams behind them will
>prolly win 90 games.
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