2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Dodgers in 5 would be my guess. The Mariners pitching staff isn’t remotely as good as the Dodgers rotation. the Blue Jays staff/rotation isn’t as good as the Phillies. frankly their bullpen isn’t as good as the Brewers. the Dodgers found a way to score enough runs. The one way the Blue Jays can win this is if they can get a couple clutch homers early in games to knock out some starters or force Roberts to start making poor decisions. Need the dodgers hitters to pull what they did in the Phillies series (feels like asking a lot cause Phillies had Ranger, luzardo and Sanchez who were great). They have enough power in that lineup to do it but i kind of think the dodgers are going to score runs in this series.

Just now, Bwestbrook36 said:

Hmm nevermind I don't like that analysis, you can go back to the blog now... 😜

Trust me, I hate the Dodgers so I would rather see the Blue Jays win. But I told you guys like a month ago the Dodgers began to peak. And you could see it. Whatever happened in that Orioles game where they had that no-hitter with 2 outs left in the ninth, and then they blew it, since that point in time they have been a completely different team. Even in the Phillies regular season series their starting pitching was phenomenal. It was more their BP stunk. But they were always going to have the ability to put some starters in their bullpen when they got to the playoffs, which was going to help their bullpen be just good enough. Also helps sasaki became their closer

Dominguez also pitched a clean inning

Just now, Joe Shades 73 said:

Dominguez also pitched a clean inning

That Austin hays deal was bad. Dominguez had his issues but still rather kept him then traded for hays. hays was lousy that yea prior to coming here. So even with his medical issue he wasn’t good. Keep trying with Merrifield, hays and this year Kepler. None have work and they are too stubborn just to go get a legit bat

Good job Dave!

1 hour ago, xzmattzx said:

The Dodgers will now be the second team in Major League Baseball to face all of the teams in a division in the World Series:

Blue Jays, 2025

Yankees, 2024 (and others)

Rays, 2020

Red Sox, 2018

Orioles, 1966

The other team is the Phillies, who have also faced every team in the AL East.

We played the Sox? Oh that’s right. 1915

remember it like it was yesterday

3 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

He has a no trade, he is going nowhere

38 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

He has a no trade, he is going nowhere

The NTC I think it’s easier to convince him to drop it if you’re gonna trade him to the right place. Like I think he would want to go play for the Yankees. That to me isn’t the difficult part especially if the Phillies don’t offer him the best chance at winning a WS like if schwarber and JT walk. I don’t think Middleton will allow Dombrowski to trade him away.

Bryce looked absolutely miserable this year. No idea what his problem was but he looked like he would rather be anywhere but the baseball diamond. I really hope its not because Middleton declined his ridiculous extension request. If it is? Wow. Im at the point now where I would trade him for the right package.

3 hours ago, vsptroops said:

Bryce looked absolutely miserable this year. No idea what his problem was but he looked like he would rather be anywhere but the baseball diamond. I really hope its not because Middleton declined his ridiculous extension request. If it is? Wow. Im at the point now where I would trade him for the right package.

I don’t think they trade him. He’d have to go to them asking for it and Middleton would have to oblige. I don’t think the Phillies would want to move him unless Middleton made a decision he isn’t competing for the next couple years to do a rebuild and let all young guys play.

However his contract is moveable. It’s not as awful as we think we with 6 years left at 33 and AAV is 25.4 mil. Bregman is about to get potentially a 5-6 year deal. He’s going to get 30+ mil per year. Bellinger at 30 going on 31 is likely getting 5-7 year at $30+ mil. With how AAV has gone recently his AVV even at his age and years is going to be better AAV than some of the contracts given now. I’d add a team knows he may hit 400 and 500 HRs on that contract so that’s a historical bonus in it

2 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

I don’t think they trade him. He’d have to go to them asking for it and Middleton would have to oblige. I don’t think the Phillies would want to move him unless Middleton made a decision he isn’t competing for the next couple years to do a rebuild and let all young guys play.

However his contract is moveable. It’s not as awful as we think we with 6 years left at 33 and AAV is 25.4 mil. Bregman is about to get potentially a 5-6 year deal. He’s going to get 30+ mil per year. Bellinger at 30 going on 31 is likely getting 5-7 year at $30+ mil. With how AAV has gone recently his AVV even at his age and years is going to be better AAV than some of the contracts given now. I’d add a team knows he may hit 400 and 500 HRs on that contract so that’s a historical bonus in it

Good points now any way to get rid of Turner?

5 minutes ago, Joe Shades 73 said:

Good points now any way to get rid of Turner?

Unless the Phillies are gonna eat like half of that contract there’s no way to move off of that. Cause he still got 8 years and he’s going to be 33 years old. Tbh i kind of think miller is going to move to SS in 2 years and turner to 2b and allow stott to walk.

Tbh id be really surprised if we don’t draft a SS/3B and catcher in the first 2 rounds next year. Depending on what we do might have multiple extra picks cause Ranger is likely to be QO and signed in that period. I’m assuming they do that with schwarber too but he likely stays

Still think catcher is jt on 2-3 years or they are trading for rutschman. I think that’s their fall back plan

For the people talking about trading Harper or Turner, you realize this window in the next 2-3 years max, will be the last window for at least 7-8 years? Their farm system sucks and the daycare will be on permanent summer break soon.

11 hours ago, vsptroops said:

Bryce looked absolutely miserable this year. No idea what his problem was but he looked like he would rather be anywhere but the baseball diamond. I really hope its not because Middleton declined his ridiculous extension request. If it is? Wow. Im at the point now where I would trade him for the right package.

yeah i think bryce looks disinterested, especially after getting knocked out of the playoffs for three straight years, that's eventually going to weigh on you and eventually want to go to a team that has a better chance of winning. i mean yes it sucks losing him but if they can go out and sign a younger superstar hitter that can replace bryce i think we will be fine.