Ouch . Friday Yankees - 000 330 312 - 12 15 2 Marlins - 000 040 603 - 13 12 1 Saturday Yankees - 000 000 000 - 0 2 0 Marlins - 100 100 00x - 2 4 0 Sunday Yankees - 100 000 200 - 3 6 0 Marlins - 030 300 10x - 7 9 0 Never-Say-Die Marlins Storm Back For Stunning Walk-Off Win vs. Yankees Christina De Nicola, mlb.com The Marlins handed the Yankees their first loss on the road when scoring 12 runs or more since July 24, 1940 , vs. the St. L...
From the joy of sox
| 4 months ago
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Alex Call was the last domino to fall - over to the Dodgers for a couple arms. As noted before Call was actually turning out to be good but if there was one place the Nats didn't have space for a player like Call it was OF where they want to play Wood and Crews and cycle through whoever else they want to look at. Keeping a 4th OF is a luxury on a team like that. Sean Paul Liñan was a solid looking arm for High A that the Dodgers pushed to AAA to see if they had somethi...
From Nationals Baseball
| 4 months ago
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I did go on vacation again, yes. I also will again the second week in August. The Nats have begun their sell-off and it's mostly gone exactly as you could hope Chafin and Garcia and Soroka out. Chafin was found money, a DFA'd player who turned it around for the Nats and ended up part of a deal. Soroka didn't pan out exactly as planned but the fact he was sent out for anything means his signing was a win. Luis Garcia is at least a decent arm with ...
From Nationals Baseball
| 4 months ago
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The Yankees played their 100th game of the season last night, and without getting lost...
From Bronx Banter
| 5 months ago
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The Nats season is over in the "compete for anything worthwhile" but it's far from over in the "kids development sense" we know about the kids that are here and doing well. What's coming down the pike? More time for kids here Brady House - looks like a talented kid up for the first time. Strong swing, solid form but he's getting fooled a lot. Works out to about an average bat in his limited time. A little iffy in the field so far. If he can just slightly i...
From Nationals Baseball
| 5 months ago
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Everything? Ha ha. No! Didn't you read the last post? There are some good and in the comments I mention the sort of neither good or bad (Garcia, Irvin, Parker, all the kids just getting their feet wet) But there are some bad things. You can't be 20 games under at the All-Star break on luck alone. Plan Ruiners Keibert Ruiz had a hot start making optimistic Nats fans say "forget about the last few years! Maybe he was hurt!" Nope. He stinks! Always bad behind the pl...
From Nationals Baseball
| 5 months ago
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With the team reeling there isn't much to say here but we generally start out with right so... Unqualified Successes James Wood is a bonafide star. All-Star. HR Derby participant. On pace for 40 homers, 100 RBIs, and 100 walks. He strikes out a bit much and never developed the skills in the field you'd hope but at 22 he's one of the best bats in the game and likely to get even better. He's a build around player. MacKenzie Gore is an ace. Maybe not a Skenes ...
From Nationals Baseball
| 5 months ago
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The Nats did not get better after the firings. The 1-5 run isn't anything off than expected, facing two good teams away from home 2-4 is the baseline with 1-5 and 3-3 happening almost as easy. This is not a good team, and it's still being run by Davey's guys so don't expect any miracles. The big thing that happened was the draft. I don't usually care much about the draft, but in the past the Nats having the #1 pick with generational talents has made me take a closer look at it. That was ...
From Nationals Baseball
| 5 months ago
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Baseball is often described as a game of inches, but it’s probably more accurate to...
From Bronx Banter
| 5 months ago
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What's next? 1) New guys take over... for now. Mike DeBartolo is the new GM. He's young, with a business bent. He's been with the Nats a long time with a role in a lot of different aspects and he's familiar with analytics. Still I imagine with no baseball leadership experience and his history being the second guy on a team who just fired it's GM I assume he's a placeholder. Miguel Cairo, bench coach, is the likely choice for interim manager. What is on DeBartolo's...
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| 5 months ago
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You all know how I feel. Davey deserved to get fired as much as any manager who won a WS has, at least on performance. His teams regularly underperformed expectations, including this year, and they regularly failed at the fundamentals, or at least it felt like it. I won't rehash it anymore. You can go back and read what I said a few posts ago. I think it's best for the Nats he's gone. Rizzo is more complicated. As others have pointed out, Rizzo has a skill s...
From Nationals Baseball
| 5 months ago
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DAVEY OUT! RIZZO OUT! The Post if you have it What was the final straw? You'd have to assume the lifeless play in the past month+ 9-23 since the end of May. The team looks bad. The feeling around the team is bad. More tomorrow later tonight. Too much to wait until tomorrow but you know I got kids stuff to do right now Ed Note- internet down and my cell reception at my house is spotty so nothing more tonight Ed Note 2 - It's back!
From Nationals Baseball
| 5 months ago
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The Red Sox beat the Nationals 10-3 on Saturday afternoon, evening their record at 45-45. It was the franchise's 10,000th regular season victory. Boston is the second American League team and the tenth major league team to reach 10,000 wins. The franchise has 108 postseason wins. Here are the franchises with more than 5,000 wins, as of a few days ago. Also: The second-longest World Series championship drought is 56 years, held by the Brewers and Padres . . . . Weird.
From the joy of sox
| 5 months ago
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Since May 29, the MFY have the worst record in the AL East: 13-19. Blue Jays 21 10 Rays 19 12 Orioles 18 13 Red Sox 16 14 Yankees 13 19 They were just swept by the now-in-first-place Blue Jays, who scored 36 runs in the four games. Toronto has not been in first place this "late" in a season since 2016 . OH SHIT . . . BUFFY GOT THE BROOM OUT ! And he waved it in the eminently punchable face of the pompously annoying Michael Kay...
From the joy of sox
| 5 months ago
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Like the Nats in general They are now nearly what I feared they'd be last post. Worst of the rest. Only the Athletics are standing in their way. They are clearly behind the Marlins now. Hell so are the Braves. Things have gotten so bad the team is trying to get you excited for the idea of Paul DeJong coming back and DHing even though he can't hit. What the hell are we doing here people? Kick anyone over 27 to the curb. Just play kids...
From Nationals Baseball
| 5 months ago
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Wilyer Abreu led off the bottom of the fifth with an inside-the-park home run . Three innings later, he donged the first grand slam of his career. The Red Sox rode a seven-run first inning to a 13-6 victory. Abreu became only the sixth player to hit an inside-the-park home run and a grand slam in a game -- and the first player to do it in 67 years. The others : June 5, 1890 - Jocko Fields, Pittsburgh Burghers (Players League) July 4, 1923 (G1) - Everett Scott, Yankees August 4, 1930 - Charlie ...
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| 5 months ago
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The Preds traded the 23rd and 67th picks to the Ottawa Senators to move up and draft 21st, where they selected defender Cameron Reid, who may have fallen a little to get there — many scouting reports had him ranked a few places higher.
Reid spent the last two seasons with the Kitchener Rangers, scoring 21 points (2G/21A) in 43 games in the first of those seasons and 54 points (14G/40A) in 67 games this year, where he was also awarded an A for the team.
The scouting report at ElitePro...
From On the Forecheck
| 6 months ago
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on the worst "trying" team in baseball The Rockies, despite sweeping the Nats, are historically bad. They are on pace for 37 wins. There literally should be calls from the game to replace the owner because things are so non-competitive in Denver. The White Sox are in a similar spot, Reinsdorf aging into a worse version of himself as owner often do stuck with a "back in my day we didn't pay players so much" mentality, trying to squeeze every last dollar from the team for...
From Nationals Baseball
| 6 months ago
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And Fire Rizzo. And Sell the Team Look I've been an advocate for Rizzo, who can deal with the best of them, and is perfectly acceptable at IDing long range contract targets (some bomb, some work out - that's just how it goes). But sticking by Davey here isn't about results or Davey's proven track record with kids (which doesn't exist), it's about keeping a guy who doesn't complain about the roster at all and works quietly with whatever he's given. Rizzo bombed in...
From Nationals Baseball
| 6 months ago
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The Red Sox have a 10-5 record in the month of June, with five of those 10 victories against the Yankees. June 7: Red Sox 10, MFY 7 June 8: Red Sox 11, MFY 7 June 13: Red Sox 2, MFY 1 (10) June 14: Red Sox 4, MFY 3 June 15: Red Sox 2, MFY 0 The 2-0 shutout on Father's Day turned the MFY bats into wet noodles. With subsequent losses to the Angels, 1-0 (11) and 4-0, the Yankees have not scored a run in their last 29 innings. As you can see below, that's a grand total of four runs in their last f...
From the joy of sox
| 6 months ago
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Fire Davey. The man can't help but blame the players and I don't want that type of guy leading this team. Maybe a veteran team can ignore him or maybe he wouldn't dare anger those guys, but this isn't a veteran team. It's a team of kids and they need someone to support and shield them. There are numerous reasons to fire the guy. His behavior this weekend pushes that all aside to get to number 1. Even if you landed on "well he won the series and changing the manage...
From Nationals Baseball
| 6 months ago
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The Boston Red Sox traded Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants on Sunday in exchange for pitchers Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison and a pair of prospects (outfielder James Tibbs III and pitcher Jose Bello). The teams had been discussing a Devers deal for the past few weeks. Devers, in his ninth season with the club, had been the last member of the 2018 World Champions still in a Boston uniform. He's also in the second year of a 10-year, $313.5 million contract. Initial news of the trade st...
From the joy of sox
| 6 months ago
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As I look back over my 48 years as a Yankee fan — I can...
From Bronx Banter
| 6 months ago
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Are we talking about this blog or the Nats? Hey yo! After the nice run that ended with a sweep of Arizona the Nats have played, as we've gone over before, like you'd expect a 75 win team to play. Competitive enough that you would be surprised at them being swept in two straight series. Not good enough that you'd really expect them to win two straight series against better teams. And there are a fair number of better teams. The dregs of the NL remain the dregs, the...
From Nationals Baseball
| 6 months ago
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This doesn't have anything to do with the Cubs series. 1 of 3 from the Cubs is what should be expected and seeing Gore look like an ace again is great. However, we are in the "stats are real now" part of the season and last time we looked at the kids whose stats said real good things about them. CJ Abrams continues to be cool but I noted his propensity for extended cold streaks was keeping him from being special. That's not the point, he's still overall good. The only one with a real issue out...
From Nationals Baseball
| 6 months ago
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