MLB POSTSEASON THREAD

roberts trying to defend his decision to keep lynn out there
so sick of his excuses… waah, i can’t predict the future
what a fucken bitch
and fuck caleb, why wasn’t pepiot warming up?!!!
oh, that’s right
smfh

“I had some guys ready. Obviously I can’t predict the future. I try not to be reactionary and get ahead of things. I just can’t predict the future. The way he was throwing the baseball, I didn’t expect that,” Roberts said. “You’ve got two outs and a low-pitch count, and you figure that this run of right-handed hitters, you’ve got to be able to navigate it somewhat with two outs, nobody on base. Then two homers later you’re down 4-0. To have Caleb come at Pham or Walker or Gurriel or Moreno, that wasn’t going to happen. I think sometimes you’ve still got to trust the players to go out there and execute. And so just tonight we just didn’t get that start.”


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phillies - 90 wins
astros - 90 wins
rangers - 90 wins
dbags - 84 wins

the regular season means nothing

 

This is a little example of how jaded I've become as a Dodgers fan.

Monday was a miserable sports day for me. Dodgers lost game 2 and my fantasy football team lost by one point - a game that I should've dominated but because of a combination of events - which I'll spare you of - none of which should've happened, I lost a heartbreaker.

Tuesday my fantasy loss just ate away at me all day. Wednesday came, Dodgers were eliminated, and the only thing that I was upset about and still am here on Friday was the fantasy loss. I keep dwelling on the fact that the better team lost and all the shoulda, coulda, woulda's.

My point is, in my mind, the Dodgers defeat was inevitable. It didn't surprise me one bit, so I'm not nearly as upset about their season ending as I am about a stupid fantasy game. That's what Roberts era Dodgers baseball has become to me - an acceptance that the team will amass an impressive amount of regular season wins and then fall miserably on their face in October.

That's not how it should be. But at this point that's exactly the reality that will exist for me for as long as Roberts is the manager.

 

dodgers should fire roberts (obviously, duh) and hire chase utley
have him wear blackface if necessary

 

there’s only one thing to say to the giants, their city and their fans…

 

and here we are yet again...


Dodgers' Top Issues
by Kerry Miller | Bleacher Report — October 13, 2023

1) The Landslide of Impending Free Agents

The Los Angeles Dodgers ended the season with 15 players on their roster making at least $6 million in 2023. Of those 15 players, six—Clayton Kershaw, Enrique Hernández, J.D. Martinez, David Peralta, Amed Rosario and Julio Urías—are now unrestricted free agents, while five others—Lance Lynn, Max Muncy, Joe Kelly, Blake Treinen and Daniel Hudson—have club options for next season.

The Dodgers will probably pick up Muncy's $14 million option, but they might decline their option on all four pitchers. They're also at risk of losing Jason Heyward, Ryan Brasier, Shelby Miller and Kolten Wong as free agents.

The Dodgers have no shortage of money to spend. Neither Mookie Betts nor Freddie Freeman is going anywhere, and all of those other names coming off the books just gives the Dodgers more dollars to throw at the likes of Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell and Aaron Nola.

There might be a lot of new faces, but they'll put together another $250ish million payroll with more than enough talent to win 100 regular-season games once again.

But feel free to ask the New York Mets if having a seemingly unlimited supply of money and constructing a Frankenstein's monster of free agents can guarantee you won't go immediately from a 100-win World Series contender to a 75-win laughingstock.

That isn't to say we expect the Dodgers to be a disaster in 2024. They've been far and away the best regular-season team over the past 11 years, and there's still quite a stockpile of talent between that MLB roster and the farm system behind it.

With that said, they do have a lot of signings/re-signings to make this offseason. We can only wait and see how it all comes together.

1B) Starting Pitching

This is more of a 1B on the Dodgers' 1A top issue of free agency in general. But in case it wasn't clear during the NLDS, they have some serious starting rotation woes.

Granted, a lot of that was fueled by injury/suspension. They were hoping to get Walker Buehler back from his 2022 Tommy John surgery in time for the postseason, but that didn't happen. They weren't expecting to lose Tony Gonsolin and Dustin May to season-ending elbow surgeries of their own, nor did they plan on effectively kicking Julio Urías off the roster in September.

Three months ago, no one could have possibly predicted that they'd be starting Bobby Miller and Lance Lynn for Games 2 and 3 of the NLDS. But is next year going to be any better?

Gonsolin had Tommy John surgery on Sept. 1 and will miss most if not all of 2024. May had surgery on his flexor tendon and UCL in July, so he'll be to next season what Buehler was this season: questionable at best to return at some point in the second half.

Buehler figures to be on the Opening Day roster—perhaps even the Opening Day starter—but how well will he be able to pitch after his second Tommy John surgery? Will they bring back Lynn on his $18 million club option? And after flirting with the possibility the past two years, is this the offseason that Clayton Kershaw actually retires or signs elsewhere?

Again, the Dodgers have the money to put together a strong rotation in free agency. (Although adding Shohei Ohtani to the rotation in 2024 is no longer an option.) And between Miller, Emmet Sheehan, Michael Grove and Ryan Pepiot, they have a bunch of promising young guys who figure to be part of the long-term plans.

As things presently stand, however, the Dodgers' 2024 rotation is a huge unknown.

 

Mark Bowman@mlbbowman
Ronald Acuña Jr. didn’t speak after the game. He grabbed his bag and said “I have to go to the bus” as other players remained in the clubhouse
9:05 PM · Oct 12, 2023 · 1.9M Views​

lol at braves fans on twitter trying to defend this punk ass bitch
dude showboats more than anyone when things go well, but can’t be bothered when they don’t
fuck him

 

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Oh, and FUCK ROBERTS!