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Offline wpa2629

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1200 on: July 29, 2014, 10:48:16 pm »
Quote from: HalfSmokes on July 29, 2014, 10:46:54 pm
Pretty sure they'll get in if they win out

OMG

I have no idea why this is so damn funny -

Lollercopters ...
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Offline mitlen

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1201 on: July 29, 2014, 10:49:22 pm »
Quote from: HalfSmokes on July 29, 2014, 10:46:54 pm
Pretty sure they'll get in if they win out

True dat
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Offline ghostface

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1202 on: July 29, 2014, 10:58:00 pm »
this team isn't going anywhere.   championship  teams either have a couple of great players or some really good players having great years and Fister is the only guy that fits into either category.  add to the equation we have some monster holes in the lineup.  Espi is a nice guy to have play a couple of games here or there but he is not a starter.  McClouth is god awful - playoff teams don't have a 4th outfielder hitting .175. 

this is a nice team.  we have an above average lineup but there's just no stud.  a nice starting rotation and decent relievers should keep this team around 88 to 90 wins but i just can't see a higher ceiling. 

i think a bad ass manager could lift this team to serious contender status but Matt Williams is not that man.  his manager WAR would be 0.0 at best.
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Offline wpa2629

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1203 on: July 29, 2014, 11:05:47 pm »
Quote from: ghostface on July 29, 2014, 10:58:00 pm
this team isn't going anywhere.   championship  teams either have a couple of great players or some really good players having great years and Fister is the only guy that fits into either category.  add to the equation we have some monster holes in the lineup.  Espi is a nice guy to have play a couple of games here or there but he is not a starter.  McClouth is god awful - playoff teams don't have a 4th outfielder hitting .175. 

this is a nice team.  we have an above average lineup but there's just no stud.  a nice starting rotation and decent relievers should keep this team around 88 to 90 wins but i just can't see a higher ceiling. 

i think a bad ass manager could lift this team to serious contender status but Matt Williams is not that man.  his manager WAR would be 0.0 at best.

Nats have the best pitching in the league. That can take any team to a championship.

Whether or not they get there is another story, but they are certainly capable, particularly when they're all healthy.
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Offline ghostface

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1204 on: July 29, 2014, 11:25:45 pm »
i like the rotation but the Nationals don't have the best staff.  Dodgers have an elite 3 - if they add Lestor god help us.
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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1205 on: July 29, 2014, 11:30:51 pm »
Braves are about to get hot again....we're done, unless we make a blockbuster deal for somebody like Beltre.  Give up Giolito, I dont care.  We're close enough that giving up the future is worth it.
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Offline sportsfan882

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1206 on: July 29, 2014, 11:35:35 pm »
leadoff double by Puig wasted. Adrian Gonzalez is a sloth.
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Offline ghostface

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1207 on: July 29, 2014, 11:40:45 pm »
Quote from: deeznatz on July 29, 2014, 11:30:51 pm
Braves are about to get hot again....we're done, unless we make a blockbuster deal for somebody like Beltre.  Give up Giolito, I dont care.  We're close enough that giving up the future is worth it.

a 35 year old outfielder for Giolito?  Rangers would take that in a heartbeat.  you couldn't get me high enough to like that move. 
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Offline houston-nat

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1208 on: July 29, 2014, 11:42:24 pm »
Quote from: ghostface on July 29, 2014, 10:58:00 pm
championship  teams either have a couple of great players or some really good players having great years and Fister is the only guy that fits into either category.

Ummm what? Rendon is potentially a great player, Strasburg is potentially a great player, Harper may yet someday be a great player, Clippard, Storen, Soriano, and Span are good players having great years, Werth is a pretty good player having a pretty good year, and Tanner Roark is an average player having a great year...
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Offline ghostface

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1209 on: July 29, 2014, 11:55:08 pm »
Quote from: houston-nat on July 29, 2014, 11:42:24 pm
Ummm what? Rendon is potentially a great player, Strasburg is potentially a great player, Harper may yet someday be a great player, Clippard, Storen, Soriano, and Span are good players having great years, Werth is a pretty good player having a pretty good year, and Tanner Roark is an average player having a great year...

i really overlooked Roark - he is having a great year.  best #5 in baseball.   i think Rendon is the next Will Clark but he's not there yet.  Strasburg - if he wasn't the #1 pick and the highest rated pitching prospect of all time you wouldn't be saying you see greatness in him.    the same could be said for Harper.    Clippard and Storen are both excellent set up men and i wish to God one of them was our closer but that probably will not happen.  Storen could be great but he is flat out under used.

Harper is the x factor.  the Nationals need him to crank it up and live up to at least some of the hype

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Offline Ali the Baseball Cat

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1210 on: July 30, 2014, 12:33:38 am »
Ha ha, no crap
Quote from: ghostface on July 29, 2014, 11:40:45 pm
a 35 year old outfielder for Giolito?  Rangers would take that in a heartbeat.  you couldn't get me high enough to like that move. 
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Offline PC

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1211 on: July 30, 2014, 01:01:19 am »
I repeat.  The Braves are terrible.
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Offline pazzo83

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1212 on: July 30, 2014, 01:03:14 am »
Quote from: PC on July 30, 2014, 01:01:19 am
I repeat.  The Braves are terrible.

Their pen minus Kimbrel is terrible.

Varvaro is getting crushed, Kemp demolished that center cut fastball.
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Offline Traded For Mclain

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1213 on: July 30, 2014, 01:59:33 am »
Braves lose 8 to 4
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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1214 on: July 30, 2014, 06:43:54 am »
Why hello there first place
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Offline Kevrock

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1215 on: July 30, 2014, 07:44:27 am »
Quote from: HalfSmokes on July 29, 2014, 10:46:54 pm
Pretty sure they'll get in if they win out

Not if the braves keep refusing to lose
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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1216 on: July 30, 2014, 07:48:22 am »
Quote from: Kevrock on July 30, 2014, 07:44:27 am
Not if the braves keep refusing to lose

Stupid will to win
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Offline wpa2629

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1217 on: July 30, 2014, 08:18:18 am »
Oh look the braves lost

Imagine my surprise
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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1218 on: July 30, 2014, 08:22:00 am »
Quote from: HalfSmokes on July 30, 2014, 07:48:22 am
Stupid will to win
They want it more
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Offline 3bside

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1219 on: July 30, 2014, 08:23:27 am »
Beckett was their one chance.  Now they have to face Greinke and Kershaw.
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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1220 on: July 30, 2014, 09:36:55 am »
Quote from: 3bside on July 30, 2014, 08:23:27 am
Beckett was their one chance.  Now they have to face Greinke and Kershaw.

We beat Grienke
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Offline wpa2629

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1221 on: July 30, 2014, 11:02:46 am »
Quote from: Slateman on July 30, 2014, 09:36:55 am
We beat Grienke

Our lineup - even depleted - is better than Atlanta's
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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1222 on: July 30, 2014, 11:11:41 am »
Quote from: wpa2629 on July 30, 2014, 11:02:46 am
Our lineup - even depleted - is better than Atlanta's

but they refuse to lose
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Offline Ray D

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1223 on: July 30, 2014, 11:17:23 am »
Quote from: ghostface on July 29, 2014, 11:55:08 pm
   i think Rendon is the next Will Clark


He's going to turn into a fatso?
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Offline wpa2629

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Re: NL East Race Watch
« Reply #1224 on: July 30, 2014, 11:18:57 am »
Quote from: pazzo83 on July 30, 2014, 01:03:14 am
Their pen minus Kimbrel is terrible.

Varvaro is getting crushed, Kemp demolished that center cut fastball.

And Kimbrel has not even been all that this year - go figure
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