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Offline bluestreak

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Blow it Up (2020)
« Topic Start: June 25, 2020, 02:12:55 PM »
Since the season is only 60 games, the Nats have no chance. I don’t need to remind you all how the first 60 games went last year. So I think we should prepare for the future. Soto is the only thing that is untouchable. Doolittle seems right to trade. We need to get on this. Trade deadline is only 5 weeks from the start of the season.
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Offline HalfSmokes

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #1: June 25, 2020, 02:14:34 PM »
Best case we finish with 33 fewer wins- time to press reset
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Offline Natsinpwc

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #2: June 25, 2020, 02:19:02 PM »
Quote from: bluestreak on June 25, 2020, 02:12:55 PM
Since the season is only 60 games, the Nats have no chance. I don’t need to remind you all how the first 60 games went last year. So I think we should prepare for the future. Soto is the only thing that is untouchable. Doolittle seems right to trade. We need to get on this. Trade deadline is only 5 months from the start of the season.
You mean 5 weeks?

Once Max gives up a couple of homers in inning one of the opener it will be all downhill. 
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Offline bluestreak

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #3: June 25, 2020, 02:49:33 PM »
Quote from: Natsinpwc on June 25, 2020, 02:19:02 PM
You mean 5 weeks?

Once Max gives up a couple of homers in inning one of the opener it will be all downhill.

Yes. 5 weeks. Corrected.
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Offline nfotiu

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #4: June 25, 2020, 03:12:42 PM »
Are we playing the first 60 games of a season, or the last 60 games of the season?  I'm going with the last 60, so we'll be awesome.



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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #5: June 25, 2020, 03:25:23 PM »
Quote from: bluestreak on June 25, 2020, 02:12:55 PM
Since the season is only 60 games, the Nats have no chance. I don’t need to remind you all how the first 60 games went last year. So I think we should prepare for the future. Soto is the only thing that is untouchable. Doolittle seems right to trade. We need to get on this. Trade deadline is only 5 weeks from the start of the season.

Blueslate?
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Offline Trea Burner

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #6: June 25, 2020, 11:38:16 PM »
60 games! Better chance for the Nats to repeat!!

No long season grind.
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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #7: June 26, 2020, 09:07:09 AM »
Quote from: Trea Burner on June 25, 2020, 11:38:16 PM
60 games! Better chance for the Nats to repeat!!

No long season grind.
Well, I don't think any of the teams with TJ recovery cases or young starters will need to worry about innings limits.
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Blow it up 2020
« Reply #8: August 07, 2020, 07:40:38 PM »
A's are supposed to need a 2B by the deadline. I could see A-Cab or Castro getting moved.
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« Reply #9: August 07, 2020, 08:05:10 PM »
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« Reply #10: August 08, 2020, 11:17:13 AM »
I'd give it a few more games before hitting panic button.

If we "blow it up", what does that even mean? They're not moving Strasburg, Corbin, or Scherzer. I guess you sell off Kendrick and Cabrera. Not sure they want to give up Tanner Rainey. Maybe they can move Hudson.
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Offline Section214

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #11: August 08, 2020, 11:43:35 AM »
It's crazy to me to blow it up with this short season. I know the team just looks absolutely horrible, but all they need to do is limp through the regular season around .500 to sneak into the playoffs and then who knows. 3 game set with a healthy Stras-Corbin-Max... I'll take my chances.
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« Reply #12: August 08, 2020, 11:59:24 AM »
Quote from: Section214 on August 08, 2020, 11:43:35 AM
It's crazy to me to blow it up with this short season. I know the team just looks absolutely horrible, but all they need to do is limp through the regular season around .500 to sneak into the playoffs and then who knows. 3 game set with a healthy Stras-Corbin-Max... I'll take my chances.
That is why I'm hesitant. If we get in the playoffs, our Top 3 give us a shot. Even pre-COVID I think we all knew this team would have some struggles in the lineup, but if we got in the playoffs we'd have a shot.

But even if we go another tough week or two, not like we have a bunch of easy to move assets.
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Offline dracnal

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #13: August 08, 2020, 11:59:45 AM »
Quote from: Section214 on August 08, 2020, 11:43:35 AM
It's crazy to me to blow it up with this short season. I know the team just looks absolutely horrible, but all they need to do is limp through the regular season around .500 to sneak into the playoffs and then who knows. 3 game set with a healthy Stras-Corbin-Max... I'll take my chances.

Honestly, this season is like playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic pistol. I wouldn't make any sort of long term decisions based on this season. If they were already planning to pull the plug on a contract or pull the trigger on a trade, fine. But with the expanded playoffs, teams not playing the same number of games, universal DH, expanded rosters, and lack of a normal routine for spring training, etc., it's just nuts to look at the sample sizes in this season and use that as a basis for long term team makeup.
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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #14: August 08, 2020, 12:15:35 PM »
Actually, my thought isn't so much a blow up as moving an older vet to make room for Garcia at 2d or to clear out some of the alternatives when kieboom takes over 3d full time.  That's why I said Castro or  A-Cab.  They may have some value to an As team at 2d.
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Offline Elvir Ovcina

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #15: August 08, 2020, 01:02:34 PM »
Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on August 08, 2020, 12:15:35 PM
Actually, my thought isn't so much a blow up as moving an older vet to make room for Garcia at 2d or to clear out some of the alternatives when kieboom takes over 3d full time.  That's why I said Castro or  A-Cab.  They may have some value to an As team at 2d.

Supposedly the A's care a lot about infield defense these days.  I'm not sure either is a fit in that respect, although the guys the A's are playing there currently are no great shakes defensively either.
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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #16: August 08, 2020, 01:53:50 PM »
Quote from: Elvir Ovcina on August 08, 2020, 01:02:34 PM
Supposedly the A's care a lot about infield defense these days.  I'm not sure either is a fit in that respect, although the guys the A's are playing there currently are no great shakes defensively either.
I could see either of these guys playing 2d for them, surrounded by Marcus Semien, Matt Chapman, and Matt Olson, and the music at the park playing "one of these things is not like the other" from Sesame Street. 
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Offline Elvir Ovcina

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« Reply #17: August 08, 2020, 02:10:26 PM »
Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on August 08, 2020, 01:53:50 PM
I could see either of these guys playing 2d for them, surrounded by Marcus Semien, Matt Chapman, and Matt Olson, and the music at the park playing "one of these things is not like the other" from Sesame Street.

To be fair, they've had that opportunity for a while - Chapman/Semien/[Yikes]/Olson has been the infield for several years now. 

Lowrie wasn't terrible defensively but he sure stuck out.  And then they ran Jurickson Profar out there for 120 games or something last year.  He's had an amazing career for a dude who's been subsisting on little more than prospect hype for about 5 years now.   He's basically Danny Espinosa without the defense.  Now they've gone to  playing outfielders there and somehow that's better than Profar. 

In other words, you've talked me into this one. 
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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #18: August 08, 2020, 02:46:13 PM »
Castro for Luzardo, obviously
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Offline Elvir Ovcina

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« Reply #19: August 08, 2020, 03:12:44 PM »
Quote from: Slateman on August 08, 2020, 02:46:13 PM
Castro for Luzardo, obviously

C'mon, that's stingy.  Make them throw in Puk, too.  I mean, injury risk and all that.
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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #20: August 08, 2020, 04:29:54 PM »
Quote from: Elvir Ovcina on August 08, 2020, 03:12:44 PM
C'mon, that's stingy.  Make them throw in Puk, too.  I mean, injury risk and all that.
yah, what the Puk.
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Offline hohoho

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #21: August 08, 2020, 10:00:26 PM »
Don’t give up yet. Last year they were at .380 winning pct with 31% of season over. This year .364 with only 18% of season over.
(Or is that too FPish?)
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Offline Natsinpwc

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« Reply #22: August 08, 2020, 10:07:23 PM »
Quote from: hohoho on August 08, 2020, 10:00:26 PM
Don’t give up yet. Last year they were at .380 winning pct with 31% of season over. This year .364 with only 18% of season over.
(Or is that too FPish?)
It's early. 
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Offline rileyn

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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #23: August 09, 2020, 07:24:43 AM »
I hate losing to the Orioles.
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Re: Blow it Up (2020)
« Reply #24: August 09, 2020, 07:32:43 AM »
In second place in the Kumar sweepstakes!
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