Running 2017 MLB postseason thread

Stay classy, San Francisco. Glad to know they hate the Dodgers more than they love the Giants #BitterDodgersFan

 

Were Appel and Aiken players they drafted after two of the 100-loss seasons? Damn.

 

Man, nothing is sadder than fans who make hatred of a rival bigger than rooting for their own team. I'm from Philly and our credo was, we don't discriminate. We don't have rivals, we hate all the other teams equally. Also our own.

 

Appel went one, Kris Bryant two. He turned out okay

 

Dodger fans can't handle fan trolling? Bryan Stow says hi .

 

In light of this, are claims that the Astros gamed the system and ultimately won the World Series by losing/tanking somewhat suspect?
They went 1-for-3 in their No. 1 picks. Granted, that hit, Correa, was a huge one. But still ...

 

But they did well overall with other top picks, nabbing Bregman at 2 and Springer at 11, with McCullers and Fisher as supplemental picks.

Surprisingly, only six players on the WS roster were drafted by them.

World Series 2017: How the AL champion Houston Astros built their roster

San Diego has had high picks for years and fumbled every one of them.

 

I think what the Astros and Cubs (and to a much greater extent, the Sixers in basketball) mostly did was to refuse to sign veterans or mid-tier free agents to plug holes. Instead, they just used minimum cost players, consigning themselves more toward 60 wins than 70 or 75. They didn't have a pretense of competing for a playoff spot. If you're leadership in the union, or in the commisioner's office, that probably isn't optimal.

 

Dude, Giants fans endured a season where our great savior in the bullpen blew a save on the first day. Then our best pitcher hurt himself in an ATV accident. We had a revolving door of disappointment in left field ... and center ... and third. Our meathead of a setup man decided he needed to settle a three-year-old grudge by picking a fight that ends a guy's -- on his own team -- career due to receiving a concussion running into the scrum. Our greatest excitement this whole season was not losing 100 games. The whole dammed time we had to watch our biggest rivals win and win a lot. They went on an extended losing streak and still won more than 100 games. Then we watched as they went to the World Series. So you can forgive us for finding something to be happy about in 2017.

EDIT: Forgot to mention the dude who blew the save then went on the DL among others who did the same.

 

Sorry. Still pathetic. Wait 'till next year is an ethos. Naah, naah, you lost is kindergarten recess stuff.

 

Cubs tried a little bit. In the 2012-2013 offseason, they spent something like $100 million on free agents. They got Edwin Jackson, Scott Feldman, David DeJesus, Nate Schierholtz, and Kyuji Fujikawa. It was a kind of half-hearted "There's caps on amateur spending and we've got all this money sitting around, might as well. If we get lucky, we're fringe competitors because there's 10 playoff spots now and everyone is. If we suck, we'll just eat the contract and trade them for prospects."

That got them Arrieta and Strop, two key pieces.

 

Well we all can't be arrive late, leave early, wave starting, beach ball bopping, giving rival fans brain damage fans. That market is cornered.