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2025 MLB Playoffs Thread

RuffRuff said:
LAD is basically like an NBA team, slow play the reg season, rest up the players that matter and save it all for the post season. They are the anti-Yankees as a team that plays the reg season good enough, then brings in the cavalry with post season profiles once the playoffs kick in. They've figured it out.
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Dodgers are anti Yankee in the fact where not winning a world series is viewed as a failed season. That used to be the Yankees standards not anymore. Hal is satisfied with just making the playoffs the Dodgers aren't.
 
Scoe said:
Dodgers are anti Yankee in the fact where not winning a world series is viewed as a failed season. That used to be the Yankees standards not anymore. Hal is satisfied with just making the playoffs the Dodgers aren't.
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Yanks are built to take big cuts up and down the roster, and mash mediocre to bad regular season pitching. When the playoffs roll around, they're just a bunch of guys with giant holes in their swing that good to great pitchers can K. They stink at the little things, defense, situational baseball and making contact. 3rd most K's in MLB.

I would blow up the entire roster besides a couple guys and start from scratch. That team as it's constructed has absolutely no chance of winning a WS. Last year was a mirage.
 
superjohn said:
Max Scherzer is one of the all-time badarses in baseball. I'll be sad when he hangs them up, he's everything I still love about baseball and sports. There's hardly any athletes today I can think of who seem like they're willing to kill for it, Max is one of them.
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Max is great. I love the passion. They showed a clip last night of Max pushing s teammate out of the way. He is intense. Too bad he’s 41
 
RuffRuff said:
The brown/blue eye thing scares me.
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BOO!
 
HCCForever said:
when John Schneider the manager of Toronto was asked about his conversation with Max on the mound, he commented that Max looked at him with both colored eyes. John left him in the game at that point.
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Analytics have ruined the game. The nerds are essentially trying to get starting pitchers to go 4-5 innings. Good for Max, loved to see that.
 
HCCForever said:
when John Schneider the manager of Toronto was asked about his conversation with Max on the mound, he commented that Max looked at him with both colored eyes. John left him in the game at that point.
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""It was awesome. I thought he was going to kill me," Schneider said. "He locked eyes with me, both colors, as I walked out."
 
RuffRuff said:
LAD SPs have given up 2 runs in 23 innings. The BP has only had to throw 4 innings in 3 games.

No one is beating them, perfectly designed for the post season. At this point they are playing chess to the rest of MLB.

They’ll win the WS 4-2 whomever they play.
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Playing chess being just buying every player humanly possible? I’m no Magnus Carlson but I thought chess was more cerebral than that.
 
What I think the casual hasn't come to grips with is that by cornering the Japanese/Korean market, the Dodgers have offset a massive portion of these contracts. It makes it easy for ownership to invest when they are selling a loads of merchandise overseas. This revenue stream has been in place since Nomo was signed in the 90s. Throw in that they probably have the most hispanic fans as well, and it's an absolute masterclass on branding and an execution of a longterm plan.

The Dodgers have broken the machine and MLB is screwed without a cap. Other teams will NEVER be able to compete in the landscape they've created. The rubber will meet the road then, and we'll find out then which organizations are serious about ball.
 
Gutter King said:
What I think the casual hasn't come to grips with is that by cornering the Japanese/Korean market, the Dodgers have offset a massive portion of these contracts. It makes it easy for ownership to invest when they are selling a loads of merchandise overseas. This revenue stream has been in place since Nomo was signed in the 90s. Throw in that they probably have the most hispanic fans as well, and it's an absolute masterclass on branding and an execution of a longterm plan.

The Dodgers have broken the machine and MLB is screwed without a cap. Other teams will NEVER be able to compete in the landscape they've created. The rubber will meet the road then, and we'll find out then which organizations are serious about ball.
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Well said

Far more strategic than throwing money. I believe a big % of their mlb leading home attendance were Japanese flying in.
 
Gutter King said:
What I think the casual hasn't come to grips with is that by cornering the Japanese/Korean market, the Dodgers have offset a massive portion of these contracts. It makes it easy for ownership to invest when they are selling a loads of merchandise overseas. This revenue stream has been in place since Nomo was signed in the 90s. Throw in that they probably have the most hispanic fans as well, and it's an absolute masterclass on branding and an execution of a longterm plan.

The Dodgers have broken the machine and MLB is screwed without a cap. Other teams will NEVER be able to compete in the landscape they've created. The rubber will meet the road then, and we'll find out then which organizations are serious about ball.
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They're paying a billion more dollars than any other team in deferred contracts. Unless JP Morgan and the like start owning teams, or Elon and Zuck decide to buy teams they will have a wildly unfair advantage over the rest of baseball.
 
superjohn said:
They're paying a billion more dollars than any other team in deferred contracts. Unless JP Morgan and the like start owning teams, or Elon and Zuck decide to buy teams they will have a wildly unfair advantage over the rest of baseball.
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TBH this is more of a writing on the wall argument, as the Dodgers have just recently exploded in payroll. Usually the World Series is played between top 10 payroll teams. This has more diversity than what CFB has had over the past 30 years.

Is the proper approach to make a $320M Cap and a $150M Floor? That would mean the Orioles at 15th ($162M) are deemed trying, and the Mariners at 16th ($147M) (haha I know!) need to invest more. I just think that the floor of this league is as big of a problem as the top...it's just that it's not as fun for the general public to punch down.
 
Gutter King said:
Is the proper approach to make a $320M Cap and a $150M Floor? That would mean the Orioles at 15th ($162M) are deemed trying, and the Mariners at 16th ($147M) (haha I know!) need to invest more. I just think that the floor of this league is as big of a problem as the top...it's just that it's not as fun for the general public to punch down.
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In theory, a hard cap and floor would allow teams in the bottom the ability to sign one or two superstars. The ability to go over the cap (luxury tax) eliminates that - teams like the Dodgers and Mets, et.al., could continue to collect all the players ithey want if their media deals provide the revenue to allow it. So a floor wouldn't work at all, because then the lower payroll teams would be forced to pay money for mediocre players just because they have to.

There are perhaps 225-250 players who are worth $15/AAV or more at this time. That would average 7.5-8 per team if spread out equitably. However, it won't be equitably because $300M can sign five $30/M guys and still have the entire minimum floor to spend, so they can use that to sign another five $15/M guys and then fill out the roster with pre-arb guys. And most FAs will want to be on teams with the most superstars, making it more difficult for lower payroll teams to sign anyone who's not just a stat compiler or 35 year old with maybe one decent year left.

I just don't see it working without more complete revenue pooling like the other three major sports. If that happens, then you could raise the floor to a point where competitiveness then becomes almost completely on team management.

Just MHO.
 
superjohn said:
They're paying a billion more dollars than any other team in deferred contracts. Unless JP Morgan and the like start owning teams, or Elon and Zuck decide to buy teams they will have a wildly unfair advantage over the rest of baseball.
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They actually care about winning championships that's their number 1 priority unlike the Yankees good for them.
 
IKF has become a truly awful defender.

That DP by Raleigh with the bags loaded was a beauty. Great reflexes.
 
I'm rooting for the Jays (or the Mariners) over the Dodgers. I like plenty of Dodgers individually but rooting for them at this point is gross unless you've loved them since childhood.

I now know as of last week that I know nothing about baseball, per supertoilet, but I still maintain my reasons.
 
Hope Springer isn't out for too long. That heater caught him square on the kneecap. And loudly.

And I say that hoping Seattle makes it to the WS for the first time.
 
Ouch well at least Springer was able to walk so X-rays should be negative (crossing fingers). Now get that swelling down got an off day tomorrow, doubt we see him in game 6. Maybe available as a ph.
 
I know there's a lot of prisoner of the moment takes and recency bias in a lot of these conversations, but I don't think this one is even a debate. Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player who's ever lived
 

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