2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

[champcruthik]

I'd be happy for Cutch and Toro.

Wandy loss hurts. Not enough SP or playoff experience.

 

[Johnny_Cakes]

Of course I do, I'll have something to say about every division rival in our way. If the Mariners ever did something with their team I'd be talking about them too. Nothing personal, just business.

You should have bet me $100 when I said the A's wouldn't finish ahead of the Angels.

#poor


The Dodgers are set up so perfectly for the playoffs with those starters. If they're offense continues with those timely hits they should breeze through the postseason.

I would love to see the Pirates win it tho

Lol, I thought about that all season. But like I said then, I really was too #poor to make that bet. Now it's different, but eh. Congrats on keeping your money, though.

 

[03silverbullet]

i don't even remember the last game these bums have won. it's the early 90's all over again.

 

[jesusshuttlesworth34]

Big two series coming up for the O's. Have to handle business against Boston and TB if they hope to get into October.

 

[RyGuy45]

In Houston right now, non-Houston WNBA games are getting higher local TV ratings than the Houston Astros games :x I mean come on

And in other basement news, Jeff Loria continues to run a great operation:

Deadspin

According to local and national reports, the (Marlins) front office is irrevocably fractured, and baseball decisions are being made by Jeffrey Loria.

Though this broth was spoiled long ago, the Marlins have too many cooks. There's Loria, the owner. VP of baseball operations Dan Jennings. President of baseball operations Larry Beinfest. GM Mike Hill. Team president (and Loria's stepson) David Samson. According to the Miami Herald and Fox Sports, Loria has elbowed out the latter three, making all the personnel decisions himself, with Jennings whispering in his ear.

The Herald:

"He has marginalized the front office," said a major-league source, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity. "The front office isn’t making decisions. Loria makes them all. "There’s not one move that happens that he doesn’t do. That’s just how he operates the team. The team is run in this sort of backwards way."

Ken Rosenthal adds that decisions already agreed-upon have been reversed "according to Loria’s whims."

Some of those moves:

- In April, the Marlins flipped the starting pitchers for a day-night doubleheader at the last moment, confusing and angering players and coaches. It was reported that the move was a dictum direct from Loria, who wanted prized rookie Jose Fernandez to pitch in warmer weather. (Game time temperature was actually colder for the day game.)
- In May, the front office reportedly wanted to send down slumping catcher Chris Rob Brantly, but Loria intervened. It was only three months later, when Brantly's average had declined even further, that he was demoted.
- Earlier this season, hitting coach Tino Martinez resigned after confrontations with some of the Marlins' young players. Loria reportedly held a grudge against those players, despite Beinfest promising them there would be no repercussions if they assisted with the team's internal investigation. When the front office intended to call up Chris Valaika, Loria vetoed the move. Fox Sports adds that Loria also came out against calling up Derek Dietrich, another player involved in the Tino Martinez incidents.

Rosenthal reports that Beinfest confronted Loria last week, asking for clarification on his job status and the team's power structure. He got no answers.

 

[madj55]

Nats finding ways to win...pretty much can't lose from here on out though if we want to make the playoffs. This is why you can't dig a huge early season hole

 

[mr marcus]

Nats finding ways to win...pretty much can't lose from here on out though if we want to make the playoffs. This is why you can't dig a huge early season hole

word...I still blame Haren

 

[champcruthik]

What about Zim's slow start at the hot corner.

 

[champcruthik]

Matty.

Postseason MVP.

 

[dland24]

Matty.

Postseason MVP.

 

[GreenNGold89]

at the butt slide

 

[madj55]

What about Zim's slow start at the hot corner.

word...I still blame Haren

Haren, Espinosa, Span, Detwiler, Storen, LaRoche, and Zimmerman were all huge disappointments in the first half. Now Zim is slugging better than he ever has during a full month, Span has a 28 game hit streak, and LaRoche and Haren are actually contributing. If we came out of the All Star break playing like this there actually would've been a race for the division, instead we came out of the break and lost 7 straight

 

[trueprada]

Braves smh df

 

[champcruthik]

Texas finally wins thanks to Kinsler.

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

I hope Pirate go all the way to the World Series!

 

[dland24]

Jesus Jumpman.....that post screams ESL. 

 

[lightweight champion]

 

[jumpmanfromdabay]

I was multitasking

 

[CP1708]

Another long season for us Cub fans, but I see the signs, I like the direction.

We're lookin at the 4th-5th pick of the draft, on top of a pretty strong group of minor league talent already, got Junior Lake in to see how he does, still has plenty of holes but does have talent. Hopefully he works hard in the offseason.

Only downside is Starlin and Rizzo both had bad years this year, that does worry me. Maybe more talent around them soon will help them, I dunno.


Even with the 4th worst record in the league, our run differential is less than 60. The Phillies have a middle of the pack record and theirs is 117. So we're not as bad as our record shows. We're just young, and we traded away all of our pieces to get even younger.

Once Baez, Soler, Bryant, Almora, and Alcantara get some seasoning, we could have a lot of fun goin forward. Hope like hell those kids actually want it tho. Tampa Bay built this way, took a while, and then just like that they were all ready and became a great young team, but hampered by money. We won't be hampered by money, so we will fill in the blanks, and not have to sell solid young pieces.

Still think we're a ways away next year, but should see at least some improvement, as well as some work for the youngsters. By 2015, the whole lot of them should be up and playing opening day, all still under 26 but ready to go. At least that's how I see the timeline, maybe Theo wants it sooner, I dunno. But Opening Day 2015 is when I expect them all to be on the major league roster. Lookin forward to it.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

List of two-time 10 WAR players: Bonds, Mays, Ruth, Hornsby, Mantle, Williams, Gehrig… Trout.

the new pirates bonds.

 

[champcruthik]

Come on, Adduci.

 

[champcruthik]

Oddsmakers: Dodgers the favorite to win the WS.

Matty time.

 

[albooboo5]

Damn I wanted the Rockies to win tonight. 

 

[dmxfury]

Astros are near impossible to watch. How have they even win over 50 games?

 

[albooboo5]

Astros are her impossible to watch. How have they even win over 50 games?

They just lost their 100th game tonight