MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

[bostonewe]

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Thesis aside, please tell me everybody recognizes that's terrible writing, though. It's like Dan Shaughnessy had a baby with a winner of The Bad Hemingway Contest.

I need this, people. I can't go to my grave thinking this is what we've become.

I assumed it was a puff piece designed to lion-ize a player everyone already likes. I like a good human interest story on my terms (don't shove the $hit in my face during the Olympics). I assume that Ichiro's story is similar to most overachieving athletes, but it is sad to see it spelled out.
Also it was 2:00am and I need something to distract me from the sadness at work.

[JF_Gophers]

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Kyle Gibson in mid-season form, giving back as many runs as he can after being given a 9-0 lead in the 1st.

[JF_Gophers]

Re: MLB 2017: Playoffs, World Series, and Off-season.

Twins get Lance Lynn at 1 yr/12mm

[Fighting Sioux 23]

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Twins get Lance Lynn at 1 yr/12mm

Good get. If the Twins hit like they did the second half of last season, they will put up a lot of Ws this season. I don't think they can catch Cleveland, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were hosting the Wild Card game this season.

[bigblue_dl]

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Good get. If the Twins hit like they did the second half of last season, they will put up a lot of Ws this season. I don't think they can catch Cleveland, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were hosting the Wild Card game this season.

I think they can catch Cleveland. Cleveland shouldn't be as good as last year, with the losses they've had, and the Twins should be significantly better with the additions of: Jake Odorizzi, Lance Lynn, Logan Morrison, Addison Reed, and Fernando Rodney.

[JF_Gophers]

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I think they can catch Cleveland. Cleveland shouldn't be as good as last year, with the losses they've had, and the Twins should be significantly better with the additions of: Jake Odorizzi, Lance Lynn, Logan Morrison, Addison Reed, and Fernando Rodney.

While plausible that the Twins could win, it would be a surprise to everyone if Cleveland didn't win the AL Central by 8-10 games this year. Their starting rotation is still significantly better than the Twins, and their bullpen isn't bad either.

[MissThundercat]

Arrieta to the Phillies.

[state of hockey]

While plausible that the Twins could win, it would be a surprise to everyone if Cleveland didn't win the AL Central by 8-10 games this year. Their starting rotation is still significantly better than the Twins, and their bullpen isn't bad either.

I wouldn't be surprised if that is true. The Twins ate gonna score a crapload of runs. All depends on how many they give up.

[JF_Gophers]

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We seem to gloss over a lot of things:
-Sano is going to miss time to suspension.
-Buxton has never hit for a full season.
-Berrios while great, is unproven.
-Kyle Gibson is Kyle Gibson.

I want them to win, but lets not go crazy.

[Hammer]

Arrieta to the Phillies.

I don’t like anything I see in that contract. The Phillies might have just lit $75 million on fire.

[Almington]

I don’t like anything I see in that contract. The Phillies might have just lit $75 million on fire.

At least it is only 3 years and not 7 or 8.

[bigblue_dl]

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I don’t like anything I see in that contract. The Phillies might have just lit $75 million on fire.

Since it is Philadelphia, I hope they did, and I hope the fans get ****ed and burn down their own ****hole houses, again.

[Russell Jaslow]

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At least it is only 3 years and not 7 or 8.

The trend lately has definitely been shorter contracts, even if they still overpay. At least this way, they aren't stuck overpaying for too long.

[JF_Gophers]

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Lynn debut. 3 IP, 0 H, 1 BB, 5 K

[joecct]

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@PeteAbe: Major pace-of-play rule changes for the minor leagues including starting extra innings with a runner on second base. Details: https://twitter.com/PeteAbe/status/9...234625/photo/1