With my #firstworldproblems aside, we have had a couple of "bullpen games" with Kershaw out and it will be nice to have the extra arms, especially Buehler. It will be good to see a good prospect join the pitching staff after losing Urias for the year.
Houston is getting Verlander.
In other much less big news, Mariners ended the DFA train on Leonys Martin. Cubs have traded for him. Really liked him, but his bat fell off the map in the majors this year.
Leonys Martin makes his Cubs debut
as a pitcher.
Praise jesus for worthless cunts being worthless. So, this cunt I know had never been to a baseball game, so I was going to take her to a Cubs/Mets game cuz.. her team, my team. She became cunty so, said fuck it. Even though we are total shit, traded 7 of our top 9 offensive players (with the other 2 being hurt) and our entire starting staff and bullpen aside from deGrom and Blevins being hurt, i was still willing to take her. It would have been last nights game.
DODGED A BULLETTTTTTT
Holy crap, Cleveland's streak that they just ended. Ridiculous.
Also, the Mariners are more than likely looking at extending their MLB-longest playoff drought. Sigh...hopefully Dipoto can get some major help in the rotation this offseason. We need another big name starter (at minimum) if we want to actually make the playoffs. If by a miracle they take a wild card spot, they'd just get blown away immediately.
somehow the mariners salvage a win off a 6 game skid... against the hottest team in baseball.
Dodgers went from beating everybody but the Giants to losing to everybody but the Giants.
Fifth straight division title.
I thought the second AL Wild Card was supposed to be a big chase with a lot of teams vying for it, but it looks like all of them rolled over and died. The five AL playoff teams may be the only AL clubs that even have winning records.
At least the NL Wild Card has some mystery left to it.
From the Mariners' website: "Scott Servais' Mariners set a Major League record by using 40 pitchers this season and also a club record with 17 starters."
Pitching injuries were the story of the year here. Maybe next decade we'll break that playoff drought...
Beats the 16 starters the Dodgers used a couple years ago, 15 last year, only 10 this year!
Sadly, I think that even if the pitching wasn't constantly hurt they'd still struggle to make a WC spot. Not a fan of our pitching under Dipoto so far.
Hitting is fine, just a lot of guys slumped after the all star break.