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No, I was comparing his situation to the Mets, where Terry Collins is also being moved from the dugout to the FO, but will be working alongside a President and GM who were thwarted by the owner on several attempts to have Collins fired as the manager.

 

Giancarlo Stanton doesn’t want any part of a Miami Marlins rebuild, he tells Jon Heyman. “I don’t want to rebuild. … I’ve lost for seven years,” he said.

Such a rebuild is quite possible given that the Marlins new owners have taken on a lot of debt in the purchase and have signaled that they would be cutting payroll, possibly drastically. Given that Stanton will earn $25 million next year — up from the $14.5 million he made in 2017 — the surrounding case that Miami is likely to put around him will be pretty young and pretty cheap which probably means it’ll be pretty bad.

Stanton is under contract through 2027 with a team option for 2028. He has an opt-out available after 2020, however. If it appears that he’ll exercise it — and if he’s healthy and continues to rake like he did this year, he likely would — the Marlins would be fools not to trade him right now when he’d bring in a boatload of talent in return. This isn’t the NBA where trade demands necessarily carry weight, but Stanton is pretty clearly wanting to be traded.

There will be no shortage of suitors if the Marlins do put him on the block this offseason. There is no team anywhere close to contention that would say no to a slugger coming off of a year in which he hit .281/.376/.631 with 59 homers. He’ll almost certainly be the NL MVP. And he’ll almost certainly have a host of teams bidding for his services.

 

weeeee back to back loosing season for the Pirates and all we did was extend Hurdle for 4 more years

 

Twins
Ervin Santana (R)
@
Yankees
Luis Severino (R)
____________________8:00 pm et start...

1. Brian Dozier (R) 2B
2. Joe Mauer (L) 1B
3. Jorge Polanco (S) SS
4. Eddie Rosario (L) LF
5. Eduardo Escobar (S) 3B
6. Max Kepler (L) RF
7. Byron Buxton (R) CF
8. Jason Castro (L) C
9. Robbie Grossman (S) DH

1. Brett Gardner (L) LF
2. Aaron Judge (R) RF
3. Gary Sanchez (R) C
4. Didi Gregorius (L) SS
5. Starlin Castro (R) 2B
6. Greg Bird (L) 1B
7. Aaron Hicks (S) CF
8. Jacoby Ellsbury (L) DH
9. Todd Frazier (R) 3B

 

3-0, Twins... 1st inning.

 

Yankees answer... Didi with a 3-run shot. 3-3, 1st.

 

Yankees advance to ALDS

Didi Gregorius and Aaron Judge helped power the Yankees past the Twins 8-4 in Tuesday's AL Wild Card game to advance to the ALDS.

 

National League Wildcard Game...

 

man im getting old. game was on late last night on the east coast. first inning seemed like it took an hour. i gotta take a nap tonight bc the Flyers start their season on the West Coast with a 10:30 pm game. Will check in on baseball when i can...

great game last night. starters didn't do much. relievers came to play. poor sanchez missed catching the ball and it hit him in the balls. yanks win!

 

National League Wildcard Game...

 

^^hopefully this is faster than the yankees-twins game!

 

Yankees are notorious for slowing down games. A Red Sox and Yankees tilt is the worst.

 

^^back in their heydays on Sunday Night Baseball. 5 hr game easy. i think last night wasn't slow to be slow, but just a lot of scoring early.

 

Rockies
1. Charlie Blackmon (L) CF
2. DJ LeMahieu (R) 2B
3. Carlos Gonzalez (L) RF
4. Nolan Arenado (R) 3B
5. Trevor Story (R) SS
6. Gerardo Parra (L) LF
7. Mark Reynolds (R) 1B
8. Jonathan Lucroy (R) C
9. Jon Gray (R) P

Diamondbacks
1. David Peralta (L) LF
2. Ketel Marte (S) SS
3. Paul Goldschmidt (R) 1B
4. J.D. Martinez (R) RF
5. Jake Lamb (L) 3B
6. A.J. Pollock (R) CF
7. Daniel Descalso (L) 2B
8. Jeff Mathis (R) C
9. Zack Greinke (R) P

 

2 great matchups tonight and then the flyers-kings at 10! going to be a late one. thank God I WFH tomorrow!

 

Red Sox
1. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS
2. Eduardo Nunez (R) DH
3. Andrew Benintendi (L) LF
4. Mookie Betts (R) RF
5. Mitch Moreland (L) 1B
6. Dustin Pedroia (R) 2B
7. Rafael Devers (L) 3B
8. Sandy Leon (S) C
9. Jackie Bradley Jr. (L) CF
________________________________4 pm et start...

Astros
1. George Springer (R) CF
2. Alex Bregman (R) 3B
3. Jose Altuve (R) 2B
4. Carlos Correa (R) SS
5. Evan Gattis (R) DH
6. Josh Reddick (L) RF
7. Yuli Gurriel (R) 1B
8. Marwin Gonzalez (S) LF
9. Brian McCann (L) C

 

houston's hitters don't scream "1927 Yankees," but they get the job done ! 30 min left till game time!

 

2-0 Astros... Verlander dealing. 2nd inning.