Might be about to go on a nice run.

njherdfan wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:00 pm

This is....bad.

Had you told me that Seattle would be in first place in bullpen ERA I'd have asked if the team was on pace to win 110 games.

I was admittedly surprised that Penharanda wasn't up yet.

On my way to Houston for a conference. No game access. Should miss Sunday/Tuesday.

I think malaise just means "bad eggs."

Lil more Hollandaise peeps.

It's bonus funds so it will be charged off at the beginning of next season.

Hard to complain with the start. Not surprised Charm City is good: surprised they are this good.

By the way, having gotten home and loaded up the game, I notice that Statsplus doesn't match the draft pool in game.

It's still not a very inspiring draft pool but it's a lot better than it shows on Statsplus. We might be able to get through a first round. We've had equally bad drafts before.

By power creep I mean talent inflation gets higher and higher with each successive generation. Pretty soon you start seeing guys with 14 con and 15 power and goofy things like that. Hell we already have too many guys above 10. Then your leaderboards become flooded with more and more recent players....

But instead of B & O, the whole draft class just has BO.

It's just that I don't see five batters that are usable. At all.

I see at most two dozen pitchers who are.

It's not a matter of blues or yellows or greens - I know the center of these things has changed and I'm happy to change with it, but this cupboard is BARE.

So, politely,

The hell is this shit?

I get rebalancing, but I'm pretty sure this is what BBA players might look like after thermonuclear war.

Rockville passes.

Check out Charm City! I looked them over closer, and I think this one's a legit miss by Justin: they look pretty darn good. I mean, Omoruyi can't do what he's doing all year, but swap him with Guerrer and the offense looks pretty airtight.

I think they could take a wild card at least.

Two losses? It's like they're not even trying.

Feeling lucky again.

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