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@CJNitkowski @ChrisSalesBeard People love arbitrary end points, but you’re absolutely right. It was a good year for the offense from a results perspective, and in the end that’s what matters.

Not how to make decisions about the future (wRC+ was worse than 2025), but it’s okay to be happy with the season.

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@DaEncinoMan Yeah the poor dodgers never get any breaks

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@TheHayride I don’t think forward progress was stopped. You can tell because he kept progressing forward.

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@DMAC_LA Who was on base when Pages got his hit, and what are the Dodgers paying for them in 2026:

- Teoscar Hernandez, $42M
- Kyle Tucker, $120M
- Tommy Edman, $28M

That’s $190M on the bases.

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@b_outliers Couple things:
1. Will Smith was 1/16 with a single and no walks this series.
2. There are a total of 9 players who have more than 3 hits in the entire divisional round so far.

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@trombaj @RockNSportsGREG Dodgers are paying $180M in tax. True payroll is $612M.

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@hisnameizjake they’re clearly not? why do people keep repeating this? they are spending $120M on Kyle Tucker and his 0.7 WAR… THIS SEASON. any other team and that’s a franchise crippler. the brewers and rays are much, much smarter and do more with infinitely less

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@ZacharyFast2 Least obvious PED user

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@CapitolAvenue Can he share it with whoever coaches/aligns our defense?

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@b_outliers Profar really put us in a bad spot.

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@PastTheEyeTest @JohnnyGiunta_ It’s definitely not legal there either. Might be common, but it isn’t legal.

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@cantguardjake I’m still with you. Gotta bring something tomorrow though. Baseball is a funny game.

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@thereedemerson He definitely had to be. Difference in the game unfortunately

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@trevorplouffe Yeah something going on there.

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@tannerr0516 @scottcoleman55 It was a strike. Not the pitch you want him to swing at 3-1, but it was definitely a strike.

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@CapitolAvenue He more than made up for that rough AB in the 1st.

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@CapitolAvenue Terrible pitch to hit too. If he’s hunting middle middle, gets it, and gets under it, it sucks but you accept it. But swinging at a fastball up and in after that is just bad.

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@_M_Able With his tax hit he’s costing them about $120M this year. They’re paying about $170 million/WAR and it doesn’t affect them at all. Yes, very smart.

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@ZacharyFast2 Hope not!

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@bravesfan2017 @CJNitkowski @BenDiesel24 @CathyG_braves @BravesStash @BraveBarner Maybe he signed/traded for somebody else and it didn’t work out. Then you say “well, it made sense at the time.” Like HSK. But you do nothing and it bites you, and people are allowed to critique you.

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@bravesfan2017 @CJNitkowski @BenDiesel24 @CathyG_braves @BravesStash @BraveBarner I mean there are tons of good examples: Nick Martinez, Soroka, Ranger Suarez, Anthony Kay, Erik Fedde, Foster Griffin pre-trade, Freddy Peralta. None were prohibitively expensive. Don’t think that’s too vague.