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Division Series Live Chat - 10/5/18
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Lola
6:26
I mean ppl tend to get excited when players have these amazing years (I’m thinking Harper MVP) and then disappointed when they return to their above average selves. I find myself enjoying these spectacular years but not expecting them to be the norm moving forward.
Meg Rowley
6:27
Yes. The consistency is a thing to marvel at, and perhaps not expect. I think he has the capacity to continue to be really, really good, even if it isn't an MVP season.
Craig Edwards
6:27
The brat won the sausage race.
Meg Rowley
6:27
THE MOST IMPORTANT REPORTING
I think one thing we sometimes don't appreciate enough about Mike Trout is how Trouty he manages to be year after year. I know we say we know. But we could know it better.
Craig Edwards
6:29
Keeping Anderson in feels like a huge gamble for the Rockies.
Meg Rowley
6:29
I am making the grimace emoji face
Muxosk
6:29
Has Betts put himself in the catagory with Trout of being clearly better than the rest of baseball?
Meg Rowley
6:30
Another year, and I think so.
6:31
Now, that's a tier. It isn't just him and Trout.
Matt
6:32
Over the last 3 seasons combined, Mookie has a 140 wRC+. Mike Trout has a 180. Next below Trout is JDM at 161. Cookie is very good at baseball. Elite, even. But LOL at comparing him to Trout.
Meg Rowley
6:32
Being in a category doesn't mean there aren't internal rankings within the category.
6:33
No one should worry: I think Mike Trout is the best player in baseball.
Matt
6:33
I only argue because Trout isn't in a category. He *is* a category.
CamdenWarehouse
6:33
I think Trout deserves his own tier, then there can be a tier with Mookie and Kershaw and Altuve, etc.
Meg Rowley
6:35
Reasonable opinions. I have a tier of friend I call best friends. I have my best best friend. The question was posed as clearly better than the rest of baseball. Trout leads that pack. He has some less-good pals.
OddBall Herrera
6:36
All this 'who's the best' stuff is veering dangerously close to sports radio hot-takery.  Any minute now someone's going to yell "if he's the best SHOW ME THE RINGS"
Meg Rowley
6:36
Well I control the queue so...
Brandon M
6:36
I know I’m in the minority here, but this is the most interesting DS matchup to me
Craig Edwards
6:36
Working to confirm that Ian Desmond actually got a base hit.
Meg Rowley
6:37
Seems wrong, Craig
Billy Eppler
6:38
Trout to the Phillies, what's the haul?  Might as well trade him this off-season because two years of control is better than one?
Meg Rowley
6:38
I just really don't think they ever trade him.
6:39
I'm sure they'll listen, but I just don't see the package ever really making sense.
And I think we perhaps underrate the human desire not to have that be the first line of a GM's obit.
Muxosk
6:39
I don't think I ever really realized that Ian Desmond and Ian Kinsler are 2 seperate players until this season.
Meg Rowley
6:39
With some unavoidable disrespect to Kinsler, you apologize to Ian Desmond's face for mistaking it for Kinsler's.
6:40
Well that was screwy.
carrotjuice
6:41
Wait we're ending the chat right when perhaps the greatest sports rivalry meet in the postseason for the first time since that amazing 2004 ALCS? Boooo.
Craig Edwards
6:41
Big moment for Matt Holliday. The crowd booed him last night.
Meg Rowley
6:42
Folks are busy this evening, and it is hard to write about a game if you're chatting about it.
Muxosk
6:42
Fangraphs doesn't have headshots how am I supposed to know what everyone looks like?
Meg Rowley
6:42
Watch baseball imo.
Brandon M
6:43
That was not a good at bat
Meg Rowley
6:43
Could have gone better.
McCutcheons Erstwhile Beard
6:43
Noooo, I got some good material I wanna try out
Meg Rowley
6:44
Twitter! Oh god.
Matt
6:44
How much is Miller-Coors loving this matchup?
Meg Rowley
6:45
Surprised it hasn't been more of joking thing, honestly.
Having been to both ballparks, I can say that I give the slightest edge to Miller but only because the tailgating thing is pretty rad, and they have (or had) a better craft beer selection.
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