What is a successful season

[pacopete4]

Worst trophy in sports. But yeah it’d be nice.

[MadScientist]

Worst trophy in sports. But yeah it’d be nice.

I don't know, the Lombardi trophy is just a silver football on a tall base. NHL is just a weird cup. NBA is a nice idea of a basketball on the rim, but it looks unbalanced.

[rickh150]

Make the playoffs and it's a successful season for most MLB teams, including us this year in a tough division and league.

[DuWayne Steurer]

I think the IGT conversation is a bad place to judge "what is a successful season".

 

I don't think anybody is saying "everything is fine", but what (some) people seem to be saying is that "yes, there are some players that aren't performing, but there is an OVERWHELMING amount of negativity when the team is still fighting for first place, and that really gets tiresome."

 

Nobody is saying that EVERYTHING is fine (that I have seen), but there are posts every night like "this team is trash" "this team can't win" etc, etc, etc, and it makes you wonder how some people enjoy watching baseball at all.

 

I think "What is a successful season" is a great question, and varies from person to person, but using the IGT conversation of how to judge that is not a great barometer.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Stanley Cup is the best one, not even a question IMO. But I actually like the WS trophy.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

I think the IGT conversation is a bad place to judge "what is a successful season".

 

I don't think anybody is saying "everything is fine", but what (some) people seem to be saying is that "yes, there are some players that aren't performing, but there is an OVERWHELMING amount of negativity when the team is still fighting for first place, and that really gets tiresome."

 

Nobody is saying that EVERYTHING is fine (that I have seen), but there are posts every night like "this team is trash" "this team can't win" etc, etc, etc, and it makes you wonder how some people enjoy watching baseball at all.

 

I think "What is a successful season" is a great question, and varies from person to person, but using the IGT conversation of how to judge that is not a great barometer.

 

This is 100% bingo. I agree ... I just have a really difficult time understanding our some of the guys that go extremely negative on nearly every post can enjoy watching baseball. The IGTs I would say are more toxic than they have ever been this year.

[mtrebs]

Just because we opened the season with 3 starting pitchers didn't necessarily mean our rotation was permanently set with those 3 SP. Nelson was due back, and there were FA available along with trades. Plenty of ways to add SP. And opening with 3 rookie SP allowed us to find a gem in Woodruff, who might be better than most arms we could potentially trade for. Also you can look and see that Nelson/Chacin have been just as bad as Peralta/Burnes as SP...while Woodruff is arguably the best SP on the staff this year. The SP has not been as good as we'd like it to be, but pointing at the 3 rookies as the reason is ridiculous.

 

The problem with the three rookie starters approach is that you had to get rid of veterans that did well for you last year to see the results. If the thought was that if any of the rookies struggle, then someone else could move into their spot, who would go there? You let Miley go (who was arguably our best starter last year) and Gio go (who, while not as good as Miley, helped us big in the short time before the postseason). Sure, we found one good starter in Woodruff with this approach, but now our rotation is in shambles. This is why this approach cannot be in all-in approach, unless you get lucky and all three would have been good.

[willie key]

In professional sports a successful season should be at least making the playoffs. Anything less than that is a failure

 

Now depending on the circumstances it doesn’t mean you lose your job, etc

 

But if you getting paid a lot of money to play, coach or run a team your job is to get to the postseason period.

 

All these other buzzwords are nonsense. If you want to get participation ribbons for the year than go coach high schoo, college or your local beer league team

 

This American idea of tanking that has become acceptable is a scourge to our way of life and humanity as a whole and needs to be stamped out.

[rickh150]

Successful season =

 

More like a championship season...

Last year was a successful (yet disappointing) season, but it was not a championship season. There is a difference. I can't wrap my head around only one team in a 30 team league having the only success because they won it all.

[Ennder]

Stanley Cup is the best one, not even a question IMO. But I actually like the WS trophy.

Stanley Cup is simply awful, uglier than most high school trophies.