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Serge
It's just such a tragedy that Trout's tenure as GOAT is going to be so short. He was basically just put on this earth to mentally prepare the baseball world for the rise of Juan Soto.
Speaking of which: the Phillies were winning 6-5 in the bottom of the 8th at Nats Park tonight. Nats get a leadoff walk. Turner makes an out. Harper doubles leaving runners at 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. Rendon breaks his bat for the second out. With runners at 2nd and 3rd and two outs the Phillies manager chose to intentionally walk the 19 year old Juan Soto in order to pitch to 3 time all star Daniel Murphy with the bases loaded. Granted, Soto is red hot and Murphy is hitting sub 200 since coming back from injury with no XBHs. But Murphy has been the most dangerous and clutch hitter in the NL over the last three years and has a career BA of .443 with the bases loaded. Walking Soto has to be one of the dumbest things I've ever seen a manager do. If you had walked Soto to get to litterally anyone else in our lineup I would have called it smart. But not Murphy.
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