Bellhorn04
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Some of these things are pretty easy to check out and you don't have to be a stat whiz, you just have to know how to use Baseball-Reference and have some free time. I think what you will find is that there's no consistent pattern whatsoever in how the World Series champs were playing at the end of the season.
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It's pure conjecture that he's injured. He might just be losing bat speed due to age.
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Sorry Kimmi but which team do you mean?
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It certainly looks like they have to 'unvest' him next year. Stupid, stupid vesting option. I understand that it was put in there as a further incentive for him to sign. But we can see how it's already kind of hanging over the team as something else they have to deal with.
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I like Hanley, and I root for him to do well. But I think it was a bad signing value-wise for several reasons: 1) Very erratic offensive numbers over previous 5 years. 2) Injury history. 3) Didn't really have a position for him.
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The big advantage of having a closer or setup guy pitch only a single inning, though, is that he can do it 3 games in a row, or more in a playoff series.
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Amen to that.
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Christ, did the team have a blowout party after the third game in Cleveland or something?
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To me it all comes down to run-scoring stats across baseball. In recent years run-scoring was dropping and dropping, suggesting that pitching was dominating the game. It has gone back up again, and a lot of people including me are wondering if that's because the ball is juiced.
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He was averaging 17.8 coming into this game.
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That's somewhere between highly debatable and total hogwash. Pomeranz has been getting to 6 innings most of the time lately. And even if he only gives you 5.1 like last time out, that's just 2 more outs you have to get from the pen. And if it's the second game of a PO series the next day is an off day so you can ask more from the pen.
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Pretty sure he means public as in 'in the dugout and on camera'.
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Yes Eeyore.
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SoxHop brings the chuckles.
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Just don't make the other sport football LOL
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I'd rather have him too, trust me.
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All I'm saying is that there are reasons for pitch counts and yes they are a combination of health concerns and monetary concerns. Billy Martin had a lot to do with this, I think, when in 1980 he took a good young pitching rotation and burnt them all to the ground.
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I doubt that Moreland will be back. But he is delivering good value for $5.5 million this year.
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'Pampering' - now there's a word that clearly implies treating them like babies. I get a lot of this old school stuff, I really do. But the high frequency of injuries to pitchers is a fact. Torn ligaments are a fact. It's understandable that teams would like to avoid them. And nobody really knows exactly why the incidence of TJ surgery-inducing injuries is so high now. There are a lot of theories, as with many things.
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Can't argue with any of that. Just another $22 million sandwich for the team to swallow.
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What was really strange about Hanley's contract was that a lot of people were expecting him to get even more.
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Bob Gibson and Nolan Ryan were amazing physical specimens. Generally speaking though, pitching wreaks a lot of damage on the human arm.
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Here's why I hate that particular kind of option. First of all, because Hanley is sucking we're all grumbling about the prospect of him reaching the number and us getting stuck with him for another year at 22 mill. Perfectly understandable. Second, these things have created some controversy before. Maybe Hanley is having a decent year but the team seems to be trying to cut back on his time to not hit the number. Hanley's agent complains about it, yada yada yada...not a good thing in any way.
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We actually did fairly well against Bauer last night but we were seriously outgunned. -
I hate that kind of vesting option in a contract.
