Bellhorn04
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Probably a ton of phone calls being made though.
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And it's enough for me, because I think he's a smart guy. As always, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
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Seager is a fine player, but $325 mill is absurd, especially when you factor in the health concerns.
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It's $20M minus the value provided by JBJ. And it's Bloom's opinion of the prospects that counts. He's supposed to be able to outperform the market when it comes to valuing prospects.
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So stop scratching the deceased equine's head.
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Well, Bloom can't use the "luxury tax issues" and "we're gonna suck this year anyway" as reasons to trade Bogey, so that makes it different from Betts.
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Here's an Fangraphs article on the righty shift. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-righty-shift-has-petered-out/
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I would presume so.
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I'll let notin handle this matter.
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Why do you hate the concept of buying prospects so much? Seems like you don't like building the farm so much if it might hurt the 2022-2023 teams a little. Head-scratcher. (Just being a s**t disturber, moon.)
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Others have explained that shifting against a righty is more hazardous because you don't want the first baseman that far off the bag. Which seems like a pretty good point...
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I think everybody feels the same way about all that.
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Correction: Cot's presently has us at 207.7 million, 22.3 million under the threshold. You have to look at the CBT numbers on the right.
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LOL it's incredible how costly that trade was.
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The lack of a full ST will make the decisions with Whitlock and Houck even trickier.
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Another myth destroyed.
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It's going to be a full 162 game season. These guys are champs!
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And why would it only affect power hitters? The shift generally results in ground ball outs.
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A couple times and that was it.
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4 of the top 5 are in states that start with M.
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Why wouldn't shifting work exactly the same against RHH?
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We're almost there, maybe.
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(More devil's advocacy.) There are reasons that hitters don't try to "adapt" to the shift. 1) Bunting and/or going the other way is much harder than people realize, especially when pitchers are throwing high 90's with movement. 2) Hitters are afraid of messing up their swings. 3) Instead of going the other way, they swing harder with more of an uppercut and try to hit more home runs. Run scoring hasn't changed that much because of the shift. It's still around 9 runs per average game. But there are more homers and a ton more K's. Much fewer balls in play.
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It's the positioning that's not a skill. That's all we're talking about.
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What's really frustrating is that they're not that far apart on most of the key issues. And it's definitely going to be a much better deal for the players than the last one. Yet here we are.
