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  1. jad
    Actually, I will think exactly that. Also, the notion that OF play is "worse than it used to be"--as in the great days when baseball players had to work second jobs over the winter--is ridiculous. The only reason to ban the shift is to appease players like B. Harper who would like to hit for higher averages and earn their inflated salaries.
  2. jad
    Yes. I wasn't watching that closely, but I believe w/ a runner on base, it's 20 seconds. I was surprised to see that with no one on, it's only 15 seconds. (The ball doesn't have to be thrown; the pitcher just has to be [i think] in his set.) And I thought I saw that between batters, it's 25. It's different after a foul too, of course. But the mere fact that it's there keeps the game moving.
  3. jad
    Oh yes, the game. Just got back from a AA game in time to check it out. What a joy watching baseball under the two conditions of AA: (1) a pitch clock (this can't get into the MLB fast enough, in my view), and (2) NO REPLAY!!!! Remember when watching baseball used to be fun?
  4. jad
    Martinez? Holt? Both having good years. Even Benintendi is right on his career numbers.
  5. jad
    The improvement is inconsequential. It's not like you keep gaining round by round by virtue of being #1. That's why I prefer to look at it the way I did: you get one free player. One. Then the draft begins, and you are LAST for every subsequent round. (That's exactly what having thte first pick each round amounts to). That's just the mathematics of it. When you realize that, and you take into account that young baseball players are much more difficult to evaluate than, say, young basketball players, you also realize that there is no way you are going to "rebuild the farm system" by tanking unless you plan on doing that (struggling to get that lastt place position) for 10 or 15 years. What is far more important is properly evaluating young players--thatt's where your resources and energy should go.
  6. jad
    I'm not entirely sure how the draft works, but I believe choosing first rather than last, nets you precisely 1 extra player. You get that player, and after that, you are last in the queue. So that does not amount to boatloads of players: it amounts to one. In the NBA, this might be a game-changer, but not in MLB.
  7. jad
    I must be mis-reading this thread, which is implying that Betts, Devers, Bogaerts, Martinez, Vasquez, Benintendi, Holt are all having crappy years. They're not. Even Bradley is pretty much right on his career stats ,and Chavis is about where Devers was last year. That's 10 position players who are doing about what would be expected, or in some cases considerably better, than they would have been expected to perform in Spring training. Since nothing has changed, why weren't you arguing to trade or DFA them all in the spring?
  8. jad
    I was about to say "Why can't he be both?" (given that it's hard to give a .220 hitter the benefit of the doubt). ... So just as I was typing that, he hits one out.
  9. jad
    Maybe it will be like ... (I forget; some time in the 80s?) ... They were .500 at the All-Star break. I kicked back, thinking how relaxing it would be to watch them trying to break even. ... Then they won 20 straight and spoiled everything!
  10. jad
    Actually, I find this situation much more enjoyable. Now i can watch games just to see baseball--I don't have my enjoyment of that cluttered up with pissing and moaning over games-behind-leader,, playoff percentages, trade speculations, sudden DFAs, managerial second guessing. It's like watching the RedSox in the old days, when it never occurred to me they would make the WS or even make a run at it. Just baseball.
  11. jad
    Because we were sick of the way they clogged up I-95 on the weekends, and besides, who wants to have to cross the cultural swamp of New Hampshire just to get to your state capital?
  12. jad
    I don't consider myself particularly normal, yet I too have no clue what they are talking about.
  13. jad
    Rabbit Maranville! Holy crap, I haven't heard that name in almost 60 years. For some reason, he was one of my father's favorite players ... thinking back, was it the fact that Maranville occasionally used a 'no-look' technique of catching pop-ups? (the method I recall my father attempting many times with only limited success!)
  14. jad
    RS missed their chance. Obviously should have traded him (oops, they can't), then at least DFA'd him after those 8 hits in a row, when his stock was high.
  15. jad
    The worst. Mine died 30 years ago almost to the day (but who's counting??!). I swore I'd never have another, until I became part-owner of one last year. I dread what I know is one day coming.
  16. jad
    It was in reply to an earlier post, suggesting that the reason the RS have had such a rough season, despite their hitting being tops in the league, was because of the ball.
  17. jad
    That would explain it if other teams were not playing w/ the same ball.
  18. jad
    But allowing for exemptions only makes the problem worse, since only rich teams can afford these multi-bazillion dollar and multi-year contracts. They should not be able to get out from under them,which they most certainly will do (case in point, the Yankees' repeated efforts to embarrass A-rod into retiring.) No team should be able to outbid weaker teams in the hope that they will find some loop-hole in the future to avoid paying up.
  19. jad
    It's actually one of the worst fonts in typographical history. (Just sayin'!)
  20. jad
    Why does that affect only the pitchers, and not the hitters?
  21. jad
    "Multiple hairline fractures"? Any sense that this was exacerbated by 'microfracture' surgery itself?
  22. jad
    Well, that could be an argument I suppose (and it's certainly the policy for some teams with limited payroll). But any plan based on "not signing the best players" (since many of the best players do in fact want those long-term deals) is probably not going to win four championships every 15 years or so.
  23. jad
    Why should he? This is why the Union negotiated for guaranteed contracts. It's not like they didn't know there might be injuries such as this. The RS gave him the contract. So pay him and move on.
  24. jad
    I know that in my business, once the boss walked in and let us know that there were going to be no long term contracts, that we would be working, not for money, but for the good of the business, that salaries would be capped, and that anyone who did not get w/ the program would be let go, why productivity and morale just shot way way up and the number of applications for positions went through the roof.
  25. jad
    I am sure that once all the top FAs in the league are informed that the Red Sox are giving ONLY one-year deals, they will flock to Boston! and probably take a discount as well. Time to tell that Betts character that he's getting, oh, 10million for a one-year deal and he better damn well like it!
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