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Everything posted by notin
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But without the fielding, it’s nothing. I’m also not sure why being a skill matters. By that logic, MLB should ban intentional walks. No skill involved. And not exciting. And hey, they prevent hits. The trifecta of bannability!! The job of a defense is to prevent offense, right? So what’s the basis for banning the shift? It works too well?
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I don’t expect free swinging sluggers like Freddie Freeman or even Rafael Devers to adjust. But if teams start using more hitters like Luis Arraez to beat the shift, I’m ok with it…
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Read Rosenthal’s link provided above by 5Gold. They couldn’t agree on how to wait?
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Why not just send her to Mars? The shock value going from La Jolla to Baltimore might be a bit too much. You should have her transition her way there. Maybe start with 6 months in Topeka or Little Rock first…
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Isn’t fielding in itself a skill? Just because a ball is hit directly at you doesn’t make it an automatic out. (Infield fly situations excepted.) And those analytics just place you in the best area, not where the ball will definitively be hit…
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Pitch clock. Just use the one in the rulebook. Universal DH. Pitchers don’t take hitting seriously, and it does hurt the game. I don’t care about base size. Go wild here. I’m for the International Draft, as it would eliminate a lot (but not all) of the corruption around and exploitation of Dominican 13 and 14 year olds…
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That’s the downside to the shift - it works. But it’s part of the game. And just because Freddie Freeman can’t adjust is no reason to ban it. The first year pitchers threw sliders, I bet hits went down on that pitch, too. Should MLB have banned the slider?
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The nicest area of Baltimore is the Inner Harbor. However, no human being has ever visited this area without being accosted by homeless people…
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Chicago in the house!!
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But what we learned is all of us together matter less than Freddie Freeman…
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So the owners want an international draft badly and presented 3 options to the union. One of them “international draft and no more free agent compensation.” Another one was to set a date in the future and if an international draft could not be worked out, re-open the entire CBA. The players countered with a fourth option - basically a combo of these two. If we can’t work out whatever needs to be worked out for an international draft by a certain date, re-instate draft pick compensation. Sounds reasonable. The owners walked away without discussion. It’s like the owners realized the union was willing to work with them and decided that was just not acceptable…
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See? No unwashed masses…
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Hey at least you guys enjoyed the Astrdome. In Chicago, we’re still paying off land for an Olympic village and we never even hosted the Olympics!!!
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You think people who have accrued enough wealth to own a baseball team actually listen to the unwashed masses?
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Don’t they all have yachts and mistresses and exotic animal zoos to change their moods? I mean, who can stay upset while watching a slow loris?
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My people have spoken!! Only to be put on “ignore”…
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If they did, would there still be a lockout?
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I’d rather see the shift gone, too, but not due to a league wide regulation. Make it go away (or at least get used less) by defeating it. I know this doesn’t always work. NFL teams have been crushing the vaunted “prevent defense” for decades now and exploited it for probably hundreds of game-winning field goals. And you still see it. But maybe not as much. Maybe…
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I will sleep more soundly now…
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That’s pretty odd logic to condone banning the shift…
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Wait?!! What!?!!?
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You might feel differently if you were a Pirates fan…
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Hey I was surprised awhile back when I pointed out the worst players in MLB are better at baseball (not MLB - baseball) than any of us are at anything, and numerous people disagreed…
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Pitch clock, yes. It’s been in the rule book for decades. Why not just enforce it? The shift is unpopular, but it’s just a defensive alignment. It’s a strategy. Are we going to keep banning strategies? Maybe baseball should ban the hit and run play as well? How about MLB also bans having corner infielders guard the lines late in games, too? And infielders “cheating” up the middle for double play depth? These players are also out of position! Ban those strategies!! Why end with just the shift?
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No. The point was the worst players you can think are still closer to being Mike Trout than any of us ever were to them…
