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Everything posted by notin

  1. They might be more valuable than 6 years of Seabold...
  2. Do you really think having Lester would have given any pause to Dombrowski when it came to signing Price? He did still go out and get Sale, after all..
  3. Well, we would have missed out on Allen Craig...
  4. I'd rather get the next Mullens than the current one. I agree he does seem lie he just had a great year and might not be so likely to have more. His BABIP last year and the shortened versions of 2020 give e a little cause for alarm...
  5. There really isn't enough of an upgrade justify giving up too many other pieces to get Mountcastle...
  6. Do Duran, Downs and Seabold really all have 18 years combined? It's not the given you think it is...
  7. Point? Think it will stop the conspiracy theories? Not like any of them have ever been based on logic or evidence...
  8. Yes, we could upgrade all the way to the .796 OPS of Mountcastle from the .792 OPS of Dalbec. Is Mountcastle any more of a guarantee to repeat?
  9. Sure. nothing makes game more exciting than watching an umpire ruin your teams season by giving the opponent a fwe extra walks and outs. and the thrill of complaining about it! And the conspiracy theories that ensue. I mean, who doesn't get thrilled by reading all those "The league doesn't want the Yankees to advance" posts?
  10. It's both. They can't get a good angle and the ball is just moving faster and faster. It's just too tough for umpires to be consistent and correct...
  11. I meant who are the Skins. No such team...
  12. I honestly see no reason to protect Ward. He's out until probably at least August, if not beyond. Any team selecting him would have to keep him on the active roster until 1 year after the date when he returns to being an active pitcher again, which puts his "get to keep him" date in late 2023 at the earliest. That seems like a pretty big commitment for a guy with 8 IP above A ball. Certainly there will be other teams with more intriguing and less injured pitching prospects available for the Rule 5 Draft...
  13. And the Sox stil have Casas knocking on the door. They shouldn't count on him, of course, but he also shouldn't be forgotten about. And Dalbec was second (behind Jr. Vlad) in OPS among all AL 1B after June 10. That includes Mountcastle. Is this even an upgrade?
  14. It could easily be seamless, assuming the um,pire behind the plate (who has to be there, since robot umps only do balls and strikes and NOT plays at the plate) would still be the one relaying the call to the viewers. He just does't have to perform the impossible taks of deciding whether or not a ball traveling at close to 100mph from maybe 50-55 feet away touched any part of an invisible box. Instead, he gets feedback from an automated system. Maybe if MLB had fewer pitchers capable of throwing 100mph, like they used to, this job would be easier. But they don't and it isn't...
  15. They automate the cooking process. Many robots view them as ancestors. If you disagree, take it up with HAL...
  16. Some say there will be Robot GMs who will find the phrase “hot stove” to be offensive (as they do all machine and appliance-based imagery) and instead will call the same period of the off season “human asset redistribution.” And it all started with robot umps…
  17. I don’t think you were watching The Twilight Zone. Maybe just Twilight?
  18. Changes in baseball are inevitable, robot umps or not. Not sure why this particular change is so upsetting, especially since it would most likely be unnoticeable. Not like adding a DH. Or watching player salaries spiral out of control…
  19. The real problem with big multi year deals is you’re on the hook for the entire deal. Going by how Bloom handled last off-season is meaningless, since the Sox still have one of the highest payrolls in MLB. The Tampa North crowd lives in a world where your only as good as your biggest contract. They seem to forget that while Bloom didn’t blow payroll into uncharted waters, he did absolutely spend as much as he was allowed to. Right up to that luxury tax line…
  20. Bang those cans!
  21. Hey I’ll take one James Joyce over an army of Angel Hernandez’s and Joe West’s….
  22. Then stop asking me to BCC you on them!
  23. Just like the old Motorola policy of always laying off the bottom 10%…
  24. No, my phone calls with him are very rational. The same cannot be said about my texts and emails...
  25. At least he admitted his error. Errors are inevitable. Admission isn’t…
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