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Everything posted by notin
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I believe this 100%. One prime example was Lucas Giolito, who was topping 100mph in high school. You don’t need to throw 100mph to get high school hitters out. But scouts bring radar guns to high school games, and every high school pitcher knows radar gun readings can translate to scholarships or signing bonuses. It did get both for Giolito, but it also got him a TJ surgery before graduation. And once on Real Time, when they were discussing the proliferation of travel baseball, the reporters were talking to parents who were trying to find doctors to perform Tommy John surgery on their healthy high school sons. And they wanted it because it reportedly adds a few mph to the radar gun. (The kicker is it doesn’t “add” velocity, but rather for many pitchers it can restore velocity lost to wear and tear. Not the same thing at all.)
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Exactly. I remember 1994 when Jon Valentin looked completely lost at the plate. On April 30, he was hitting .160 (with a .501 OPS!!). But then he somehow turned it around quick and wound up hitting .306 on the season...
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The Sox are without their ace, so not surprising. But why are you so opposed to them taking chances in a year when they’ve already lost Sale?
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Like Johan Santana and Brad Keller?
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Bullpen games are a waste and probably detrimental to the staff. But using an opener does have a certain sneaky brilliance to it...
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And this is why you are not a GM...
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The “multiple innings” thing is a big part of why I think today’s closers are overrated and pitchers like Gossage are comparatively undervalued. Of course, in building a team today, the specialized closer is a “need” whereas a lights out bullpen workhorse who pitched more innings but in fewer games is a relic from the past...
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Maybe, but the Royals and Rays have been pumping the bullpen and spending less on the rotation for years now. Can you name the best starter from the 2015 World Series champion Royals without looking it up? I bet you can name 4 or 5 relievers from that team faster...
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Does your trash talk earn you syndication money? It’s the same repeats every year. It might be better but the Yankees just refuse to back you up...
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That’s one specific decision not related to team construction or salary negotiation. Are you arguing if Snell stayed in, he’d get paid more?
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Yes, and my hindsight is apparently ahead of your reality.
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By the time he got to “fatter”, I assumed he’d gone all the way back to the days of Babe Ruth and Hippo Vaughn...
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And you already have my answer
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You clearly ignored me on BDC when I was predicting this 10 years ago. It’s not happening exactly as you say, but the Moneyball era tried to find underpaid aspects of the game for poorer teams to capitalize on. First was OBP. Then defense. Then came middle relief, which allowed teams to spend less on the rotation and still be competitive. Tampa and KC have been doing this for a long time...
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Well, it did help that they were pitching exclusively to equally smaller/weaker/slower/fatter white guys. You have to bear in mind that for a long time, the talent pool was not admitting everyone...
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And that is undoubtedly the goal of ownership. Players and agents, however, do not necessarily agree. Really what’s happening now is middle relief pitchers get paid more than they used to. The salaries are adjusting, but not how teams want them to...
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Hey history against pitcher you face a maximum of one time per game is always going to be small. But in his limited history, Mueller was successful against Rivera. In fact, he was very likely the most successful Red Sox hitter against Rivera ever. And in that situation, having him come up with the tying run in scoring position was a very good thing for the Sox. What hitter would you have preferred? Before you answer “Ortiz, obviously”, bear in mind Papi did bat in that inning with two outs and the bases loaded and popped to second...
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I like our staff now that it’s been Weber-Free since 2020...
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No, that’s finances at work. The finances are the reason (good SP costs a lot more than good RP) and the metrics show teams how to make it work...
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Mentioned in the post. Mueller had 12 career PA against Rivera. Not many hitters have a bunch of PA against a closer...
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My point was Mueller owned Rivera like very few other hitters. You know, like the stats showed. Maybe you remember, way back on July 24th, 2004, Bill Mueller launched a 3 run walk off blast off Rivera to jump start the 52-44 Red Sox off to a 46-20 finish to the season. Maybe THAT was Mueller's truly underrated hit?
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I like Cosell because he must have had a sense of humor about himself, often playing unflattering portrayals of himself in Woody Allen movies...
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Oh they aren't going back. But the modern usage has obscured how we view some of the greater relievers from the past because the new kid got more "saves" by being a ninth inning specialist...
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Before my time, although I was well aware of his distinctive voice from "This Week in Baseball". With Harry Carey, it wasn't the drinking and slurring that was the distraction. It was the singing at the 7th inning stretch and the bizarre, off the wall commentary in the middle of an inning. With no prompting, and for no reason he would just say stuff like "Bowa spelled backwards is Awob". To this day, no one still knows why...
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See and sportrac has a different variant. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/boston-red-sox/j.d.-martinez-8690/ I do not think it matters, since there is no way in Fresno he is opting out...
