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Everything posted by notin
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It’s stupid. If you want to see your younger players, get them on the 25 man roster. If you have to release a couple guys and kickoff their free agency a month early, so be it...
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But bringing the DH to the NL doesn’t require any sort of realignment like inter league play justified. To justify realigning everything because there is a DH in the NL is just opportunism combined with “change for the sake of change”...
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Of course, by message board law, I did have to throw this back at you because I did once use player testimony that did not agree with your beliefs, so you in turn used some of his playing experiences to disqualify him as any type of expert. I’d say we both should know by now, Mark Wohlers knows more about closing games than either of us are even capable of learning...
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Well the Stang/Schwarzenegger thing made it appear to be an overall generality, even though it was also a funny joke about Arnold Stang and his physique...
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AL East, AL Central and AL West are NOT regional? Baseball started this process in 1961 and re-aligned again in 1994 and (in a limited fashion) again in 2013...
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This is very true. In fact almost all MLB managers are former major leaguers, and those who aren’t are former minor leaguers. Most of them are former catchers, for obvious reasons. But this actually doesn’t support your initial supposition that non-players don’t know the game...
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Now who’s moving the goal posts? You expressed a lack of faith in Speier as a baseball writer because he hadn’t played the game. That had nothing to do with being an MLB manager...
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I hate that idea, and I’m the guy railing against the pointless strategy of the LOOGY. How about 1) enforcing existing rules for pitching time between pitches and 2) stop the stupid practice of roster expansion, which gives teams 12-14 man bullpens for a full month? (I’m looking at you, Bruce Bochy.)
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While probably true for some CF, that becomes a bit subjective and impossible to prove, especially since it operates on the assumption everyone plays CF starting in the same spot...
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Can we be traditional just this once?
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And you might get excited when JBJ makes a great play. But when he runs a long way and still makes the catch look routine, do you stand up and shout “Way to make that out of zone grab!!!”?
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I’m ok with that...
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Playoff formatting? You can’t have an AL champion and an NL champ without an AL and an NL. Both the AFC and the NFC play with the same rules yet maintain division. Both the East and West conferences of the NBAhave the same rules, too. Even the AL and NL played with the same rules from 1903 to 1972...
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It is. Leon, for example, might grade put as an excellent pitch framer. And this may help the Sox pitchers steal a few strikes and win a few games. But who gets excited to watch pitch framing?
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Not sure how slugging percentage is a percentage...
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Maybe he needs to get fatter? And honestly, do you think he really weighs 225?
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Leon appears to be the least talented overall and certainly the least popular. But that also makes him the least likely to get anything in a trade. What’s any team going to give up for one year of a $2.75mill defense-oriented catcher who can hit his own weight, but not much better?
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Yes. You get Jerry DiPoto...
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Yes. He is averaging 56.2 bases per 100 at bats. Where as a .320 hitter is getting a hit in 32 percent of his at bats...
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I really don’t see the difference in that and the movement a couple years ago to limit the starter to 4 or 5 IP and then bring in the bulllpen. I know using the opener, he gets to face the top of the order, but then when you’re using Ryne Stanek, is this really an advantage?
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Now you have to spin all that back into the “only the players are experts” context of the argument...
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And where do storks come into play here?
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I would say “we really need a better ace” is correct. But also more cumbersome...
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If a player is slugging .562, what is that 56.2% of?
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Very possible...
