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  1. notin
    Cobb would tell you he’d still be the best player today…
  2. notin
    “Ball one!”
  3. notin
    A pitcher can’t get two blown saves in one game. Unless you go play a position for an inning while your team retained the lead. Once he blew the first save, he was in line for a win or loss…
  4. notin
    It was the fifth run in a 5-4 game. It didn’t feel so important at the time, but it wound up being the difference. But it’s never had the proper significance attached to it…
  5. notin
    I think so, too. Not even sure if giving them a year to adjust makes that much difference. If only it was so easy...
  6. notin
    Yes and no. Mays and Robinson's plays were great, but in this exit velocity/launch angle era, we are seeing harder hit balls with less time to react for a defender. This not only comes from better hitter mechanics, but also the increase in pitching velocity, which means more kinetic energy to the pitched ball. If a faster pitched ball gets barreled, it becomes a faster hit ball, simply because that energy cannot be destroyed. That is, unless some hitter goes all Roy Hobbs on that ball and just pounds it into a scattered pile of leather and twine...
  7. notin
    The expanded players gets more teams in, but we still just crown one winner. It makes the path through the post-season tougher, but also includes those teams whose sole flaw before that they just happened to play in a division with one better team. I hate seeing good teams eliminated solely based on geography....
  8. notin
    Without that year, what would you say?
  9. notin
    Part of his point is they didn't have them. Of course, they didn't have a lot of things as well, like a complete talent pool made of more than just mid-sized white guys. Even if you want to argue the best players were comparable to today's best, the back end of those players is much worse, even with the league being nearly one half the size. That's probably a big part of the reason more players hit .400 back then, while also facing more pitchers with sub-2.00 ERAs...
  10. notin
    So who do you think wins 7 game series - the 2023 Oakland A's (50-112) or the Big Red Machine?
  11. notin
    And yet they will somehow still be in the postseason hunt come September...
  12. notin
    He got beat by a Hall of Famer. That game never happens without the season Stanley had. How many pitchers get 13 wins in relief in one season? While leading the team in saves as well?
  13. notin
    The Dent and Pinella highlights have been played to death, but no one ever talks about Reggie Jackson, whose home run was the actual difference in that game…
  14. notin
    How about the names I mentioned earlier? The Marlins didn’t deal Zac Gallen because he was down to 2+ years until arbitration…
  15. notin
    You should see how easy it was to trade for Pablo Lopez. Not when Minnesota did it; when Miami did…
  16. notin
    That’s BS. It’s spending that makes the time tight. Not the other way around…
  17. notin
    Reportedly they were nothing players, which was why abloom turned it down…
  18. notin
    I tried using my Ouija Board. No dice so far…
  19. notin
    Some teams just deal them to complete trades. Like how the Sox got Pivetta, Fitts, Winckowski, Sandlin and Judice…
  20. notin
    46 years. That 1978 rotation with Eck, Tiant, Lee and Torrez was king. Not that s***** 1974 rotation with Tiant, Lee, Reggie DH
  21. notin
    Yes. My influence with Breslow is strong…
  22. notin
    First of all, it was seven off the top of my head. Was I supposed to name every young pitcher who was traded to disprove that no young pitchers get traded? Second, there are two philosophies with young pitchers. Some teams E absolutely do like to keep them. But others don’t mind dealing them because they pan out at a much lower rate than position players. I only named pitchers who have panned out; the list of high profile pitching prospects that didn’t and got traded is much, much larger…
  23. notin
    There's also some fun reports that they treat their minor leaguers worse than every other organization...
  24. notin
    Questioning everyhting I say? https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2023/09/15/red-sox-turn-down-chris-sale-trade/ (Subscription required) https://www.sportskeeda.com/baseball/news-fact-check-did-chaim-bloom-refuse-trade-chris-sale-exploring-details-controversial-move-focused-on-injured-star And probably other better sources if you ever Google it...
  25. notin
    Until this year, it is hard to argue Trout had a weak lineup around him. Ohtani did win two MVP awards to go with Trout's three (along with four other second place finishes). The Angels have struggled mightily to get a good pitching staff, largely due to a weak farm system and some very questionable free agent signings. It seems like the only free agent SPs they pay heavily for are ones coming off one good season after several seasons of mediocrity or worse. That's simply a bad strategy...
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