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Everything posted by notin
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There’s no real point in bringing him back, is there?
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The catcher better throw the ball to the side of the bag where the infielder in motion is on stolen base attempts…
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To me, I don’t like the shift but I don’t see the point in doing this. If you think starting next year, every play will start with the infielders lined up like the start of a pitch in Nintendo RBI Baseball, you very likely not only very wrong, the solutions teams implement might make fans miss the shift. Obviously many teams will just push the limits. It’s a shift if my SS is to the right of 2b? Ok he’ll start the play 6 inches to the left of 2b. Perfectly legal. But my fear is some teams will push the limit and execute a “moving shift”. Everyone starts out in a legal position, but once the pitcher goes into his windup, the infielders run into Shift Positions. This would be far, far worse than just having a shift. And you can’t implement a “no moving during the windup” rule as infielders need to on stolen base attempts…
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It does by some logic…
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9/14 Yankems @ SOX 7:10PM ET
notin replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
That we have to go back in time 8 years to watch him pitch? -
As long as they don’t dress like that robot maid on The Jetsons. That’s just creepy…
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Effross was NOT the Cubs’ closer; he was a 28yo career minor leaguer who had 1 career save at the deal and began the season with 14 career IP. (Aside, as I know it wasn’t your point, but there is a 90+% chance Cashman got ripped off here.) I mean, the Sox acquired former actual closer Hansel Robles last year - a pitcher who actually pitched in the majors, and got him for Alex Scherff, a former 5th rounder. This doesn’t make Scherff a better evaluation pick in round five.
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No. The only other GM to do it was Friedman, who brought in utility players from other organizations like Justin Turner, Max Muncy and Chris Taylor and made them all regular starters. Cherington did bust with Hanley in LF, but why is that the example? Especially since I thought he originally brought him in to play 3b, and plans changed with Sandoval. Of course Cherington was also in charge when Mookie Betts switched to OF and signed Napoli to play 1b, so his track record for changing positions isn’t as bad as that one example suggests…
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Your time warp has forgotten that defensively, Holt was a good corner OF and 1b, and pretty bad everywhere else…
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People think Verdugo lacks the arm strength to play RF? If you’re questioning his accuracy, that’s one thing. And potentially valid. But he absolutely has the arm strength for the throws even from Fenway’s RF…
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The problem isn’t the calls they get right. It’s the fans and media belaboring the few they get wrong. It seems like it only takes one or two bad strike calls for someone to think the umpire odd bad, or worse, biased…
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Wells is absolutely “raking” with a .847 OPS in AA at age 22? Normally I’d think that’s very good, but I’m rethinking that position because the “top heavy” Sox farm system has a 21yo Cedanne Rafaela with a .841OPS in AA, and he’s just not on that list of two prospects you said are carrying the Sox system…
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I think you mean the Cardinals. The Cardinals are hackers. The Astros are just trash can bangers…
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I do really really hope we start hearing chants like “Kill the software engineer!!” Or “The umpire needs new high speed multi-focal Gorilla Glass lenses!!”
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9/14 Yankems @ SOX 7:10PM ET
notin replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
No kidding. They were 113 and 107 mph. Let’s not pretend that’s a routine play for anyone… -
The only other interpretation is the author doesn’t think Cora is a good manager…
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It actually also shows how surprisingly good some umpires are at that part of their job…
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That’s actually NOT the analytics approach. In fact, that’s the approach of Old School GMs.
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No one worries if Henry has to pay a tax. Some folks just acknowledge he won’t always do it, and history has backed them up on this repeatedly…
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Noah Song, too…
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The problem is sure, you find and good through more trash than gems. But this is also how the Sox got Schreiber, who has been a legitimate gem. But more important the Sox have found dirt cheap serviceable pitchers like Kelly and Danish this way. Certainly no one gets worked up over these guys, but pulling them off the minimum wage scrap heap leaves an extra $5-10 mill in the budget to fill other holes…
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You replied while I was fixing them…
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Here’s the thing that keeps getting ignored or (intentionally?) omitted. The whole Robot Ump thing isn’t going to replace a single umpire. There will still be umpires on the bases making safe/out and fair/foul calls. There will still be an umpire at home plate making the same calls, but also relaying ball and strike calls he receives in his earpiece. Also, occasionally overriding them in the event a batter swings at a ball. Calling balls and strikes is insanely difficult. An umpire has to decide if a ball traveling 95mph touches any part of an invisible (to use Illinois Sox fan’s fans description) pentagonal prism of varying height. I’m ok giving them help. We all saw hand signs used for our entire lives. And even acknowledged that stealing sound was part of the game. But has the use of the transmission equipment to call pitches ruined the game for anyone? I don’t recall a single complaint, despite this being a much bigger change to the game than automating ball and strike calls…
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What about all the companies that made stop watches?
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Lol Familia is hardly the problem with the Sox; he’s been on the team for only a few weeks. Maybe you haven’t watched your team in the middle of the biggest collapse in MLB history?
