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  1. drewski6
    A walk should be considered a disappointing but acceptable outcome for a star player. Barry Bonds wasnt looking to walk. He took em when he had to. But he wasnt looking for em.
  2. drewski6
    The best way to not strike out is to sit fastball, and jump on the first fastball you get. Pitchers arent going to give you 5 sliders in a row.
  3. drewski6
    Catch a pitcher by surprise thinking they can toss a "get me over" for strike 1. Not here. Swing it early and swing it often. To me, letting a fastball go by in the zone for strike 2, and then waving at a slider low and outside running away for strike 3....Your mess up was strike 2. Jump on em.
  4. drewski6
    Having 2 strikes is a hard place to be, even 3-2. I say, dont let it get to strike 2. Swing early and often.
  5. drewski6
    But thats only strike 3.
  6. drewski6
    Be the bigger dog.
  7. drewski6
    Taking a strike 3, even if you have a high walk total - is not the sign of a good eye. Its the sign of an overly passive approach. I dont like the mindset. Be aggressive and look to eat. Confident. Oh no, I better not swing at a ball is too beta 4 me.
  8. drewski6
    I think he needs to swing more. Im sick of seeing him take strike 2 and even strike 3. One way to avoid a strikeout is to stay ready and jump on a hittable pitch early in the count.
  9. drewski6
    I dont overfocus on K rates, also theres an argument to be had that youd rather have a high k guy hitting first than 2,3,4 becasue you want your contact guys hitting 2,3,4 to move runners along. Id rather see a strikeout with nobody out, nobody on than one when runners are on first and second with no outs.
  10. drewski6
    Guys who are as good as Anthony is, as young as Anthony is - generally do not fail. Maybe there are a couple things that I would like to see Anthony correct before I pencil him in as our franchise player next 10 years (staying healthy, ground-ball rate, some throwing yips) but just because these concerns exist do not mean that he has a high chance for failure (defining failure as less than 30 accumulated career WAR)
  11. drewski6
    And (just to add) he needs to actually beat out other options and not get handed things because his contract (for example, cant block Owen Hull and Justin Gonzales if they surpass him).
  12. drewski6
    And they would find a way to net out something against the number used for the calculation as well, I suspect. It wouldnt be "baseball revenue" it would be "adjusted baseball revenue" to make an already vague concept even more vague. Work your butt off for me now and in return you will get vague future promises (subject to change), seen that movie before.
  13. drewski6
    Right , its intent is 50% gross, teams will skirt it and find a way to apply deductions and it will be 50% of a funny money number which guarantees zilch. If they do 50% gross and allow auditors in maybe.
  14. drewski6
    Agreed that NBA is more star driven, which is why you have such a focus on max contracts - where as in baseball one single player cant effect the game as much. Also, I agree that the size of rosters makes comparison to NBA not apples-to-apples. There may be a few things they can steal from NBA like how you get one sign a year at 20m or under that doesnt apply to any cap/lux tax. But thats big market friendly. Another issue w NBA is its extremely complex. There are salary cap, lux tax line, 1st threshold , 2nd threshold and it takes like a devoted employee to understand it all. Even GMs get hazy on it, haha.
  15. drewski6
    Make no mistake, neither side is going to make any concession due to health of the sport (including parity). Its a deceptive talking point. Both sides are trying to get one thing and one thing only, more for them and less for the other side. Talking about balance and giving teams a chance and fairness is just deception. Age of the grift.
  16. drewski6
    Recent NFL negotiations work under the assumption that the owners have such huge war chests because past deals have been so player unfriendly, that the owners can simply win the game of chicken..... And my hunch is this is giving MLB owners FOMO.
  17. drewski6
    I just dont want to see non guaranteed contracts in the mold of the NFL because they are deceptive by design. Obvs a team and a player agreeing on an incentive deal is different because its upfront and not deceptive.
  18. drewski6
    If we're following the NFL model in terms of broadcasting only, thats prob fine, or at least I dont know enough to take issue. But following the NFL model complete is no bueno. The NFLPA has historically been the weakest of the 4 major sports (certainly MLB and NBA), and is kind of based on trickery. Non guaranteed contracts, big dollars flashed in front of players that theyll never get due to non guaranteed contracts. Funny money. If we follow NFL except for the non-guaranteed contracts and no hard cap, then you may have something. Im not sure why the small market teams would want a hard cap in lieu of penalties to the big spenders that result in big checks to them.
  19. drewski6
    yeah, i hear you. Depends on a few things. But I feel like the bar to leap IKF and Sogard (for 2b) is high because its not like they are killing us....and the bar to leap durbin is even higher cuz hes cemented as an average hitter/elite defender which is a good starter and also lf overflow + Gasper kind of locks up DH (when Contreras comes back). If IKF was done for year and sogard was hitting..181 , I would be more willing to plug in Mead at 2b and cross fingers.
  20. drewski6
    Im not sure Mead beats IKF/Sogard for 2b or Roman/Duran/Gasper/Jones for DH. But Im not against another option if someone struggles or gets hurt.
  21. drewski6
    dont need to rush him cuz we got adley rutschman last night he crushed em
  22. drewski6
    ut oh
  23. drewski6
    original q: whats the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean? your answer: above (the post that this post is replying to) The answer we were looking for: The difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea is that ive never paid to have a garbanzo bean on my face...but i have paid to have .....
  24. drewski6
    pew pew
  25. drewski6
    Try moving from northeast to fresno california and trying to find a good italian food. Im like how do you mess up a pizza. Who made this marinara? Ed Cooley!! (lil throwback for you)
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