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I'm an idiot. Do we think something nefarious could increase a player's barrel rate? It seems like that's cheat proof but we've learned pretty much nothing is

 

Knowing what’s coming would increase your barrel rate. And no I’m not suggesting they’re cheating.

I knew I was right to call myself an idiot, I was thinking of manipulation of the physical bats and not about sign-stealing type stuff.

 

lol it would be way cooler if they figured out a way to horsefeathers with the bats though

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Knowing what’s coming would increase your barrel rate. And no I’m not suggesting they’re cheating.

I knew I was right to call myself an idiot, I was thinking of manipulation of the physical bats and not about sign-stealing type stuff.

 

lol it would be way cooler if they figured out a way to horsefeathers with the bats though

 

You can't create a bigger sweet spot on the bat due to the physics, but some people think corking helps with elasticity making the wood behave more like aluminum.

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"He should have ran," Baker said after the game. "Back in our day, the next guy would have gotten drilled."

 

"The way you keep it from happening [is] don't let him hit a ball over the fence, too," Showalter said.

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How has Tony LaRussa not been fired yet? Obviously we all know the answer, but 29 other teams would have fired him already. The White Sox are wasting a prime opportunity in their competitive window, all because of Reinsdorf's unjustified loyalty to a crusty old manager who has no business leading an MLB team.
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Lol, Mike Trout caught his pitcher tipping pitches last night against the Sox. The problem is no one told the pitcher until after the game.
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I mean he should be barred from being an agent if that’s true. That’s negligence regardless but especially if the player was wanting to sign/stay somewhere and he never was told about an offer and guided to a different spot.

 

What would be Close’s motivation for doing this? Some sort of collusion with LA? The two offers were pretty similar (I’ve heard when factoring in taxes, Atlanta’s was more) so it’s not like he’d get some sort of huge bump in commission for the deal.

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I mean he should be barred from being an agent if that’s true. That’s negligence regardless but especially if the player was wanting to sign/stay somewhere and he never was told about an offer and guided to a different spot.

 

What would be Close’s motivation for doing this? Some sort of collusion with LA? The two offers were pretty similar (I’ve heard when factoring in taxes, Atlanta’s was more) so it’s not like he’d get some sort of huge bump in commission for the deal.

 

Yeah maybe getting kickbacks from the Dodgers for steering him that way?

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The only innocuous explanation that makes sense to me is Close sticking to an arbitrary timeframe in the name of not being seen as a pushover. E.g. Freddie says he wants to make his choice on Day X, Close tells teams final offers due by 5 PM on Day X-1, on Day X-1 at 7 PM Braves say wait we found more money under the couch cushions, Close says no too bad we gave you a deadline and it passed.
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The only innocuous explanation that makes sense to me is Close sticking to an arbitrary timeframe in the name of not being seen as a pushover. E.g. Freddie says he wants to make his choice on Day X, Close tells teams final offers due by 5 PM on Day X-1, on Day X-1 at 7 PM Braves say wait we found more money under the couch cushions, Close says no too bad we gave you a deadline and it passed.

 

That sounds like Close not wanting to sound like a pushover and does nothing for Freeman at all. It would once again be an agent acting in his own best interest over his client's.

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The only innocuous explanation that makes sense to me is Close sticking to an arbitrary timeframe in the name of not being seen as a pushover. E.g. Freddie says he wants to make his choice on Day X, Close tells teams final offers due by 5 PM on Day X-1, on Day X-1 at 7 PM Braves say wait we found more money under the couch cushions, Close says no too bad we gave you a deadline and it passed.

 

That sounds like Close not wanting to sound like a pushover and does nothing for Freeman at all. It would once again be an agent acting in his own best interest over his client's.

 

Most likely yes, but there's probably shades of gray. What if in my example it's actually 1 AM on Day X that the final offer comes from Atlanta, as one hypothetical. The idea is that in order for Close to reflect his client's wishes(in this case on decision timing), he may have to create ultimately arbitrary limits to ensure all the logistics are in order, and that creates room for there to technically be a time where Atlanta sends an offer(whether that's a detailed contract or a text message with years/dollars) that is after that limit but before Freeman deciding or signing with LA.

 

Or maybe he's getting a kickback from the Dodgers. I'm mostly just thinking out loud.

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