General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[NOLA]

Never seen this before, but this is awesome and needs to happen more often.

 

 

*after Covid, of course.

[Clem Fandango]

I get that Baseball-Reference is a high traffic website that needs ads in order to stay afloat since it's not a profit-generating entity, but the sheer volume of ads I've been getting on the site lately, even with an adblocker ON, is absurd. I've got 8 ads on the page right now, and my AdBlocker continually keeps blocking ads as the page remains on the screen. It has blocked 272 ads on Baseball-Reference. oh, 283 now, it goes up when you scroll through the page. 315 now. The ads that do squeak through make the user experience horrible. I go to click on something and it keeps moving around the page because ads keep loading and shifting it all over the place.

 

What the horsefeathers, BR? 350 ads now.

[Bertz]

[champaignchris]

I get that Baseball-Reference is a high traffic website that needs ads in order to stay afloat since it's not a profit-generating entity, but the sheer volume of ads I've been getting on the site lately, even with an adblocker ON, is absurd. I've got 8 ads on the page right now, and my AdBlocker continually keeps blocking ads as the page remains on the screen. It has blocked 272 ads on Baseball-Reference. oh, 283 now, it goes up when you scroll through the page. 315 now. The ads that do squeak through make the user experience horrible. I go to click on something and it keeps moving around the page because ads keep loading and shifting it all over the place.

 

What the horsefeathers, BR? 350 ads now.

 

It’s ok on my phone. It’s unreadable on my cpu. You can’t click on anything because the whole screen moves every time an ad pops up.

[UMFan83]

Not sure which thread to put this in, so ill just throw it here. Tonight is a sports equinox - aka a day where MLB, NBA, NHL and NFL all have meaningful games. This has only happened in 21 days ever. Guessing there will be a few more added in the coming weeks, but pretty cool after having absolutely 0 sports for several months.

[Bertz]

[Brian]

The division winners pick their opponent idea was goofy, but actually looking at the playoff scenarios now and the current set-up is not exactly favorable to the 1 & 2 seeds. With the Current set-up the 3 Seed faces the 6 seed, which is the the lowest division winner against the lowest the lowest 2nd place finisher. As is the case in both leagues currently and I imagine it would be in most seasons (if played under this format) the 6th seed is going to be the worst team (record wise) in the tournament.

 

Should have seeded 4-8 by record, that still sets up the scenario where the 1 seed would probably face the team with the 2nd best record in the 2nd round but that isn't any different that what happened in the prior wild card scenarios.

[bukie]

The division winners pick their opponent idea was goofy, but actually looking at the playoff scenarios now and the current set-up is not exactly favorable to the 1 & 2 seeds. With the Current set-up the 3 Seed faces the 6 seed, which is the the lowest division winner against the lowest the lowest 2nd place finisher. As is the case in both leagues currently and I imagine it would be in most seasons (if played under this format) the 6th seed is going to be the worst team (record wise) in the tournament.

 

Should have seeded 4-8 by record, that still sets up the scenario where the 1 seed would probably face the team with the 2nd best record in the 2nd round but that isn't any different that what happened in the prior wild card scenarios.

 

In the NL, the 6 seed has a better record than the 7 and 8 seeds. It's only in the AL that the 6 seed is worse.

[Brian]

ah, well by winning percentage but the Cardinals (current 6) have the lease amount of wins.

 

What really made me think about it is I'd much rather the Cubs get the 3 seed than the 2 seed as I'd rather face the Cardinals than the wild card team that gets the 7 seed.

[bukie]

ah, well by winning percentage but the Cardinals (current 6) have the lease amount of wins.

 

What really made me think about it is I'd much rather the Cubs get the 3 seed than the 2 seed as I'd rather face the Cardinals than the wild card team that gets the 7 seed.

Personally, I'd rather see the Marlins/Giants/Rockies/Phillies/Brewers/Reds/Mets than the Cardinals for even more games at Wrigley.

[Cubswin11]

Cohen is a POS but MLB thumbing their nose at an uber billionaire who can literally write a check for the team in favor of another ownership group that will be leveraged up the ass seems like smart policy for long term growth.

 

[Andy]

Like all other owners, if MLB has assurances from Cohen that he wants to make buckets of money off the team more than he wants to win (i.e. he won't go crazy into the luxury tax), he'll be approved, and if not, he won't.

[Cubswin11]

Um, why would the MLBPA have agreed to this???? Tony Clarke is horsefeathering useless.

 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I haven't thought the consequences all the way through, but that strikes me as something that may be unfair across players(e.g. Bryant v. Happ), but ultimately not a negative on the whole for the player pool. For a point of comparison, last year there were 12 hearings, the combined difference between player asks and team offers was 10.5 million, and players won 5 of those hearings.

[squally1313]

The replies to that tweet make it seem like that was a broad interpretation, and the actual tweak is that they aren't allowing counting stats to be considered, because obviously, which actually helps the players.

[17 Seconds]

altuve- .221/.288/.315

bregman- .263/.368/.465

correa- .269/.341/.389

springer- .240/.343/.487

gurriel- .260/.304/.445

[PackLandVA]

altuve- .221/.288/.315

bregman- .263/.368/.465

correa- .269/.341/.389

springer- .240/.343/.487

gurriel- .260/.304/.445

 

 

 

Not an Astro, but don’t forget Yelich. He’s struggling without fans “distraction” in the stands.

[Cubswin11]

If Cohen is going to go be hyper aggressive, trade Theo for some stuff

 

[jersey cubs fan]

If Cohen is going to go be hyper aggressive, trade Theo for some stuff

 

I wouldn’t trust the TD Ameritrade guys dealing with Point72.

[Clem Fandango]

I know everyone more or less hates Trevor Bauer, but his Bauer Bytes series on his Momentum youtube channel is great. It's just baseball players sharing stories and talking shop. It's like Dinner for Five but for baseball and I kinda love it.

[NOLA]

 

Maybe my bias is clouding my judgement, but...no. Just no way he’s a HOF manager, right?

[Rob]

 

Maybe my bias is clouding my judgement, but...no. Just no way he’s a HOF manager, right?

 

He should get in the Hall of Fame.

 

He's currently 15th all-time in manager wins. 1,892 with a .532 winning percentage. And the next most wins for a non-white manager is Frank Robinson in 56th place with 1,065. The only guys ahead of him on the list who aren't in the HoF are Bruce Bochy (who just left the Giants last year) and Gene Mauch, who had a pretty rough .483 winning percentage.

 

And for as much crap as Dusty deservedly got during his time with the Cubs after his complaints about walks "clogging the bases" and his tendency to overwork his pitchers -- he's seemingly learned his lessons. Too little, too late for the Cubs of course. But while he isn't a cutting-edge sort of manager he seems perfectly willing to adjust his game as he learns more -- albeit he remains a few years behind the curve most of the time. It's not like he's still out there routinely throwing his pitchers 120+ pitches a game, though.

 

When you factor in his long career, Dusty Baker has been a notable part of baseball for north of 50 years. And he may have invented the high five. You can't keep a guy like that out of the Hall forever.

[Bertz]

[Bertz]

[soccer10k]

 

I feel like this is a good time to point out that Dusty has a sterling postseason record when his team has a chance to close out a series.