General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread

[Transmogrified Tiger]

wow congrats to an all-time great

 

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[CubinNY]

Awful

[jersey cubs fan]

[NOLA]

Love this. I wish we were good again and had things like this.

 

[Ding Dong Johnson]

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[Bertz]

 

O's are comin'

[SouthSideRyan]

The Tigers and White Sox have not used the same lineup twice this season.

[woodchip2153]

The Tigers and White Sox have not used the same lineup twice this season.

 

Wouldn't it be more unusual for two different teams to use the same lineup? :stickman:

[We Got The Whole 9]

Cease is on an Jake run right now. In his last 14 starts, 8 have been scoreless and the other 6 he's allowed just 1 ER.

 

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[UMFan83]

 

 

They're also 16-16 in the playoffs since 1984 lol.

[Clem Fandango]

[PackLandVA]

Drew Rasmussen has a perfect game for the Rays thru 8 innings on only 79 piches.

[PackLandVA]

First pitch of the 9th is a rocket down the third base line for a double. Perfect no-no is over.

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

[Bertz]

 

The placement of off-days is really horsefeathering weird. I'm assuming that's still reverberations from the lockout? Seems to disproportionately hurt the Yankees and Astros though, so I won't complain.

[soccer10k]

So in the LDS there’s no off day between G4 and G5 and in the LCS there’s no off day between G5 and G6 which means they play 5 straight days.

 

That’s definitely odd. Has to be to get the WS games played on specific days, right?

 

Plus there’s a weird off day between G1 and G2 of the ALDS.

[Derwood]

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[Bertz]

 

Very good news from a labor perspective. The Angels I believe have never passed the luxury tax. Even if the new owner is more PTR and less Steve Cohen, it should still result in more money in players' pockets.

 

Also feels like this will push the Angels into having an impactful offseason, TBD whether that's a teardown or a build up

[SpongeWorthy]

 

this seems like damn near the best possible outcome

[Cubswin11]

 

this seems like damn near the best possible outcome

I’d still like to know why they think shortening games will bring in more viewers. It also shortens the commercial/ad time, so that’s a revenue loser. I don’t buy there’s x thousands or y millions of people out there that will watch or attend more baseball over games being 20-30 min shorter.

[Cubswin11]

 

Very good news from a labor perspective. The Angels I believe have never passed the luxury tax. Even if the new owner is more PTR and less Steve Cohen, it should still result in more money in players' pockets.

 

Also feels like this will push the Angels into having an impactful offseason, TBD whether that's a teardown or a build up

They aren’t over the LT this year with Trout, Rendon, Ohtani, Upton and Pujols on the books? And they never hit it with that period of Wilson, Upton, Hamilton, Pujols, Trout overlap?

[Andy]

 

this seems like damn near the best possible outcome

I’d still like to know why they think shortening games will bring in more viewers. It also shortens the commercial/ad time, so that’s a revenue loser. I don’t buy there’s x thousands or y millions of people out there that will watch or attend more baseball over games being 20-30 min shorter.

The commercial breaks are in the same spots they always are - between innings and pitching changes - so I don't think that part's an issue. Like you, I remain skeptical that casual fans are waiting to watch baseball in droves if the games are two and a half hours 162 times a year instead of three, but as long as the actual gameplay isn't being negatively affected I'm not against it.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

 

Very good news from a labor perspective. The Angels I believe have never passed the luxury tax. Even if the new owner is more PTR and less Steve Cohen, it should still result in more money in players' pockets.

 

Also feels like this will push the Angels into having an impactful offseason, TBD whether that's a teardown or a build up

They aren’t over the LT this year with Trout, Rendon, Ohtani, Upton and Pujols on the books? And they never hit it with that period of Wilson, Upton, Hamilton, Pujols, Trout overlap?

 

Looks like it: https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/al-west/los-angeles-angels/

 

Trout's megadeal didn't start til 2019, so Rendon/Ohtani and Wilson/Hamilton kinda netted out. Plus they've been so bad at player dev they're never paying much in the way of arb salaries that sneakily boosts payroll up.