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  1. TruffleShuffle
    plus maybe the parent organizations could chip in a little cash to cover financial losses by the league from playing games in the morning/early afternoon. all i know is that it can't be great for player development to lose 10-15 games a year due to weather and have a handful of other games shortened to 7 innings.
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    I'm guessing they do make some money from ticket sales. They just lose out on walk-up sales and in-game concessions. don't they have to give people their money back when the game doesn't get played?
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    yeah obviously those starts aren't ideal in terms of getting an attendance, but it's better than continually scheduling games for a time when they'll never be played. at least if the game gets played, some people will turn up and spend money. dunedin is getting $0 from all these games with daytona being canceled.
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    starlin castro is playing the game the wrong way.
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    so what is this about? not too thrilled about two of the top four picks being placed on the DL.
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    it would be funny if sano/lindor turn into perennial all stars while baez is a bust, then parks joins nsbb just to troll kyle. well not funny for us, but funny in a "not-a-cub-fan" kind of way.
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    one could easily take the position that baez' performance to date in AA is not representative of his true ability. i say "easily" because he's never hit this well at any level, and the sample size is small enough that it could just be an insane hot streak at the right time. people tend to go overboard both when someone is in the midst of a hot streak and when he's in a wretched slump.
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    yeah, daytona is gonna be rained out. can't believe it didn't work out for them to keep rescheduling games to be played at the time of day when it always rains during the summer. :roll: shouldn't the FSL build in some flexibility to its schedule, so that one end of a doubleheader can be played at 9 or 10am when the weather is usually fine?
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    3 years $30m, final offer!
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    i don't know why parks is responding to trolling from sulley and kyle.
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    it's hard to really evaluate and say "well hey look what baez is doing to AA, he's better than sano/lindor/etc" because he's had fewer than 200 plate appearances, and he's always been pretty streaky. it's quite possible (likely?) that he's just happening to spend some time in AA when he's on an insane hot streak. what i do know is that i've always read that if he starts to get his game under control, then he'd take off really quickly. well, the walk rate is up, the k rate is falling, the power is up, and the errors are down. so maybe it's just a hot month or two, but it also quite possibly could be the switch flipping for a guy with top-notch physical talent.
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    astros sign mexican slugger who makes vogelbach look svelte http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1xrsoNaw31qb0ctno1_1280.png
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    When I first read the original question, Jim Brown was the first name that popped into my head. It's pretty interesting that football doesn't have a clear standout like the other three.
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    because theoretically he might have accumulated more hits than any player in the 130 year history of major league baseball? that's way more interesting than most of the boring stuff you post about.
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    Does that include his high school totals? Probably better pad those in, too. it's a pretty easy argument that he'd actually have more than 4,000 hits if he'd played in the US instead of japan from age 19. Paging abuck page abuck all you want. he averaged 227 hits per year from age 27-33 in major league baseball. if you extrapolate that rate to his age 20-26 seasons in japan, he'd be somewhere around 4,350. they play a month less baseball per season in japan, which matters a lot.
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    that was a pretty pathetic comment by oscar. like it or not, a lot of latin american players have been busted for lying about their ages, and the rumor has always been there with pujols. i can't think of a single american-born player who was found to be lying about his age.
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    smokies' magic number will be 5 if they win tonight, with 11 games left to play. more baez/alcantara/villanueva = good.
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    that sucks. would've been great to end his night with a 2-run double. still, 4-4 with 2 homers and 5 rbi is okay.
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    it's not a given that bogaerts will be graduated. he needs 130 major league at bats and currently has 4.
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    i think sulley is right, we never get adam laroche out.
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    announcer said it was a low breaking ball and it didn't even look like he hit it all that well. tied for 5th in the league in home runs and he's played 43 games at that level, lol.
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    another home run for baez. \:D/
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    wtg cubs.
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    Does that include his high school totals? Probably better pad those in, too. it's a pretty easy argument that he'd actually have more than 4,000 hits if he'd played in the US instead of japan from age 19.
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    things are getting too optimistic. alberto cabrero had another very pathetic relief outing (1 inning, 5 hits, 4 runs, 1 walk, 1 k)
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