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his .290 iso ranks 11th among CF in a single season since 2010 judge trout covid acuna josh hamilton george springer covid aj pollock (wtf)

our pitching rotation options

i havent watched every ab but he seems like he doesn't chase in the same way Javy did where you know his brain was making him swing regardless of what or where the pitch was. If anything I expect the adjustment to be pitchers pitching around him instead of challenging him.

have this weird feeling we're gonna torch Greene

i know its just dumb twitter kids getting their heads twisted around in the endless search for online engagement, but i genuinely dont understand it. He definitely is trying to draw fouls, but it just seems so much less grifty than say a Luka or a Jokic who are constantly flopping on non-contact plays in order to get to the line. SGA's thing is putting the defender in a bad position, then waiting until there's contact and embellishing it. We just played Denver in a series where Jokic would basically get tired of being defended, so he would run up the court until he found a stationary defender, then just do this insanely cringey looking swim-move hop into them to try and hook their arms and draw an off-ball foul. We'd go down the court, SGA would blow by his defender, put them in jail and pull up for a jumper, drawing contact and going to the line. And it was SGA's play that everyone was mad about. We got beat by Luka last year while he was doing rip throughs 36 feet away to try and go to the line. A lot of the contact on SGA is marginal but at least they're fouls by the letter of the law. he draws fouls the same way Kobe did, by having too many counters to guard legally. I would like the NBA to maybe direct officials to let a lot of the marginal contact go, especially if the contact is created by the offensive player (even if the defender is out of position) but that's a pretty narrow line to draw so it's probably harder than I'm making it out to be. I think that would stop a lot of the foul-hunting that SGA does and the flopping that these jokic/luka/embiid types employ.

woke up to find my 6 year old had somehow logged into his xbox by himself and spent $200 on xbox dollars. Didn't even phase me! can't touch me the day after a blowout WCF win. Enjoy the fortnite skins bud!

great guy

1 war out of Shaw would count as 4 war because our other options are negative 3 war #boymath

Starting???? i was not a Suzuki head (I got tricked by the injuries my bad) but yeah he’s an awesome dude

Robert has a 69 (nice) wRC so far this year with negative defense to boot. what was it i said about injury prone guys losing it suddenly and never getting it back? Bryant is another even closer-to-home example of this

i wouldnt make this trade personally!

as round as he is there shouldn't be a single rough edge

i dont know if this is a bad thing or just a symptom of society's changing interests but i think it's interesting how fewer and fewer kids seem to care as deeply about actual competitive sports (in the sense of on-field stakes) while growing increasingly interested in meaningless anti-competitive exhibitions like this.

heaney would be a smart pickup

Horton’s goatee signals the official start of white boy summer

what was the dumbass name they came up with for his curveball? I remember some offseason they were like "he's developed an outlaw curveball" or something and i was like well he's winning multiple cy youngs

this is great, the press was wrong on every bears pick! what are the odds?????? thank god this guy is around to set the record straight

Hey what the hell is this guy's ceiling exactly more homers than juan soto more RBI than bryce harper more runs than lindor more sb than anyone besides oneil cruz higher wRC+ than SHOHEI OHTANI oh he has the second-most def WAR in baseball and is a top 5 most fun guy to watch in the league What the horsefeathers do we have on our hands

holy horsefeathers, what a name. had him on my dynasty team like a decade and a half ago, was convinced he was gonna be tom glavine lol

for real though i do think a good amount of the "league's gone" guys are just fans of bad teams that aren't doing it right yet. Like yeah, if I had to watch the suns play for 82 games, i think i'd be like this horsefeathers sucks man too.

I think the impact on spacing of removing the corner 3 would be disastrous and far too impactful to just suddenly deploy in a single offseason

no backboards

i do think they need to possibly do something about the 3s, though i have no idea what that might be and anythin they actually do might end up massively backfiring. But you look at a guy like Anthony Edwards. Physically the most dominant guard since jordan (or i guess lebron if you expand that definition a little.) He can jump higher than anyone, can go through anyone. Has insane body control. But he shot like 14 3s a game this year because he's also a lights out shooter and those are just better, easier shots. Feels like if your league is built in a way that you turn dominique wilkins into reggie miller, there's a problem.