Banedon
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Everything posted by Banedon
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Absolutely, but probably much less so for local home announcers on a national broadcast, getting to talk up their team, their city, their ballpark.
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Random idea that won't ever happen...let the home tv announcers for the ASG host ballpark call the home run derby.
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Not to be the fun killer here, but it's because that account largely, and purposely highlights those posts that are bad at spelling/grammar.
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Lots of speculation that Girardi is the top candidate for the job...but if so...why fire Matheny? They basically have the same old school, no fun, managerial style.
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Astros would be the one I'd like to see. Battle of the last two WS winners.
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Grant Brisbee, National Treasure. [tweet] [/tweet]
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i actually hate the format change i'd prefer they not rush so they can launch as many majestic dongs as possible Always seemed like the old format led to the guys being tired by the last round though.
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https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/dewitt-still-believes-cardinals-are-playoff-caliber-club/article_4983f05d-ac20-535e-99a4-b79226b085ff.html Bernie Miklasz translates... https://www.101sports.com/2018/07/13/what-did-bill-dewitt-jr-mean-by-that-lets-plug-in-the-dewitt-decoder/
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It's almost as though betting odds don't mean squat.
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Oooouuuuuchhhh https://youtu.be/CiXquXIY-gY
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Who cares if we have fewer roll over GBs to infielders? It's not just that. MLB hitters are talking about how it's getting harder and harder to get base hits and just put the ball in play now. Defensive shifts, better and more detailed scouting reports, probably better catcher framing/presentation hurts them as well. Right now, offense is fine but I'm worried about down the road if they ever solve this "juiced ball" paradox then HRs should correspondingly drop. I can see strikeouts keep rising to new crazy high levels if pitchers keep throwing harder. I don't see this trend of pitchers throwing harder letting up. But there's been no noticeable downward trend in OBP or runs scored. So I'm not convinced that there's really some grand effect on offense. I'll be worried when that data points to some other offensive stat decrease.
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Say it out loud please. That data means nothing on its own.
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I'm worried by this growing trend. Right now I'm not that worried, but if pitchers keep adding velocity and hitters keep striking out at a higher rate something will have to be done down the road. I really don't want to lower the mound or push it back. I think instituting an automated strike zone that calls balls/strikes far more accurately (hopefully 99%) will help alleviate the problem, but then again I could be wrong. I believe an automated strike zone will favor offense and hurt pitchers. What are you worried will happen?
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Why do you think that's smart for them? Seems like you'd be able to get more trading them at a deadline than over the winter when there's more free agent options. And the Mets aren't a threat to anyone. I don’t think they should trade them at all. They have them for 3-4 more years, hope they sync up with health/performance over that span to be competitive, if you have 2 guys pitching at 5-6+ WAR pace you can compete with suboptimal performance elsewhere. Seems like there would be more teams in on them during the offseason the during the season too, if they decide to move them. The top end FA pitching market sucks this offseason too. Completely disagree. The Mets are garbage. They haven't been able to keep pitching healthy in basically forever. There's no reason to expect that will suddenly change. And even so, they have a trash offense. They'd be better off going the full rebuild route, imo.
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Why do you think that's smart for them? Seems like you'd be able to get more trading them at a deadline than over the winter when there's more free agent options. And the Mets aren't a threat to anyone.
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Yeah, not real sure there's a lot of conclusions to be taken from that.
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Looks like the format change started in 2015.
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Q has a 3.00 ERA and decent peripherals if you take out his first 4 starts. I haven't been worried about him. Is Hendricks' velo ok? He had a rough patch there but was electric in his last start. Hendricks' issues weren't really about velocity though. It was about location. viewtopic.php?p=277343#p277343
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I'm being way too picky about Quintana but I'd like to see him pitch deeper into games. He's only pitched more than 6 innings twice in 18 starts this year. I dunno maybe part of it is intentional by the Cubs...it looks like he only threw 86 pitches yesterday. How many times have other Cubs starters gone more than 6 this year? EDIT: Lester has 5 times, Hendricks has 5. Chatwood has once. Darvish and Montgomery haven't at all.
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Apparently they moved to a timed round format rather than the "until 10 outs" format. I don't know when that happened since I haven't watched the derby in a few years, but that sounds like an excellent change.
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No, but I'm completely unaware of much about the AL, and I'm barely aware of happenings outside of the division.
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Eh, he just says we'd "make sense".
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