Derwood
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Everything posted by Derwood
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Hopefully it’s another 13 years before they wear them again. Ever -
He’s a natural lefty, why not? Because he has no experience doing it, that’s why
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Kris Bryant is awesome and we were always right to love him
Derwood replied to Brian's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
A guy who hit 30 HR pre-mega juiced ball should be hitting more than he's hitting. He's not even getting the "looks like a 300 foot pop up off the bat.....and it's 4 rows deep" homers that seemingly every other player in the league is getting -
Criteria for being a manager: 1. Were you a mediocre or worse professional catcher? 2. If not, were you on deck when Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record? That’s pretty much it.
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Umm, I would go with “no”. He just doesn’t necessarily suck as much as he did. He's raised his batting average 26 points in June (where he's hitting .319/.364/.458 coming into tonight)
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Is Heyward good now?
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Or a real one, either way...
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Feels like we haven't had an RD game for months. Let's put up 20
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Woah, woah, woah.....what is this? Stringing hits together? With RISP? Is this even legal?
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The good news is that Atlanta has been just as bad at getting runners in as we have
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CarGoAway please
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In the meantime, Heyward is something like 7 for his last 13
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Willson was running his mouth to Flowers and the Braves dugout. I’m doubting it was completely unprovoked but idk what it was This is how someone get their wrist broken from a payback pitch. GOOD OL' UNWRITTEN RULES
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Willson was running his mouth to Flowers and the Braves dugout.
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This strike zone is already....something
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what's up with the background of that graphic? Did the gates of hell open in Wrigley? Ah. Thought it was Chernobyl night
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what's up with the background of that graphic? Did the gates of hell open in Wrigley?
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Yeah, the faux outrage over boosters paying players is hilarious. If people were really so mad about it, it would go away. But schools don't care that it's going on, the NCAA only pretends it cares (so it can look like its doing something), and the players are never going to rat the system out
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For what purpose? If participation dwindles they may be forced to do it someday out of a lack of viable bodies to field a team, but I don't think there are "too many". It just feels like a lot of hoops to jump through to even start your 6 year clock. Even if a player "speeds through" the minors (i.e. 2-3 years from draft to majors), you're talking about a player waiting 8 or 9 years before free agency. No other major sport has such a long wait. Also, how many of the players at AFL/Short-A are viable prospects? How many warm bodies are floating in the minors? No other sport (outside of hockey, which has its own convoluted system of Junior/Minor league teams) has so many tiers of prospects below the big leagues
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His extension makes me so sad. Possibly the greatest player of our generation, forever mired in 4th place. Trout and Ohtani deserve better *adjusts glasses, breathes heavily, and speaks timidly* Actually the Angels are stacking up quite the farm system led by a guy on the shortlist for best prospect in baseball (Jo Adell) I think this year's team could be weird good if they get a healthy Simmons back and trade for like Smoak, Giles, and Stroman from the Blue Jays or something I hope they improve, as Trout deserves all the good things. It's a daunting task, however, in a division with a stacked (and still fairly young) Astros team and a competitive A's team, plus young and good teams in Tampa and Minnesota, AND stacked and rich teams in Boston and New York.
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I don't know what the solution is, but the huge differences between the four major sports can be maddening. Baseball players come in and make nothing for several years, THEN (if they get called up) are locked into their team's control for another 6 years. Even with arbitration, the earning potential of an MLB player's first 6-10 years compared to an NFL or NBA player is ridiculously low. People will argue that NFL contracts aren't guaranteed (true), but first round rookies are making many many times more than their MLB counterparts. Side question: are there too many levels of minor leagues? Is there any argument for condensing the three or four levels of pre-AA?
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Pirates v Padres had some next-level awful bullpen performances.
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Yep, if you're making $35,000/year, there's NO WAY you'll work hard to be a multi-millionaire. Solid logic
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His extension makes me so sad. Possibly the greatest player of our generation, forever mired in 4th place. Trout and Ohtani deserve better
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6/23 Cubs (Hamels) vs Mets (deGrom) 1:20 ABC7
Derwood replied to soccer10k's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Never in doubt
