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Fake rally
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Splits don't apply to the Cardinals in October
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This is the worst booth of broadcasters ever assembled
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The Kenta Maeda Thread
Cubswin11 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Agreed, no interest in him for anything near $100 million or more. -
The Kenta Maeda Thread
Cubswin11 replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in MLB Draft, International Signings, Amateur Baseball
Eh, if that's what it takes to get him I'd rather be focusing on other guys. For example I'd rather sign McCarthy and Liriano for a combined ~$75 million than Maeda for $120. -
There's nothing spectacular there, but their top 5 were all solid. 3.65 is the highest ERA of any of them and when you only need them to go 6 innings with the back end of the pen they've got, you can win a lot of games. Yeah, I'm more impressed they've been able to win games with their offense with Weiters/Machado going down and Davis regressing.
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Money most importantly, but also he has said he really likes Miami as a place to live and for his family/kids to grow up and there were some stories that he didn't want to go to Houston because he's from Texas and has tried to distant himself from some not so great family members there and didn't want to be near them (I want to say Zach Lowe talked about that on a Simmons podcast during NBA FA over the summer).
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Manny in the dugout would be so awesome
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Yeah I meant Miguel too, like you said, I'm pretty sure he can still handle catcher adequately if not better.
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I really like the idea for trading for Montero
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Why is Volquez and not Cole or Liriano starting tonight?
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didnt they try the pitching clock thing a few years ago in mlb I think so, but I think it was more arbitrary/umpire discretion than any hard rule? But like the pitching change clock could be enforceable, as soon as the manager signals for the change 2:30 (or whatever goes on the scoreboard) and when it hits zero everyone needs to be ready for the first pitch from the new pitcher.
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I like the pitching change clock idea, that seems like a clear way to shave a few min off a game. Also since most guys take a slow walk in and not spring like Todd Coffey why not have a golf cart or something drive them in from the bullpen to speed it up, especially for stadiums where the bullpens are behind OF walls?
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Bryant's not going to be hitting 35 HRs per 500 ABs. Giancarlo Stanton himself only averages 33.6 per 500 ABs. And while I like Bryant and he *can* become Stanton, I don't think that should be the median projection. he's also not going to have a .250 babip and probably won't strike out like mark reynolds. Reynolds MLB k% this year was .4% lower than Bryant's at AAA and his career k% is only 3.3% higher than Bryant's % in AAA this year.
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Kris Bryant doesn't even know who Gordon Wittenmeyer is
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it doesn't say that I completely missed the "pitch" in that tweet and read it as "no intentional walks." My bad, but I like the rule. The intentional walk is stupid, just let the guy have 1B if you want to walk him. I feel the opposite. Make them throw the pitches. They still can throw a wild pitch (or the hitter can swing at the occasional pitch too close to the strike zone). Eh, that happens at such a low rate (has to be a few percent at most) every year during IBB pitch sequences that I'd be fine with just getting rid of it. It's not like the wild/hittable pitches happen so frequently on IBB that you are taking a whole lot of opportunity away from offenses. And in their quest to find marginal ways to speed up the games I think this is one of the first logical places to start.
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it doesn't say that I completely missed the "pitch" in that tweet and read it as "no intentional walks." My bad, but I like the rule. The intentional walk is stupid, just let the guy have 1B if you want to walk him.
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What exactly does the "no intentional walks" thing mean? Like you can't do it at all, or you can just say "we want to walk this guy and he gets first base with no pitches thrown?"
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who struck out in AA/AAA about as much as adam dunn did in his MLB career And still managed to hit .300 with a truckload of home runs and walks. The tunnel vision with K's/whiffs with Bryant, I get it but it's getting taken beyond what it is. You can't make a single number pass/fail like that, with Bryant there's plenty of reason not to freak out about it. While I agree mostly that despite the K's he's able to make up for it by hitting for a lot of power and take walks. But he also did have like a .370 BABIP this year, I think just about everything we have on him as of now points to him being a pretty low average guy on a whole with a few mediocre BA seasons sprinkled in with inflated BABIP's.
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2 RB/Flex, standard points Stacy Asiata Spiller Bradshaw D. Hopkins
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I kinda want Trout to go on a crazy playoff binge
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Tell Billy no PTBNL, just come over and join super friends since it aint happening in Oakland.
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Somewhere Joe Morgan has a smug ass grin on his face thinking "that's what Billy gets for writing that book about himself and mocking the game."
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That's a really tough decision to make in that moment. No doubt, but that's an incredibly hard play to make to barehand it and flip it home. Arm chair quarterbacking tho
