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seriously this doesn't bother anyone else that there's no strike zone graphic on pitches? I heard they were potentially removing it due to ABS but when it saw it on the screen in the 1st inning I figured they decided to keep it, now its gone. -
Did they remove the strike zone from the broadcast? There was a very light one around home plate in the first inning but now there's nothing there.
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Honestly did not think a ball hit with that much arc could get out on a day like today.
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Boyd giving up some bombs early. that one got over the fence
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Thats....one way to play right field
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Looks like Boyd isn't suffering from the same WBC curse that Skenes is.
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HRs robbed by the wind this year: 1
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I haven't been paying too much attention to Spring Training. Is Amaya no longer the de facto starting catcher or is Kelly starting today due to matchups? Kelly had a really solid season last year but Amaya has better long term potential and was promising before all the injuries last year.
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The international games have started earlier but in terms of traditional US/Canada Opening Day, I believe this is the earliest ever.
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23rd consecutive season I’ve posted in a game thread on NSBB. Let’s go Cubs!
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That’s cool, 2 extra years and like others have said sounds like a huge vote of confidence from the Cubs
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I have a feeling this will go better than the David Bote pre-arb extension.
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Same. Wanted the US to win but more than happy seeing Palencia shut them down in a 1 run game to win the title. Now let’s do it again in November!
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I’m kind of upset that it seems pretty unlikely that we’ll see a PCA/Palencia matchup the way things are set up
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RIP Seiya
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Yeah plus correct me if I'm wrong but he's not really the style of player who is en vogue in the NBA right now. Not saying he won't be an NBA player and possibly a decent one, but his profile might suppress his draft value at least coming out this year. Mara is in better shape because you can't teach that size and wingspan but hes not a shooter at all (hes hit a couple jump shots but they call come off flat) and most of his points are moves around the basket that more skilled NBA defenders will be able to slow down. He is an elite passing big man and should be a strong defender though.
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FYI he was in Miami when he was hurt. But point still stands, likely wasn't going to do any tests with Team Japan, especially because they were eliminated.
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Congrats to the Purdue fans on the board, they looked like a completely different team today. I haven’t seen a team all year abuse our bigs defensively like that over and over and over again. I figured if Purdue would win it would be them getting hot from 3 but they were only 4/14. Also Michigan just doesn’t look the same after the Cason injury. All 5 of their games since then have gone down to the wire. I don’t think he is vital to Michigan but it’s definitely made our offense more limited. Or it’s just 5 games at the end of a long and grueling Big Ten season and Purdue found another gear. We’ll see..definitely less confident in them than I was a month ago.
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Seiya may have just left the Japan game injured. Bad slide into 2nd, was limping off the field
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Big Ten officials are ridiculous, but I’ll point out that Michigan is also top 20 nationally at avoiding fouls (though Illinois is number 1) btw Wisconsin scares the horsefeathers out of me. The way they came back from a 15 point deficit to take a 4 point lead over like 4 minutes had me losing my mind. Especially considering it was their 3rd game in a row and they had 3 guys in foul trouble. When they are on they are scary good. Hope they are on the other side of Michigan’s bracket.
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They haven’t been the same since Wagler hurt his shoulder. Their upside was based on having a historically good offense and he was a huge part of that. Hes obviously playing but his shot hasn’t been falling and doesn’t seem as dynamic as he was earlier in the year.
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Well for one, they didn't restructure a single contract. Based on reports they could have created up to $80m in cap space with the right restructures, they just didn't (hence the chatter that the McCaskey's are cash poor which I don't necessarily agree is the reason here). I'm fine with not keeping Brisker and Wright. Sounds like they wanted to keep Byard, he just chose to go to NE. Cutting Edmunds was the right move. They really got caught off guard from Dalman's injury and understandably so. I'm not necessarily ripping on Poles here. Maybe a little but its not my primary point here, I was just trying to take a view of position groups to see where the Bears improved or got worse and see if I'm right in my assessments.
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It's just relying on a lot of hopes and ifs IMO. Last year's draft was probably one of the most impactful drafts the Bears have ever had. Coincidentally, every impactful player was offensive right after we hired an offensive mastermind at HC. (though worth pointing out they only picked 2 defensive guys, not Poles' fault Turner got hurt, but Hyppolite was an insane pick). The previous few drafts were very hit or miss. The draft will definitely help us improve but I don't know how much we can count on from it, for next year at least. The offense should get better, Jaylon and Kyler healthy should be a huge boost (IF they can stay healthy..), but we're also talking about a team that had 7 comebacks in the last 2 minutes of games and benefitted from an huge TO differential (some skill involved but part is often luck) and one of the easiest schedules in the league. I think we needed to see the team improve more via FA to offset those factors and I don't think we're presently a better team than we were 2 months ago. We'll see, I could end up being completely wrong on pretty much all of this.
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Going position by position where have the Bears gotten better so far? (Understanding there is still the draft and maybe more FA) QB: Same RB: Same WR: Worse TE: Slightly worse without Smythe but not super impactful Tackles: Worse Guards; Same Center: Worse DT: maybe slightly better DE: Same, still bad LB: Worse but incomplete CB: Worse Safety: Incomplete, Bryant an upgrade but still down a starter KR: Better Rest of ST: same
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Soooo....Miami OH knocked out of the MAC tournament for a Q4 loss. One of the wilder resumes I've seen. In or out? 31-1 (NCAA only counts 28-1 as 3 wins were against non-D1 teams) NET: 54 NET SOS: 340th Q1 Record: 0-0 Q2 Record: 2-0 Q3 Record: 11-0 Q4 Record: 15-1 KenPom: 90th BPI: 90th T-Rank: 85th SOR: 21st WAB (NCAA relied on this a lot last year): 33rd I'm going to guess that they get in and play in Dayton, seems like a fair compromise to make them play another bubble team to prove they belong in the field of 64 since they only played 1 game against a team with a NET ranking below 127th (Akron at home, 53rd).
