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Few minutes in and Richards is playing a traditional RB, it sounds like they’re at the finish line to sign a RB from France, but they clearly rate him.
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Ah yes the famous swashbuckler Andrew Friedman, definitely more of a gambler than *checks notes* Jerry Dipoto?
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or did they go to 3 at the back? I wasn't watching, assumed from reading a couple tweets and seeing he came on for Pavard. The Bundesliga app shows his average position as equivalent to Davies on the opposite side, but I'm not sure if they're grouping in Pavard's minutes too.
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Richards came on at RB, interesting
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Kipnis that has to be an out -
still think it's not fair that Jesus Aguilar gets to be a bear in a human suit and we all just go along with it
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2020 Playoffs - other games
Transmogrified Tiger replied to Brian's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
the Twins just had an Alex Gonzalez in Game 6 moment that came back to bite them -
I've barely paid attention this season, but it feels like a whole lot of attention paid to the stuff of Alcantara and Sixto for 2 guys who were below average at getting K's or even K-BB.
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easy penalty, imo For every other foul call we don’t care about intent or if it was possible to avoid, if you don’t want to give up a penalty then win the ball or don’t challenge for the header if you need to extend your arms away from your body. That’s harsh and I don’t think the current state of things is the best solution, but I don’t find the intent/avoid-ability argument very compelling. The real answer is making penalties less valuable by making them harder(which also removes some of the perverse embellishment/diving incentives), but that’s a topic for a different post.
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Doesn't the shift play into that value proposition though? Why hit for contact if someone is going to be positioned where you are likely to hit the ball? That pushes hitters even further into selling out for power. I'm not talking about the shift, I'm talking about mister 'if they'd stop swingin for the fences they wouldn't strike out so got dang much' up there. Ultimately, I think there needs to be more balls in play. Banning the shift, deadening the ball, and lowering or deepening the mound are all tools at your disposal to do that without going too far in the other direction.
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It's definitely not about the value proposition of hitting for power v. contact or about half the league throwing 95 with 90 mph wipeout sliders, nope it's a character flaw
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Aren't only the highest dollar contracts insured? Descalso's 2.5 million wouldn't be high on the list in that case. This may not be how it works(I can never remember with buyouts), but a different penny pinching argument for keeping Descalso is not bringing his 1 million buyout for 2021 forward into this year by releasing him.
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Chelsea with the “sorry, I’m sorry, we’re trying to fix it” of soccer performances today
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Center back, Dallas academy product that Bayern bought before he made it to the FCD first team. Those who follow youth internationals seem to be really high on him, to the point where he could be a USMNT regular by the end of qualifying depending on how he develops and what time he gets.
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Koeman taking over helps his chances for sure. Koeman probably a bad hire for Barca, but a good one for Dest if he does go there. That's fair, I'm more skeptical there's a coherent plan at Barca that sets Dest up for consistent playing time and opportunity in the future compared to the stability Bayern have at the moment. They have Semedo until they don't at the least(which is a little telling about the stability there), and if they are only loaning Dest they don't have much motivation to persist through any bumps in the road he might endure. I don't want to frame it as going to Barcelona is a disaster, but given the option between the 2 right back and club situations I'd prefer him at Bayern.
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IMO I think there's a clearer path to minutes at Bayern, they have multiple RB options but they are all guys who are best at other positions(Pavard at CB, Kimmich in midfield). Plus those primary positions are looking weaker with Thiago leaving and Boateng being a year older. I'm less convinced Dest would get consistent minutes in whatever Barca are going to be this year, especially since they apparently were wanting a loan arrangement where they'd have less skin in the game.
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
I haven't thought the consequences all the way through, but that strikes me as something that may be unfair across players(e.g. Bryant v. Happ), but ultimately not a negative on the whole for the player pool. For a point of comparison, last year there were 12 hearings, the combined difference between player asks and team offers was 10.5 million, and players won 5 of those hearings. -
I think the motivation is probably more increased revenue than marginally decreasing salaries, but even if this meant the owners had to pay players more this is a terrible idea.
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Modern baseball is trash
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I think most people want him there for the USMNT, the main question is if he had enough regista in him for Berhalter's tastes, with maybe a small concern of there not being a great replacement for him in central midfield. Between Reyna's emergence and this news that path should hopefully be a bit clearer, because it's a much more talented 11 with Adams at the 6 and someone else(Reyna, Pulisic, young breakout player to be named later) in a more advanced midfield role than it is with Yueill at the 6 and Adams further up the field.
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Only national game today is Galaxy/San Jose on TUDN and (for some reason) Twitter. The Galaxy have been on a nice run even without Chicharito, but San Jose is, uh, well they did this on Thursday: If you have ESPN+(or were considering it with the Bundesliga going there), Sporting KC/Minnesota are both solid MLS teams, and Portland/LAFC would be a marquee matchup if both teams weren’t ravaged by injuries. What's TUDN? Univision Sports, essentially, at least as far as I can tell. If you have UniMas that game will be there as well.
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Only national game today is Galaxy/San Jose on TUDN and (for some reason) Twitter. The Galaxy have been on a nice run even without Chicharito, but San Jose is, uh, well they did this on Thursday: If you have ESPN+(or were considering it with the Bundesliga going there), Sporting KC/Minnesota are both solid MLS teams, and Portland/LAFC would be a marquee matchup if both teams weren’t ravaged by injuries.
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He just turned 32 and last year he only managed a 101 wRC+, hard to be very confident of much future value since he is poison with a glove in his hand. If we are gonna throw out this weird year as not being the norm moving forward for him, his ~150 wRC+ vs lefties and ~110 vs RHP career still plays with the DH around. Sure not super valuable, but it certainly helps. Especially over 162 games next year if you assume he’s going to be closer to his career norms. I mean if he approaches his career averages then yeah that's fine, and ultimately I don't really care about losing Pedro Martinez. I just don't see much room for optimism in those averages coming back at his age.
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Martinez is controlled for 2-3 more years, if the DH is here to stay he does have some value of what he is this year isn’t the new norm. He just turned 32 and last year he only managed a 101 wRC+, hard to be very confident of much future value since he is poison with a glove in his hand.
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Calm down Trevor you’re gonna have to listen to 4 hours of Joe Rogan to get to sleep tonight at this rate
