Transmogrified Tiger
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Bullpen had an outlier year and not sure the performance of the position players is sustainable. That being said they whipped us without one of this best players. but they won more than 100 games and have the inside track for signing a lot of their good pitchers, plus they've still got kershaw, wood and one-pitch rich for at least 2 more years. even with some regression it would be surprising to see them not winning more than 90 games for the next couple of years at least. It is not a particularly likely outcome, but: - You can chart a course where the Dodgers drop a lot of wins without anything going particularly wrong. Seager is a 5ish win player instead of 6. Turner and Bellinger are 3ish win players instead of 5. Taylor is an 2-3 win player instead of 5, Jansen and setup guy combining for less than 5 (!) wins, etc. That still leaves them a good team, but again that's not a worst case scenario by any means. - The Dodgers are over the 2018 luxury tax for 25 players at the moment, and they've exceeded it for 4 straight years already. They get a fair amount of relief the following year and they probably don't care about the 50% tax too much, but they probably aren't going to be chucking around tens of millions of dollars in AAV this offseason. -
The 'Kershaw and 15 okay starters' approach to rotation building could fall apart if Kershaw gets hurt, and they're in a pretty competitive division. 2019 would be more likely though after Kershaw opts out.
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I think Gordon Hayward just snapped his leg at the ankle be warned, even the static photos are gruesome
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Assuming the expansion teams and new schedule didn't really impact the playoff picture(unlikely but we work with what we've got), here's how the playoffs would have looked like during this Cubs run. 2015: Wild Cards: Cubs v. San Francisco, Kansas City v. Angels, Toronto v. Houston, Texas v. Yankees Division winners: Pittsburgh, Mets, St. Louis, Dodgers 2016: Wild Cards: Texas v. St. Louis/Seattle, Boston v. Detroit, Toronto v. San Francisco, Baltimore v. Mets Division winners: Washington, Cleveland, Cubs, Dodgers 2017: Wild Cards: Red Sox v. St. Louis, Arizona v. Minnesota, Cubs v. Milwaukee, Yankees v. Colorado Division winners: Washington, Cleveland, Houston, Dodgers -
On one hand, it sucks to see another round of an owner holding a city hostage for public stadium money. On the other hand, it probably paves the way for Cincinnati's expansion bid, and Texas is probably more capable of supporting 3 teams than southern Ohio is of supporting 2. The ball to Weah for his third was no joke either. My low key favorite is the first goal though, between the distant crowd noise and the way it played out it looked like something out of an older FIFA video game.
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2017 ALCS - Now Wahoo Free!
Transmogrified Tiger replied to bukie's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Charlie Morton turns 34 in 3 weeks -
I'm gonna spam everyone with way too early hypothetical bullpen additions and impossible best case offseason scenarios, so consider yourself warned.
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All goals: Carleton, Sargent, and a hat trick from Tim Weah. That second one from Weah is a wonderstrike(0:26 on the video).
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Ok.....but why go with four 8-team divisions instead of going like the NFL and do eight 4-team divisions? Presumably for the travel/scheduling benefits. It's also an easier distinction for the wild card/division winner postseason matchups. There's a lot to unpack in that article. Montreal and Portland as expansion teams, 156 game schedule, 4 divisions, an 8 team wild card round, guaranteed off day each week, etc. -
I don't have a strong reason to disagree, but just to be contrarian, Alzolay gave up 2 HR in his first outing of the year, then only 6 in 109.1 IP at Myrtle Beach and Tennessee afterwards. Hitters had a .223/.286/.318 line off him in that stretch, and he was even harder to square up after he was promoted(.229/.306/.280).
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General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Off the top of my head, "once you touch the base, you're saFe until yOu start tOwards The next BAse or your body ends up compLeteLy past the base" seeMs like it cOVErs pretty much everything to me. would like to see the term "football move" used in there somewhere you got it -
General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Off the top of my head, "once you touch the base, you're safe until you start towards the next base or your body ends up completely past the base" seems like it covers pretty much everything to me. that's insanely too much leeway It's one sentence and less than 25 words so I wouldn't be surprised, but what side effects would you see happening? The one that came to mind would be people sliding head first to 2nd base with their bodies mostly to the side, and touching it with their left hand. I'm not sure that would be the end of the world or worse than the current outcome, especially since with that rule you could aggressively slide feet first with much more confidence, but again I haven't put in hours of thought on the topic. -
General Baseball Chit-Chat Thread
Transmogrified Tiger replied to David's topic in General Baseball Talk
Off the top of my head, "once you touch the base, you're safe until you start towards the next base or your body ends up completely past the base" seems like it covers pretty much everything to me. -
Sharma adding some context that while Wade was available, he wasn't exactly free for any potential outing: [tweet] [/tweet] I'm not so sure I think that type of restriction is the right call given 2 days off and another tomorrow, but setting that aside, I can at least see the logic for not wanting to go to Davis for 1 out in the 9th knowing you need at least a scoreless 10th too to win the game. Even with all those caveats though, you don't double switch Lackey into the game. He's not the best or even 2nd best reliever for that spot, and by double switching him you're exposing your decision to let Almora hit with a man on base in the 9th as terrible.
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I've been surprised so many people were wondering if he was hurt. This isn't new ground for Maddon. Not having him start the 9th is fine, but you don't double switch in Lackey at the top of the order.
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How the hell do you know all this It doesn't take a lot of research, 2015+2017 v. 2016
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the Darling curse: Theo-era Cubs now 7-9 in playoff games on TBS, compared to 11-6 on Fox networks
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a very visceral example of why Lackey did not start a game
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Martin, apparently.
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Joe has never wanted to use a closer in a tie game on the road.
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Duesning for a 2nd inning scares me more than Rondon.
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I probably would want that. You have 7-8-9 due up, and Davis should absolutely be facing the heart of the order. Ideally Rondon gets you through the 9th, Davis the 10th, and Lackey can go multiple after that. It's lowering your odds this inning I supposed, but I'm still not convinced Lackey and Rondon are vastly different options, and if you're going to try to steal any inning, it's this one.
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how many consecutive out of the zone is that for Jansen, at least 7?
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Any other painful memories you want to dredge up, do you make conversation at funerals by comparing them to other funerals
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they're all cutters
