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A trade off was unavoidable. The fact of the matter is there will be players who would have ended up with Hall of Fame careers that won't get drafted. Piazza doesn't get drafted - Grace or Sandberg?
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Let's give it to the end of the season and see.
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Tigers (TBD) vs Cubs (Assad): 8/20/24, 7:05pm
chopsx9 replied to Brock Beauchamp's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Once again poor JD lamenting another Journeyman pitcher who's got the 10 year service time that he fell just short of. I wonder if Booger will bring it up again. -
Maybe they should get Nerris up?
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...because of posts like this.
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I don't think there's any way he's not starting next year - short of some 3B dropping into their lap in the offseason - if he stays this cold the rest of the year the leash for next year may be getting shorter.
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Career w/l is much more indicative than year to year w/l.
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I will die on the hill that this is the greatest play ever in baseball. Primarily because Javi manifests it from a Statcast out certainty of 1000%. I'd argue you re-run this play, from the point the 1b catches the ball, and sub in every single player who has ever played MLB baseball and in each and every instance I'd bet an out is made. Everyone jumps to blame the 1B but I maintain the catcher is as much to blame. Javi has nowhere to go. If the catcher doesn't call for the ball Javi is out because he will have stepped back into the batters box. Once the catcher gets the ball he can just tag Javi - and again it's over - but for some reason he tries to tag Willie and then Javi realizes there's no-one between him and first. And yes I'm sure there would have been other 1b that would have just turned around and tagged the bag...but again Javi has nowhere to go. I'm predicating the catcher blame at least a little bit on my assumption that the catcher should be the smartest player in the infield. For his era of playing Javi is my favorite hands down.
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Yeah, because nobody in the history of MLB has ever had a 3.25 era.
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I'd argue it's a bad approach If there is a pitch you can do damage on and you don't swing at it simply because it's not a strike.
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...and I was wrong. I'm good with that.
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Would have left PCA in - worst case he's the Manfred Man in 10th and don't lose his defense in a close game.
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you're right - lets just run it back and click our ruby slippers together and hope for something to change. Nobody - AGAIN - is saying you HAVE to trade him.
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You trade the productive pieces because NOBODY WANTS the unproductive pieces. You can't improve your team by trading away Nick Madrigal. Crappy players get released not traded. The Cubs may very well ultimately regret trading away Morel but I tend to think it was good baseball trade. Again you are not trading him for the sake of trading him - you are doing it to try and improve the team and if you don't think you can do that - you don't.
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Nobody has said Hoerner is the problem. Nobody. You trade Hoerner because you think he has value not because you think he doesn't. Nobody is trading for him if he doesn't have value. There are limited other tradable assets - especially on the offensive side. There are potential replacements in house - and - yes - shocker none them are a certainty. Hoerner isn't even a certainty. I personally believe we've seen the best of Hoerner. I don't think he ages well. I don't believe he's a player to extend to a long term deal. This core isn't getting it done and something needs to change. I'd probably rather trade Dansby but NOBODY is trading for him. You're also not trading him for the sake of trading him - if you can't get something useful back then you keep him. Simple.
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...and they had to see that the INF wasn't playing in.
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I don't get it either. It's the bottom of the line-up - worst case they get the out at home but you still have 1st and 3rd.
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When did we reacquire Javi?
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In an effort to post about anything but the current roster I bring up Javier Baez. His biblical level struggles with the Tigers is no secret but I just noticed that for the last 2 years he is rocking (to no apparent benefit) the lowest SO%s of his career. I think he is essentially league average for the last 2 years. Is that not surprising - am I missing something?
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I get the match-up but with a pitcher getting a bit wild maybe leaving Tauchman would have been a good call.
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I mean he had 2 strikes and that's not a pitch in the dirt. There's argument for protecting the plate with 2 strikes because exactly what happened can happen. I'd argue he could go the other way on that pitch and still do some damage or foul it off. You're allowed to do damage on non-strikes - I'm not advocating swinging at pitchers pitches but in that situation is protecting the plate not an option - especially factoring for those close calls seemingly constantly going against Seiya. It's probably the frustration clouding my recollection but it seems like there's a lot of called 3rd strikes on really close pitches (not just on Seiya) and I get it - it certainly seems like many of them aren't strikes but the the satisfaction of knowing it was a ball can't be much comfort when your slogging back to the bench once again.
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One of the local radio stations was going on about how the couple of post All-Star game days was the death valley on the calendar for sports radio. He was also advocating for the smaller leagues (specifically mentioning the CFL) to purposely schedule games on those days to get a bit of increased attention. Which I believe some WNBA games did.
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Yeah it'd have to be a HAUL at this point. Justin Steele wasn't even supposed to be Justin Steele - how'd the Roy Halliday trade turnout.
