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Happ and Schwarber are dead? Can't think of anything else.
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Like last year when they instituted the signal for the automatic intentional walk maybe next year they can institute the "Addie" where a player walks to the plate puts their right hand to their forehead in the shape of an "L" and then does a u-turn and heads back to the bench. Pace of play and all that.
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To be fair, it wasn't exactly a 100 mile per hour exit velocity hit that Kinsler allowed. Yeah he wasn't horrible today I'll retract my statement...for now. :hello:
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What's the point of changing the pitcher if you are going to bring in Kindling? There's got be a better chance Garcia rights the ship than he does anything worthwhile.
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"Dubbed the swiss army knife..." Who calls him that? Thought the exact same thing...and "dubbed" suggests it is something he is routinely called.
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homophobe (Daniel Murphy), incoming (to the Cubs)
chopsx9 replied to jersey cubs fan's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
Holmes for thinking he's talking about the A's President? I remember hearing an interview with him on local sports radio a while back - I don't think I missed the intro but I guess I must have - and thinking when did Beane leave the A's and how was none of this in the movie - until they summed up after a break 15 minutes in. -
https://giphy.com/gifs/baseball-oops-gregory-polanco-SFEFSkh8LiqNq I just had to...the bare handed reach at the end is the cherry on top
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I remember watching that over and over for at least 20 minutes - a thing of absolute beauty. Wong does have the face plant though.
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Their WAR difference is .4 - that is pretty meaningless. while i wouldn't say half a win is meaningless, it's actually a difference of .8 I'm seeing 5.1 vs 4.7. Regardless, WAR has standard margin of error - any derived statistical indicator has one. Lowest suggestion I've seen is 15% and I believe the highest I've seen suggested is 2 WAR per year. So .4 is absolutely meaningless; even at the lower 15% the .8 would be borderline. Now there may be other schools of thought on what the margin of error may be, but even it it were lower - 15% is pretty low to begin with - there is still a margin of error; so small fractional differences aren't meaningful.
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Their WAR difference is .4 - that is pretty meaningless.
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he didnt touch home either it's fine You can see his foot on home when he's down on the ground - I think it actually is a big deal if he doesn't touch the bases - there was a HR disallowed in a Braves post season game one year because of a missed base. You can see the 3rd base umpire wait until he rounds the bag before heading off the field, so he likely got 3rd too.
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RBIs aren't dumb. Comparing players based on them is. I want my middle order hitters to rack up 120ish RBIs. I believe the whole "RBI's are dumb" is a mantra that's way overdone. Like virtually any other stat it just needs to be examined in the proper context. Looking at any stat in isolation is a recipe for mis-evaluation.
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man when amaury took that no hitter into the 8th in his debut, i thought for sure he was destined for the HOF so i decided to check myself on this https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHN/CHN199605160.shtml i was a little off...he pitched 7 innings of one hit ball, lost the no-no in the 6th. He didn't allow any runs in his second start either iirc.
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Non-prospect that had the best MLB career?
chopsx9 replied to chopsx9's topic in General Baseball Talk
this one talks about how good of a prospect he was. https://www.thegoodphight.com/2012/1/19/2702301/the-ryne-sandberg-trade-as-bad-as-youve-always-heard That's a good read. Thanks for posting it. -
Non-prospect that had the best MLB career?
chopsx9 replied to chopsx9's topic in General Baseball Talk
What about Sandberg? His minor league stats were decent/ok. Did they have a top 100 prospects list back then? -
Non-prospect that had the best MLB career?
chopsx9 replied to chopsx9's topic in General Baseball Talk
Yes, but Grace was considered a highish prospect, I believe, a few years before he made the Cubs. I was thinking of someone who may have flown under the radar throughout their minor league career - which I guess is tough because you have to play well enough to get called up. It may well be Piazza -I know he was drafted last but I'd assumed he'd made a bigger splash in the minors. -
This popped into my head today? So not low draft pick, but the player who had a relatively pedestrian minor league career but ended up with the best MLB career. Was Zobrist rated highly in the minors?
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In 5 rehab starts he had an 8.10 ERA. Hopefully he was working on stuff..[/quote A resume perhaps?
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How many HR's did he hit? #shoheishmohei
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DONG DONG DONG DONG!! DONG DONG DONG DONG!! DONG DONG DONG DONG!! DONG DONG DONG DONG!! DONG DONG DONG DONG!! DONG DONG DONG DONG!! DONG DONG DONG DONG!!DONG DONG DONG DONG!!DONG DONG DONG DONG!! DONG DONG DONG DONG!!
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DONG DONG DONG DONG!!
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Cubs or Pads?
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Isn't that the date Addy took over at SS? Or close to it? No but it is the day Clive Rice died.
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Every time this gif gets posted I watch it like 30 times in a row and it just never becomes any less majestic. I like how the score at the top of the screen changes before the umpire signals safe.
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Darvish Who?