Hairyducked Idiot
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It's weird how all these "this guy was terrible when he came up" stories turn out to be BABIP-related.
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He's a terrible outfielder, he'll end up at 1b. I'm just ahead of the curve. I assume this is a joke? Springer is good on defense. UZR/150 has him 21st out of 24 RFers, min. 500 innings. Maybe UZR is just being weird.
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He's a terrible outfielder, he'll end up at 1b. I'm just ahead of the curve.
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The tiered playoff system is the best thing MLB has ever come up with. You reward the best teams, but also give tons of other teams something to play for. There's probably 10 teams playing meaningful baseball right now that wouldn't be under the 8-team system, including the A's and Angels. And not only that, but you get to open the playoffs with a pair of elimination games, which is awesome.
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These sorts of opinions are everything that's wrong with baseball fans. If your going to let half the teams play in the playoffs what's the point? It's incredibly dumb when the playoffs are already a crapshoot, now they mean next to nothing since so many teams are in it. Logic is hard to see for some people. "logic" isn't a word that means "whatever I feel like liking is right," which is the way you've used it here. The playoffs have always been a perversion of fairness in favor of excitement, right back to the first World series. Once you aren't doing a 30-team round robin, you've lost the right to complain.
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With way less walks but playing the middle infield instead of 1b.
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Yup. He got a hittable mistake. One per PA is all you get in MLB, I'm not going to start feeling bad for him because pitchers make good pitches.
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I don't like it. He took at least one crushable pitch.
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These sorts of opinions are everything that's wrong with baseball fans.
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Well, there is. During the latter innings of games, NL managers go out of their way to limit the inefficiencies presented to them by having pitchers in the batting order. We spend the last three innings trying to undo what could permanently be undone by installing the DH. They either pinch-hit or they spend six seconds implementing a double-switch. Not exactly chess. Oh, I agree. I am just saying those things should be unnecessary, if I had my way. What I'm trying to say is I'm bored so I'm trying to pick some sort of fight in the 15 minutes until the game starts. But it's based on my real opinions so it isn't trolling.
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In the NL, Pitchers take about 1 in every 19 plate appearances. It's an extremely small sacrifice for the huge increase in strategy that comes with it. The actual impact of said strategy is essentially nil. "OMG, who am I going to use as a pinch-hitter here? Probably the best guy on the bench who isn't a catcher who hits opposite-handed to the pitcher. Doesn't really matter though, because 90% of the PAs are going to end the same away anyway."
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Well, there is. During the latter innings of games, NL managers go out of their way to limit the inefficiencies presented to them by having pitchers in the batting order. We spend the last three innings trying to undo what could permanently be undone by installing the DH. They either pinch-hit or they spend six seconds implementing a double-switch. Not exactly chess.
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The idea that the NL game has a meaningfully different "style" is ridiculous wankery.
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I thought he was being sarcastic at first, now I'm not sure.
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Pitcher batting 8th for the Rays
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19 teams are within 5.5 games of a playoff spot right now.
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i should have stated in this i'm overly confident Turner and Straily will be at least league-average the new inefficiency can be a staff full of #3s sure, that's an inefficiency, but once you hit the playoffs, those guys are facing off against aces. So? then you lose. I don't think history bears that out.
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i should have stated in this i'm overly confident Turner and Straily will be at least league-average the new inefficiency can be a staff full of #3s sure, that's an inefficiency, but once you hit the playoffs, those guys are facing off against aces. So?
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Minor League Discussion & Boxes 8-8-14
Hairyducked Idiot replied to CaliforniaRaisin's topic in Cubs Minor League Talk
His season so far has been unprecedented, even as we've watched Baez and Bryant. He's posted better power numbers than both, and walked as much as Bryant without any of the contact issues. (What is his contact rate btw) 73.9% at Iowa, 71.2% for the year. Lower than his K-rate would imply, I think. -
Baez is completely Fulton. On that one there can be no doubt.
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Russell. Uber-all-around talent but also a late addition to the team.
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I had a long, not-that-funny post comparing all of our top prospects to players from the original Mighty Ducks movie, but I accidentally closed the tab and now it's gone and not worth the effort to reproduce. So anyway, Javier Baez struck out four times in a row, the Cubs blew the game yesterday and now Edwin Jackson is starting. http://media.giphy.com/media/LOZQPyDr99aG4/giphy.gif
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8/8 - Rays (Archer) @ Cubs (Wada) 3:05 WGN
Hairyducked Idiot replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Everything sucks again. That didn't take long. -
8/8 - Rays (Archer) @ Cubs (Wada) 3:05 WGN
Hairyducked Idiot replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Well, *now* we're guaranteed another Baez PA. -
8/8 - Rays (Archer) @ Cubs (Wada) 3:05 WGN
Hairyducked Idiot replied to David's topic in Fred Hornkohl Game Thread Forum
Ryan Sweeney makes him look like a genius! I still hate it.