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Paul Zuvella posted:Gleyber Torres is going to hit a grand slam in the bottom of inning 15 in game 7 of the 2023 World Series which will pit the Cubs against the Yankees and I'll be around to quote this post forever. Gleybar Torres is handsome and my friend
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Paul Zuvella posted:Gleyber Torres is going to hit a grand slam in the bottom of inning 15 in game 7 of the 2023 World Series which will pit the Cubs against the Yankees and I'll be around to quote this post forever. I wrote a fan letter to Jim Hendry after the world series because I figured the Cubs will eventually run into the Yankees in a few world series assuming they don't Cubs things up which would make it the Epstein/Hendry/Cashman Bowl. Then I figured he probably voted for Trump so I deleted it. 
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Dexo posted:Is probably the worst year in my entire 28 years on this earth. This is the truth. This year I have experienced family tragedy, job uncertainty, and the loss of many beloved musical figures, and of course this election, yet the Cubs won. Such a weird loving year.
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beejay posted:This is the truth. This year I have experienced family tragedy, job uncertainty, and the loss of many beloved musical figures, and of course this election, yet the Cubs won. Such a weird loving year. It makes a strange poetic sense that the Cubs could only win in the darkest timeline.
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Nov 23, 2016 16:22
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Remember that Cleveland also won a championship this year so between that and the Cubs it clearly opened the Seventh Seal
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Intruder posted:AJ Reed was #11 going into 2016 and the top first base prospect and has mashed at every level and was an unmitigated disaster in the majors. (Yeah I know sample size and all) Not giving up on Reed, I just think he's not ready.
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R.D. Mangles posted:Anyone else watch the Fastball doc on Netflix? It's pretty bland but it's baseball, so I'll watch Goose Gossage talk about the Law of the Jungle and Walter Johnson's 83.2 MPH heater. I watched it, but I thought that physicist's math to show who had the "true" fastest fastball was pretty loving dubious considering there was no discussion on the comparative accuracy of the different devices and so on.
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https://twitter.com/giantsprospects/status/801170561137160193 I mean he did have one really good season with the Cubs in 2014 before becoming complete garbage, so who knows!
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:I watched it, but I thought that physicist's math to show who had the "true" fastest fastball was pretty loving dubious considering there was no discussion on the comparative accuracy of the different devices and so on. Yeah, I thought that just modifying the distance in the calculations was overly simplistic, but it was still cool to see how much faster some of those pitches could have been. What I found most fascinating was the discussions about how we're at the point where pitchers probably can't physically throw any faster, but that we're also at the point where the ball is traveling so fast that batters can't physically react to the pitches aside from just guessing at location.
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Sydin posted:https://twitter.com/giantsprospects/status/801170561137160193 Yeah, poor guy never seemed to recover from his shoulder(?) injury very well. Which sucked, because I really liked him.
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ComposerGuy posted:Not giving up on Reed, I just think he's not ready. I have a feeling he's going to be fine. He just barely crossed the threshold for losing rookie status and plenty of guys fail on the first trip up and are fine later.
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tadashi posted:I have a feeling he's going to be fine. He just barely crossed the threshold for losing rookie status and plenty of guys fail on the first trip up and are fine later. .220/.281/.390
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St. Dogbert posted:Reports are out of potential CBA strife. Rob Manfred was Selig's point man in the 1994 strike (in which the owners' stated goal was to break the union) and in the previous rounds of labor negotiations, and before he started working for MLB he was a partner at a law firm that basically existed to crush unions. I've been worried about this ever since he was promoted to COO.
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Great, so we're headed for another strike. I knew it... Cubs winning the World Series is a sign of the End of Times.
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Keith Law is not concerned about these reports so I wouldn't worry about it
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Manfred would be a colossal moron to cause a work stoppage right now. If the MLBPA doesn't cave before the deadline than the owners will almost certainly drop it. MLB is gambling that the player's union - which has been fairly milquetoast about protecting the rights of players not yet in the union in the past - will figure it's not worth the fight if MLB threatens hardball. So far they've held firm though, which is nice to see.
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Sydin posted:Manfred would be a colossal moron to cause a work stoppage right now. If the MLBPA doesn't cave before the deadline than the owners will almost certainly drop it. MLB is gambling that the player's union - which has been fairly milquetoast about protecting the rights of players not yet in the union in the past - will figure it's not worth the fight if MLB threatens hardball. So far they've held firm though, which is nice to see. All bets are off when millionaires and billionaires engage in dick-measuring contests.
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Sydin posted:Manfred would be a colossal moron to cause a work stoppage right now. If the MLBPA doesn't cave before the deadline than the owners will almost certainly drop it. MLB is gambling that the player's union - which has been fairly milquetoast about protecting the rights of players not yet in the union in the past - will figure it's not worth the fight if MLB threatens hardball. So far they've held firm though, which is nice to see. Both sides will play propaganda war until something is settled. On the bright side, a potential work stoppage could be good for the WBC? I mean if players know they aren't going to play in April, why not play for their home country (or assigned country of heritage) in March?
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Huh. The Twins gave actual money to Jason Castro The dude is an elite pitch framer, has occasional pop, manages a pitching staff really well. He's slightly above average at throwing out baserunners, but is an automatic out most of the time A catcher from the 80s On the plus side, he's probably responsible for Keuchel's Cy Young in 2015 Intruder fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/801632847425662977 This seems not very good for the Mariners?
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Senf posted:https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/801632847425662977 I don't know much about the Dbacks players but Walker and Marte were massive disappointments last year.
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Well Segura's just put up a career-best season at age 26 so who wins the trade is really dependent on whether he's figured it out and will continue to be good or whether it's just an anomaly. The two guys the DBacks got have got promise but they're still both pretty young which makes sense for a team which doesn't figure to be contending for a year or two. Judging from their minor league stats Haniger looks like he might be decent and Curtis is basically a lottery ticket.
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Senf posted:https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/801632847425662977 My first thought was that the M's weren't confident about Walker's health problems going forward.
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Senf posted:https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/801632847425662977 Walker has a ton of upside but hasn't put it together yet, Marte likewise is a prospect who's supposed to be good but blew chunks this year. On the D-Backs side Segura was a reclamation project the Brewers gave up on but he raked with the D-Backs, the other two dudes are middle of the farm guys. So it's two high upside lotto tickets for a known entity in Segura and two meh prospects. 
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Rand alPaul posted:D-did the Diamondbacks just rip someone off in a trade?
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Segura is an interesting player and I think the M's weren't totally fleeced. His time with Milwaukee wasn't so great but he showed signs of being a good offensive middle infielder on top of solid defense. I hadn't followed him at all this year and wow he really broke out. It wasn't a partial season either. He'll be 27 next year and this could be the start of him taking off. Not a bad pick up.
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Keep in mind, also, that Segura seemed really, really, really broken for a while after burying his son.
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I for one, am glad to see Segura out of the division. Based on the numbers I saw him put up against the Giants alone, I'm labeling this one a win for the Mariners.
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Does Taijuan Walker throw a cutter or any other pitch the Diamondbacks ban because if so I feel bad for him.
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I want to say Segura broke out due to a crazy babip season, but he also clubbed a bunch of dingers and hit the ball way harder and more selectively than he ever has, so really who knows!
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I think you all need to look at Marte and Walker's stats. They were... not great last year, or the year before. The Mariners are selling low, for sure. But neither of them were any good. Walker had health issues, and Marte wasn't putting it together for a sophomore slump. Hitting in Arizona should help him, but who knows if he can figure it out. He's probably going to need more time in AAA. He also makes a lot of mental errors in the field as well. The deal will really focus on Segura if he provides 2016 numbers or other seasons. Edit: from a personal side, Taijuan is a cool dude and I'll be sad to see him go from that point of view.
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Segura completely and utterly owned the World Champion Chicago Cubs every time they played, so he must obviously be a superstar.
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Intruder posted:Huh. The Twins gave actual money to Jason Castro And yet he's still a massive upgrade from what we had last year!
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Infidel Castro posted:And yet he's still a massive upgrade from what we had last year! He also draws walks pretty well for a guy straddling the Mendoza line
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I was batin' to some Trout porn on HitTracker and realized he had 2 HR's at 90.7 degrees of horizontal angle (Dead center is 90 degrees). He hit them both off Felix, they look like the same identical play except with different uni colors. The ball only had a 12 foot difference in distance, the CF even ends up in the same spot. Even looks like identical pitches. Trippy. http://m.mlb.com/video/v1055782383/ http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/29207014/v618469483 Longpig Bard fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Nov 24, 2016 |
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Justin Upton's no-trade clause faces the vengeance of... uh... two GMs later for the same organization? Anyway, this may allow the team to actually play Chris Owings and Nick Ahmed as the up-the-middle crew of the future, so I have some hope.
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