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Comptroll The Forums posted:In a bizarre twist of fate, Lester masters throwing to first but at the cost of all pitching ability. His WHIP climbs to 3.500 but he has 100% success at picking off any base runners. There has to be an elaborate monkey-paw wish that would lead to this outcome, right?
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Poque posted:I hope that there is somebody who learned from him during 2016  D'Arnaud had 78 attempts against him (8th in the majors) in only 615 innings caught. Molina caught almost double the amount of innings and only had 85 attempts.
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Giancarlo Stanton has announced he's playing for team USA. Nice.
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This looks like it could be funny and good. It's unfortunate that Azaria shows haven't worked in the past but hopefully IFC is the right outlet for him. http://deadline.com/2017/01/brockmire-trailer-hank-azarie-funny-die-baseball-amanda-peet-tca-video-1201887198/
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Jan 25, 2017 19:32
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Greg Holland to the Rockies on a one year deal with a vesting option for a second.
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tadashi posted:This looks like it could be funny and good. It's unfortunate that Azaria shows haven't worked in the past but hopefully IFC is the right outlet for him. That looks awful in the edgy try-hard style that is all the rage in cable drama/comedies so I imagine it will do great once Netflix or Amazon picks it up after it doesn't find an audience.
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Hwang didnt hit that much until 2014, when the KBO juiced the ball, and he plays in San Francisco, where home runs go to die. So we're only missing a handful of sick bat flips probably. Which is still too many. KBO in 2012: 615 HR, 4.12 runs/game, 258/334/364 KBO in 2016: 1418 HR, 5.68 runs/game, 290/364/438 I forget if they admitted changing the balls, but that's pretty blatant. They also expanded from eight teams to ten, which explains some of the increase in home runs. But still.
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will_colorado posted:Greg Holland to the Rockies on a one year deal with a vesting option for a second. Surprised it took so long for him to get signed even with his TJS issues, considering how big elite closers have become. Is he going to be ready to pitch opening day?
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150% certain he got a call from an enraged southerner screaming at him about bat flips
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Gee I hope y'all got in on this before they sold out. Somewhere Darren Rovell is writing what a beautiful thing this deal was. Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Jan 25, 2017 |
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Man, the Rockies almost look like a contender. If their young pitching staff can keep it up, they could make some noise this year.
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Also that's yet another closer the Nationals courted but couldn't land. Do they know something we don't? Did Melancon talk poo poo about them to the other closers or something? 
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:No David Ross to bail him out this season is going to be a bit worrying, though. Have the Cubs given any indication of whether Contreras or Montero will be catching him?
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The good news (if you can call it that...) is that the coroner said there was no evidence Ventura was robbed and that he died on impact. So at least that story might not have been true.
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Timby posted:Have the Cubs given any indication of whether Contreras or Montero will be catching him? I would assume it would have to go to the guy with the good arm. (Contreras)
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Spoeank posted:150% certain he got a call from an enraged southerner screaming at him about bat flips You mean Bumgarner, right?
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Timby posted:Have the Cubs given any indication of whether Contreras or Montero will be catching him? My guess is Contreras is the preferred battery mate given his arm, but you'll probably see Lester throwing to both in spring training and if he's having trouble with Contreras then Lester will probably get paired with Montero despite the potential stealing issues. Pitching well but allowing steals is a better outcome than pitching poorly but not allowing steals. Honestly I think the biggest issue with Contreras catching Lester is that Lester sometimes gets very upset on the mound and needed Ross to come in and tell him to cool the gently caress off and Just PitchTM. Montero has enough veterancy that I think he could do that as well, but in the heat of the moment Lester might not be willing to take that from a rookie. I guess you could have Bosio come out to the mound instead but you can't do that as much per game. alpha_destroy posted:The good news (if you can call it that...) is that the coroner said there was no evidence Ventura was robbed and that he died on impact. So at least that story might not have been true. It would at least help restore a little faith in humanity, which would be nice. 
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Sydin posted:My guess is Contreras is the preferred battery mate given his arm, but you'll probably see Lester throwing to both in spring training and if he's having trouble with Contreras then Lester will probably get paired with Montero despite the potential stealing issues. Pitching well but allowing steals is a better outcome than pitching poorly but not allowing steals. Honestly I think the biggest issue with Contreras catching Lester is that Lester sometimes gets very upset on the mound and needed Ross to come in and tell him to cool the gently caress off and Just PitchTM. Montero has enough veterancy that I think he could do that as well, but in the heat of the moment Lester might not be willing to take that from a rookie. I guess you could have Bosio come out to the mound instead but you can't do that as much per game. Yeah, that was kind of where I was heading with my question -- when Lester gets riled up his delivery goes all over the place. Wasn't there one Cubs pitcher who raised a huge stink about being caught by Contreras last season? Was it Arrieta?
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Timby posted:Yeah, that was kind of where I was heading with my question -- when Lester gets riled up his delivery goes all over the place. It was Lackey, and Contreras followed it up by catching back to back shutouts by Hammel and Hendricks
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will_colorado posted:Greg Holland to the Rockies on a one year deal with a vesting option for a second. Wow, was the market for him really so bad he had to go to Coors field?
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Poque posted:It was Lackey, and Contreras followed it up by catching back to back shutouts by Hammel and Hendricks Speaking of Hammel, he's apparently still a free agent. Yikes.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Wow, was the market for him really so bad he had to go to Coors field? Rumors as of this morning were that the Nationals were also close to getting him, but I guess that fell through. A team that's built to win now and headed by 2016's NL Cy Young winner in a fairly noncompetitive division, or a team still in the tailend of rebuilding in a very competitive division, where you'd also have to pitch half of your games in Coors during a year you're trying to prove you're 100% back from TJS. And Holland chose the latter. The Nationals inability to land any type of closer is getting to really loving weird levels 
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GeneX posted:Speaking of Hammel, he's apparently still a free agent. Yikes. Rosenthal was saying back in December that the feeling around the league was that his elbow issues are a lot worse than his camp was letting on, and I think the potato chip thing from the summer scared a lot of people, too (you basically have to be drinking a swimming pool of alcohol or taking a poo poo-ton of Ex-Lax every day to get hypokalemic to the point he was claiming -- and no reputable physician would look at hypokalemia and say, "Oh, just eat some potato chips, you'll be fine"). He switched agencies two or three weeks ago, but I think at this point he might be lucky to get a non-roster invitation.
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Coors is probably easier on your health than being managed by Dusty Baker
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Timby posted:Rosenthal was saying back in December that the feeling around the league was that his elbow issues are a lot worse than his camp was letting on, and I think the potato chip thing from the summer scared a lot of people, too (you basically have to be drinking a swimming pool of alcohol or taking a poo poo-ton of Ex-Lax every day to get hypokalemic to the point he was claiming -- and no reputable physician would look at hypokalemia and say, "Oh, just eat some potato chips, you'll be fine"). He switched agencies two or three weeks ago, but I think at this point he might be lucky to get a non-roster invitation. Not pitching a single inning in the post season last year, even out of the pen, probably didn't help much either.
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Ice To Meet You posted:You mean Bumgarner, right? 
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There was something posted here once, some sort of baseball sim with audience interaction where they could choose to get a hit or bunt or even bunt foul, i think it originated on SA but I could be wrong . Does anyone know of what I'm talking about ?
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:There was something posted here once, some sort of baseball sim with audience interaction where they could choose to get a hit or bunt or even bunt foul, i think it originated on SA but I could be wrong . Does anyone know of what I'm talking about ? I think you want The perfect baseball game is 19 hours long and has lots of crying
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New Concept Hole posted:I think you want The perfect baseball game is 19 hours long and has lots of crying I love Jon Bois so much
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https://twitter.com/pgammo/status/824413837965328385 Not gonna lie, didn't expect this level of take from Peter Gammons.
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Sydin posted:Jon Lester has been pitching for ten years in the majors, and has yet to learn to throw to first. I would bet a lot of money he is not even thinking about working on it, and the reality is he doesn't have to as long as he can continue to pitch like an ace. To be honest he should be thinking about it because it's something they teach you in goddamn Little League and the Cubs should insist he work on it in the offseason. Yes, he's been a great pitcher for us the last 2 years, and even before that in Boston. It's asinine not to expect a goddamn major league not to be versed in the basic fundamentals of the game. It's not unreasonable to think that his inability to hold a runner on first or throwing away a little tapper to the mound could cost us runs and maybe a game or two down the stretch. Granted, I'd rather have the great pitching and the inability to throw to first than the reverse, but to say that he shouldn't even be thinking about it or not even working on it is pretty dumb. BigBallChunkyTime fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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New Concept Hole posted:I think you want The perfect baseball game is 19 hours long and has lots of crying "I am the Seinfeld i have to be the Seinfelt" -- Ray Romano, explaining why he stole Jerry Seinfeld's gym bag.
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New Concept Hole posted:I think you want The perfect baseball game is 19 hours long and has lots of crying This is exactly it . Thanks !
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Is there a SA Fantasy Baseball League?
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New Concept Hole posted:I think you want The perfect baseball game is 19 hours long and has lots of crying Jon Bois is so good
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Your Taint posted:To be honest he should be thinking about it because it's something they teach you in goddamn Little League and the Cubs should insist he work on it in the offseason. Lester is arguably one of the top ten pitchers in baseball at the moment, so clearly it's not that big of an issue. Instead of spending a ton of time trying to learn mechanics to throw to the base - which by the way could potentially screw with his mechanics to the plate which are far more important - I'd rather he spend that time working with whoever his new catcher is going to be and improving (or at least maintaining) his pitching prowess.
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ScottyJSno posted:Is there a SA Fantasy Baseball League? Check in the armchair quarterback subforum, that's where all the fantasy stuff is.
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You know, in all the years he pitched for Boston, I cannot remember one instance where it was ever mentioned that he could not throw to first base.
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