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bawfuls posted:I doubt it. That rule was implemented in 1894 at a time when rules were changing every year in response to play. They had only settled on 4 balls to a walk in 1889 (it was as high as 9 a decade earlier). Guys started foul bunting indefinitely and people thought "this is dumb, we need a rule against it" so they made one. Imagining a bunch of guys using cricket bats to bunt like 30 pitches foul until they accumulate 9 balls for a walk and having a good chuckle
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Imagining a bunch of guys using cricket bats to bunt like 30 pitches foul until they accumulate 9 balls for a walk and having a good chuckle who knew the Dilscoop was over a century old
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https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/1359528543810707460 KLaw's annual farm system rankings. This is just an overview, he says he's doing detailed writeups on every team over the next few weeks. Here's his top and bottom 5: 1. Tampa Bay 2. Cleveland 3. Toronto 4. Miami 5. Arizona 26. Chicago Cubs 27. Philadelphia 28. Milwaukee 29. Oakland 30. Washington Law has the Giants at 9th. He likes their 2020 draft and thinks this could be a top 5 system if the minor league season happens and Luciano/Ramos/Bishop actually get to play this year
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Sydin posted:The Cubs have officially broken PECOTA, they're so goddamn middling and full of guys who are a coinflip between good or terrible that PECOTA couldn't even project a proper confidence interval for them. It's more like a confidence... mesa? I don't know what math/logic goes into those distributions but that could be a bimodal distribution which could be case if a single decision point had an outsized effect. Like, you could imagine the Angels having something like that if Mike Trout was currently being checked for an ACL injury. One distribution would be "tests are negative" and one would be "tests are positive". Since Mike Trout is worth like 8-10 wins, summing them up would give you a double-peaked histogram like that. But there's no way to know which one is real until you check out that ACL. Schroedinger's Trout.
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bawfuls posted:that Braun quote sure reads like a guy who wants to play but no one wants him The full context in the article sounds to me like he really only wants to go back to play for Milwaukee but they're uninterested without the DH in the NL.
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Sydin posted:The full context in the article sounds to me like he really only wants to go back to play for Milwaukee but they're uninterested without the DH in the NL.
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The Pussy Boss posted:https://twitter.com/keithlaw/status/1359528543810707460 shocking to see the Rangers not at the very bottom
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Dog Faced JoJo posted:I genuinely wonder if the 3rd strike on a foul bunt rule caused as much consternation as the runner on second when it got put in. It seems just as arbitrary and was implemented for what I assume are very similar reasons, and now it's just accepted. Ikr This is behind the points I’ve been trying to make
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I'm extremely confused why Law has Cleveland that high Their main guys are Nolan Jones/Tyler Freeman/Triston McKenzie which, while they're OK, aren't amazing or anything
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Considering the last minor league season was in 2019, this year's prospect rankings are more based around a shrug and a feeling. Take anything with a grain of salt. Though Is till wonder how the A's ended up dipping that low.
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I mean I agree but I have never heard of anyone being high on their system They traded away a bunch of stars but I don't recall them getting back any 'can't miss' guys
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No minor league season means every prospect is rated as "slap dick"
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https://mobile.twitter.com/BizballMaury/status/1359537381313892353 everyone sing a song about popcorn!
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Dog Faced JoJo posted:I genuinely wonder if the 3rd strike on a foul bunt rule caused as much consternation as the runner on second when it got put in. It seems just as arbitrary and was implemented for what I assume are very similar reasons, and now it's just accepted. I'm reading the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract and it talks about the early history of the game. Curveballs and stolen bases were controversial at one point, but quickly accepted as a clever way for a team to try to win. Bunting foul forever to draw a walk was immediately seen as obvious bullshit by everyone except the players who relied on it.
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https://twitter.com/ByRobertMurray/status/1359683946330673153 Sure, gently caress it, fine why not? Benintendi's development has stalled and if the Sox can get back any vaguely potentially useful arms I'll take it.
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Can't remember if it was one of my OOTP saves or one of my MLB saves. But some save had Benintendi to the Royals. Saying as I can't remember, I'd hazard a guess a guess it didn't end well. Edit: somehow both my recent OOTPs and MLB franchises ended up with Eduardo Rodriguez on the Royals. That's been mostly disappointing in both cases. So I guess I need to stop trading with the Red Sox. alpha_destroy fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Feb 11, 2021 |
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alpha_destroy posted:Can't remember if it was one of my OOTP saves or one of my MLB saves. But some save had Benintendi to the Royals. Saying as I can't remember, I'd hazard a guess a guess it didn't end well. Be Nintendo is always either worthless in ootp or a contact god
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I was pretty high on Khalil Lee, my initial impression is that's too much to give up for 2 years of possibly declining benintendi
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Seems like a good move for the Mets, kind of a wash for everybody else. I’m not a big Benintendi believer at all but it’s not like he’ll be a black hole in the lineup or anything
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bewbies posted:I was pretty high on Khalil Lee, my initial impression is that's too much to give up for 2 years of possibly declining benintendi Same... most likely result i think is still that this is moving a bunch of inconsequential people around. But yeah, i think Lee is probably an overpay anyway.
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It's been all downhill from here for Benny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsQmZ9B9Oe8
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The Astros were about to go up 2-0 in the series with two road wins and then Cole let JBJ destroy him lol
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Chamale posted:I'm reading the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract and it talks about the early history of the game. Curveballs and stolen bases were controversial at one point, but quickly accepted as a clever way for a team to try to win. Bunting foul forever to draw a walk was immediately seen as obvious bullshit by everyone except the players who relied on it. Garrison Keillor tells a good story about a fictional old baseball player who doesn’t hit that well but teaches himself to foul the ball off anywhere he wants to and so just hits it anywhere or at the opponents’ dugout just to stay at the plate. He gets banned from the league after he intentionally hits the umpire with foul tips two dozen times in a row.
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Cup of Hemlock posted:Garrison Keillor tells a good story about a fictional old baseball player who doesn’t hit that well but teaches himself to foul the ball off anywhere he wants to and so just hits it anywhere or at the opponents’ dugout just to stay at the plate. He gets banned from the league after he intentionally hits the umpire with foul tips two dozen times in a row. https://www.theringer.com/2017/2/3/16042314/baseball-mlb-npb-ham-fighters-shohei-otani-takuya-nakashima-6a0e7d22d39f Career .233/.310/.266 hitter, but he can foul off just about anything
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I wonder if you can quantify the value of taking longer at-bats (other than the impact of more walks and strikeouts). We know that tired pitchers perform worse, although that has to be untangled from the times-through-order penalty.
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Watch out, NL Central the cubs have signed jake marisnick.
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A player ive long hated on the team I hate the most, good fit
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Chamale posted:I wonder if you can quantify the value of taking longer at-bats (other than the impact of more walks and strikeouts). We know that tired pitchers perform worse, although that has to be untangled from the times-through-order penalty. If they did Tony Fernandez would be in the HOF, he was great at fighting off 2 strike counts
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Chamale posted:I wonder if you can quantify the value of taking longer at-bats (other than the impact of more walks and strikeouts). We know that tired pitchers perform worse, although that has to be untangled from the times-through-order penalty. The value of an individual high-pitch-count PA is probably effectively meaningless unless the batter has a higher good-outcome rate with longer PAs. I think it would be something akin to RBIs where it's less of an individual predictor stat but an indicator of the team's, I dunno, "effectiveness?"
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I like this move https://twitter.com/jmackeypg/status/1359896173943873537?s=21 Also signed Tony Wolters on a minor league deal, which is fine
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i was always surprised goodwin never really stuck as an MLB regular. seems like his bat is good enough to stick around a lot of MLB outfields but here he is as a ST invitee for some reason
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Seems like a good deal for the Mets and possibly the Royals. Benny was hurt almost all of last season, but he's at least an average corner OF and possibly a very good one who's only 26. Free Xander and Devers from the poo poo pile that is the Red Sox.
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Goodwin isn't great defensively but he got the job done with the Angels and his bat can be sneaky good. I would have liked to see him back in the outfield instead of trading for Fowler in all honesty
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Chamale posted:I wonder if you can quantify the value of taking longer at-bats (other than the impact of more walks and strikeouts). We know that tired pitchers perform worse, although that has to be untangled from the times-through-order penalty. Pitches per plate appearance was definitely a hot poo poo stat back when analytics was called sabermetrics
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Popete posted:His defense is pretty terrible is my understanding. When he is the replacement for Kole Calhoun in RF his defense looks bad. When he is the replacement for Justin Upton in LF he looks like a God. PECOTA projections look hilariously off. How are the Angels an 87 win team slated for the WC-1 slot?
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UZR IS BULLSHIT posted:Pitches per plate appearance was definitely a hot poo poo stat back when analytics was called sabermetrics i will never stop using that cool rear end word
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FlamingLiberal posted:I'm extremely confused why Law has Cleveland that high Baseball America ranked the Mariners' system #2, Law has them at #13. I could take the argument that the system is top heavy but I suppose it's a gut feeling given there weren't really any minor leagues last year.
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