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FlamingLiberal posted:Gio Gonzalez decided to retire today Covid claims a career  The two seasons prior to the hell year he was pretty good
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Sydin posted:The Cubs have Bryant, Javy, and Rizzo all potentially walking after this year, there are segments of the fandom who will riot for each of them being allowed to walk, and the Cubs are absolutely not spending to retain all three in FA. I guess the good news is you guys wont miss them next year. Mainly because there wont be a season next year.
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 Happy opening day in NPB. Regular season starts in 10 hours. I made a dumb thread... https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3963323
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Double post but new in the NPB thread this year is... Some Japanese guy made a crazy detailed Fan-graphs lite NPB page. It is just not very user friendly and I have no idea where he got some of the information for the early NPB players but he seems to think that Sadaharu Oh had 177.2 total WAR. And pitcher Jiro Noguchi had a single season 16.5 WAR in 1942. (40-17 in 527 innings) only updated through 2019 http://npbstats.com/eng/ ScottyJSno fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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bawfuls posted:Seems clear the Cubs are going to go for the classic “we tried” move with Baez. But maybe he’s the one guy from that core they retain for fan service? Bryant is as good as gone and I expect him to be traded at the deadline; there's too much bad blood between him and the organization and the team is already planting stories in the Tribune and Sun-Times about how they plan to move forward without him. Baez is going to get the "we tried" PR play, the Cubs will make a big show about trying to retain him, but ultimately he will be allowed to walk. Rizzo will retire a Cub.
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Timby posted:Bryant is as good as gone and I expect him to be traded at the deadline. Baez is going to get the "we tried" move. Rizzo will retire a Cub. Not just Bryant, if the Cubs are well out of it at the deadline I could see a firesale. Half the rotation is guys on one year deals looking to rebuild their value, plus you've got Javy, Contreras, etc. Of course knowing the Cubs what will probably happen is that at like 3-4 games out of the WC at the deadline they'll add around the margins, collapse in September, and watch half the roster walk for nothing.
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They could get a lot for Contreras by himself. There aren't that many good catchers.
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I could care less about Bryant at this point. I don't think he's ever going to put up the consistent numbers he had in 2015-16, he always seems to have been battling through an injury that's got his mechanics all screwed up, and he's going to cost a lot. I want Javy, Contreras, and Rizzo to retire as Cubs but it's unlikely that will happen.
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more falafel please posted:I could care less about Bryant at this point. I don't think he's ever going to put up the consistent numbers he had in 2015-16, he always seems to have been battling through an injury that's got his mechanics all screwed up, and he's going to cost a lot. The thing with Bryant is that he's never taken the time to heal his shoulder from when he initially hosed it up back in 2018 (and he had some nagging injuries in 2017 that he never allowed to fully recover, as well). I think he also played most of last year with a broken wrist. Combine that with his very long swing and it's a recipe for bad juju; it's just become far too easy to jam him up and inside. I don't think he'll ever achieve his true potential of being a steady .300 hitter with 30 HR every year, unfortunately, but that just continues the long history of Cubs superstar prospects getting mauled by wolves. I do wonder what would happen with Bryant, though, if he started working with a hitting coach who wasn't his father. I can't help but wonder if there are some awful habits that neither he nor his dad are recognizing.
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Video game nonsense update: The new career mode in The Show 21 sounds kinda weird, for those interested. They let you be a two way player, and try to give you a narrative for your player through pre-recorded podcast episodes. Really not a fan of the character progression changes, though. It sounds more frustrating and limiting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtLJrNcW-vM
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The devs philosophy wrt RTTS has been weird for a while now. Starting with 18 you're basically forced to be a middle round pick at best, and the cap/archetype system makes it really tedious to make a player that doesn't conform to a traditional mold. Now 21 makes it seem like it's even more restrictive, with hard limits on how much you can load your player up. It also kinda sounds like you can only have one RTTS character now instead of a bunch because they want them to be usable in DD, which loving sucks because I loved making a random assortment of weidos. Like nobody is playing RTTS to be a scrappy middle round .250/.320/.430 utility IF, they're playing it to either gently caress around with unothodox characters or to enjoy a power fantasy of hitting .400 with 70 HR's while playing GG SS.
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Man I'm sure enjoying watching Astros fans fall over themselves to explain why 6/120 is a great offer for Correa and if anything it's overpaying him
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Intruder posted:Man I'm sure enjoying watching Astros fans fall over themselves to explain why 6/120 is a great offer for Correa and if anything it's overpaying him 20m/year is laughable and the Astros should rightfully be tarred and feathered for such a lowball, but I do think a 6 year extension for a guy with Correa’s injury history is a bit foolish. They should have offered a 3-4 year deal with an actual proper salary.
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Other than the weird back thing Correa's injury history is just weird poo poo. Like tearing a thumb ligament on a catcher's shinguard on a slide. Or breaking his leg on another slide
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Sure, weird poo poo like the thumb and the broken rib are obviously one-offs, but the back and neck thing is recurring.
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Sydin posted:The devs philosophy wrt RTTS has been weird for a while now. Starting with 18 you're basically forced to be a middle round pick at best, and the cap/archetype system makes it really tedious to make a player that doesn't conform to a traditional mold. Now 21 makes it seem like it's even more restrictive, with hard limits on how much you can load your player up. It also kinda sounds like you can only have one RTTS character now instead of a bunch because they want them to be usable in DD, which loving sucks because I loved making a random assortment of weidos. Honestly, the custom character stuff in Diamond Dynasty always sucks. I don't know why they'd merge it with RTTS when most people just want it completely gone from the mode. Seems like a lose lose.
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LeeMajors posted:Alright--thread request. I don't play multiplayer at all but I'm either going to wait for 21 or buy The Show 20 today. It's on PS4 so the most coveted feature (design a stadium) is no longer a factor. The Show 20 is down to $5 on PSN right now so it may be worth grabbing it if you've got the itch to play it regardless of whether you decide to get The Show 21 later on.
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Squall posted:The Show 20 is down to $5 on PSN right now so it may be worth grabbing it if you've got the itch to play it regardless of whether you decide to get The Show 21 later on. JFC I bought it last night at 20 wtf Not a big deal, but gently caress. That's happened to me twice in the past year.
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Squall posted:The Show 20 is down to $5 on PSN right now so it may be worth grabbing it if you've got the itch to play it regardless of whether you decide to get The Show 21 later on. Does it still have a ton of microtransaction stuff bolted on? Because that was such a turnoff.
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Your periodic reminder the team valuations are exploding so fast they could all run at a year to year loss and still make money for ownership https://twitter.com/sportico/status/1375386127360724996?s=21 The average MLB franchise is now worth more than Guggenheim paid for the Dodgers 9 years ago. The Dodgers have apparently doubled in value since then.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Does it still have a ton of microtransaction stuff bolted on? Because that was such a turnoff. not at all, at least for diamond dynasty. you can still buy "stubs" if you really want to but they release gobs of free content throughout the year. most of the best players in the game can't be bought.
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bawfuls posted:Your periodic reminder the team valuations are exploding so fast they could all run at a year to year loss and still make money for ownership Turns out that giving massive amounts of money to rich people drives up the value of things rich people like because they have nowhere else to put the money besides stunting on each other.
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Bob Nutting bought the Pirates in 1996 for $92m and now they're worth $1.35b. Looks like a good investment!
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how are these numbers even calculated? Do they just ask how people how much they would pay for a team? it’s not like teams are commodities or even publicly traded
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Bob Nutting bought the Pirates in 1996 for $92m and now they're worth $1.35b. Looks like a good investment! And that's in addition the hundreds of millions he's pocketed!
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I'm playing an OOTP 21 Pirates franchise and it's impossible to get ahead because the owner takes any revenue increases out at the start of a new year. Way too realistic.
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Tweezer Reprise posted:how are these numbers even calculated? Do they just ask how people how much they would pay for a team? it’s not like teams are commodities or even publicly traded If you really care, there is a fairly lengthy transparency and methodology section baked right into that article. https://www.sportico.com/valuations/teams/2021/2021-mlb-teams-value-baseball-team-data-1234625755/ Click on "View Methodology" next to the red FEATURED STORY link.
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bawfuls posted:Your periodic reminder the team valuations are exploding so fast they could all run at a year to year loss and still make money for ownership A nice article to go along with that https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2020-06-26/roster-mlb-billionaire-team-owners-who-rule-baseball How much each owner is worth, what they bought the team for and how much the team is worth now. Most of them bought the team for only a couple hundred million not too long ago and now they are worth billions. So they can all get hosed when they try to cry poverty because of one or two seasons without fans. DurosKlav fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Considering the level of chuds among the players and owners I'd be surprised if it actually happened, but apparently the union wants to talk to MLB about moving the AS game out of Atlanta this year in response to their passing a bunch of laws that restrict voting rights: https://twitter.com/MikeSilvermanBB/status/1375448029059284993
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*grandpa voice* cancel culture!!!
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SilvergunSuperman posted:That legit surprises me they're even talking about it. Sounds like a solid strategy to me, on top of being the right thing to do. When, not if, the CBA negotiations blow up the owners will turn to their secret weapons with code names like Ren Kosenthal, Peff Jassan, or Geter Pammons (legacy division) to make sure their message spreads far and wide. Meanwhile, historically the players' side has been 20 seconds of Tom Glavine in an Izod shirt on Sportscenter. Even if MLBPA's activism is wallet deep like most of the Fortune 500 it's still for the greater good on a couple different fronts.
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https://twitter.com/CubsZone/status/1375541279568855045 lmao
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Haha, La Stella owns. He was actually quite good with us considering he had such a limited pinch hitting roll.
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That Sportico piece also has 2019 and 2020 revenues by team. 7 teams had 2019 revenues in excess of $400M 7 teams had 2019 revenues between $300M and $400M The remaining 16 teams were between $200M and $300M Even the impoverished Rays, Pirates, and A's all had 2019 revenues in excess of $200M. The Padres were over $300M. The "small market" Cardinals were 10th with $388M.
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Love 2 run a $40m payroll when revenues are $220m.
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habeasdorkus posted:Love 2 run a $40m payroll when revenues are $220m. it's a good gig if you can get it
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