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| Shohei Ohtani |
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| Hey, the national league has an MVP too you know! |
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FizFashizzle posted:I hope his inevitable TJ season doesn’t count in this. It's a complete steal even if he misses a season.
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Oct 11, 2022 00:00
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:It is backloaded for some reason with like $20m per the last three seasons... That's pretty normal. Yeah they're buying out his rookie and arb years but they still usually scale them up in a similar manner. Also this isn't the nfl so unless there are team options anywhere in there (and I cannot imagine any player would agree to this kind of contract if there were) all those years are fully guaranteed.
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Oct 11, 2022 00:38
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Hirez posted:and at least they didn't get beat by their own zamboni driver They did lose to their former Cy Young award winner and one of the key relievers that got blown up was former Mariner Anthony Bass, though.
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Oct 11, 2022 00:45
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IcePhoenix posted:That's pretty normal. Yeah they're buying out his rookie and arb years but they still usually scale them up in a similar manner.
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Oct 11, 2022 00:53
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https://twitter.com/martinonyc/status/1579533014593593346 I don't get this. Eppler isn't a good GM.
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Oct 11, 2022 02:07
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Team goes from 77 wins to 101. The GM sucks and is bad at his job.
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Oct 11, 2022 02:44
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Just pretend I posted that video from Mets Twitter in May where the commentator was talking about the NL East being over and not even thinking about the Braves anymore. What I mean to say is that the Mets are the Hillary Clintons of baseball.
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Oct 11, 2022 02:55
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That was quick. I have no idea who this is though. https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/1579653857038471168
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Oct 11, 2022 03:13
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LeeMajors posted:Just pretend I posted that video from Mets Twitter in May where the commentator was talking about the NL East being over and not even thinking about the Braves anymore. Sal Licata looks EXACTLY like my cousin who is also a Mets fan on Long Island so it's spooky to see his stupid takes.
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Oct 11, 2022 04:04
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SI has an excerpt of the Joe Maddon book that I will definitely get from the library and read so I can post about it about the Mohawk Incident and how Old Man Joe has had enough of those POINTY HEADS in the front office. https://www.si.com/mlb/2022/10/06/joe-maddon-tom-verducci-book-excerpt
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Oct 11, 2022 04:37
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Ammat The Ankh posted:That was quick. I have no idea who this is though. He kinda looks like Butt-Head.
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Oct 11, 2022 06:30
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https://twitter.com/DanHayesMLB/status/1579631914931351552 Twins decide to roll it back, except for the team trainer. They were apparently (no joke) stunned to discover that Tyler Mahle, thrice DL'd for shoulder fatigue this season, wasn't doing shoulder strengthen exercises.
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Oct 11, 2022 16:37
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Ammat The Ankh posted:That was quick. I have no idea who this is though. Seems weird to leave a team in the middle of a playoff run, no?
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Oct 11, 2022 17:35
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https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1575652104307212289 lol most teams had a guy who threw more 97+ MPH pitches for a strike in one outing than the Cubs threw combined all season. Not great!
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Oct 11, 2022 17:36
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Wait... 12? Clearly I'm spoiled and my perspective is skewed since the Yankees like trippled up most of the league but how is that even possible? Do the Cubs just have one reliever who throws hard who got traded? Was it Effros?
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Oct 11, 2022 20:13
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https://twitter.com/ThomasHall85/status/1579898703368060928?s=20&t=3QMDUfjhmvWpGV700wUIYg Sounds like another rotation spot opened up. Unfortunate to lose Stripling but should be survivable easily enough.
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Oct 11, 2022 20:21
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STAC Goat posted:Wait... 12? Clearly I'm spoiled and my perspective is skewed since the Yankees like trippled up most of the league but how is that even possible? Do the Cubs just have one reliever who throws hard who got traded? Was it Effros? Effross can't throw that hard, and neither could anybody in our pen this year, really. Alzolay and Wesneski can dial it up to 96-97 if they absolutely max out, which isn't often (also both didn't show up until the last month of the season). Stroman, Steele, Keegan, Smyly, Assad, and Sampson all average in the low 90's, Miley in the high 80's. ManRod was throwing triple digits last year but his velo was way down this season. Cubs just don't have a lot of velo at the MLB level right now, although based on the recent drafts they seem to be trying to work towards fixing that.
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Oct 11, 2022 20:35
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Passan with the nuclear option https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1579925482514313216?t=CG9IHTytg_bdUxc8FX5tQg&s=19 (whole exchange is a tremendous display of Jeff stuffing a dork in a locker)
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Oct 11, 2022 21:10
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Whoops not GDT
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Oct 11, 2022 21:14
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Paracaidas posted:https://twitter.com/DanHayesMLB/status/1579631914931351552 What the gently caress?! No wonder we've been having so many loving injuries! What the hell was this guy even doing?
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Oct 11, 2022 22:02
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The Angels staffer who gave drugs to Tyler Skaggs got 22 years
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Oct 11, 2022 22:13
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LobsterMobster posted:Passan with the nuclear option roll with a pig and you just get dirty. Passan looks stupid here
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Oct 11, 2022 22:34
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lol he deleted it
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Oct 11, 2022 22:38
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LobsterMobster posted:Passan with the nuclear option deleted
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Oct 11, 2022 22:39
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https://twitter.com/PatrickKFlowers/status/1579948614289612801 There's quite a bit to unpack in this one, but Joe specifically talks about his exit from Chicago a lot more than I think he ever has before, and lol it's pretty much exactly what I expected: quote:According to Maddon, his downfall in Chicago started after the 2018 loss to the Colorado Rockies in the National League Wild Card Game. Emphasis mine, literally "Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."
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Oct 11, 2022 23:09
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It can be a misinterpretation but I kinda read him as pushing up against organizational mandates more than the players. I dunno. It’s kind of phrased in a passive voice kind of way. “There was a players meeting and then I was informed there was a problem.” So is he just trying to avoid saying players revolted or is he saying the front office was being a third party disrupter? But that last quote seems to be talking specifically about organizational scheduling and practice stuff. But of course it’s all one side of the story.
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Oct 11, 2022 23:18
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STAC Goat posted:It can be a misinterpretation but I kinda read him as pushing up against organizational mandates more than the players. I dunno. It’s kind of phrased in a passive voice kind of way. “There was a players meeting and then I was informed there was a problem.” So is he just trying to avoid saying players revolted or is he saying the front office was being a third party disrupter? But that last quote seems to be talking specifically about organizational scheduling and practice stuff. But of course it’s all one side of the story. He talks about it more in the parts of the interview regarding his exit from the Angels, but essentially it sounds like Joe's view of FO's and analytics is that they serve a purpose, but shouldn't have direct influence or say in lineup construction or on-field decisions. He wants the FO guys to crunch the numbers and identify the best talent to get for the roster in the offseason, and provide scouting reports to coaches and managers, but for the coaches and managers to be the ones to decide if and how to convey that information to the players or action it on the field. He specifically talks negatively about how the Angels FO would give him a list of pitchers who should be available on any given day, or even calling him in the dugout mid-game to tell him what bullpen guy to start warming up. "I want baseball guys making baseball decisions and front office guys making front office decisions" in other words, basically the total opposite of how the "modern" FO works and expects to wield power. And in a sense I do get it: if the FO gets to decide who's on the roster and who the starting lineup is and who is available out of the pen, what the hell is the manager even there for other than to massage the clubhouse? But that's just how baseball is trending, and if Joe's stated stance that he's only willing to come back to managing if he gets full control over lineups and in-game decisions then I think he's managed his last team, for better or worse.
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Oct 12, 2022 08:22
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Sydin posted:And in a sense I do get it: if the FO gets to decide who's on the roster and who the starting lineup is and who is available out of the pen, what the hell is the manager even there for other than to massage the clubhouse? But that's just how baseball is trending, and if Joe's stated stance that he's only willing to come back to managing if he gets full control over lineups and in-game decisions then I think he's managed his last team, for better or worse. Bud Black better sleep with one eye open, that's sounding very Rockies. Not to go too old-timer but in one of Bill Veeck's books he wrote about how you could theoretically get a bench coach, or I guess in the modern analogy an analytics dept, to map out all the X's and O's and game plan and get by with a the equivalent a human resources manager (This is the 60's, not the soulless ghouls in your companies HR dept now) in the manager's seat who could literally manage the various personalities on the team and handle the inevitable ups and downs of a season. MLB finally came to the same conclusion 50 years later and Maddon's press tour is sounding like an angry old doctor checking your four humors complaining about all this newfangled germ theory bullshit. It sucks for him to be in the middle of that generational change, but history is littered with gurus that fall by the wayside as information takes over.
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Oct 12, 2022 15:05
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ironicat barfing ironicats https://twitter.com/ActionNetworkHQ/status/1579830426847178752?s=20&t=B3NlNXncicl5pBj-jUWn7g
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Oct 12, 2022 18:52
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Luigi Thirty posted:ironicat barfing ironicats lol ya. That's like nuclear meltdown levels of irony.
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Oct 12, 2022 19:10
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good, because gently caress Pete Rose
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Oct 12, 2022 19:16
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Hand Knit posted:https://twitter.com/ThomasHall85/status/1579898703368060928?s=20&t=3QMDUfjhmvWpGV700wUIYg Because the Blue Jays already have such a wealth of superb pitching at their disposal?
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Oct 12, 2022 21:13
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Hirez posted:good, because gently caress Pete Rose
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Hand Knit posted:https://twitter.com/ThomasHall85/status/1579898703368060928?s=20&t=3QMDUfjhmvWpGV700wUIYg Huh? He's 32 years old and just had his first year that wasn't absolute poo poo in like 5 years with like a 2.7WAR and less than 7.5 k9? Someone is gonna give that guy a big contract?
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Oct 12, 2022 22:31
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He's also going to get 15-20 million a year and the Jays are at 180 million already and have other needs.
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Oct 12, 2022 23:02
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lol if you look at some of the garbage that got 15-20 AAV last offseason maybe that isn't that crazy but if you're the one paying him that it's not likely to work out.
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Oct 12, 2022 23:08
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Ya i wouldn't want to do that. We're already stuck with Kikuchi and Ryu. If they add a starter they're going to trade Kirk or Moreno for one
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Oct 12, 2022 23:10
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:If they add a starter they're going to trade Kirk or Moreno for one ya it's this
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Oct 13, 2022 02:06
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Darude - Adam Sandstorm posted:Ya i wouldn't want to do that. We're already stuck with Kikuchi and Ryu. If they add a starter they're going to trade Kirk or Moreno for one I guess they can plan to have Ryu, Kikuchi and White rotate through the fifth starter spot at least to start the season. Maybe one of them even sticks. But yeah a catcher trade is likely coming in some form.
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I thought it was incredibly unlikely Ryu even pitches next year?
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