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| Shohei Ohtani |
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According to UPI | Number of MLB Players by Nationality: United States of America - 525 Dominican Republic - 90 Venezuela - 53 Cuba - 20 Puerto Rico - 19 Mexico - 8 Canada - 6 Japan - 6 Curacao - 5 South Korea - 5 Colombia - 4 Germany - 2 Australia, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Aruba, Brazil, Panama - 1 So the MLB players are not really coming from the West Indies cricket countries.
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more falafel please posted:I'm thinking about trying to go to Miami for the WBC semifinals, but I need to be in San Francisco on the 21st at the latest. You get to decide!!!
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Jan 26, 2023 13:16
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kensei posted:What the gently caress https://blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes-did-bobby-abreu-have-a-better-mlb-career-than-ichiro-suzuki/
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Jan 26, 2023 13:52
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bawfuls posted:I agree he should be in but I don’t care about the ring or the perfect game in this context. I agree that those things you mentioned should also factor in too I suspect he will get some support due to being a nice guy and all the above, but I don't think he will get in and will probably hang around on the ballot for a few years in like the mid 30s or 40s percentage Paracaidas posted:I mean, sure, a perfect game is great and all but it has nothing on this Look who the winning pitcher was 
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Jan 26, 2023 13:56
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https://twitter.com/michaelschwab13/status/1618604142905430017 Drive relief pitchers to the mound in the Fram-mobile
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Jan 26, 2023 15:20
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Nodoze posted:https://blogs.fangraphs.com/sunday-notes-did-bobby-abreu-have-a-better-mlb-career-than-ichiro-suzuki/ get this the hell outta here. I'm not even gonna read that garbage
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Jan 26, 2023 15:22
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mdemone posted:get this the hell outta here. I'm not even gonna read that garbage Search your feelings, you know it to be true
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Jan 26, 2023 15:24
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BrigadierSensible posted:Forgive this stupid uninformed question: Young people choose baseball because baseball is the greatest game known to man and cricket is some weird nonsense that takes a fortnight with mandatory tea time and breaks for updates on the Royal family hth
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Jan 26, 2023 15:30
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maffew buildings posted:cricket is some weird nonsense that takes a fortnight with mandatory tea time and breaks for updates on the Royal family hth Test cricket owns. Sorry you don't like good things.
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Jan 26, 2023 15:47
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Ronald Acuña socked a dinger in the VWL playoffs last night and celebrated it really hard. https://twitter.com/Jared_Carrabis/status/1618103408543805441 This made somebody so mad they started fighting his family in the stands, and now he says he's retired from Venezuelan ball forever (he was already expected not to play in the WBC). https://twitter.com/AngelinoR/status/1618097657611976705
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Jan 26, 2023 15:49
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AlbertFlasher posted:Test cricket owns. Sorry you don't like good things. Look at this psyop- Hulk Hogan avatar but likes cricket. No thanks, pal!
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Jan 26, 2023 15:56
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We fixed cricket and made it into a credible sport and now we have to hear dudes talk about how week long games that end in a tie are better. No one wears bucket hats in baseball! Collared shirt rear end sport.
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Jan 26, 2023 16:01
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Ronald Acuña socked a dinger in the VWL playoffs last night and celebrated it really hard. Between this and Cabrera clotheslining that guy, it's been a bad winter for the "It's part of their culture" argument.
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Jan 26, 2023 16:04
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bawfuls posted:How many center fielders were better than Dawson during the 80’s, where he was an 8x All Star? How is he not among the best at his position during his career? At the time he retired, he was the 8th best "center fielder" all time by WAR. His career WAR was more than Dave Winfield, a first ballot Hall of Famer, who also had a long career (Winfield had over 2,000 more plate appearances). If you're going by JAWs, ask yourself if you think OG Billy Hamilton and Richie Ashburn belong in the HoF. Dawson falls in between the 2 of them when compared to center fielders. (Dawson's, WAR7 brings down his JAWS score a bit). Among right fielders, Dawson is behind Tony Gwynn and in front of Mookie Betts. By fWAR, from '76-'96, he was the 5th best outfielder. Statistically, Andre Dawson belongs in the Hall of Fame. At the time he retired, and for the entirety of his time on the ballot, people were just looking at offensive numbers. When you adjust for position and include the years when he was a great center fielder, his case improves dramatically.
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Jan 26, 2023 16:06
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zoux posted:We fixed cricket and made it into a credible sport and now we have to hear dudes talk about how week long games that end in a tie are better. No one wears bucket hats in baseball! Collared shirt rear end sport.  
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Jan 26, 2023 16:09
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70s were truly the greatest era of baseball
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Jan 26, 2023 16:10
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AlbertFlasher posted:Test cricket owns. Sorry you don't like good things. I had a business trip to India a long time ago and our hosts taught us about cricket while we were there. It was suuuuper fun to watch. I forgot all of it almost immediately.
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Jan 26, 2023 16:11
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Wouldn't want to be the baseball fan whose friends all know he's responsible for Ronald Acuna never playing Venezuelan ball again
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Jan 26, 2023 16:16
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Cricket is cool, it’s like inverted baseball: instead of outs being common and runs being rare, this is reversed. And I have no idea how they field that hard rear end ball without gloves
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Jan 26, 2023 16:22
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Intruder posted:Wouldn't want to be the baseball fan whose friends all know he's responsible for Ronald Acuna never playing Venezuelan ball again Imagine if you could get Aaron Judge out of MLB by beating up a Yankees fan...
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Jan 26, 2023 16:24
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The Braves would've shut it down eventually anyway.
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Jan 26, 2023 16:36
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GoutPatrol posted:According to UPI | Number of MLB Players by Nationality: Who's the player from Saudi Arabia?
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Jan 26, 2023 16:39
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That list is also missing Honduran mega star and world series champ Mauricio Dubon oof another huge L for the A's fanbase
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Jan 26, 2023 16:41
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GoutPatrol posted:According to UPI | Number of MLB Players by Nationality: Where's Peru for Luzardo  Yes I know his parents are Venezuelan but he was born in Lima
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Jan 26, 2023 16:45
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Nodoze posted:Search your feelings, you know it to be true kensei posted:What the gently caress
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Jan 26, 2023 16:52
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Test is Best but T20 is a pale imitation trying to reach for the heights baseball achieved in the 1970s. Baseball owns. Stick sport supremacy.
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Jan 26, 2023 17:08
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Intruder posted:Where's Peru for Luzardo He was born in Odessa, so he’s Russian
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Jan 26, 2023 17:12
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zoux posted:That list is also missing Honduran mega star and world series champ Mauricio Dubon Not surprising, unfortunately 
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Jan 26, 2023 17:18
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mdemone posted:get this the hell outta here. I'm not even gonna read that garbage That’s not a knock on Ichiro, it’s just validation that Abreu was hella underrated. They both belong in the Hall.
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Jan 26, 2023 17:19
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BigDumper posted:That’s not a knock on Ichiro, it’s just validation that Abreu was hella underrated. They both belong in the Hall. Wow, another perfect take
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Jan 26, 2023 17:23
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zoux posted:That list is also missing Honduran mega star and world series champ Mauricio Dubon The A's are the perfect team for a guy who is constantly stripping payroll to the bone and then being shocked when poo poo stops working
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Jan 26, 2023 17:26
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Oh wait, no, it's the faulty wiring that's shocking him.
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Jan 26, 2023 17:28
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bawfuls posted:Cricket is cool, it’s like inverted baseball: instead of outs being common and runs being rare, this is reversed. The highest exit velocity of a sixer in cricket is 17kph slower than the *average* home run. The ball is usually going a lot slower. It still stings like hell and the backstop still usually wears gloves, but it mostly comes down to that. I still wouldn't want to be trying to grab a liner on the fly, though.
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Jan 26, 2023 17:44
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Intruder posted:The A's are the perfect team for a guy who is constantly stripping payroll to the bone and then being shocked when poo poo stops working
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Jan 26, 2023 18:27
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The writers would be nuts not to put in C.C. pretty quick. He is on the right side of the line numbers-wise and I think his public celebration of Black baseball ought to give him a boost. This is a canonization of Thomas Aquinas situation here. The league has a big racial divide problem, you have a deserving Black player who has criticized the league for it, you should quickly induct him.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:20
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BigDumper posted:That’s not a knock on Ichiro, it’s just validation that Abreu was hella underrated. They both belong in the Hall. I agree with you here, thanks for the sanity in a sea of crazy.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:25
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rickiep00h posted:The highest exit velocity of a sixer in cricket is 17kph slower than the *average* home run. The ball is usually going a lot slower. It still stings like hell and the backstop still usually wears gloves, but it mostly comes down to that. I still wouldn't want to be trying to grab a liner on the fly, though. Google says the COR of a cricket and baseball are both about 0.55-0.58 (Manfred's deadball aside). So I guess the difference must be batspeed. Cricket bats are 36-48oz while baseball bats tend to max out around 36oz these days, plus are more aerodynamic being skinny and round instead of wide and flat.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:37
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bawfuls posted:Wow that is not what I would have expected considering the ball is hard and the bats are flat, I figured the ball would have a higher COR and the flat bat would lead to high quality contact. I think it's mostly down to the awkward angles batsmen have to take. Cricket, strategically, feels a lot like what would happen if the shift wasn't just allowed but taken to the extreme. It's like 98% trying to intentionally hitting it where they ain't, while the defense is doing as much as possible to be in the best possible position for the hitters tendencies while acknowledging that they can't be everywhere and just conceding that they might get got.
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Jan 26, 2023 19:43
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Reiche posted:I’ll do you one better! lol the Mariners had three hits and they were all Ichiro edit: jeez both pitchers' lines were amazing! Franklin went 8 innings only giving up 2 solo shots.
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https://twitter.com/Chandler_Rome/status/1618683354995642369 Oh thank christ https://twitter.com/astros/status/1618682049044570112 The Houston sports awards were last night and Crane was getting pelted with questions about the GM search and he was all "oh no timeline, no decision yet" zoux fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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