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Shohei Ohtani | 50 | 59.52% | |
Aaron Judge | 19 | 22.62% | |
Hey, the national league has an MVP too you know! | 15 | 17.86% | |
Total: | 84 votes |
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Twin Cinema posted:Ramirez's 2019 is still so weird to me. I remember Effectively Wild doing a lot of "what happened to Ramirez?" episodes that year. Although, now looking at it, he just had a really lovely first half matched with a strong second half, and it came out to a decent season. He had a kid almost right when he turned it all around. Players are people, he was almost assuredly distracted that first half.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 22:40 |
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# ? May 29, 2024 02:29 |
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Vertical Lime posted:https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1619077560805064704?s=46&t=_8UjfMV6E8vPGrHUn1p25w Good poo poo, frankly that's a bargain if he can keep up his average of ~3 WAR a year.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 22:42 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Don't sell this short. Juan didn't just take a ball to the groin, he took a 105-mph line drive to the nuts while not wearing a cup and he went to the DL with the official reason being "bruised testicles". I think I was at the game where Juan's testicles died. I was at least visiting Cleveland when it happened. e: Ah, it was in Anaheim so I didn't see it. I was at one of the last games he started for Cleveland in Cleveland.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 22:44 |
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hot take - anyone who questions the wizard's hall worthiness is a Bad Person
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 22:44 |
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maffew buildings posted:hot take - anyone who questions the wizard's hall worthiness is a Bad Person
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 22:46 |
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Crazy Ted posted:He's like Brooks Robinson: someone who was a decent-to-good bat at his position for a long time, but was great at intangible things and so extraordinary at defense that he's unquestionably a Hall of Famer. As great as the Brock and Ozzie trades worked out for the Cardinals, they still might not overcome how brutal the Steve Carlton trade was, zero-sum
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 22:46 |
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Barry Bluejeans posted:Good poo poo, frankly that's a bargain if he can keep up his average of ~3 WAR a year. his WAR/162 is 5.3 you might have been looking at his WAA/162 which is 3.2
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 22:49 |
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Criminal Minded posted:they still might not overcome how brutal the Steve Carlton trade was, zero-sum Oddly enough, even though he didn't get it and the Phillies were in last that season might be the best argument for a pitcher winning MVP in the expansion era. If you look it up at BBRef, you'll see that Carlton went 27-10 and the rest of the Phillies starters went something like 17-57.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 22:55 |
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Julio Cruz posted:his WAR/162 is 5.3 Speaking of WAR/162, did you know Lorenzo Cain has a higher WAR/162 than Ken Griffey Jr.? That surprised me. I love Lorenzo Cain.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 23:54 |
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https://twitter.com/sdut/status/1619051628421861376quote:It’s a little after 9 a.m. on a January morning and Joe Musgrove is floating face down, motionless in the deepest part of a giant swimming pool. Not the point but I do tend to buy the mental benefits of this sort of workout more than I do the typical exmilitary athletic training grift.
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# ? Jan 27, 2023 23:55 |
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alpha_destroy posted:Speaking of WAR/162, did you know Lorenzo Cain has a higher WAR/162 than Ken Griffey Jr.? That surprised me. I love Lorenzo Cain. Cain is ahead of Griffey by 0.2 WAR and has played 1500 fewer games.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 00:37 |
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Some Numbers posted:Cain is ahead of Griffey by 0.2 WAR and has played 1500 fewer games. if Griffey stopped at Lorenzo Cain's current age he'd be well ahead, Griffey was very very much a shell of himself past about 35 or so
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 01:03 |
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No Safe Word posted:if Griffey stopped at Lorenzo Cain's current age he'd be well ahead, Griffey was very very much a shell of himself past about 35 or so Before the trade to Cincinnati, Griffey only had two seasons with a WAR under 4. After the trade, he only had two seasons with a WAR over 2.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 01:12 |
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Obi Wan screaming at Griffey that he was supposed to be the chosen one
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 01:27 |
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Some Numbers posted:Before the trade to Cincinnati, Griffey only had two seasons with a WAR under 4.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 03:16 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Leaving Seattle was easily the biggest mistake Griffey ever made.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 03:39 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Leaving Seattle was easily the biggest mistake Griffey ever made.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 03:47 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Not paying Griffey was easily the biggest mistake Seattle ever made.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 03:48 |
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Worked out great for Cincy!
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 04:06 |
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Crazy Ted posted:Designing Safeco with deeper fences than the Kingdome and pissing Griffey off is easily the biggest mistake Seattle ever made.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 04:15 |
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Pitch framing is bullshit Fooling umpires is a valuable skill
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 04:26 |
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they hosed up because they did an average of the wind direction for the entire year instead of for just during the baseball season. home plate should have probably been on the other side of the stadium, then the dimensions would've been fine with the wind tending to boost distance.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 04:26 |
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live with fruit posted:Worked out great for Cincy! his body couldn't handle the heartbreak of being spurned by the city he had adopted as his home
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 04:39 |
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Jesus Christ guys, I wasn't saying Cain was better than an all time great. I was commenting on a surprising statistic. Y'all are loving weird as hell. Edit: yes, it's obviously a result of the fact Griffey had a long period of decline and Cain's seven year peak is essentially his entire career. It's just a surprising number!
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 05:28 |
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You cited a surprising stat and a couple people added some context lol where do you see some meltdown or whatever it is that prompted that followup
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 05:39 |
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You know the Patton Oswalt bit about Germans having no sense of humor and correcting jokes rather than allow a moment of whimsy? That's the first three responses. Here's a fun thing about a player A who I appreciate. Well actually they weren't as good as player B. That... wasn't the point.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 05:55 |
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Uh have you considered you are the weird one.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 06:24 |
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That did occur to me yes haha. But, I stand by what I said. It's a cool stat and the reflex to refute rather than appreciate the unexpected is weird as hell.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 06:37 |
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providing context is not refuting, may you find peace in your internet posting, namaste
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 07:01 |
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I think hall of fame eligibility should be based on how much pleasure can be derived from saying the players name out loud. Is it an elite baseball name? Get em in there. I hate all giants players but Buster Posey is an upper echelon baseball name. He’s in. Patrick wisdom. Excellent baseball name but not quite. Randall grichuk. More of a golfer name IMO. Keep him out
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 16:44 |
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First ballot HoF Lars Nootbar I'm a big believer in name theory and that is bad news for Matt Mervis.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 16:58 |
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zoux posted:First ballot HoF Lars Nootbar Fun fact about Lars I learned this week: his mother is Japanese and he is playing for Japan in the WBC. When you get the chance to play with Shohei (et al), you take it.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 17:22 |
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rickiep00h posted:Fun fact about Lars I learned this week: his mother is Japanese and he is playing for Japan in the WBC. When you get the chance to play with Shohei (et al), you take it. That seems like a huge honor for him. Has a Japanese-American ever played for Team Japan? Big loss for the Dutch as well.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 18:55 |
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https://twitter.com/PatrickDLyons/status/1619370622949421057 lmao
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 20:22 |
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lmao at thinking that lmao at thinking it's a good thing
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 20:29 |
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live with fruit posted:That seems like a huge honor for him. Has a Japanese-American ever played for Team Japan? He's the first person to play for Japan because of ancestry, it's pretty cool I think.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 20:40 |
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.500 has to be about the worst possible place, franchise-wise, to end up a season like either shoot for 90 wins or 70 but not in between
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 20:48 |
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gotta justify that kris bryant contract somehow
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 20:48 |
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It's funny that Bud Black turned down the Nats job over money and has been stuck in Colorado hell ever since.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 20:52 |
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# ? May 29, 2024 02:29 |
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Intruder posted:gotta justify that kris bryant contract somehow The timeline of "Cubs and Rockies worked on a KB/Arenado swap but Colorado got cold feet because fans might riot" to "Colorado trades Arenado anyway because he demanded out, fans riot" to "Rockies panic and overpay KB in free agency to assuage fans" is if nothing else pretty funny.
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# ? Jan 28, 2023 20:57 |