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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:In fairness, KK is also right up there in terms of "best cf's in baseball," and also the Jays did use Varsho in center field a lot. Sticking a no bat all glove dude in a corner outfield spot when you're trying to win the world series oh and you traded a top 5 in all of baseball prospect for him is just pants on head stupid. Varsho played ~50 games worth of innings in CF which means the rest of the time he was a no bat corner outfielder on a team that struggled for offence.
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Eric the Mauve posted:He has been an awesome CF glove for a decade though and not appreciated nearly enough It's because he's mostly been overshadowed by Buxton, despite the injury issues
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Kirios posted:Should O’s fans start posting here now? yeah 
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Look, we have at least another day before being swept out of Arlington, we've gotta win at least one, right?
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Artix posted:Look, we have at least another day before being swept out of Arlington, we've gotta win at least one, right? I'd like to say yes. I'm still immensely pleased with how this season turned out, all considered, but dont feel optimistic about snagging a win at this point. part of this is probably not wanting to allow myself to feel hope, because 1-2 is a lot more hopium bait than 0-2
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Dear Brewers, Please just leave Milwaukee. You haven't won poo poo in over 50 years of existence. The owner is threatening to leave unless stadium upgrades are paid for by the public. The thematically named Miller Park is now loving AmFam Field. You got rid of Josh Hader because you didn't want to pay him. The GM left because the owner is a cheapskate. Craig Counsell who is a top 5 manager is probably leaving because the owner is too cheap. The players loving hate the owner after losing arbitration cases and are ready to jump ship. You choke constantly in the playoffs. Your hitting coach sucks and you were probably stealing signs considering how much team batting average has dropped off after the Astros were caught sign stealing and the league cracked down. You are a farm team for other clubs and are going to be selling off our cy young award winning pitcher soon. Please just gently caress off to Vegas or something and maybe someday we can get a new franchise that wins a title in their first 50 years.
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I just finished watching the 1982 World Series last week. Man was the Brewers' defensive meltdown in game 7 painful to watch. And I don't even give a poo poo about the Brewers and was an infant at the time.
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This seems like really weird timing to do this while the Astros are still in the playoffs. Astros Part Ways With AGM Bill Firkus, Farm Director Sara Goodrum
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Off season is a good time to Remember Some Guys. I got this laminated card with my bill at a masa restaurant tonight and learned that Matt Garza was actually Matt Heron Man I love Mexican bingo
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my offseason plan for the cubs: sign and trade for really good baseball players to replace inferior players on the team
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This league is poo poo from a butt. Regular season is meaningless and the World Series trophy really is just a hunk of metal when the 12th best team is playing for it.
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What if they cut the regular season back to 145 games and made all the playoff series best of 13 or something like that.
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Just declare a regular season champion like the Nashville Predators did that one time.
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Wait what, why wouldn't he be draft eligible until 2024? It sounds like he'll be living in the US and going to a US university, wouldn't this make him eligible like any other "normal" prospect?
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Sydin posted:Wait what, why wouldn't he be draft eligible until 2024? It sounds like he'll be living in the US and going to a US university, wouldn't this make him eligible like any other "normal" prospect? It depends on the type of college. If it's JuCo or Community College you can declare at any time, if it's a four-year school you can't declare until after three years. It's why you see teams draft HS players in late rounds to lure them away from college, cuz otherwise they're gone for three seasons.
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Oh that makes sense then, the linked ESPN article mentions he's rumored to be going to Vanderbilt which would then mean he's not a Junior until 2027. Cheers.
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Would be really weird for a Japanese superprospect to go to college in Tennessee but what I do I know
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General Dog posted:What if they cut the regular season back to 145 games and made all the playoff series best of 13 or something like that. You may be on to something. I don't necessairly mind the Wildcard series being BO3 as a reward to teams that win their division (thus bypassing the more "random" round), but at minimum the Division Series should be BO7 like subsequent rounds. Virtually a rounding error of all players in the league play north of 155 games per year, so just bag a few and save the pitching. After we inevitably expand to 32 teams, I would like to see geographic alignment of two 16-team conferences, each with two 8-team divisions. You play the seven teams in your division in 4 three-game series, the other division in your conference in two 3-game series (one home and one away for each opponent), and one of the divisions in the other conference in one 3-game series (half the teams home, half away). This would total 156 games, giving us the extra week we want for slightly expanded playoffs. Obviously you would rotate the nonconference opponent division and sites, so each team would play in each stadium on a 4-year cycle. Baseball is a regional sport; the amount I care about an opponent franchise strictly decreases with how far they are from my team. I imagine the majority of fans are like this. The four division winners would then qualify directly into the divisional series and host a BO7. Second place in each division would host a BO3 wildcard series. The next two highest-placed teams in each conference would face the division runners up in the wildcard round, with seeding according to regular season records. This allows for 4 teams to qualify from a single division if it is much stronger than the other. Reseeding after the wildcard round would then ensure that the team with the best record in each conference would face the weakest remaining opponent in the division series. I think those couple of changes plus maybe the idea of starting the division series the day after game 3's of the wildcard round to reduce the lower seeded team's ability to line up their pitching would do a better job of rewarding regular-season play. Right now a large issue with the Manfred playoff system is that the incentives to continually finish higher in the standings don't always line up. For example, it is almost always preferable to be a 6 seed over a 5. The 3 seed being the weakest division winner will usually have a worse record than the number 1 wildcard and there is no gurantee that they are better than the number 2 wildcard. The other issue is comparing the two best division winners. Without reseeding, any time the 6 beats the 3, then the 1 is getting a more difficult opponent than the 2 in the division series. A hypothetical home field advantage (contingent on the 1 and 2 seeds both qualifying) in the championship series isn't enough of an advantage to offset this.
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:You may be on to something. I don't necessairly mind the Wildcard series being BO3 as a reward to teams that win their division (thus bypassing the more "random" round), but at minimum the Division Series should be BO7 like subsequent rounds. Virtually a rounding error of all players in the league play north of 155 games per year, so just bag a few and save the pitching. I agree with pretty much this entire post.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Would be really weird for a Japanese superprospect to go to college in Tennessee but what I do I know Vanderbilt is a baseball powerhouse
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Popete posted:Vanderbilt is a baseball powerhouse I bet he’ll make plenty of NIL money going to a big school too.
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Troxartas posted:I bet he’ll make plenty of NIL money going to a big school too. There was an article about this - student visas prohibit the kind of arrangements in NIL deals. International student athletes are all-but barred from signing NIL deals.
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Poque posted:I agree with pretty much this entire post. The reincarnation of oystertoadfish
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I'd also like to manage the Mets, so I'm telling you all, my friends. Someone get Cohen on the phone. Pretty sure I can fill out a lineup card and make the team wear silly costumes.
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We’ll just gonna pop over here now gently caress baseball Until 2024 at least
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Joe Maddon + New York Media would be something to behold  Also I will always love Joe Maddon, gently caress the haters
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Despite... everything currently going on against Texas, it's hard to take this year as anything other than an unqualified success, everyone thought we were going to regress after a 20+ win season last year, and then we went and won another 20 more games this year. Obviously the Yankees and Red Sox probably aren't going to eat poo poo like they did this year, so I don't expect to win 100 games again, but Gunnar and Adley have proven themselves to be legit, Bradish took a huge step forward, second half Grayson looks every bit the ace we hoped he would be, and Means is back. Losing Felix sucks, but the bullpen is full of castoffs and spare parts anyway, so I trust Elias to come up with a few more next year. This is just the absolute worst way to end a phenomenal season.
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Artix posted:Despite... everything currently going on against Texas, it's hard to take this year as anything other than an unqualified success, everyone thought we were going to regress after a 20+ win season last year, and then we went and won another 20 more games this year. Obviously the Yankees and Red Sox probably aren't going to eat poo poo like they did this year, so I don't expect to win 100 games again, but Gunnar and Adley have proven themselves to be legit, Bradish took a huge step forward, second half Grayson looks every bit the ace we hoped he would be, and Means is back. Losing Felix sucks, but the bullpen is full of castoffs and spare parts anyway, so I trust Elias to come up with a few more next year.
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