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howe_sam posted:The Red Sox have apparently offered the head of baseball ops job to...Craig Breslow??? Well have fun working for Alex Cora, I guess
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 02:41 |
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howe_sam posted:The Red Sox have apparently offered the head of baseball ops job to...Craig Breslow??? Yep he's apparently the only guy who wants the job, lol e. Apparently he's accepted and will be the guy: https://twitter.com/alexspeier/status/1716987207406309630 Sydin fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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grain of salt because gently caress if i know what actual Baseball Front Office Guys do but Breslow is given a lot of credit for helping the Cubs develop actual pitchers for the first time in history.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 02:59 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:Well have fun working for Alex Cora, I guess Fenwayology aside, apparently Cora's had almost no involvement in the process, and if he really did have ownership's ear to such an extent, why is he in an expiring deal?
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 03:02 |
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I'm honestly a little offended that my dad wasn't important enough for Nick Castellanos to hit a homer.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 07:52 |
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Nah, it’s not that, Nick just didn’t know. Sorry for your loss Kevlar.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 08:06 |
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I know statistical clustering and there's no such thing as hot and cold streaks etc. etc., but Castellanos has always had long stretches where he just feels like an automatic strikeout anytime he comes up with runners on. He happened to hit one of those the second half of the series.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 12:10 |
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How do y'all watch full replays of past games? The only thing I'm finding on mlb.tv is audio replays which I don't want, or condensed replays. I signed up for the $4/month thing, but apparently that's only for live audio. Like...how is this easier for NFL games than than baseball.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 15:13 |
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I'm honestly a little offended that my dad wasn't important enough for Nick Castellanos to hit a homer. Nick the Stick draws strength from public announcements. You, on the other hand, can draw strength from good and cool posters in SAS.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 15:36 |
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No baseball from two (2) days. Unacceptable!!!!!
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 15:47 |
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R.D. Mangles posted:No baseball from two (2) days. Unacceptable!!!!! That gives me two days to come up with a thread title for the GDT because I was sure I could get away with reopening last year’s thread. Also apparently the Cubs are hiring baseball analytics and science people https://twitter.com/bleachernation/status/1716877030879604867?s=46&t=lRl8HNC2dXvuRHcXaz1cXw
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Chillmatic posted:How do y'all watch full replays of past games? The only thing I'm finding on mlb.tv is audio replays which I don't want, or condensed replays. I signed up for the $4/month thing, but apparently that's only for live audio. Full game? None of the archive or mlb.tv links seem to want to work for me either right now. If you just want to watch the condensed game, you can just find it on the scores page or the team's schedule and click the Wrap link and there will be a Condensed Game button.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 16:14 |
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Lol if you can't perfectly recreate a ballgame in your mind from the box score like Cypher in the matrix
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 16:24 |
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https://twitter.com/FMBuster/status/1717157731931422722 People are pissed, but I don't blame the players
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 16:26 |
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Red posted:https://twitter.com/FMBuster/status/1717157731931422722 lmao at Philly Little Big League "gently caress TREA TURNER"
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 16:28 |
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Bandire posted:Full game? None of the archive or mlb.tv links seem to want to work for me either right now. If you just want to watch the condensed game, you can just find it on the scores page or the team's schedule and click the Wrap link and there will be a Condensed Game button. I can call up archived full games from this past season in the mlb.tv app, but not through the website.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 16:34 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:Chemistry can definitely be overstated but I also do not believe a team whose best and most prominent player is Manny Machado will ever win anything. Good thing the Padres have Tatis and Soto then. There was actually an article in the San Diego Union Tribune before the season ended about how Machado would blow off practice and show up late to things despite being the team leader and he basically called it fake news. It's starting to come out what a meddler the Padres' owner is. He signed Machado to that monster extension even though Preller signed Bogaerts to basically replace him cause they're friends and he hired Melvin, who never got along with Preller.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 16:37 |
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It always mystifies me how many mouthbreathing fans go off like THESE GUYS ARE ALL CHOKERS, GET RID OF THEM ALL like losing a hard fought 7 game playoff series is a moral failing. Like, you are aware that the other team is also good and also doing their damnedest to win, right? They don't just like show up and win or lose based on your team's fort rolls. Like Craig Kimbrel isn't very good but it's not because he doesn't have The Will To Win, it's because he has a very straight fastball and a knuckle curve that's hardly ever a strike so batters can just lay off it and sit on the fastball Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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Bandire posted:Full game? None of the archive or mlb.tv links seem to want to work for me either right now. If you just want to watch the condensed game, you can just find it on the scores page or the team's schedule and click the Wrap link and there will be a Condensed Game button. I've watched condensed 2016 game 7 so many times and it still makes me anxious as hell, even though I know what happens.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 17:07 |
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:I've watched condensed 2016 game 7 so many times and it still makes me anxious as hell, even though I know what happens. I’m glad I’m not the only one. I watched the game. I know what happens. I got the worst hangover in my life because of it. And yet I can’t watch any replays cause I am still anxious that maybe they won’t win this one.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 17:25 |
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https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1717190651480084485 Based on the Melvin precedent, the Brewers are going to need a new manager.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Like Craig Kimbrel isn't very good but it's not because he doesn't have The Will To Win, it's because he has a very straight fastball and a knuckle curve that's hardly ever a strike so batters can just lay off it and sit on the fastball I honestly think the league has just kinda passed him by. In Kimbrel's prime throwing 97-100 at the top of the zone was extremely rare and most hitters wouldn't be geared for it. Nowadays though bullpen guys throwing that hard is pretty much the norm - hell there's a decent amount of starters who throw as hard/harder than Kimbrel does - and the differentiators are things like spin efficiency, tunneling, etc. A 97 meatball with little movement is ho-hum to hitters these days.
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Eric the Mauve posted:It always mystifies me how many mouthbreathing fans go off like THESE GUYS ARE ALL CHOKERS, GET RID OF THEM ALL like losing a hard fought 7 game playoff series is a moral failing. Like, you are aware that the other team is also good and also doing their damnedest to win, right? They don't just like show up and win or lose based on your team's fort rolls. Posters here don't call for entire roster turnover, but they definitely write off opponents based almost entirely on current record/position within their division. Losing to the Diamondbacks was treated as unacceptable by several fanbases. The Rangers' losing streak included Milwaukee, Minnesota, and Arizona, but nobody paused to think maybe those were just 3 good teams.
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zoux posted:lmao at Philly Little Big League "gently caress TREA TURNER" Postseason OPS overall: .703 in 252 PA WC - 1.300 DS - .759 CS - .596 WS - .429
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bawfuls posted:Trea Turner has a growing body of postseason disappearing acts at this point, with quite the funny trend: Don't forget his bad defense.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 18:33 |
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He helped Castellanos break Spencer Strider so that makes him cool and good
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Milovan Drecun posted:Posters here don't call for entire roster turnover, but they definitely write off opponents based almost entirely on current record/position within their division. Losing to the Diamondbacks was treated as unacceptable by several fanbases. The Rangers’ losing streak included Milwaukee, Minnesota, and Arizona, but nobody paused to think maybe those were just 3 good teams. Several fanbases treated losing to the Diamondbacks as unacceptable because their teams were better than Arizona. What they got wrong isn’t that Arizona is just really good, it’s that being better than Arizona (or any opponent) is no guarantee of victory in 3 or 5 or 7 game series. Fans tend to treat all sports as if they’re as deterministic as NBA playoffs when they simply aren’t.
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Red posted:https://twitter.com/FMBuster/status/1717157731931422722 No offense to the phillies fans in this thread but I hope the phillies make it to the playoffs and then eat poo poo every year if this is the content we can look forward to as a result
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 18:38 |
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bawfuls posted:Because over 162 games those teams showed they weren’t that good. Anything can happen over a shorter series of games. (Like a losing streak in September, or the postseason) The Brewers won 92 games.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 18:38 |
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In a division so bad it made the Cubs look good.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 18:43 |
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The Phillies didn't even lose to the DBacks good players, they got shut down by Brandon loving Pfaadt and a shaky bullpen Craig Kimbrel is a baseball terrorist
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 18:44 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:In a division so bad it made the Cubs look good. It doesn't matter with the balanced schedule.
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Red posted:https://twitter.com/FMBuster/status/1717157731931422722 These are the songs of my people
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:The Phillies didn't even lose to the DBacks good players, they got shut down by Brandon loving Pfaadt and a shaky bullpen Get Ginked
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 18:49 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:In a division so bad it made the Cubs look good. The Cubs were good (until September)
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 19:09 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:In a division so bad it made the Cubs look good. The Cubs were awful in May and September, otherwise they were pretty good!
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A little May/September collapse.
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 19:18 |
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A good sandwich filling ruined by bad bread
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# ? Oct 25, 2023 19:42 |
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Not that it matters but Sean Casey isn't coming back as hitting coach. I wonder who the next Boone pal up is...
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Red posted:https://twitter.com/FMBuster/status/1717157731931422722 2nd interview (the kid) is euphronius last night unironically
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