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Popete posted:lol what is this Ohtani hater post? I'm just sick of the last 3+ years of the national baseball media soiling themselves over how good this guy is and how special and what a "unicorn..." Then the last year has been nonstop, "Will he be traded? If he goes to FA will he resign with the Angels? What about a mystery team? He probably wants to stay on the West coast...how does that affect his market?" Then he blows out his arm and won't even pitch for a year+ but still wants $50 million or more per year and carte blanche to determine his own schedule and routine and a gurantee that he can pitch again... Suffice it to say I'm not interested in the nonsense. Happy the Yankees don't seem to be making serious overtures in his direction.
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I too like it when the Yankees don’t acquire good players
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Ya it would suck for my favorite team to sign arguably the greatest talent MLB has ever seen. Just awful.
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Get back to me when the guy wins a team award. If he and Mike Trout were that good, those two and 24 jabronies should have been able to back into a number 6 seed for the playoffs at least once.
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Ohtani is only meeting with non-Cubs teams to apologize and politely decline their offers in person.
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Get back to me when the guy wins a team award. If he and Mike Trout were that good, those two and 24 jabronies should have been able to back into a number 6 seed for the playoffs at least once. (Unironically agree )
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Get back to me when the guy wins a team award. If he and Mike Trout were that good, those two and 24 jabronies should have been able to back into a number 6 seed for the playoffs at least once.
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Get back to me when the guy wins a team award. If he and Mike Trout were that good, those two and 24 jabronies should have been able to back into a number 6 seed for the playoffs at least once. Calling them jabronis is generous. Remember you’re talking about the Angels.
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:I'm just sick of the last 3+ years of the national baseball media soiling themselves over how good this guy is and how special and what a "unicorn..." Then the last year has been nonstop, "Will he be traded? If he goes to FA will he resign with the Angels? What about a mystery team? He probably wants to stay on the West coast...how does that affect his market?" Then he blows out his arm and won't even pitch for a year+ but still wants $50 million or more per year and carte blanche to determine his own schedule and routine and a gurantee that he can pitch again... Suffice it to say I'm not interested in the nonsense. Happy the Yankees don't seem to be making serious overtures in his direction. lol. i hate the constant circling of ohtani tradeposts, but lmao if you don't think he is in fact a legitimate unicorn for being able to both pitch and hit as well as he has. there's a reason there's like 12 guys who have tried it over 100 years of baseball and the only guy that comes arguably closest is Babe Ruth himself. sorry you hate hearing about a guy who is going to probably be one of the easiest locks for the hall of fame we've ever seen (i do think, realistically, he's going to burn out on pitching faster than people are willing to give him credit for, but it's a very cynical thought that i hope i'm proven wrong in)
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bawfuls posted:with the notoriously successful Toronto Blue Jays, yeah that tracks They gotta win it some time. 
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Get back to me when the guy wins a team award. If he and Mike Trout were that good, those two and 24 jabronies should have been able to back into a number 6 seed for the playoffs at least once. That's not how baseball works
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Trivia question while we all wait for Ohtani to sign with the Cubs: Which player holds the record for longest career played entirely for one manager?
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Dec 1, 2023 02:40
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Good question Uh Jimmy Foxx
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Eric the Mauve posted:Trivia question while we all wait for Ohtani to sign with the Cubs: Somebody who played for Connie Mack?
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That was my first instinct when I saw the question, too, Mack or McGraw, but no--everyone you'd guess also played for some other team(s) at the end of their career, generally.
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Chipper jones
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Chipper played 16+ seasons for Bobby Cox, which might be the unqualified record for one player/manager combo, but also 2 years for Fredi Gonzalez at the end.
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How are those different stats Edit Oh never mind I understand
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I said entire career for only one manager e: the answer's not actually a big surprise if you have a decent knowledge of who the long lived managers and players were. Hint 1: Both the manager and the player are in the Hall of Fame
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Exclusively for one manager yeah That is a much harder question
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Mike Scioscia
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Good guess, I believe Scioscia is the runner-up
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Found a pitcher at 14 seasons but wouldn't have guessed it without google. From the hint - I assume it's the right answer.
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Smoltz? Nope, forgot about his brief stints in his last season.
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Get back to me when the guy wins a team award. If he and Mike Trout were that good, those two and 24 jabronies should have been able to back into a number 6 seed for the playoffs at least once. 
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Get back to me when the guy wins a team award. If he and Mike Trout were that good, those two and 24 jabronies should have been able to back into a number 6 seed for the playoffs at least once. lmao
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Eric the Mauve posted:Good guess, I believe Scioscia is the runner-up Kirby Puckett would have been my homer guess but I think he's a year behind Scioscia
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DiMaggio maybe? I think he was exclusively under Stengel.
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Is it Don Drysdale? I think he was with Alston from start to finish
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bravesword posted:I too like it when the Yankees don’t acquire good players Ohtani really doesn't make sense for the Yankees.
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O's supposedly kicking the tires on Hader, Chapman, Kimbrel, and Hicks. Hader I'll believe when I see it and not a second before, and Chapman can gently caress off but Hicks seems like that might be a good buy? Even for a team that's going to spend no money because John Angelos is a piece of poo poo, 3-4 years at 8-10 mil should be very affordable and would help close that hole at the back of the bullpen right now.
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mcmagic posted:Ohtani really doesn't make sense for the Yankees. It does if they got rid of Stanton The real issue is he doesn't seem to have any interest in playing in New York, on either team, not that they don't want him or it doesn't make sense for him
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I just don’t think he would have any interest in dealing with the NY media environment
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:Get back to me when the guy wins a team award. If he and Mike Trout were that good, those two and 24 jabronies should have been able to back into a number 6 seed for the playoffs at least once. I was married to an L.A. Women in the early millennium. So i followed the Angels as my American League team. They haven't had good pitching since 2009. Even if you overlook the many ways they wasted good money on players like Wells,Hamilton,Pujols,Rendon, they can't draft for poo poo.They have not drafted an impact pitcher in almost two decades. That's it,plus stupid moves like this past year being buyers and sellers.
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:I'm just sick of the last 3+ years of the national baseball media soiling themselves over how good this guy is and how special and what a "unicorn..." Then the last year has been nonstop, "Will he be traded? If he goes to FA will he resign with the Angels? What about a mystery team? He probably wants to stay on the West coast...how does that affect his market?" Then he blows out his arm and won't even pitch for a year+ but still wants $50 million or more per year and carte blanche to determine his own schedule and routine and a gurantee that he can pitch again... Suffice it to say I'm not interested in the nonsense. Happy the Yankees don't seem to be making serious overtures in his direction. I'm going to let this slide, but only this once.
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So I just looked at the ‘best’ Angels 1st round picks since Trout, and the two that are basically identical in terms of BWAR are Randal Grichuk and CJ Cron at about 12 BWAR
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Usually I think the star players have a lot of responsibility towards winning but in the angels case they may actually just be a terrible org
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mcmagic posted:Ohtani really doesn't make sense for the Yankees. 
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