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Sydin posted:In other news Arrieta has apparently reversed course and says he's open to extension talks and would like to remain a Cub:
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:I feel bad for the guy who has to try and replace Vin Scully this year . edit: Last year they hired Joe Davis to be the main pbp guy on tv for away games. He worked with Orel Hershiser and Nomar Garciaparra (sometimes) as the color guys. Davis is young and has a solid understanding of modern baseball analytics. He has done a good job of including some concepts into broadcasts and getting Orel to reflect on them. He'll mention stuff like contact rate or refer to a guy as "25% better than a league average hitter" in reference to wRC+ without actually naming the acronym. Davis is also very active on twitter (actually engages with fans and replies to things) which I think is a good thing for someone in that position. Steiner and Monday are pretty much radio-only at this point which is good cause they fuckin' suck. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Feb 16, 2017 |
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I'd like to see dueling Ryu-Maeda ramen commercials meanwhile, Ryu's fastball was last seen at 84-86 mph 
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Julio Cruz posted:I've read interviews with football players saying that they really don't enjoy food any more because they've got to eat so much and so often to maintain that size. Couple that with an athlete's metabolism and you can see how guys can shrink down once they no longer have to put themselves through 8 meals a day of steak and chicken breasts and 12-egg omelettes.
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Feb 16, 2017 23:46
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It's a loving balk and you'll never convince me otherwise
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tadashi posted:He never lands his left foot until he throws and stays within the normal range of a "delivery" while he's moving toward the plate. I think that's how he stays within the rules for most umpires - it's like a variation on a foot drag. It would be tremendously difficult to do anymore than what Capps does, I think. Of course, if there was a sudden flood of pitchers delivering like this and it clearly affected the game, I'm sure they'd clarify the rules like they did for ambidexterity pitchers. also Puig is ready for.... something https://twitter.com/JesusQuinonezTV/status/832616201071124482
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Good Dog posted:I realized I never looked at this year's schedule and who the Angels play (like vs NL). The Angels have four Mike Trout bobblehead giveaways this year. 3 different regular ones, and a double headed MVP. And.... Nolan Ryan.
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The Pussy Boss posted:Free streams are great until they freeze at a key moment and it takes you 5 minutes to load another one
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Your Taint posted:The thing that would help them the most is starting postseason games an hour or so earlier so the people who have to go to work the next morning can stay up and watch the whole thing live.
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Rand alPaul posted:Rob Manfred sucks and seeing pitchers throw wild pitches and being completely out of sync after throwing them is awesome. poo poo some of the Tigers best bullpen meltdowns came from Leyland forcing guys to come in out of the pen and intentionally walking a guy and then not being able to find the strike zone again.
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Feb 22, 2017 06:39
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The least intrusive way to enforce pace of play rules is to do so very stringently at the minor league level and thus ingrain habits as players develop.
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Feb 22, 2017 21:52
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They are already doing it in a limited sense with the pitch clock in some places. I think they should expand the pitch clock to every level and league of the minors. You could probably do this and never add it to the majors, and see an overall reduction in the time between pitches.
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As someone who's watched entirely too much Pedro Baez in the last couple years, I don't want the time between pitches to get any longer.
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MrMojok posted:Bawfuls, Corey Seager told Roberts he never had his "A-swing" last year. According to a tweet by Ken Gurnick. Maybe he had his "A-swing" during his September call up in 2015 when he hit .337/.425/.561 for a wRC+ of 176 bawfuls fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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Feb 23, 2017 02:09
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Trout is going to randomly have a 40-40 year one of these days
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Your Taint posted:They do, but people around here don't like to admit it.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I'm guessing the ability to get good leads and break at the right time dwarfs the time saved from running a couple MPH faster than another guy.
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How many season seats do the Cubs sell? Presumably it isn't the full 42,000 or whatever capacity is. I know the Dodgers cap at something like 32k of the 56k total.
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Whyyyyyyy do pro athletes so often go to such mediocre tattoo artists??
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ScottyJSno posted:You tube has a bunch of old raido broadcasts. I listened to a 196? Cubs v Brooklyn game. A young Vin Scully calling a Sandy Colfax start. The Dodgers gave 1000 cigarettes to veterans hospitals for every HR.
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Popete posted:Was there a typhoon or was the field designed for absolutely no drainage? will_colorado posted:is the field is below street level? That would likely put it below sea level, which could cause a serious drain issue. I wonder if there's something else going on though, because today was far from the first day of heavy rain we've had this winter.
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The Pussy Boss posted:http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ayers/98527888/
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Good Dog posted:It was the Dodgers I think. They were using a laser range finder in pregame drills and then leaving markers. I guess this is an improvement over a small spray-painted tuft of grass because....?
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cis autodrag posted:Yeah. Just about everybody kicks some divots into the outfield grass while they're out there and if it's too loose a rule your going to end up penalizing guys who do it when they're bored along with guys who have a divot for every guy in the batting order. Popete posted:He'd been challenged before in the minors though. Same thing needs to happen with Urias "pick off". bawfuls fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Mar 3, 2017 |
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Timby posted:Given that Miller actively disdained the Hall of Fame, and always swore he'd boycott the induction ceremony if he were ever voted in, it would feel a little weird to put him in posthumously.
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That's the kind of thing I'd hoped to see when they first implemented statcast so that's cool. Will be interesting to see if/how that stuff evolves over time
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I dunno what's weird about that. Biometric monitoring seems to be a clear area of current sports innovation. edit: the real Ned Colletti is now on twitter and has decided he's going to be some third-rate beat reporter https://twitter.com/realnedcolletti/status/838794229245566977 bawfuls fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Mar 6, 2017 |
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Dr. Remulak posted:You can hit the ball out of the yard and not disrespect the pitcher too can't you? He never said that he'd throw at someone just for taking him deep.  "disrespect the pitcher"A bat flip is a pretty mild celebration of an on-field accomplishment. Professional pitchers should be able to handle the indignity of seeing their opponent toss their equipment away with a slight flourish. Seriously think for a moment what Arrieta is saying here. He can't stand to see someone drop a bat in a kinda different way without it hurting his ego so much he feels compelled to try and physically injure the guy next time he gets a chance. That's absurdly stupid. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Grittybeard posted:What if the batter crosses the mound on their way to the dugout after making an out? Can we throw at them then?
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Dr. Remulak posted:If he was launching his bat a la Bautista then yeah I would be, but he's not that type of player so once again idk what were talking about here. He gets hit because he wants to.
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Dr. Remulak posted:Nothing. I've never said I think there's anything wrong with bat flipping, talking trash, or celebrating whatsoever.
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Dr. Remulak posted:We're going in a circle here bud
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The Mets SPRING SENSATION!
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will_colorado posted:N: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/nolan-arenado-world-baseball-classic-team-usa/
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FlamingLiberal posted:Apparently Manny is going to play in Japan?
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ZenVulgarity posted:Your opinion IS HIGH IT IS FAR IT IS GAAAAAAHHHN
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seiferguy posted:A small brass band should go to a weeknight game and sit in an unoccupied part of the stadium and start playing a bunch of music, and see what happens.
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Kershaw doesn't have enough Cy Young Awards yet IMO, needs a 4th this year
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