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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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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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Craptacular! posted:Imagine the Giants FO were interested in actually winning and not in having a manager who can shoot the poo poo with Kruk & Kuip pregame. They’ll also somehow simultaneously cry about how small market teams can’t compete without a hard salary cap.
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zoux posted:Speficially for LF it's even worse
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Mets and Padres collapsing has already done that
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Godamn the Dodgers really hosed up with Cody I still see a lot of Bellinger jerseys at games. They should have signed him to an immoral Braves style extension years ago.
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Legendary Ptarmigan posted:They won't win again under the Cashman Administration.
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mcmagic posted:Actually King is the one guy I wouldn't want to trade lol
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mcmagic posted:King isn't a prospect. He's a major leaguer for a few years now and he'll probably be the yankees 3rd best starter next year.
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mdemone posted:you can't have him
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mdemone posted:you can't have him either 
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Intruder posted:I believe they changed the rules so all picks are tradeable even right after the draft? You can trade players, not draft picks. The only exception as someone mentioned is some subset of comp picks.
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Meet me in Temecula, mdemone
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Oct 26, 2023 18:59
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At least do it the old fashioned way instead of using lovely “AI” to make an uncanny valley horror show
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Oct 26, 2023 19:05
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See I didn’t have to put effort in because someone on the internet has already done the work for me.
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Sydin posted:I've already made my peace that Ohtani is going to go the Dodgers, which means he's still never gonna get a ring but hey at least he'll know what it feels like to win the division a lot. Edit: and yeah I’m terrified he’s going to end up in SF
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mdemone posted:This is all very upsetting
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Traxis posted:The Dodgers are going to sign Ohtani and Bellinger and they will be BFFs and drive a van around the valley solving mysteries 
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mcmagic posted:Have you ever been to phoenix? https://youtu.be/4PYt0SDnrBE?si=tAA7phFDq8oys1u-
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He already passed on a bigger payday once to come play against the highest competition, he’s the last baseball player who’s do the Ronaldo move
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Ohtani wants to play in October and be the one who pushes a team over the hump to ultimate victory. So he’s looking for a team that where there’s no question they’ll be in the postseason, but in need of that heroic secret sauce only he can provide. A team that’s playing every October but still needs help, hrmmm…
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1. New Yawk, da numba one city in da world
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Sab0921 posted:I have it on good authority that Shohei's dream is to live in a suburban master planned community, wear wrap around oakleys, and drive a lifted Tundra with a pristine bedliner that has never been or will never be used off road or to haul anything. There are only a few MLB towns that can deliver that lifestyle for him
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zoux posted:Is that the Anaheim stereotype Think of Orange County as the place that chuddy rich white Californians fled to from LA before they started fleeing to Texas
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Popete posted:the California equivalent is a rolling brownout
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I live in SoCal so I don’t concern myself with PG&E fuckups up north  (Instead I pay the highest rates in the country to SDGE)
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OPS+ of the Arizona Diamondbacks: 104 123 128 96 84 108 75 134 95 How could a team ever even make it to the World Series with a middle infielder OPS+ing 115??
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mcmagic posted:He's wasn't the biggest problem but he's also an underachieving player who doesn't run the bases well or play good defense because of constant mental lapses and who most yankee fans feel has very little upside at this point. It's also unlikely that the team will extend him. He's also one of their more tradable assets that they can use to reshape a roster that BADLY needs it. I think most Yankee fans are just tired of looking at these same players year after year.
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Philly, Brewer, and Mariner are great
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I think it was David Roth who said the Rays are like a hedge fund with a baseball team attached
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Eric the Mauve posted:It wasn't quite as severe as that on the low end, but of course, it happened the very last season that was played with no wild cards, 1993. The Giants won 103 games, easily the second most in MLB, and didn't get invited to the postseason party, because the Braves won 104 Intruder posted:but how is that going to get the owners more money
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The loud drunk SF fans were scary, but the hero Mike Piazza drove them from the stadium by the 6th inning. And then a few years later the treacherous Rupert Murdoch drove him from Los Angeles, destroying a generation of fans.
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Mookie nooooo bb what is you doing??? https://twitter.com/Sammy_Roth/status/1719155902870409621 LATimes posted:Betts said he hoped major league teams would consider signing former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer this winter. bawfuls fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Oct 31, 2023 |
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Poque posted:Can’t imagine why Mookie’s experience might have been different
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Intruder posted:maybe he feels strongly enough about it that he doesn't care
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The cat is already out of the bag though. You can limit pitcher roster slots but the optimal strategy is always going to be getting more effort and less innings from every pitcher on the staff. Teams train max effort velocity because it works. This is just going to exacerbate pitcher injury rates. The starting pitcher of yesteryear is already dead and buried, and it wasn’t an abrupt change. Once again I have a GRAPHS for this:  Yes there’s been an acceleration of the trend in the last 5-8 years but it’s also a trend that’s been pretty steady for the entirety of the live ball era. I made this graph 3 years ago, this year’s number was 5.14 IP per start. Edit: nice plot Poque but I do think the full history provides relevant context here
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