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Post by klostrophobic on Sept 27, 2020 16:34:52 GMT -5
Is signing Cora cheating? What a terrible argument.
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Post by klostrophobic on Sept 27, 2020 16:24:22 GMT -5
But, like, who cares? Is the goal to win games or make every move based on how it might be embarrassing to someone? Good point. They should also really start a Russian-style steroid program. Great point. Hadn't considered that signing a coach was equivalent to an illegal doping regimen. Brilliant.
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Post by klostrophobic on Sept 27, 2020 16:13:13 GMT -5
What? He's very likely to be the most capable guy available, and probably by a wide margin.
I mean, he blew away the other candidates the last time he interviewed for the job. This time, he can say the same things. And he can also say "I led the team to a 118 wins and a WS victory a few years ago and I already work well with most of the people in the organization, and a dozen or more of the players as well." And I cost us draft picks. And I was part of a huge embarrassing scandal. I mean, it is like interviewing with a time gap in your resume. “What was going on in that year?” “Oh, that was when I was in prison.” “We’ll call you.” But, like, who cares? Is the goal to win games or make every move based on how it might be embarrassing to someone?
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Post by klostrophobic on Feb 28, 2020 21:51:54 GMT -5
I'm going with Jeets in my head. Lord a' Mighty! Say it ain't so. Plus if he's really wearing 20, sometimes the 0 will be obscured. Gotta re2pect it.
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Post by klostrophobic on Feb 28, 2020 17:20:24 GMT -5
Speaking for myself, no apology needed. This is just the type of thing an "oldster poster" like me completely jibes with. Jet it is. Actually has a nice ring to it. So are we pronouncing it "Jet" or "Jeet"? I'm going with Jeets in my head.
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Post by klostrophobic on May 21, 2019 16:45:59 GMT -5
True except that the replacement guys have been out performing what was expected of the regulars. Domingo German, who wasn't projected to be a starter is 8-1 with a 2.50 ERA. Domingo German, let that sink in. Dan Smiley, pt 2 FFS. Aaron Small. Yankees just get these guys all the time somehow. Makes me puke. 2005 the Yankees pull 10-0 Aaron Small out of a hat and the Red Sox are trotting 5 to 6 ERA David Wells, Curt Schilling and Wade Miller to the mound for 350 innnigs.
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Post by klostrophobic on May 21, 2019 16:40:05 GMT -5
Tim Tebow has hit his first AAA HR and raised his slash line to .157/.216/.231/.447 after 34 games. The entire National League waits in fear of his arrival. I haven't followed him super closely, but it's actually pretty impressive how he's played after stepping away from baseball for over a decade. Obviously no shot at the majors, and he's largely just a marketing gimmick in the end, but he put up a 734 OPS in AA last year, granted with a crazy BABIP. Such a weird athlete, I wonder if he'd have excelled at baseball if he just stuck with it from HS on.
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Post by klostrophobic on Jan 19, 2019 12:40:28 GMT -5
If you have three 45 FV prospects, chances are one will develop into a role five type, sure. The issue is choosing which one. I wouldn't be surprised if one of Casas, Decker, and Flores is an Alk-Star one day, but I don't think I would bet even odds on any one of the three on their own. They aren't saying that the system will produce zero 50 players, they're saying there is no individual player they'd currently feel comfortable putting a 50 on. Frankly, if they're low on Chavis then I probably agree with that assessment. They use those numbers to then prefict future war, given the number yea they are saying we won't produce a FV 50 guy which is my issue. blogs.fangraphs.com/post-2018-farm-system-rankings/You should take a statistics class. Did they not offer those at UMass?
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Post by klostrophobic on Jan 18, 2019 0:52:26 GMT -5
This is an interesting graph: Does this mean that batters are adapting to the shift and that we don't need additional rules that obstruct the natural progression of the game? But but but but what about Joey Gallo? What will we do if Joey Gallo is marginalized?
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Post by klostrophobic on Jan 9, 2019 12:48:51 GMT -5
Imagine how tedious it must be to be around Trevor Bauer in real life. I enjoy how petty he is on twitter to people, though. Sports are more fun when there are guys like Bauer, Devin Booker and Kevin Durant talking trash at random people on Twitter.
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Post by klostrophobic on Dec 23, 2018 0:02:10 GMT -5
I really don't understand Brentz' logic here. There aren't too many teams in baseball that he'd have less a shot at breaking camp with. ADD: There's also the factor that Holt, Lin & Swihart can also play in the outfield. This is true, but there is probably something about being with the same team for 9 years. Who knows what other considerations there are. If you're a fringe player with 2 pct chance of playing in the majors on a regular basis, do you want to move across the country to increase that chance to 4 pct, perhaps having to sell your home and bringing your wife and kids with you (I have no idea if Brentz has a wife and kids)?
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Post by klostrophobic on Dec 20, 2018 21:54:06 GMT -5
I think maybe it makes sense if you are looking past Xander's arb-years, but for next year that would likely be a significant downgrade on a team looking to perhaps compete for another WS. Xander could easily be a 5-win player, what are the chances that Tulo is even half that? The middle infield is already so uncertain, why add in an always-injured player? Seems like the kind of guy the Brewers or Diamondbacks should look to add. 5 WAR is an interesting number considering Xander has never done it and Tulo has surpassed that six times. It will take Tulo a while to get back into form but if healthy he's a significant defensive upgrade immediately. If it were knees or hip there be much more to worry about than bone spurs. From various reports, 6 different teams indicated a strong interest on the spot so I'm guessing he looked impressive. Saving about 11.5m Tulo from Xander would allow the Sox to sign a quality reliever and still stay under the second tax tier which in turn might bring another minor prospect since Workman or Hembree would be looking like excess baggage. You're right, I should have not rounded up to 5 WAR. Change the number to 4.6, which Xander has accomplished three times now. Tulo is 32, always injured, coming off a season he played 62 games. You keep glossing over bonespurs being no big deal, but they kept our president out of serving in the military so I think we can assume that they are a serious issue. Tulowitzki was outright released with 40 million dollars on his contract; is that perhaps not an indication that he might be toast? This would be insane risk:reward ratio to trade your very, very good starting shortstop for prospects so that you can rely on Lin and Tulowitzki. They'd better be some good prospects to accept the significant downside risk of wasting a year at a World Series.
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Post by klostrophobic on Dec 20, 2018 6:26:05 GMT -5
I think maybe it makes sense if you are looking past Xander's arb-years, but for next year that would likely be a significant downgrade on a team looking to perhaps compete for another WS. Xander could easily be a 5-win player, what are the chances that Tulo is even half that? The middle infield is already so uncertain, why add in an always-injured player? Seems like the kind of guy the Brewers or Diamondbacks should look to add.
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Post by klostrophobic on Dec 18, 2018 18:05:06 GMT -5
It seems competitive to me. Last 10 years they've had Bard, Masterson, Buchholz, Tazawa, Workman, Barnes, Brian Johnson, Kopech. And some guys out there like Espinoza, Frankie Montas and Jerez could prove to be good pitchers as well. One average pitcher a year on with a couple high quality seasons have been produced, seems reasonable, but it's really hard to gauge how they've fared league-wide. All it takes is having one extra stud pitcher per decade to really sway the perception. Maybe Sonny Gray falls one more pick, maybe Marcus Stroman falls two more picks. They've had barely any top-15 picks and when they do they either hit with Benintendi or end up with Trey Ball, in a draft with no good players following his selection, so how would the perception be if they were terrible for five years and got to pick obvious talent at the top of the draft?
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Post by klostrophobic on Nov 16, 2018 15:07:38 GMT -5
Ban the shift. It is un-American. Only geeks who never played the game instituted it. We deserve baseball the way the game was meant to be played Get rid of the DH and relievers and black people too, just the way it was meant to be played. Ground rule doubles are now home runs, you can catch fly balls off one bounce, too.
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Post by klostrophobic on Nov 16, 2018 15:03:01 GMT -5
Literally nobody wants to see a team's best hitter bunt to beat the shift. I'm sorry. Bunting to beat the shift is a win for the defense for many players. And also "just hit the ball the other way" is a gross oversimplification of hitting. If players can just hit the ball wherever the hell they want to, why is the shift ever successful? Add that most times, a pitcher will pitch to his shift - in other words, you're not throwing a lefty fastballs outside when the infield is shifted to pull, you're pitching him so that he hits the ball into the shift if he hits it. As for the penalty, it's a balk. Simple. With no runners on base, no pitch and you call it a ball. Same as the old intentional walk/catcher's box rule. Agreed that awarding the hitter bases is insane. Calling it is easy. You have three freaking base umpires. It would not be difficult at all for the 2B ump to check at the time of the pitch that the middle infielders aren't past the bag. I'm not necessarily advocating for this. I just would be fine with it. I literally want my best hitter to bunt to get on if my best hitter is such an obvious pull hitter that you can just not even put a defender on one side of the field. I can't think of anything more obnoxious than a pull hitter who can't get down a bunt hit when he has like one third of the infield to work with. This didn't work for the NBA when they banned zone defense and it would be just as bad here.
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 30, 2018 3:49:08 GMT -5
I hated the Dombrowski signing, but definitely have to give him credit; basically all of his major trades have worked out, his deadline deal produced the WS MVP, and even the free agent signing of Price which looked horrible for the first two plus years, well, you can't say much negative about the way David Price pitched this year.
But I hope he doesn't fall in love with these players the way some organizations tend to do after a World Series win. Hopefully he doesn't break the bank on Eovaldi or re-sign Price to some crazy deal if he opts out, etc. Ditto Kelly, Kimbrel, Pearce. No need to go crazy over-the-top in bringing all these guys back because they were crucial in a postseason run.
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 28, 2018 21:33:04 GMT -5
If Price goes 9 the Dodgers lose the World Series with Bellinger and Peterson on the bench.
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 28, 2018 21:31:18 GMT -5
9 innings, let's go. After warming in bullpen last night and pitching the night prior.
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 28, 2018 21:26:49 GMT -5
Machado's last atbat in a Dodger uniform.
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 28, 2018 21:20:11 GMT -5
I agree that Kershaw should be gone, but the Dodger bullpen has been abused also. Urias and Baez should be fine. Use Buehler, too. Whole season is on the line.
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 28, 2018 21:12:30 GMT -5
Does Roberts still not have anyone up yet? Interesting choice.
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 27, 2018 4:20:10 GMT -5
What could Cora have done differently? The game went 18 god damn innings. Ok, leave Porcello in against a lefty and have him pitch one extra inning (and he'll have to bat one extra time if memory serves). Have Braser pitch to one extra batter, ditto Barnes and Kimbrel. Now what? Eovaldi is still pitching like 80+ pitches, you can't use he, Price and E-Rod for medium-large stretches because one of them needs to pitch tomorrow, and to use two of them for long stretches is also insane. I would definitely second-guess using Swihart instead of Pearce, but whatever it's one pinch hitter and then he used Pearce later anyway. I don't even like Cora, but god damn the second-guessing in an 18 inning game where everyone but the guy who hadn't even played in the playoffs yet got into the game—without any argument towards some alternative—is insane. Go away with that weak crap. Red Sox in five. E-Rod+Pomeranz for 6 innings tomorrow, then Brasier-Barnes-Kimbrel.
I can't believe how many people would have walked Puig in the whatever inning (15th?). He was the winning run at the time and you want to put him on base—intentionally—when you have a 67.3 percent chance of getting him out. And then he hits a routine grounder (because he makes lots of outs and that's probably the most likely outcome—a routine grounder or lazy flyball). Insanity. We need a thumbs down button here.
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 27, 2018 2:31:10 GMT -5
God damn it, it ends on a lazy solo home run? I stayed up for that? So boring. Thanks, Ian.
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 27, 2018 2:30:38 GMT -5
I think Eovaldi is going to ask for the ball Game 4. I wouldn't want to be Cora to have to tell him no.
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