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Post by Oregon Norm on May 10, 2017 9:32:05 GMT -5
All part of a master plan. Expect the bulk of the team to hook up with super-models. Should be easy. My wife was ready to invite everybody over for dinner after the photos from the Derby.
The Kraft family is building a runway that will extend out into the dinner tables, so the next time they win the superbowl, there will be a ring ceremony and a fashion show. I've even heard that Ivanka Trump will coordinate the whole thing.
I would have re-posted this in the Entertainment sub-forum if we had one. After all, how many coaches can promise players a near permanent gig on the talk show circuit if they rework their contracts? Think about it.
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Post by Guidas on May 11, 2017 21:26:19 GMT -5
THE F-ING Yanquis are starting to remind me of the 08 Rays.
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Post by grandsalami on May 13, 2017 18:27:24 GMT -5
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Post by rookie13 on May 14, 2017 11:10:37 GMT -5
Has anyone else noticed that Paul Goldschmidt has the 6th most stolen bases in MLB? I guess it shouldn't be surprising since he stole 32 last year, but it's pretty cool to see a 1B so high on the list.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on May 14, 2017 12:31:29 GMT -5
Has anyone else noticed that Paul Goldschmidt has the 6th most stolen bases in MLB? I guess it shouldn't be surprising since he stole 32 last year, but it's pretty cool to see a 1B so high on the list. He's going to look great in a Sox uniform later this year.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on May 14, 2017 12:35:27 GMT -5
Chapman out for at least a month with shoulder inflammation.
It's going to be more than that most likely though. Thornburg has been getting worse lately with all his shoulder problems, so I don't know why the Yankees are bothering to put a timetable on this kind of thing when he just went on the DL today.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on May 16, 2017 12:56:02 GMT -5
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on May 17, 2017 7:48:22 GMT -5
Like 2 bullpen arms piggy backing each other until the real bullpen arms come out. I guess in theory it could work, but you're really changing the main frame of the entire sport and it would take a long time for the league to adjust to it. I don't blame them for stopping this idea.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on May 17, 2017 15:14:40 GMT -5
Like 2 bullpen arms piggy backing each other until the real bullpen arms come out. I guess in theory it could work, but you're really changing the main frame of the entire sport and it would take a long time for the league to adjust to it. I don't blame them for stopping this idea. Sorry if this wasn't clear, but the idea was implemented for development purposes, not as a test with the idea to one day change the way major league rotations work. It's something that other teams have done in the past too. If you read the article, the reason they stopped it was because the pitchers weren't able to get in a good work day between starts with only three days' rest. 2080baseball.com/2017/04/eight-is-enough-for-as-minor-league-rotations/
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Post by Chris Hatfield on May 23, 2017 9:52:04 GMT -5
Tigers moved Anthony Gose to the mound and he made his debut last night. Hit 99 on the gun.
I still remember being slightly terrified of him in the future when he was in NH.
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Post by jimed14 on May 23, 2017 12:55:21 GMT -5
Is anyone else almost tempted to watch Dancing with the Stars for the first time because David Ross is in the finale?
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Post by jimed14 on May 31, 2017 12:15:04 GMT -5
Makes total sense that charging the mound to start a massive brawl is worth the same # of games that Matt Barnes got for not hitting Machado. And Hunter Strickland deserves about 3 times as many games as Barnes got for retaliating for something that happened 3 years ago. It was telling that almost no one came to Strickland's aid.
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Post by Guidas on Jun 2, 2017 18:22:04 GMT -5
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Post by RedSoxStats on Jun 5, 2017 18:25:40 GMT -5
Jose Almonte is holding up well in the launching pad that is the California League, .350 BABIP aside.
He's kept his groundball rate near 50% and his strikeout rate has jumped to 29%, 73 K in 57 IP.
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Post by jimed14 on Jun 15, 2017 6:52:54 GMT -5
theringer.com/2017-mlb-home-run-spike-juiced-ball-testing-reveal-155cd21108bcMitchel Lichtman, my coauthor on this article, is a former consultant to MLB teams, the creator of ultimate zone rating, and the coauthor of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Late last year, Lichtman commissioned independent ball-testing in an effort to confirm or refute the altered-ball hypothesis. First, he purchased 36 game-used MLB balls from eBay, each of which was authenticated for a particular game with an official MLB collector’s holographic sticker. Seventeen of the balls were used in games played prior to the 2015 All-Star break, ranging from May 2014 to July 2015. Nine were used in games in either August or September 2015, and the remaining 10 were used in May, June, or July 2016. The balls seemed to be in good condition, and the three groups were indistinguishable from each other by outward appearance and feel. Lichtman sent the balls to one of the few facilities capable of rigorous testing, the Sports Science Lab at Washington State University. There, the balls’ CORs were tested by firing them at 120 mph into a steel cylinder, six times each, which is considered the closest approximation of in-game collisions that wouldn’t destroy the ball. The lab also measured the circumference and weight of the balls, the height of their seams, and their dynamic stiffness (a more sciencey way to say “hardness”). Before testing, all of the balls were stored for two weeks in a humidor with constant temperature and humidity to ensure consistent conditions, and randomly coded so that no one at the lab knew which balls came from each lot. (Lichtman kept the key that matched codes to baseballs.) The testing revealed significant differences in balls used after the 2015 All-Star break in each of the components that could affect the flight of the ball, in the directions we would have expected based on the massive hike in home run rate. While none of these attributes in isolation could explain the increase in home runs that we saw in the summer of 2015, in combination, they can. Although the results did reveal differences in all of the relevant categories when Lichtman compared the balls used before the 2015 All-Star break with all of the balls used after, there was no way to determine whether the balls he sampled from the second half of 2015 were newly manufactured or holdovers from the first half. To avoid that complication, he compared the 17 balls from before the 2015 All-Star break with the 10 balls from 2016, although the full results for every ball tested are available here. The table below displays the average differences between the old and newer balls, as well as the estimated resulting increases in distance and actual or equivalent exit speed, according to Alan Nathan’s trajectory calculator and the aforementioned NCAA seam-height study. The newer balls have higher CORs and lower circumferences and seam heights, which would be estimated to add an average of 7.1 feet to their distance, equivalent to the effect we would expect to stem from a 1.43 mph difference in exit speed. Although those differences don’t sound enormous, Nathan has noted that “a tiny change in exit speed can lead to much larger changes in the number of home runs.” Last July, he calculated that an exit-speed increase of 1.5 mph would be sufficient to explain the rise in home runs to that point, which means that the 1.43 mph effective difference that Lichtman’s analysis uncovered could comport almost exactly with the initial increase in home runs. Lichtman calculates that a COR increase of this size, in this sample, falls 2.6 standard deviations from the mean, which means that it’s extremely unlikely to have happened by chance.With the newer balls’ reduction in circumference comes a decrease in weight, although according to Robert Adair’s book The Physics of Baseball, the ball’s weight, independent of its other qualities, has little effect on flight distance. Similarly, while dynamic stiffness does affect the flight of balls hit by the hollow bats used in amateur ball, it doesn’t play a role with the solid There’s no indication that any of the balls Lichtman had tested fall outside of MLB’s allowable ranges, but some of those ranges are laughably large, leaving a lot of leeway for legal variation with major effects on the field. As an earlier ball-testing report by the Baseball Research Center that was publicly released in 2000 acknowledged, “two baseballs could meet MLB specifications for construction but one ball could be theoretically hit 49.1 feet further.” According to Nathan, an increase in COR of .012 could completely account for the 2015-to-2016 home run revival, which makes the league’s allowable COR range of .514 to .578 for BRC’s standard flat-surface COR test (which reports higher COR values, for the same balls, than the cylindrical-surface test that Lichtman commissioned) seem absurdly imprecise. We should note here that since seam height and circumference, unlike COR, don’t directly affect actual exit speed, these ball changes can’t explain the entirety of the Statcast-derived exit-speed increase from the first half of 2015 to 2016. We can’t account for that discrepancy, although inconsistencies in the always-evolving Statcast system could be responsible for some of it.
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Post by jmei on Jun 15, 2017 10:12:32 GMT -5
Merged the juiced ball thread into this one.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Jun 17, 2017 0:02:38 GMT -5
Oakland comes back from 2 runs down in the 8th to beat the Yanksters, 7-6. Santiago Casilla came on to shut NY down in the 9th.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 19, 2017 14:36:04 GMT -5
Gleyber Torres to undergo Tommy John. Rough break.
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Post by adiospaydro2005 on Jun 19, 2017 16:31:09 GMT -5
Gleyber Torres to undergo Tommy John. Rough break. I read he suffered the injury sliding into home over the weekend. I assume it was head first?
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Post by bookiemetts on Jun 19, 2017 17:54:17 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jun 20, 2017 10:25:46 GMT -5
Wow, that's ironic - the sleeve he had on, presumably to protect his hand, probably was why his arm got caught and bent funny. Frankly, he's lucky it's just the ligament. That didn't look good.
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Post by nomar on Jun 21, 2017 8:19:19 GMT -5
Judge's HR/FB at home is 55.2%
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Post by radiohix on Jun 21, 2017 8:45:43 GMT -5
Judge's HR/FB at home is 55.2% Pretty sustainable IMHO
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Post by James Dunne on Jun 21, 2017 12:18:28 GMT -5
For the 2019 season, the San Antonio Missions will move from Double-A to Triple-A as an affiliate of the Texas Rangers, Amarillo will get a Double-A club, and Colorado Springs will head to Low-A.
Thoughts: 1. San Antonio is an enormous city that could probably support an MLB team, so them going up to Triple-A makes a ton of sense. 2. Sending Triple-A pitchers to Colorado Springs was a disaster. Not sure it's better in rookie ball, but it will be a little bit easier to evaluate higher-end, closer-to-ready prospects. And, while it's a big city it's also a very sprawling city so it's misleading some - it's the 73rd largest city, but only the 79th-largest metro. So really it's a smaller market than Rochester and Allentown and only slightly bigger than Syracuse and Scranton (and Scranton plays only a couple hours from their parent club in New York City, which is larger than Colorado Springs). 3. Amarillo has been talked about as a possible destination for a team for a long time. They had an affiliated team from the '40's to the '80s, and a couple indy league teams since. Again, market size is easily big enough for Double-A. 4. The first part of this announcement I saw was the Triple-A move, and I was terrified it meant Syracuse was going to lose its team. Happy I'll still have a local Triple-A team to take in.
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Post by James Dunne on Jun 22, 2017 10:40:39 GMT -5
Stephen Vogt has been DFA by the A's. He is having a crummy season and is 32, but catchers are tough to find.
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