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Radical changes to minor league baseball possible in 2021
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Feb 19, 2021 15:00:52 GMT -5
Wait til Chris finds out the "smiley" in the Amazon logo is an arrow that says Amazon has everything from "A to Z"
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Post by lostinnewjersey on Feb 19, 2021 15:29:30 GMT -5
(the Dash, the only team named after punctuation). I remember when someone pointed this out to me way after I should've realized it and my mind being absolutely blown. Except it's not a dash. It's a hyphen.
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Post by mobaz on Feb 19, 2021 16:06:21 GMT -5
I remember when someone pointed this out to me way after I should've realized it and my mind being absolutely blown. Except it's not a dash. It's a hyphen. What is the difference between an M dash and an N Dash? There are two types of dash. The en dash is approximately the length of the letter n, and the em dash the length of the letter m. The shorter en dash (–) is used to mark ranges. The longer em dash (—) is used to separate extra information or mark a break in a sentence. www.scribbr.com/language-rules/dashes/
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Post by jimoh on Feb 19, 2021 16:47:32 GMT -5
(the Dash, the only team named after punctuation). I remember when someone pointed this out to me way after I should've realized it and my mind being absolutely blown. There are occasionally some stickler grammarians in the crowd who yell "Go Hyphens!"
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Feb 19, 2021 16:54:39 GMT -5
Don't tempt me.
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Post by cdj on Feb 25, 2021 14:53:33 GMT -5
Idk if I missed this or not and I’m not sure where it would or should be posted but
That’s kinda sweet
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Post by The Town Sports Cards on Feb 25, 2021 15:17:45 GMT -5
I'm excited for NESN to continue carrying AAA games, seems like more than previous years too. I feel like they only carried like 10-20 a season before and usually just on night's when the Sox and Bruin's are off. Wonder if they'll broadcast some WooSox games when the Red Sox are on another network?
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Post by vermontsox1 on Mar 2, 2021 18:16:14 GMT -5
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Post by agastonguay13 on Mar 2, 2021 18:42:29 GMT -5
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Post by gerry on Mar 2, 2021 20:37:19 GMT -5
Yes uggghhhh. But also yayyy I guess. The Sox are not alone in losing players like Plawecki and Franchy to CoVid isolation already early this ST.
After seeing what happened in 2020 to CoVid infected and/or impacted Red Sox (like ERod, Taylor, Darwinzon, Devers, JDM at least) the danger of this pandemic must be respected if we are to end it.
The reality is that although pandemic #’s are declining, they are still higher than the summer surge and have leveled off. The scientists are legitimately worried. That and the increasing dominance of many variants make this delay for about 4,000 miLB players and personnel a likely good move. Most players and coaches and fans who will be able to attend will be vaccinated by then.
We will still see the likes of Chavis, Downs, Duran, Houck, Seabold, Mata, Ward, Groome and Bazardo at the alternate site. And with no playoffs in the minors, maybe their season can be extended a bit to make up a week or two of those games with a higher level of fan attendance. IMO, it’s not a lose-lose.
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Post by Oregon Norm on Mar 2, 2021 23:37:31 GMT -5
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Post by agastonguay13 on Mar 3, 2021 7:55:51 GMT -5
Yes uggghhhh. But also yayyy I guess. The Sox are not alone in losing players like Plawecki and Franchy to CoVid isolation already early this ST. After seeing what happened in 2020 to CoVid infected and/or impacted Red Sox (like ERod, Taylor, Darwinzon, Devers, JDM at least) the danger of this pandemic must be respected if we are to end it. The reality is that although pandemic #’s are declining, they are still higher than the summer surge and have leveled off. The scientists are legitimately worried. That and the increasing dominance of many variants make this delay for about 4,000 miLB players and personnel a likely good move. Most players and coaches and fans who will be able to attend will be vaccinated by then. We will still see the likes of Chavis, Downs, Duran, Houck, Seabold, Mata, Ward, Groome and Bazardo at the alternate site. And with no playoffs in the minors, maybe their season can be extended a bit to make up a week or two of those games with a higher level of fan attendance. IMO, it’s not a lose-lose. I completely understand the need for these safety measures, my all caps groan was merely an expression of being sick and tired of the virus as a whole.
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Post by gerry on Mar 3, 2021 17:32:58 GMT -5
100% agree. Ugggghhh. This has been brutal. Sick of sickness. Sick of the divisiveness it has exacerbated. Sick of the worries for my friends and family. Sad at losing some of them. Want that light at the end of this tunnel to continue brightening and to continue putting distance between us and 2020. Overjoyed that summer 2021 might see vaccinations for all, followed by attending baseball games; where many of us, myself included, will gladly cheer, eat, drink, laugh and cry myself sick. Not back to normal. Better than normal.
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Post by sittingstill on Mar 17, 2021 20:29:27 GMT -5
Sorry to see that Salem won't have a radio broadcast this year. I assume their radio previously was the same as the audio of the MiLB.tv stream--wonder what this means for streaming.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Mar 17, 2021 20:58:53 GMT -5
I could see them streaming the game with no audio I guess.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Apr 30, 2021 9:58:07 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 30, 2021 10:29:09 GMT -5
Last I heard it seemed more likely the Red Sox would have 1, but these things have been evolving quickly. We'll see. They do have sufficient coaches to staff up two teams during games.
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Post by ericmvan on Apr 30, 2021 13:00:11 GMT -5
He reports that "as it stands now" the GCL would have 21 teams and the AZL 18, but that's just the opposite of what it was in 2019, so I think that's an error. He was trying to say that no team has revealed any changes in plans, I think.
I always thought that each team had one affiliate in a complex league, but that's not been the case.
In 2015 the Yankees had 2 teams in the GCL and the Rockies had no team in either complex league.
The Tigers added a second GCL team in 2016.
2017, Padres added a second AZL team.
2018, Indians, Cubs and Giants added second AZL, and Phillies added second GCL.
2019, A's, Dodgers, and Brewers added second AZL teams.
I still think that eliminating the short-season A level of competition doesn't work, and that teams will discover that. College draftees are going to dominate the HS draftees, and they're not ready for low-A.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on May 2, 2021 19:47:28 GMT -5
He reports that "as it stands now" the GCL would have 21 teams and the AZL 18, but that's just the opposite of what it was in 2019, so I think that's an error. He was trying to say that no team has revealed any changes in plans, I think. I always thought that each team had one affiliate in a complex league, but that's not been the case.
In 2015 the Yankees had 2 teams in the GCL and the Rockies had no team in either complex league.
The Tigers added a second GCL team in 2016. 2017, Padres added a second AZL team. 2018, Indians, Cubs and Giants added second AZL, and Phillies added second GCL. 2019, A's, Dodgers, and Brewers added second AZL teams. I still think that eliminating the short-season A level of competition doesn't work, and that teams will discover that. College draftees are going to dominate the HS draftees, and they're not ready for low-A.
I'd speculated that the talent level at full-season would expand somewhat to fill the gap. It's not clear yet whether that is happening. The 32 guys announced for the Salem roster include 3 of the 4 draftees and 7 of the 16 UDFAs (BVB in Greenville, the other 8 in FTM). Looking at the 2019 season-opening rosters, that seems about normal. What we'll have to wait and see is what happens in June/July. The projected GCL team has a pretty reasonable rotation and lineup before adding any draftees. I bet you'll see some college guys who might've gone to Lowell go right to Salem with corresponding promotions (it'll be REALLY interesting to see what they do if they draft Lawlar or Meyer...).
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Post by grandsalami on May 13, 2021 12:12:53 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Mar 15, 2022 10:22:40 GMT -5
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Post by mobaz on Mar 15, 2022 10:34:01 GMT -5
Those both strike me as "if it ain't broke..." kind of changes. No idea what problem they are trying to solve that makes baseball more fair or entertaining.
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Post by julyanmorley on Mar 15, 2022 10:43:34 GMT -5
I'm rooting for the Double Hook. I don't want to live in a world where every team believes the correct strategy is to pull the starter before they face their 19th batter.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Mar 15, 2022 11:01:31 GMT -5
Well, now that the MLB owners officially have the power to change the rules without the players' consent, even within a season, we are entering a new era.
We had the Deadball Era, the Expansion Era, the Steroid Era, and now, welcome to the Tinkerers' Era, in which a game that had remained largely the same for the past 120 years will now have little tweaks every year in pursuit of "excitement" and "younger fans."
If they keep it up, I wonder how long before they start to lose the "older fans"...
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Post by jimed14 on Mar 15, 2022 13:33:19 GMT -5
Well, now that the MLB owners officially have the power to change the rules without the players' consent, even within a season, we are entering a new era. We had the Deadball Era, the Expansion Era, the Steroid Era, and now, welcome to the Tinkerers' Era, in which a game that had remained largely the same for the past 120 years will now have little tweaks every year in pursuit of "excitement" and "younger fans." If they keep it up, I wonder how long before they start to lose the "older fans"... And there is no possible way to avoid rewarding certain teams and punishing others based on how they built their team with the rules that were in place when making the decisions. They do not care whatsoever about existing fans. Every rule change is to try to expand the fan base. And I don't GAF about how popular baseball is. I just want what I have loved my whole life.
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