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Post by prospectlove on Mar 18, 2022 19:36:23 GMT -5
And the same argument was stated by my grandpa when baseball expanded to wild cards. And inter league play. Don't like it...do like it..it's here!! And guess what, it worked out last time also and it will work out just fine this time. It will create more trades at trade deadline (because more teams will be in it). Teams out of it will fetch better returns. More teams should invest somemore because they feel they have a shot. Already it appears only 2 teams are stripping down. I don't want to be the NBA where few teams have a chance. But that's me. Just don't want to hear the constant negativity either. People who have said it have said it. It got voted in! Deal with it. I know that's not how people operate anymore though either so what do I know?? Might as well complain about it for the next 5 years instead. Congratulations. Maybe your generation is the "everybody gets a trophy" generation but that's not how it should be. I mean seriously let all the freaking teams make the playoffs then by your logic. And just so we're clear...it's here because it lines the pockets of the billionaire owners, not because it's best for the sport. So you can buy the company line all you want - that's your choice, but it doesn't mean that I have to like it or agree with it. And I know I'm not the only person who feels that way. 12 teams isn’t everybody. 2nd grade math. 12 doesn’t equal 30
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Mar 18, 2022 19:49:01 GMT -5
Congratulations. Maybe your generation is the "everybody gets a trophy" generation but that's not how it should be. I mean seriously let all the freaking teams make the playoffs then by your logic. And just so we're clear...it's here because it lines the pockets of the billionaire owners, not because it's best for the sport. So you can buy the company line all you want - that's your choice, but it doesn't mean that I have to like it or agree with it. And I know I'm not the only person who feels that way. 12 teams isn’t everybody. 2nd grade math. 12 doesn’t equal 30 Why is it so hard for you to understand that a lot us regard the playoffs as something kind of sacred after a long marathon of a season and we dont want to see lousy undeserving teams advance? The more teams added to the mix, the greater the odds are that a sub .500 team or two make the playoffs That's simple third grade math. Of course if you worship mediocrity as apparently do, why would you care? The rest of us would prefer that the playoffs remain a relatively select club.
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Post by prospectlove on Mar 18, 2022 19:52:50 GMT -5
12 teams isn’t everybody. 2nd grade math. 12 doesn’t equal 30 Why is it so hard for you to understand that a lot us regard the playoffs as something kind of sacred after a long marathon of a season and we dont want to see lousy undeserving teams advance? The more teams added to the mix, the greater the odds are that a sub .500 team or two make the playoffs That's simple third grade math. Of course if you worship mediocrity as apparently do, why would you care? The rest of us would prefer that the playoffs remain a relatively select club. Why is it so hard for you to understand those in control didn’t agree with you. Those with the votes voted against your thoughts. I get some don’t like change and are going to complain for well awhile about things like this but it’s changed. Deal with it
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Post by greenmonster on Mar 18, 2022 19:56:51 GMT -5
Why is it so hard for you to understand that a lot us regard the playoffs as something kind of sacred after a long marathon of a season and we dont want to see lousy undeserving teams advance? The more teams added to the mix, the greater the odds are that a sub .500 team or two make the playoffs That's simple third grade math. Of course if you worship mediocrity as apparently do, why would you care? The rest of us would prefer that the playoffs remain a relatively select club. Why is it so hard for you to understand those in control didn’t agree with you. Those with the votes voted against your thoughts. I get some don’t like change and are going to complain for well awhile about things like this but it’s changed. Deal with it So because it was voted for by those in charge then nobody else is entitled to an opinion?
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Post by benzinger on Mar 18, 2022 19:57:36 GMT -5
100 pages of posts and the biggest free agent signing is Michael Wacha, the guy the Red Sox bombed in Game 6 of the clinching game of the World Series. Good lord. They bombed him in the playoffs last year, too. The more things change...
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Post by benzinger on Mar 18, 2022 19:58:34 GMT -5
I'm going to register my belief that I think it costs the Red Sox very little to have the worse infielder at shortstop and the better infielder at second base. If that keeps everyone happy then fine. Yeah, and this way Xander gets to be more like his childhood idol Derek Jeter in playing SS while a better SS plays next to him. I have to say, Ian Cundall's citing on twitter of Story's hit chart superimposed over Fenway's dimensions is very encouraging, even though I know some of these long flies were helped by the altitude. Yeah, I still remember when they did that with Adrian Gonzalez’s hit chart. I don’t need to tell you how that turned out.
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Post by deversrakes on Mar 18, 2022 20:03:24 GMT -5
Well Xander, you're kind of getting in the way of the Red Sox signing Trevor Story. LOL
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Post by sportshubby on Mar 18, 2022 20:08:23 GMT -5
Ok, let's say it. I like the idea of Story joining the team. It just makes sense. I have been interested in him all offseason. Now that I've said it, they can go ahead and announce that he is signing elsewhere...
I have spent too much time staring at the overlay of his batted balls on Fenway park. I need to see it play out now, or really any signing. I have been refreshing way too often since the lockout ended.
So glad we at least have games now.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 18, 2022 20:08:27 GMT -5
Yeah, and this way Xander gets to be more like his childhood idol Derek Jeter in playing SS while a better SS plays next to him. I have to say, Ian Cundall 's citing on twitter of Story's hit chart superimposed over Fenway's dimensions is very encouraging, even though I know some of these long flies were helped by the altitude. Yeah, I still remember when they did that with Adrian Gonzalez’s hit chart. I don’t need to tell you how that turned out. Right, .321 .382 .513 .895 over two years?
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Post by julyanmorley on Mar 18, 2022 20:13:27 GMT -5
This doesn't pass the sniff test imo
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Post by chr31ter on Mar 18, 2022 20:14:33 GMT -5
FWIW...
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Post by cdj on Mar 18, 2022 20:23:00 GMT -5
It’s just for a year Trevor, do it and hit 30 bombs at Fenway next year
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Post by cdj on Mar 18, 2022 20:26:55 GMT -5
Yeah, and this way Xander gets to be more like his childhood idol Derek Jeter in playing SS while a better SS plays next to him. I have to say, Ian Cundall's citing on twitter of Story's hit chart superimposed over Fenway's dimensions is very encouraging, even though I know some of these long flies were helped by the altitude. Yeah, I still remember when they did that with Adrian Gonzalez’s hit chart. I don’t need to tell you how that turned out. Really well?
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Post by alexcorahomevideo on Mar 18, 2022 20:27:23 GMT -5
Its not like they can't offer the QO to Story in the offseason. Just sign him please. Stop being cheap.
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Post by 07redsox on Mar 18, 2022 20:31:33 GMT -5
Its not like they can't offer the QO to Story in the offseason. Just sign him please. Stop being cheap. Except they can’t...it can only be offered once and Colorado offered it to him this offseason. That’s completely ignoring the fact that the qualifying offer could be gone next offseason as well. Also not sure what being cheap has to do with it if he truly doesn’t want to move off SS which he has already stated.
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Post by jimoh on Mar 18, 2022 20:36:00 GMT -5
To review: "However, the common approach of using a Rockies hitter’s road stats to predict how they’ll fare on a new team can be similarly flawed, short-changing them in the opposite direction. Just as Coors Field bloats their home stats, studies show that the lingering effects of calling Coors Field home also cause Rockies hitters to perform worse on the road. Colorado’s altitude causes breaking balls to lose effectiveness, so pitchers often increase their fastball usage at Coors Field. That in turn enables Rockies hitters to adjust their approach to hunt fastballs, and the breaking balls they do see are easier to hit. When they leave Coors Field, there’s a hangover effect that causes poor road performances, particularly early in road trips as the hitters readjust." theathletic.com/3188981/2022/03/16/buyer-beware-should-free-agent-suitors-be-scared-off-by-trevor-storys-extreme-splits-away-from-coors-field/I didn’t say dud. I said but of a risk. If they give him, say $150+, would you say *that* is the contract and guy you’d have wanted as a big outcome of these last few years? You said he was a risk because of his home/road splits. That's not the case according to the studies cited by the article.
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Post by lancect on Mar 18, 2022 20:36:19 GMT -5
Or… if you willing to spend big money, you get a player in a spot where you didn’t have a guy who was just under 5 bWAR last season? A guy with big home/away splits in Colorado — so a bit of a risk? To review: "However, the common approach of using a Rockies hitter’s road stats to predict how they’ll fare on a new team can be similarly flawed, short-changing them in the opposite direction. Just as Coors Field bloats their home stats, studies show that the lingering effects of calling Coors Field home also cause Rockies hitters to perform worse on the road. Colorado’s altitude causes breaking balls to lose effectiveness, so pitchers often increase their fastball usage at Coors Field. That in turn enables Rockies hitters to adjust their approach to hunt fastballs, and the breaking balls they do see are easier to hit. When they leave Coors Field, there’s a hangover effect that causes poor road performances, particularly early in road trips as the hitters readjust." theathletic.com/3188981/2022/03/16/buyer-beware-should-free-agent-suitors-be-scared-off-by-trevor-storys-extreme-splits-away-from-coors-field/These Colorado guys have to adjust to being home/away and it is really hard, but Story is REALLY talented, was a first round draft pick and we MFY haters remember another Colorado guy was DJ LeMahieu who actually has been much better since leaving Coors, with way more POWER that he did not show before
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Post by manfred on Mar 18, 2022 20:39:22 GMT -5
I didn’t say dud. I said but of a risk. If they give him, say $150+, would you say *that* is the contract and guy you’d have wanted as a big outcome of these last few years? You said he was a risk because of his home/road splits. That's not the case according to the studies cited by the article. It is one study. Yes, I think that is a risk. By the way, I would add that *anyone* who had big home/away splits would be a risk. This is also why I was bummed to see Schwarber go. Someone who gas proven he can do it here is always better than an unknown.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Mar 18, 2022 20:40:43 GMT -5
Why is it so hard for you to understand that a lot us regard the playoffs as something kind of sacred after a long marathon of a season and we dont want to see lousy undeserving teams advance? The more teams added to the mix, the greater the odds are that a sub .500 team or two make the playoffs That's simple third grade math. Of course if you worship mediocrity as apparently do, why would you care? The rest of us would prefer that the playoffs remain a relatively select club. Why is it so hard for you to understand those in control didn’t agree with you. Those with the votes voted against your thoughts. I get some don’t like change and are going to complain for well awhile about things like this but it’s changed. Deal with it I understand they dont agree with me. I care about the integrity of the sport. They care about their wallets. I deal with it fine. Last I checked we are still a democracy and I'm still allowed to express an opinion or do I have to kowtow to the party line? What I dont understand is your foolish need to be so damn condescending, especially when a lot of your opinions, which you certainly have the right to express, clash with what the majority of people here think. I think it was jerky of you to assume that I dont like the new format because I can't deal with change. Some changes are good. Some are bad. It's that simple. I like the universal DH. About time the NL adopted it. But I hate them watering down the playoffs. If you dont like my opinion on it too damn bad. Of course they're going to look out for their wallets whether I like it or not but it doesn't mean I have to salute them.
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Post by greenmonster on Mar 18, 2022 20:42:12 GMT -5
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Post by cdj on Mar 18, 2022 20:47:23 GMT -5
If I had to guess a crappy team. I know it was reported he’s prioritizing winning though. He may have to choose between winning and SS
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Post by greenmonster on Mar 18, 2022 20:50:22 GMT -5
Perhaps the Orioles? They were rumored to be interested in Correa
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Post by jimoh on Mar 18, 2022 20:50:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2022 20:53:23 GMT -5
To review: "However, the common approach of using a Rockies hitter’s road stats to predict how they’ll fare on a new team can be similarly flawed, short-changing them in the opposite direction. Just as Coors Field bloats their home stats, studies show that the lingering effects of calling Coors Field home also cause Rockies hitters to perform worse on the road. Colorado’s altitude causes breaking balls to lose effectiveness, so pitchers often increase their fastball usage at Coors Field. That in turn enables Rockies hitters to adjust their approach to hunt fastballs, and the breaking balls they do see are easier to hit. When they leave Coors Field, there’s a hangover effect that causes poor road performances, particularly early in road trips as the hitters readjust." theathletic.com/3188981/2022/03/16/buyer-beware-should-free-agent-suitors-be-scared-off-by-trevor-storys-extreme-splits-away-from-coors-field/I didn’t say dud. I said but of a risk. If they give him, say $150+, would you say *that* is the contract and guy you’d have wanted as a big outcome of these last few years? This is not fantasy baseball. Other teams are throwing money at players! It is rare to get the exact player you want at the exact price you want as you are bidding against 29 other teams. For fans whining here, but more so on other sites, that the Red Sox did sign this or that player for $300,000,000 with no regard for payroll, player decline, farm system…..is ignorant.
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Post by semperfisox on Mar 18, 2022 20:58:35 GMT -5
Unverified Twitter accounts should not be posted like they have any credibility.
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