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Cup of Hemlock posted:Planning on going to the Monday game as a Dodger fan living in Orange County. Let me know if you're looking to unload those! Realizing that the Dodger game is just two tickets. Should be section 211 row G if you want to look up what that area looks like. I'll probably just go to the Saturday night game myself. Intruder posted:I hate having to be in a position to cheer for the Angels but go Angels this weekend Agreed.
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bawfuls posted:50% strand rate in the postseason would be the perfect way for the Cardinals staff to collapse. I'm alright for the blue jays winning the world series this year
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No Safe Word posted:Hey new thread let's not forget: This guy gets it
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Capt. Sticl posted:They only need 348 runs in the remaining 31 games to break the Yankees 1931 record for runs scored by an AL team. ( the 1894 Boston bean eaters set the mlb mark at 1220!) Looked this up out of curiosity and the Yankees averaged almost 7 runs a game, weren't awful at pitching compared to the rest of the league and still lost the AL by 13.5 games.
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ZenVulgarity posted:I'm alright for the blue jays winning the world series this year or something hilarious like Mets/Twins
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Rand alPaul posted:The best part about this season: It's September 1 and Oakland, Detroit, and Boston are in last place in their divisions. Three teams a lot of people picked to be either in first place or in the wild card hunt. Who on earth looked at the Red Sox rotation prior to the season and said "yeah, that's a likely playoff team?"
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Cardinals/Blue Jays, the Jays outscore the Cards by 30 runs in the series and lose in 7 games
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Is it time to revisit this thread yet: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3706731
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After the Tulo and Price trades, I gearing up for the divisional battle to start in mid-September. I didn't realize that it would only take the Jays two weeks to make up the ground against the Yanks. Also, someone I know kept a 90-win tracker for the Jays during their 11-game winning streak. I laughed at him for doing this. I sure look like the fool now. Basically, I didn't expect the Jays to go 24-7 after the Tulo deal was made.
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Capt. Sticl posted:They only need 348 runs in the remaining 31 games to break the Yankees 1931 record for runs scored by an AL team. ( the 1894 Boston bean eaters set the mlb mark at 1220!) This got me glancing at some more recent top teams, and drat that '01 Mariners team was +300 in runs and had a 109-53 Pythag. Most runs scored (4 more than the Rockies), least runs allowed (16 less than the Braves). Meanwhile Oakland, 14 games behind overall, has a 104-58 Pythag and is 5th in RS and 3rd in RA with a +239 difference. Bring back the juiced ball. Poque posted:
I'll swap Pirates and Cubs due to fandom and join you in your cool people rooting zone.
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Intruder posted:Cardinals/Blue Jays, the Jays outscore the Cards by 30 runs in the series and lose in 7 games This doesn't seem that unlikely if you interpret it as "Cards beat the Jays despite scoring fewer runs." John Lackey would give up like a billion and a half runs in Toronto. My evidence: that one game I went to vs. the Orioles last year where he got murderized by the homer-happy Camden crew.
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Man, has Tulo already been a Jay for a month? It feels like just yesterday because he's barely done anything.
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FairGame posted:Who on earth looked at the Red Sox rotation prior to the season and said "yeah, that's a likely playoff team?" A shockingly high number of people, mostly because they expected the offense to be unreal I think, but you also had people talking up dudes like Kelly and Porcello as good bets to improve dramatically.
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jason heywards ops in card wins is .755 jason heywards ops in card loses is .884 thats pretty weird he is opsing .735 versus lefties this year so thats a pleasant surprise.
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MourningView posted:A shockingly high number of people, mostly because they expected the offense to be unreal I think, but you also had people talking up dudes like Kelly and Porcello as good bets to improve dramatically. People pretty much saw the Sox as doing what the Jays have done. And I don't think anybody saw Ramirez as being so actively harmful in LF.
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Inspector_666 posted:People pretty much saw the Sox as doing what the Jays have done. Pretty decent Grantland article about this http://grantland.com/the-triangle/2015-mlb-hanley-ramirez-left-field-defense-boston-red-sox/
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Yeah everyone knew Hanley in the Fenway left field would be bad but not so bad that it worked out to arguably a net negative. Of course they also expected him to hit better than he has.
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Chexoid posted:Man, has Tulo already been a Jay for a month? It feels like just yesterday because he's barely done anything. Still better than Reyes.
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Chexoid posted:Is it time to revisit this thread yet:  MourningView posted:A shockingly high number of people, mostly because they expected the offense to be unreal I think, but you also had people talking up dudes like Kelly and Porcello as good bets to improve dramatically. If you had a preseason drinking game that featured as a drink condition the phrase "Well, if Pitcher X turns into a #Y starter" even though there was little to no reason Pitcher X would do that besides his new Red Sox uniform, you would be dead
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Capt. Sticl posted:They only need 348 runs in the remaining 31 games to break the Yankees 1931 record for runs scored by an AL team. ( the 1894 Boston bean eaters set the mlb mark at 1220!)
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Scob posted:jason heywards ops in card wins is .755 Only 150 PA's for losses. But yea, he's been absolutely fantastic since May 1. 310/370/467
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Only two posts that didn't have the Astros in the bottom two and zero that didn't have the Rangers in the bottom two
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Chexoid posted:Is it time to revisit this thread yet: AL West and all but the Rangers/Astros 4/5 combo is in all but 2 of those predictions 
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kalensc posted:Bring back the juiced ball. That's what got me looking into it. I thought, surely, one of the steroid Era teams had the most runs scored. But the only temporary during that time to score 1,000 runs was the 1999 Indians. Most of the 1,000 runs teams are in the 1890-1930ish.
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MourningView posted:Yeah everyone knew Hanley in the Fenway left field would be bad but not so bad that it worked out to arguably a net negative. Of course they also expected him to hit better than he has. MLB Network sure did. http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/7417714/v37163275/top-10-left-fielders-right-now-in-the-major-leagues
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Hector Olivera is making his MLB debut tonight for the Braves
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FlamingLiberal posted:Hector Olivera is making his MLB debut tonight for the Braves Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. 
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Chexoid posted:Man, has Tulo already been a Jay for a month? It feels like just yesterday because he's barely done anything. What happens if a < 3 WAR/approx .700 OPS is just what Tulo is now?
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I love that nearly everyone picked the Padres to be a playoff team 😂
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Intruder posted:Only two posts that didn't have the Astros in the bottom two and zero that didn't have the Rangers in the bottom two I'm trying not to feel too smug about everyone buying into the ridiculous Mariners hype but I don't think I'm being very successful
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I realize that there's a good bit of extra credit going his way because of the winning streak and the sudden competence of the pitching, but I do think that Tulo has made a pretty big difference defensively.
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will_colorado posted:What happens if a < 3 WAR/approx .700 OPS is just what Tulo is now? WHAT INDEED, SIR.
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MourningView posted:A shockingly high number of people, mostly because they expected the offense to be unreal I think, but you also had people talking up dudes like Kelly and Porcello as good bets to improve dramatically. Porcello didn't even need to improve dramatically, just pitch as well as he had last year. Kelly was pure optimism (although he has been better lately), as was expecting a full season of healthy Buchholz.
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Scob posted:jason heywards ops in card wins is .755 That doesn't seem that weird. I'm sure pretty much every important player hits better in wins than they do in losses, because they are the reason the team wins.
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Which is the exact opposite of what is going on in that split
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Ungratek posted:Which is the exact opposite of what is going on in that split Yes but have you considered that I'm a stupid person that lacks basic reading comprehension?
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FairGame posted:That doesn't seem that weird. I'm sure pretty much every important player hits better in wins than they do in losses, because they are the reason the team wins. It's inverted in this case. FairGame posted:Yes but have you considered that I'm a stupid person that lacks basic reading comprehension? The Matheny Effect.
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 Thank gently caress Baez is starting at 2B and not Starlin "4 errors in the past 2 games" Castro. Also I'm gonna be in attendance for this one. 
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will_colorado posted:What happens if a < 3 WAR/approx .700 OPS is just what Tulo is now? he's still a signficant improvement defensively over reyes while producing similarly as a hitter; however, his BA is probably going to improve over a longer sample and hopefully he can bring his slugging over .400.
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