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IcePhoenix posted:I'm a fan of the new Yankees thread title. I’m not!! But really, that’s the one thing the team is never going to shake 
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Apparently the Astros are interested in Lucroy, which seems utterly bizarre when you have Gattis/McCann right now and Centeno/Stassi waiting in the wings.
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Carlosologist posted:I’m not!! Yeah but you don't count
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Der Meister posted:I really thought the Dodgers FO would start avoiding those kinds of contracts after this year. I guess losing the series changed their priorities. https://twitter.com/mcculloughtimes/status/930831076062322688
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I mean what team isn't interested in Stanton? These hot stove trade talks are so incredibly vague they might as well not exist.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Apparently the Astros are interested in Lucroy, which seems utterly bizarre when you have Gattis/McCann right now and Centeno/Stassi waiting in the wings. Lucroy also kinda sucked this year. .265/.345/.371 with only 6 HR's and 82 wRC+. He also put up -4 DRS at catcher. I guess you could argue he rebounded after being traded to Colorado, but Coors, etc.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Apparently the Astros are interested in Lucroy, which seems utterly bizarre when you have Gattis/McCann right now and Centeno/Stassi waiting in the wings. Yeah that would make no sense unless McCann is about to retire or something Not sold on either of Centeno or Stassi Sydin posted:Lucroy also kinda sucked this year. .265/.345/.371 with only 6 HR's and 82 wRC+. He also put up -4 DRS at catcher. And he's turning 32 He's only two years younger than McCann! Intruder fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Nov 15, 2017 |
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I mean....maybe Lucroy at first with Gurriel DHing? But even then it's not an upgrade.
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Apparently the Orioles are open to moving Britton but this time the Astros aren't in on him for some reason Also apparently the centerpiece of the trade was Colin Moran before it got nixed? If that's true I can see why the Orioles backed out
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Intruder posted:Apparently the Orioles are open to moving Britton but this time the Astros aren't in on him for some reason Britton only has one year left before FA and he's expected to pull down ~$13-14m in arb after a year he dealt with an arm injury and saw his peripherals take a nosedive across the board. Teams willing to spend that much AAV on a closer would probably prefer to just sign Davis/Holland/etc and get them for a few years vs trading prospects for one expensive year of Britton.
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Sorry for the double post but I hope you all are ready for pitch clocks.
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I saw an example of one being used in the AzFL and it looked loving miserable. Batter took forever to get into the box and then 2 seconds after he got ready the umpire called a ball on the clock violation that took longer than the batter prep. And that's ignoring the fact that the batter caused the loving delay.
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Inspector_666 posted:I saw an example of one being used in the AzFL and it looked loving miserable. Batter took forever to get into the box and then 2 seconds after he got ready the umpire called a ball on the clock violation that took longer than the batter prep. Is it better or worse than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAze__nq2k
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Nov 15, 2017 22:22
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Best part is the pitch wasn't even a strike
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Intruder posted:Best part is the pitch wasn't even a strike That'll pace your play faster than a ball!
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Intruder posted:Best part is the pitch wasn't even a strike It's Joe West, getting the call right takes a back seat to making a statement.
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Sydin posted:Sorry for the double post but I hope you all are ready for pitch clocks. Oh, gently caress you, Manfred.
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Sydin posted:Sorry for the double post but I hope you all are ready for pitch clocks.
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Sydin posted:Sorry for the double post but I hope you all are ready for pitch clocks. My body is ready.
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Popete posted:It's Joe West, getting the call right takes a back seat to making a statement. I wish it had been in the dirt or something so smokin' Joe would have had a conundrum on his hands
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I know there was a pitch this year where the batter was doing his in box routine and the pitcher just threw one by him for a strike.
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iospace posted:I know there was a pitch this year where the batter was doing his in box routine and the pitcher just threw one by him for a strike. It was Scherzer against Odubel Hererra. Scherzer then went full pitchface.
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Nov 15, 2017 23:37
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What the gently caress has Donny been doing to his hands to make his fingers jagged?
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Nov 15, 2017 23:52
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Kluber wins ALCY with 28 of 30 1st place votes.
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Chris Sale is never going to win a Cy Young apparently. 
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The two first place votes for Sale came from writers in Boston and Chicago. I honestly thought it'd be closer than that.
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I hope pitchers protest by waiting until the last second to throw the ball, thereby making the games actually take even longer.
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They both surpassed 200 IP and Kluber had a 2.25 ERA in the year of the juiced ball which is pretty crazy, but Sale pipped 300 K's for the first time in his career to Kluber's 265 and (I know the writers don't give a gently caress about this) actually had a marginally lower FIP. It's not a complete robbery like Porcello's was last year, but the fact that it wasn't even close is really weird.
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Pitch clocks effect very few pitchers in the game (Pedro Baez). But the effect is probably more subconscious and a good thing overall to keep things moving. Some guys do take for ever between pitches and it's detrimental to their own defense to be standing around.
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Sydin posted:They both surpassed 200 IP and Kluber had a 2.25 ERA in the year of the juiced ball which is pretty crazy, but Sale pipped 300 K's for the first time in his career to Kluber's 265 and (I know the writers don't give a gently caress about this) actually had a marginally lower FIP. I mean, its not weird the way the voting works. If a bunch of writers all came to the same conclusion of "its close but Kluber's the winner" then you have a landslide even if that wasn't the intent. Only way to avoid that is to collude to throw enough 1st place votes to Sale to make it close. No one else got either a 1st or 2nd place vote so that's as "even" as you can guarantee it without manipulating the votes. No?
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Scherzer won 27 of 30 first place votes. Both awards ended up less close than they ought to have been at the top.
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bawfuls posted:Scherzer won 27 of 30 first place votes. Both awards ended up less close than they ought to have been at the top. *leans in really close to the mic* wrong
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STAC Goat posted:I mean, its not weird the way the voting works. If a bunch of writers all came to the same conclusion of "its close but Kluber's the winner" then you have a landslide even if that wasn't the intent. Only way to avoid that is to collude to throw enough 1st place votes to Sale to make it close. No one else got either a 1st or 2nd place vote so that's as "even" as you can guarantee it without manipulating the votes. I guess, I'm just surprised there weren't more voters who thought "it's close but Sale's the winner". I thought 308 K's was going to sway more voters.
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Sydin posted:I guess, I'm just surprised there weren't more voters who thought "it's close but Sale's the winner". I thought 308 K's was going to sway more voters. Almost three quarters of a run difference in ERA is a pretty big gap.
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I think Scherzer clearly distinguished himself from the rest this year. I didn’t think it was particularly close.
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Kershaw vs. Scherzer: Kershaw has a lower ERA, 2.31 to 2.51 Kershaw has a slightly better ERA+, 180 to 177 Scherzer better in FIP (2.90 to 3.07), WHIP (.902 to .949), hits per 9 (5.7 to 7.0), HR per 9 (1.0 to 1.2), K per 9 (12.0 to 10.4) Kersh better BB per 9 (1.5 to 2.5) and SO/W (6.73 to 4.87) Scherzer better in WAR (7.3 to 4.6)—partially attributable to the fact that Kersh made four less starts I'm afraid I have to agree with the voting results. If Kersh hadn't missed those four starts, who knows.
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ROCK THE HOUSE M.D. posted:Almost three quarters of a run difference in ERA is a pretty big gap. Didn't stop the voters from voting for Scherzer over Lester or Hendricks last year 
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Timby posted:A-Rod Oh dang, how did I forget the A-Rod trade? It's an interesting comp for Stanton, though. A-Rod had 7 years and $179M left when Texas dealt him to the Yankees; Stanton is owed $295M over 11 years, but there's an opt-out. Pretty similar AAV. Rodriguez's contract was the largest in MLB at the time, and Giancarlo's is the biggest today. The Rangers ate about 1/3 of the money they owed A-Rod, and got back a pretty good player in Alfonso Soriano. I wasn't following baseball closely in 2003 but Soriano hit almost 40 dingers in each of his last two seasons in NY, as a second baseman, and was just entering arbitration. That seems like a nice return. So maybe the Marlins would need to cover like $100M but they get back a young, cost-controlled star. What did people think about the A-Rod trade at the time? The Pussy Boss fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Nov 16, 2017 |
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