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Jesse Chavez to the Cubs, per Rosenthal (link is to his tweet.)h
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GalacticAcid posted:Jesse Chavez to the Cubs, per Rosenthal (link is to his tweet.)h https://twitter.com/cubs/status/1020138379780984832?s=21 From the Cubs (Ken didn’t have a name for the player going to the Rangers)
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Jul 20, 2018 03:53
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A 34 year old RHP reliever with less K's than IP and a 4.32 FIP. I mean yeah that's about the level of talent the Cubs can rake in at this point given their farm, but who does he even replace in the pen?
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Does anyone else hate how ESPN has to cut to a close-up of some fan whenever something happens in a baseball game? Basically a basehit and then a cutaway to one fan clapping into the camera instead of watching the runner go from 1st to 3rd or the reaction of the players.
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I can't believe we traded the most photogenic minor leaguer in history
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why is every national sports telecast a Referendum on The Game shut the gently caress up, A-Rod
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A-Rod is a terrible tv personality
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Sydin posted:A 34 year old RHP reliever with less K's than IP and a 4.32 FIP. I mean yeah that's about the level of talent the Cubs can rake in at this point given their farm, but who does he even replace in the pen? Dinger prone as well! I would assume they take the place of Bass/Norwood but I don't get this move. I'd rather see Norwood or Maples get a chance in low pressure time but maybe they're looking for a long guy to weave in before Joe grinds the pen to dust.
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GalacticAcid posted:A-Rod is a terrible tv personality He's a great analyst but not good in the booth.
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Just an extra competent arm to use the last 2 months so they don't completely burn out Cishek and Strop. Not sure what the big deal is. Would rather have him eating some innings than Norwood or Hancock.
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Ooh didn't realize we're getting the return of Strasburg tomorrow vs Actually Good (For Now) Anibal Sanchez, could be interesting
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Jul 20, 2018 04:50
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Actually Good (For Now) Anibal Sanchez Wait, what??? I thought he was released from a minor league contract at the start of the season and just done, didn't even realize he was still in the majors. In 65.2ip this year he has the lowest WHIP of his career, and a hits/9 almost half of what it was during his last two seasons with the Tigers. Either this is unsustainable small-sample-size bullshit or we have even more proof that Comerica Park is cursed. Frankly, I'm giving 50/50 odds.
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Comptroll The Forums posted:Wait, what???
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I seem to recall hearing theories about Comerica being built on a native graveyard before so maybe there's something to that
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Epic High Five posted:I seem to recall hearing theories about Comerica being built on a native graveyard before so maybe there's something to that Jordan Zimmermann just got sucked into a television so I'm moving this theory to the "strong maybe" pile.
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All the talk of "Trout is too boring to be marketable" I hear on sports radio or whatever seems stupid to me. Have all these sports show hosts forgotten that professional writers exist? If you want to market a guy in some campaign, feed him some lines and film it. "Boring" guys can read a script and come off as funny or whatever. Throw in some celebrities if you want I guess. It's just a dumb excuse for "we don't know what to do and refuse to listen as well".
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Intruder posted:I was (barely) in college when he was a rookie I remember clear as day watching him throw a bunch of wild pitches in the 2000 NLDS while eating lunch at a pizza place. I was junior in high school. So old.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I don’t want a CHUD on the team, I’m already worried enough that Verlander is like one bad week away from wearing a MAGA hat to the game. Verlander would never do that, he's a Democrat.
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with two outs in the bottom of the 8th A-Rod: this part of the game is about managing the last 4 outs of the game who doesn't love his expert analysis
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 TEBOW NEWS https://twitter.com/TylerFeldman12/status/1020120159175004160
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Baseball can't afford for its most marketable player to be hurt
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ESPN says Moustakas is headed to the Braves or Red Sox. I'm still not sure how I'd feel about him on the Braves. Camargo's young and hitting/defending reasonably well but Moustakas is a known commodity. If they can sign him to a long term deal in the offseason and don't have to give the Royals more than, say, Max Fried and another random pitcher i guess I'd be okay with it.
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Twenty Four posted:All the talk of "Trout is too boring to be marketable" I hear on sports radio or whatever seems stupid to me. Have all these sports show hosts forgotten that professional writers exist? I love the idea of MLB marketing teams and sports writers engineering bizarre situations for Mike Trout to try to make him look more interesting. Make his life a 24/7 Punk'd.
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The focus on Trout as the only marketable player is as big if not a bigger issue than his marketability. Trout isn't a big enough personality? Cool, go get Lindor or Betts or Stanton or Gregorius or Bregman or Correa or Puig or Kiké or one of the hundreds of other guys playing baseball who are good and also fun. Every single person on every 40-man seems to play Fortnite every hour they're not at the park HOW HAVE THEY DONE NOTHING WITH THIS?! I mean, it's not like they're all averse to being in ads with silly premises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD6BiDgSs5w Even Brian loving McCann did a great spot for YES when he was with the team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxU_p_1aUYw I understand Trout is the best player ever but the point here is to get people to watch baseball, not explain what WAR means. EDIT: Baseball also has an advantage in that a lot of these guys seem to actually like each other even if they're on rival teams. Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Jul 20, 2018 |
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Inspector_666 posted:I understand Trout is the best player ever but the point here is to get people to watch baseball, not explain what WAR means. Actually the idea of somebody watching baseball who doesn't understand WAR infuriates me. I do think the marketing problem is a bit more than just "MLB needs to focus on the players who are already fun." Baseball itself just isn't built for bringing in new people by getting you interested in any one particular person. Throw your weight behind promoting a starting pitcher? Great, we're excited for 20% of the games. Throw your weight behind a position player? Whoopie, he's on screen for all of 5 minutes in a 3 hour game. Baseball isn't like the other big sports where a star player is out there for more or less half the game. Promoting entire teams and building rivalries, that's where the marketing push should go. MLB should launch a The Real World style reality show for each team.
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Comptroll The Forums posted:Actually the idea of somebody watching baseball who doesn't understand WAR infuriates me. A vast majority of fans neither know what WAR is, nor do they care. Most fans want easy to understand statistics. OPS and WHIP are easy to understand in terms of the advanced statistics. WAR has a different value based on who you ask.
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:ESPN says Moustakas is headed to the Braves or Red Sox. Please no.
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Basically re-create all those old Griffey spots because those made me fall in love with that man. https://youtu.be/r1kesqDBXh0
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HOTLANTA MAN posted:ESPN says Moustakas is headed to the Braves or Red Sox.
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Is anyone else in the majors overperforming their projections to Anibal Sanchez’s degree? Can’t think of one. Camargo is all-around as good as Moustakas now and so much cheaper. I don’t get the fixation.
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iospace posted:A vast majority of fans neither know what WAR is, nor do they care. Most fans want easy to understand statistics. OPS and WHIP are easy to understand in terms of the advanced statistics. WAR has a different value based on who you ask. WAR, what is it good for?
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Comptroll The Forums posted:Actually the idea of somebody watching baseball who doesn't understand WAR infuriates me. lol YOU WILL ENJOY THIS LEISURE ACTIVITY THE SAME WAY I DO OR ELSE
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Whooping Crabs posted:WAR, what is it good for? 
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bewbies posted:lol "Why don't more people like baseball? Oh well back to furiously gatekeeping."
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Albies and Acuna could probably be a media duo sensation
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Remember when Brett Gardner threw a sad about players wearing nicknames on their backs for one stinking day and the crusty old sportswriters were on his side yet now it's Mike Trout's fault for not being fun enough
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