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(The crime of it was doing absolutely nothing bedsides cut payroll in the 2018-2019 offseason to follow up on it)
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Nov 1, 2020 02:57
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Not great timing with my recent avatar purchase :I
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Nov 1, 2020 03:09
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Vernacular posted:Not great timing with my recent avatar purchase :I There is no solidarity but Owners of Small Time Professional Sports Franchises That Led Them Into Bankruptcy Through Sheer Mismanagement solidarity.
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Nov 1, 2020 03:33
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GoatSeeGuy posted:There is no solidarity but Owners of Small Time Professional Sports Franchises That Led Them Into Bankruptcy Through Sheer Mismanagement solidarity. lol
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Nov 1, 2020 03:52
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GalacticAcid posted:It was fine. Meadows is garbage and Glasnow is overrated Lol
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Nov 1, 2020 03:54
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Glad the Pitching Ninja merchant is gone
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Nov 1, 2020 04:05
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FlamingLiberal posted:That ended up being an awful, awful trade Archer was bad in the regular season for a Pirates team that was already bad. Glasnow and Meadows were bad in a postseason where the Rays were good and could have really used those two, but instead they actively hampered their efforts to win. Maybe Glasnow and Meadows turn it around, but it kinda feels like a wash at this point. 
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Nov 1, 2020 04:48
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GalacticAcid posted:It was fine. Meadows is garbage and Glasnow is overrated 
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Nov 1, 2020 04:56
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tired: Playoff Gershaw wire: Playoff Glasnow
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Nov 1, 2020 05:05
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Kershaw has more than two pitches and a long history of elite play
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Nov 1, 2020 05:21
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Currently terrified that Theo will think he's super clever by bringing Archer home and we'll get to see him put up a 4.50 ERA season with a 3.00 FIP like he does every year while giving up somewhere between "a ton of" an "all of the" HR's in the process, but Cubs pundits will spend the whole season talking about how the peripherals say he's just unlucky while casually ignoring he's underperformed his peripherals literally his entire career.
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Nov 1, 2020 05:36
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Don’t worry, I’ve already seen into the future and can confirm that he will go to Milwaukee, pitch in relief, and throw like 70 innings with a 1.12 ERA
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Nov 1, 2020 05:43
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Glasnow seems like a great candidate to get non tendered and sign with the Cardinals then become a hall of famer
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Nov 1, 2020 05:57
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GalacticAcid posted:Don’t worry, I’ve already seen into the future and can confirm that he will go to Milwaukee, pitch in relief, and throw like 70 innings with a 1.12 ERA Inshallah
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Nov 1, 2020 07:03
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I might switch from the Padres to the Brewers for my NL team now that Braunzo is gonezo
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Nov 1, 2020 07:05
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The Brewers are legitimately like, twice as likeable now that they've jettisoned Braun. Now all they have to do is get rid of Hader and I will have no more rational reasons to dislike them.
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It is time to talk about Pedro Martinez. I'm so glad I don't have to count him among the all-time great pitchers that I never saw, because they were before my time. I mean, we have the 1999 All-Star-Game:  Unfortunately this video is missing a couple ABs but you get the point: https://youtu.be/CD_c-oawu68 He was ferocious. He pitched one of the best statistical seasons we've ever seen, then did it again the next year, and this was in the PED era. This guy is about 5'10" and weighed maybe 180 lbs soaking wet, at the time, and was making these monsters look like Bugs Bunny. How, you ask? Well, his fastball was not the best one of his time, but combined with his delivery his arm speed and arm angle, was more than adequate, and he had great control (and to be fair, also got those Maddux strikes): https://youtu.be/0aZDn-2Ugwo But his circle change, thrown with the same motion, completely indistinguishable from the heater, was a heartbreaker. He also had a decent curve: https://youtu.be/6hq5jfMuSS8 If we were to look for, say... pitchers from the expansion era on, who started 20 games or more, and search by lowest FIP, we would see this:  Wow! OK, what if we search the same period, looking for WHIP, in ascending order? Holy poo poo, he is there too  OK, fine. Dude was good. But hey, what if we look by ERA+ ? Surely he can't be on there, too?!? YES, holy loving poo poo, not only is he on there too, he's at the top, and appears again just a few spots down!  I know, right?!? But those are just two seasons, idiot, I hear you saying. Well, yes. His two best. During a time when most every lineup had like four or five guys who could do some damage, every single day. But would you accept a five-year stretch, all during the steroid boom?  In the 1999 postseason, he came out of the bullpen with a sore arm and no fastball, and pitched six innings of no-hit, shutout ball. quote:I was at about 60 percent. I started out very cautiously, flipping a lot of curveballs and off-speed pitches to the Indians, a team that I knew would chase pitches outside the strike zone. I knew that they also were probably confused. If I had come back to pitch, that must have meant I was healthy, and when I was healthy I had my fastball-changeup combination. Of course, I didn’t have that fastball that night, but I used the element of surprise to my advantage. I started to throw curveballs early in the count against guys I’d never used a curveball against, like Thome. Normally, I would never take the chance of hanging a curveball with him because he had such a long swing and could murder that kind of pitch. I threw changeups in fastball counts or a curveball at the complete opposite moment when one was called for. Lastly, it must be addressed, because they played at the same time... Bonds did have success against him. But not after Bonds ballooned to 230 pounds and became a cheat code! Siddown, bitch! (OK, it was only one game, but the period when Bonds had success against him was also before Pedro's dominant period, and the 2004 game was Baseball Jesus Bonds vs Fading Pedro) 
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Nov 1, 2020 08:04
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Coastal elitist washed up athletes for Tromp Here's some actual baseball n/v: Extend Javier Baez, you cowards
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Nov 1, 2020 15:06
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Give me all of the Glasnow shares. He’s gonna turn 30 and go prime Jake Arrieta for like three years before losing his FB. But those three years will be special. It’s a shame it’s gonna happen in Boston or St. Louis after the Rays cheap out for the umpteenth time.
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Nov 1, 2020 15:47
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I’ve been alone in my apartment since covid hit and having baseball on the radio while I did things like cook and wash the dishes was very chill. There is no substitute
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Nov 1, 2020 16:57
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https://twitter.com/danconnolly2016/status/1322930865865953282 Whoa, look out, here come the big spending *checks notes* Orioles...?
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Nov 1, 2020 17:03
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Oh thank God I was so afraid we were gonna let Iglesias walk for bullshit reasons.
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Nov 1, 2020 18:01
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https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1322925488327843841?s=21 BABIP .000
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpTPm1R4_AM
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Artix posted:Oh thank God I was so afraid we were gonna let Iglesias walk for bullshit reasons. I remember reading that despite the crazy babip he had he was also among the leaders in expected avg from contact quality.
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Nov 1, 2020 22:36
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Nothing to add here really. Sucks. https://twitter.com/rtjr/status/1323017790375268356?s=21
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Nov 1, 2020 22:51
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Giants extend QO to Gausman.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:I remember reading that despite the crazy babip he had he was also among the leaders in expected avg from contact quality. Ya in 2020 but never before that. Every year before this was an xwOBA under .300 but 2020 it was .370
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https://twitter.com/JonHeyman/status/1323024138672496648Ammat The Ankh posted:Giants extend QO to Gausman.
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No Stroman for the Braves then, probably a pipe dream to begin with but no way they lose that draft pick two years running.
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Nov 1, 2020 23:16
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Love to not offer the QO to Didi
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Nov 1, 2020 23:23
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uggy posted:Ya in 2020 but never before that. Nothin gets by you.
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Nov 1, 2020 23:31
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Sydin posted:The Brewers are legitimately like, twice as likeable now that they've jettisoned Braun. Now all they have to do is get rid of Hader and I will have no more rational reasons to dislike them. Trade Hader to the White Sox after TLR inevitably drops the N-word and Tim Anderson demands a trade, refusing to play in the mean time. Hader gets his perfect manager match and Brewers go on to win world series fueled by being the most like-able team ever. I can dream anyway. Also IMO Hader is showing signs of going downhill and Devin Williams, notable good guy, is the new hot poo poo anyway so they would be wise to get the most value for Hader while they can.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Nothin gets by you. Sorry for talking baseball
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I wouldn't have guessed Gausman got a QO, and might have guessed Semien or Hendricks would.
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Hahahahahahaha https://twitter.com/ianmbrowne/status/1322321295292456961?s=21
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They're pretty likely to rehire him. It's been rumored since not long after he got fired.
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