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76 | 46.34% |
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| Which teams will be good, I need to know who to root for |
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9 | 5.49% |
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ManifunkDestiny posted:JP Arencibia owns. Seriously, watch this. I love Kurkjian's reaction. Haha, it's not great but it's not bad either. Surprised Kurkjian didn't take it more in stride to be quite honest. Can't be the first time in his life that he's realized he's got a goofy voice that gets him made fun of. e: also  yay for the poll option of "my team sucks, this is going to rule"
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Mar 1, 2012 23:55
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Beatnik-Filmstar posted:Felix has lost the opening day start for the M's. What 
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Mar 2, 2012 06:03
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BrooklynBruiser posted:I hate to admit it, but I have no idea who that is. Fat Mike (Scioscia)
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Mar 2, 2012 06:13
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stuart scott irl posted:check the headline/title Yeah why the gently caress do they think he's on the Mariners Mr. Fix It posted:To be fair, lovely baseball teams do tend to blend together after a while. Oh right
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Mar 2, 2012 06:48
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Awww, Flamingos are a go should have been for next month's thread title  The thread worked so hard in the offseason and was in the best shape of it's life but now nobody knows
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Mar 2, 2012 18:18
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I swear I see that and for a fleeting moment each time I think "UGH DON'T POST OBP/SLG/OPS SLASH LINES" before I realize it is The Bonds 2004 Line
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Mar 2, 2012 20:56
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leokitty posted:The Astros are much worse than any other team in MLB anyway And several in the minors  I mean, really, the Astros are more of a huge fuckoff question mark with a low ceiling and very low floor.
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Mar 2, 2012 23:20
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If you're going to post an onion article you could at least link it when it has a good picture like:
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Mar 3, 2012 00:12
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BrooklynBruiser posted:Of course - it's called Mooneyball.  And that JoePos article is incredibly long (as expected) but good
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Mar 4, 2012 19:55
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Proposition Joe posted:It should be on rails and do laps around the stadium. It should visit each section and sign autographs
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Mar 5, 2012 20:31
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leokitty posted:Phil Hughes was throwing 87 in his the last start of Spring Training last year that is a major concern. Here's an article though
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Mar 6, 2012 20:09
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Detroit_Dogg posted:I commented on it you jerk. Oh there was like a page lag and I searched for "Guillen" but nobody quoted it!
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Mar 6, 2012 20:19
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Scoobi posted:The guns are aimed at the ball out of hand, right? Pretty much this. And I think they tweak it to expect something traveling at a certain velocity to minimize any noise.
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Mar 6, 2012 20:40
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stimpy posted:I still can't believe they actually went through with the dinger machine. That thing is so godawful yet amazing. I can't believe it wasn't done back in 1999
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Mar 6, 2012 23:31
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Well my semi-arbitrary date was just "the season after 1998, aka McGwire broke baseball with dingers"
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Mar 6, 2012 23:56
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nnnAdam posted:What is it with Rangers fans falling out of their seats to get a ball? Can you blame this guy? 
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Mar 7, 2012 07:11
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Arctic Baldwin posted:Can someone loop it so infinite Ibanez's are falling to cut off the ball? For some reason I thought reversing and looping would be funny  And this turned out kind of okay actually  e: oh god if you watch them both for a while the two Ibanezes synchronize eventually
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Mar 7, 2012 07:53
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News: Roy O not as picky now apparently Views: I have no idea where he's likely to end up I just know it's not the Astros
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Mar 8, 2012 22:22
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Gonz posted:In today's spring training game vs. the Rays, Miguel Cabrera stole third base. I don't understand did he take the base with him at the end of an inning after standing around it while staring into his glove?
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Mar 8, 2012 22:38
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Mornacale posted:Why don't we just let people post if they don't want their team to sign Roy Oswalt, I'm sure it will be a shorter list. As weird as it is to say it, I kinda wouldn't want them to re-sign Roy. Rebuild Mode(tm) doesn't make sense that way.
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Mar 8, 2012 23:53
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peepoogenderparts posted:Wha!? Really!? Same reason the Football Outsiders guys named the football version KUBIAK. They picked a guy who was kind of "just a guy, nothing special" throughout his career. Then Gary Kubiak went and became a head coach in the NFL a few years after that 
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Mar 10, 2012 02:50
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Declan MacManus posted:So whenever someone edits the dinger machine GIF in, make sure to put a B/W filter over it for authenticity. Dinger Machine was always in color even when the rest of the world was still in black and white 
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Mar 14, 2012 15:32
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tadashi posted:E: poo poo, that article I posted is like a month old. I thought it was new as someone on Twitter just referenced it today. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/building-through-the-draft-worst-of-the-worst/ It was still interesting anyway <  >Funny how the Astros get buoyed from worst to just inside the bottom 5 simply on Hunter Pence alone
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Mar 14, 2012 17:27
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tadashi posted:It's not just the mouth but his giant nose that strikes me. He looks like a catcher. He played catcher in HS, so there's that
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Mar 15, 2012 19:51
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Mornacale posted:Surely there is a Nats fan who needs an avatar. paging otf
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Mar 15, 2012 19:55
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Gonz posted:Mark Reynolds is the walking, talking living embodiment of the three true outcomes. I need to redo my stats database and see how he compares to the likes of Dave Kingman and Rob Deer. I think even in 2008 or so he was up there.
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Mar 15, 2012 22:27
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Gonz posted:You don't need to remind me about Mr. Deer. I watched him play many a time in Tiger Stadium. His dingers were rad as poo poo. This isn't exhaustive, just picked some names I remembered to be very high. Active: code:code:e: hah I was adding Dunn as you posted vvvv
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Mar 15, 2012 22:48
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Mr.Showtime posted:Goldmine this entire thread loving hell
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Mar 16, 2012 07:18
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stuart scott irl posted:League TTO% by year
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Mar 16, 2012 16:56
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And get some r-squared values up in this piece too (actually I hope you did the linear fit without the WW1 and prior years, if not, do that too)
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Mar 16, 2012 17:19
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Jubs posted:Does Cabrera come back with a facemask? img-pujolsmask
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Mar 19, 2012 20:58
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The Prisoner posted:N: Noted major league heroes Dallas McPherson and Dickshot Dan Johnson remain in the battle for the final White Sox bench slot along with Eduardo Escobar and Jim Gallagher. Dallas McPherson always turned into Russell Branyan/Carlos Pena in my BBM sims for some reason and would end up breaking the home run record. That's my story on how I even remember Dallas McPherson.
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Mar 20, 2012 17:55
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URL Weaver posted:
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Mar 21, 2012 05:36
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:uh...he's the 434th best baseballer in the US, possibly the world. Do you know how hard it is to be that good at baseballing? Approximately .26 harder than being Livan Hernandez
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Mar 21, 2012 17:45
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SharkTattoos posted:I just imagined Kevin Millar doing in-depth oWAR-dWAR breakdown of NLC shortstops. Starlin Castro Zack Cozart Jed Lowrie Rafael Furcal Clint Barmes Alex Gonzalez hooo boy
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Mar 21, 2012 21:17
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N: Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones officially to retire at end of season V: Will anyone notice until it's like 40 games in and he hasn't played yet? Or will everyone assume that he's injured the first 40 games instead of somewhere in the middle or at the end? e: oh dammit, already posted but I have a link so 
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Mar 22, 2012 17:15
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Capt Murphy posted:Brett Wallace, Jordan Schafer or JB Shuck, and Brian Bogusevic may all be in the opening day lineup. and Jose Altuve with his 5 BB in ~250 PA last season for a cool .297 OBP
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Mar 22, 2012 22:01
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^^^ to be fair, the quote is about hitting so pure WAR wouldn't be fair since it accounts for defense/baserunning as well ^^^ e: though that actually puts ARod like 30 WAR ahead since Pujols gets a shitload of WAR from fielding tadashi posted:Views: That cover quote is totally wrong. Albert is in blue, guess who's in red? I'll give you one guess. One guess. Pretty sure that quote is about actual humans and not Golden Gods of Baseball, jeez
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Mar 22, 2012 22:44
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leokitty posted:What stats is that Pujols graphic looking at? I see he has more RBI than Lou Gehrig, wooboy. "The eye test" "Rings"
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Mar 22, 2012 23:18
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Mornacale posted:Hell, you know who had a virtually identical wOBA as Pujols at ages 30 and 31? Lance Berkman. Jose Bautista has been better each of the past two years, and he's only a year younger than Albert (also his wOBA and HR graphs are hilarious, go look). It makes me really happy that Lance may be able to have a few more really solid years and actually toy with the idea of becoming a Hall of Famer.
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