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reflex posted:I've been reading the old newbie thread and one of the stronger pieces of advice I've seen is "follow a division, not the whole league," which makes the whole thing less intimidating. Anything fun (rivalries, rowdy emotions, etc.) I should know about the NL East for this season? I'm going to try and follow the Nationals. Get ready for plenty of Mets schadenfreude. They're still suffering from the effects of their financial strategy of "Invest everything with their BFF Bernie Madoff" and having to pay settlement costs for the afflicted.
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ROSS MY SALAD posted:Why would the Angels only give Mike Trout a six year deal when they just gave Albert Pujols a ten year deal when he was like, 9 years older? I'd figure that if you're going to give anyone a ten year deal, it'd be someone that's 22. And with a six year deal, as long as Trout continues to put up numbers like he has, he's going to be a free agent at like, 29? How much money is he going to make? I would suspect his agents would have prevented him from being extended any further. Players in baseball tend to peak around 30-35, so Trout will be getting paid a ton more if he breaks his deal at age 29, instead of age 31. He will be getting paid a fuckton of money unless something causes him to regress. Probably 30M AAV.
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Mornacale posted:The peak in baseball is ~26-28, 30-35 is all decline for most players. Yeah. That was my brain slipping. He would still be getting a bigger second FA contract if he frontloads it starting at age 29, as opposed to 31. reflex posted:Is pitcher W/L record a dumb stat to care about? It seems weird how Strasburg on the Nationals started 30 games last year, but is 8-9 when it comes to W/L. Not really, but its like the only counting statistic that pitchers get, aside from K/BBs, so it gets played up a bit. OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Mar 31, 2014 |
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reflex posted:How many games do you people watch a season? I'm looking at the Nats schedule and there is a stretch in April of 20 days where there is a game every day. How the hell. Does baseball eventually degrade into highlight watching for 75% of the regular season or does it become your main time sink/you get really invested? Baseball has about 3 weeks of off days spread across the entire season. Its a good thing to pop open a beer to when you get off work.
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VJeff posted:What kind of process goes into relocating an MLB team? No. Most teams at the moment are pretty satisfied with where they are, though Tampa Bay and Oakland are looking to get new stadiums. They're in the 5th and 7th oldest stadiums on the market.
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R.D. Mangles posted:And baseball is probably the most easy to understand of the major sports. The NFL contains contracts with made-up numbers that don't actually mean anything and are frequently renegotiated to circumvent the cap, and the NBA's cap holds and trade exemptions and bird rights and max contracts are only understood by a weird guy with a Top Gun mustache. Don't forget about paying a hockey player until he's 60 to lower his AAV hit against the cap. Which I think is gone now, but that was hilarious.
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Everblight posted:reminder that Bobby Bonilla is still on the Mets payroll, and will be for at least another decade. That was a different scenario. The Mets settled with him to take the $6M he was owed, pay him 8% annual interest, and safely invested it with a 10% annual ROI in a fund owned by the best man at the owners wedding. As opposed to sticking it in the contract outright.
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For those who don't know, the Mets ownership was bffs with a Mr. Bernie Madoff.
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Deteriorata posted:If an error occurs on what should have been the third out, all runs scored after that are unearned. Only for the team and the pitcher who in the game at the time of the error. If another pitcher comes in for relief, he doesn't get that benefit of the doubt. So with 2 outs with Pitcher A pitching, Hitter B reaches on an error. Pitcher C comes in relief, and then promptly gives up a homerun to Hitter D. Pitcher A would be charged with an unearned run, Pitcher C would be charged with an earned run, and the team gets 2 unearned runs.
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VJeff posted:What positions does the most offense typically come from and what positions are typically more like "eh he catches the ball good, who cares if he's no good at the plate." Swap 2B and 3B. In general the key defensive positions are up the middle. CF covers the most outfield 2B/SS cover the most ground in the infield. (SS is more valuable than 2B, since more balls are hit towards the position and need to make longer throws.) 3B is kind of in the middle between good offense and defense, because you need a good arm, but they don't cover as much ground as SS/2B. edit: This is what Iget for making coffee. Mornacale posted:One warning: just because a position is "easier" than another does NOT mean that any player can move there. Catcher is an extremely tough position, but it doesn't require the range that SS/2B/CF do. 2B is "harder" than 3B but 3B requires arm strength that most second basemen don't have (if they did, they'd usually be shortstops). You're also not going to slot a left-handed fielder into 2B/SS/3B.
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He has barely played 2 seasons over 3 years. Career BABIP is worthless.
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JoeRules posted:Out of curiosity, how many PA would you say it takes for career BABIP to be of value? More than 2 seasons. His career isn't long enough to break it down to being an issue of luck, or hey, the book on how to pitch him is much better.
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skooma512 posted:Dee Gordon fouled to deep left just now. The left fielder went to play it but the ball bounced away. Why would you give the umpires even more judgment calls
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Tony Phillips posted:What the Hell? It was foul all the way. Left fielder ran in that direction and never touched it or had a chance to barring a stupidly dangerous dive/slide into a wall. For what possible reason would that have been a fair ball or whatever you're talking about? Hahahaha. Yeah, let's have the LF break his goddamned legs so he can catch that ball.
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Badfinger posted:Because you have to draw a line making a clear delineation between a ball in play and a ball not in play, and the line in this case is literal. The person running across the line doesn't matter. Technically he didn't run across the line marking in play or out of play, because that would have broken his legs.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:If a player tries to catch a ball in foul territory and the ball hits his glove but he can't hang on, does that put the ball into play? A player may be charged with an error, but the ball is still dead and the batter/runners can't advance. (This does mean it is possible to commit errors in a perfect game.)
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Everblight posted:More of a general sports question, but certainly applicable to baseball: If the PA agrees to it, MLB runs a Rule 29 draft.
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DinosaurEggSalad posted:I have a question about offensive interference based on a play during game one of the WS. If a runner is already out on a double play, does he have an obligation to duck if the ball is thrown over the basepath? He can't intentionally interfere with a thrown ball. So yes, he needs to get out of the way. However if the ball does strike him, it would require the umpire to make a ruling on intent, which is where it gets messy.
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kensei posted:Designated Hitter, Hall of Fame, Wild Card. Sorry Edgar shouldn't go in
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Everblight posted:OK, here's a sort of effortpost, but also me just trying to walk through the stages of contracts. Correct me when I'm wrong, but also I guess maybe use this in the 2015 newbie thread? I've bolded the parts/numbers I'm not sure on. You're missing the part where the Cardinals buy the Spiders and pillage their talent.
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Shine posted:IMO use real team names, at least for all the major league clubs, because when I got to "Cleveland Spiders" and such I assumed that was minor league stuff and got a bit confused when you referred to them drafting players. Do minor league clubs do drafts of any sort? Help, I don't know baseball other than 90's Mariners lineup owned. The Cleveland Spiders were an actual team that had a great pitcher for them named Denton Young. Unfortunately the owners of the competing St. Louis club bought then out the team and moved all the great players off of them and onto the Perfectos. The Spiders then went onto have an absolutely historic year and set a record for road games that will never be met.* Then they got dissolved. and led to the establishment of a an American League club in Cleveland. *-They finished 20-134 and lost 101 road games.
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