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I have to admit, despite the Red Sox tearing my heart out and showing it to me, before scoffing and jacking up ticket prices, I am hella psyched for the season. Let's Go Mets.
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Feb 12, 2020 20:35
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Isn't Aardsma first overall among MLB players alphabetically? e: Yes. And Zych is last overall among MLB players as well.
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Feb 12, 2020 21:56
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How has there not been a Zywicki in MLB?
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Feb 12, 2020 22:05
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ScottyJSno posted:The Road to the Show analog has a dating sim built into it, and you can buy stuff to put into your digital dudes house. TVs and sofas and junk. I need to get a PS4. I would play this so loving fast.
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Feb 13, 2020 13:42
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Mets refused to trade Jeff McNeil for Francisco Lindor OR Mookie Betts. Which, look, Jeff McNeil is real good and has put up ~7 WAR in under 200 games. But Betts and Lindor are the second and third/fourth best players in baseball. And you're in goddamned New York City, you can afford a big contract to extend the one you trade for! They still ended up offering a better deal to the Red Sox than what the Sox took (Brandon Nimmo & JD Davis, + a top 100 prospect) which proves even more that this was truly just a salary dump from the Red Sox. Hence, still more embarrassing to be a Red Sox fan than a Mets fan.
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Feb 13, 2020 14:06
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STAC Goat posted:I can't get mad at the Mets for that. They offered a fair package. Its reasonable to not want to give up your potential superstar for 1 year. If there's no guarantee of Mookie negotiating exclusively with you its a huge cost when you're not even a lock as a contender. Its tough to think they might have had (the other) Mookie but it seems reasonable. Oh, I agree with you. And they offered a much better package than the Dodgers did outside of eating half of Price's salary in Nimmo, Davis, and a top 100 prospect. I meant to mainly prove that the Red Sox did this solely to cut salary and absent all baseball considerations. Burn Fenway to the ground and leave John Henry tied to a stake atop the pitchers mound.
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Feb 13, 2020 18:17
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Devils Avocado posted:I am but an Astros lurker with a slow couple weeks at work, and I'm finding the doubling down going on all over the city rather infectious. This must be what a MAGA rally is like, you know you're the bad guy but you just don't care because no one around you cares. Man, gently caress the MAGA thing, but this is precisely how it feels to be a Patriots fan. You just lean into the heel turn.
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Feb 14, 2020 21:10
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Tom Gorman posted:I've never had the thought cross my mind until today, not even once. But right now, in this moment, I want nothing more than for Alex Rodriguez to own and control the New York Mets. Hey, how'd you read my exact thoughts? This would be loving amazing.
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Feb 14, 2020 21:12
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Disagreeing with Szym on that, Manfred hasn't proven anywhere near competent enough to pull that off. Meanwhile: https://twitter.com/JesseSanchezMLB/status/1228415596125024257 BARTOLO LIVES!
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Feb 14, 2020 22:37
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I will never tire of the "Bartolo working out" genre: https://twitter.com/hgomez27/status/1192939563087519745 https://twitter.com/ogtedberg/status/684432782819495936
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Feb 14, 2020 23:24
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Red posted:Per @hgomez27, 1995 Yankee Tony Fernandez, the man Derek Jeter replaced at shortstop, has died of a cerebral hemorrhage. That's awful. As noted, he was only 57. I don't know how old his kids were, but I'm in my 30s and it would still be gutting to lose either of mine.  Apparently he had a congenital kidney illness, according to the Global News obit. He's a strong contender for the Hall of Very Good- 4 gold gloves, 5 time all star, and the 1993 WS ring.
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Feb 16, 2020 17:45
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Slimy Hog posted:Manfred needs to go Manfred is in his very short time one of the worst commissioners of baseball, and that's impressive considering you have racist CHUDs like Kennesaw Mountain Landis, owner stoolies like Ueberroth, utter buffoons like Bowie Kuhn, and snake oil salesmen like Bud Selig. Although, now that I'm looking back on the list of commissioners, there's basically no GOOD commissioners except for Happy Chandler and maybe the very short Giamatti/Vincent era. And of course Chandler was bounced specifically because of the good things he did like setting up player pensions and integrating the game, Vincent was bounced for being too player friendly in the 1990 lockout, and Giamatti died less than half a year into his tenure. Man, gently caress owners. e: So as not to triple post, can you imagine pitchers trying to throw 2 lbs baseballs? Every tendon in every arm would be shredded by the end of spring training. And can you imagine batters trying to hit them with wooden bats? Wouldn't be able to get them out of a little league stadium!
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Feb 16, 2020 17:54
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Shocking News: The Giants have disinvited the rapey and violence threatening Aubrey Huff, a dude Schilling would say is trying too hard, from their 2010 World Series reunion. We all make mistakes, OP. There's some other, better, Aubrey's out there. Like from Little Shop of Horrors.
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Feb 18, 2020 03:57
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rickiep00h posted:That's "Audrey". Crud. What about the Singing Cowboy?
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Feb 18, 2020 15:02
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Bregor posted:Tom Brady, he’s already a nut job and he’s also hawking magic pajamas so he’s on the right path. I think Gisele would gag him before he gets too nutty, out of love first and protecting her brand second. She's stridently anti-Bolsonaro and was pro-Green party when Lula was in office. I could see Brady's end point being Curt Schilling in 2010, a blowhard rear end in a top hat but not fully infested by brain worms simply because he has someone sane to stop him from going full CHUD. Also because Brady could blow his entire considerable fortune on a passion project and still be richer than god since he's worth 1/2 of his wife. First spring training game is this Friday! I never thought I'd be excited about Rangers v. Royals.
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Feb 18, 2020 15:14
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Hey Astros fans, it could be worse- your team could have cheated to win the World Series AND traded away the best homegrown player of a generation for "payroll flexibility."
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Feb 19, 2020 04:25
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a neat cape posted:I have questions as an extremely ignorant baseball fan who cant watch my teams games because of the loving Padres: 1. They're trying to get better, but they're in a tough division. If their pitching works out, they could be a playoff team. Baseball Prospectus thinks they're close to a 50/50 shot to make it. 2. Trout remains a baseball God and you should enjoy him while you can before he decides to retire and do local weather broadcasting for the rest of his life. 3. LOL, nope. Harper turned out to be a very good player, but he's not even close to Mike Trout. 4. Astros cheated a lot and are being dipshits now that they were caught. 5. You have Shohei Ohtani on your team as well as Mike Trout! Those are two excellent reasons to watch the Angels. Especially since Shohei will be recovered from Tommy John so you can watch him hit dingers one day and pitch the next.
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Feb 19, 2020 22:06
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Ofc, winning and losing by football scores means more plate appearances for Trout to do cool and good things.
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Feb 19, 2020 22:19
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ilmucche posted:So has anyone made the joke that all stadiums should play walkup music for the Astros but it's just ace of base's "the sign"? With a trash can bang after every "I Saw The Sign"
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Feb 19, 2020 22:29
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:While I understand the symbolism, I've recently come to learn that Ace of Base are a bunch of literal loving Nazis so gently caress them. Eww. gently caress that then.
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Feb 19, 2020 22:41
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Huh, I've always found the craft brews at Citifield pretty accessible. Plus, the way the concourse is set up, you can pretty much see the field from the tap line. I'm not a huge fan of their selection, but they've got a pretty good variety from my memory. Fenway sucks, though, and they've moved around the craft taps on several occasions so they're a pain in the rear end to find and don't even have a great selection. Last few times I've given up and just gotten Goose Island. Ridiculous and insulting considering the number of great breweries in New England. Of course, that turns out to be par for the course from the Red Sox org.
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Feb 20, 2020 00:21
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The stadium is a gem and easy to get to notwithstanding regular Seattle traffic, the food is real good, the beer is great, the only downside is that the team is bad. Honestly, beats the gently caress out of being, like, the D-Backs or White Sox. Though holy poo poo the White Sox beer list has improved since I shivered through an early May game in 2007.
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Feb 20, 2020 00:37
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:I would have guessed Prince Fielder just by looking. Fielder was only like 6 feet tall or so. He was a big boi, but not as long and large as someone like Judge. Pitchers can be real tall, but are also more commonly lean. But, like Jonathan Broxton was like 6'4" 300 lbs.
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Feb 20, 2020 22:02
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Also, Big Papi is listed at only 230 lbs... which for 6'3" ain't that heavy. But that might be later Papi, after he slimmed down to help keep his knees in shape. When he had his early 30s swoon I'd bet he was pushing at least 270.
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Feb 20, 2020 22:05
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Salvor_Hardin posted:How big was the biggest iteration of Bartolo? As of 2014 Colon was listed at 285 and 5'11". The listed weight is noted in the article as being at very best a good deal short of his actual weight.
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Feb 20, 2020 22:07
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quote:Ortiz said he did not understand how somebody in the Astros clubhouse did not speak out earlier about the cheating schemes being developed in Houston. More mad at Fiers waiting to speak up, seems like.
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Feb 20, 2020 22:12
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Frank Thomas is a massive dude. 6'5" and at his peak built like a goddamned nuclear bunker. Going back 60-70 years, Big Klu was pretty big for his day. 6'2" and listed at 225. Lived the "suns out guns out" life.  e: Andres Galarraga was also a big cat, 6'3" and 240+. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Feb 20, 2020 |
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Feb 20, 2020 22:39
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euphronius posted:Does that ... improve the Mets ownership ?? gently caress no. The Wilpons trip on their dicks constantly, in so very very Metsy ways, but usually end up hiring fairly competent front office folks and don't overrule them all the time on basic personnel decisions. Dolan is vastly worse.
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Feb 21, 2020 05:04
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Spring fuckin' Training games start today!
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Feb 21, 2020 12:52
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I dunno, Brett has an argument for second best 3B of all time* so in the 30s seems about right. * Schmidt is the best without too much argument, Brett is in the mix with Chipper (ranked 54) Beltre (52), Boggs (47), and Mathews (46). Apropos for this moment- from Joe Po's writeup of Christy Mathewson in his (exquisite, delightful) Top 100 series: quote:Bonus Mathewson story! Well, it’s not entirely a Mathewson story, but it begins with him. loving baseball, man. I love this stupid sport and its long, dumb, glorious history. Anyone who has access to the Athletic and likes baseball should be reading these- they're to a one excellent, insightful, and enjoyable. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 15:07 on Feb 21, 2020 |
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Minimum 5 years, pitching peaks. Petey, 1997-2003: 118-36, 1408 IP, 2.0 BB/9, 11.3 K/9, 5.59 K/BB, 0.940 WHIP, 2.20 ERA, 2.26 FIP, 213 ERA+ Big Train, 1910-1919: 265-143, 3427.2 IP, 1.7 BB/9, 5.8 K/9, 3.36 BB/K, 0.953, WHIP 1.59 ERA, 1.96 FIP, 183 ERA+ Mad Dog, 1992-1998: 127-53, 1675.1 IP, 1.4 BB/9, 6.9 K/9, 4.78 K/BB, 0.968 WHIP, 2.15 ERA, 2.59 FIP, 190 ERA+ Big Unit, 1995-2002: 143-44, 1763 IP, 2.8 BB/9, 12.3 K/9, 4.47 K/BB, 1.069 WHIP, 2.61 ERA, 2.59 FIP, 177 ERA+ Old Pete, 1915-1920: 139-61, 1777.2 IP, 1.4 BB/9, 4.6 K/9, 1.4 K/BB, 0.971 WHIP, 1.64 ERA, 2.10 FIP, 174 ERA+ The Claw, 2011-2017: 118-41, 1452 IP, 1.8 BB/9, 10.1 K/9, 5.74 K/BB, 0.913 WHIP, 2.10 ERA, 2.36 FIP, 179 ERA+ The Left Arm of God, 1962-1966: 111-34, 1377 IP, 2.1 BB/9, 9.4 K/9, 4.57 K/BB, .926 WHIP, 1.95 ERA, 2.00 FIP, 167 ERA+ Old Hoss, 1884: 60-12, 678.2 IP, 1.3 BB/9, 5.8 K/9, 4.5 K/BB, 0.922 WHIP, 1.38 ERA, 2.75 FIP, 205 ERA+ Also, when Pedro came up for induction to the Hall of Merit at baseball think factory in 2014, HOM voter OCF worked out RA9+ expected w/l records for consecutive seasons for post WW2 pitchers. Gibson pipped Pedro over two seasons, but Pedro was #1 in 2-5 seasons, then #2 behind Maddux after that, then #3 behind Maddux and Seaver in year 10. OCF Posted: January 29, 2014 at 02:35 PM (#4648108) posted:
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It's a just for fun thing using a Bill James stat:OCF posted:I've gone ahead and done one of my projects referred to above. I took my worked out RA+ equivalent records, did some adding, and went through them looking for the best 2 consecutive seasons, best 3 consecutive seasons, and so on through best 10 consecutive seasons. I defined "best" by an old Bill James gimmick stat: Fibonacci Win Points, defined as (wins)*(winning %)+(wins)-(losses), and those are the wins and losses of my equivalent records. No scientific basis, but it does seem to do a good ad hoc job of balancing bulk versus rate - and as many posters above have noted, you can't avoid balancing rate versus bulk when talking about Pedro. He also notes he's working off an older set of park factors, so that might change results slightly. Regardless, the point is "Pedro REAL FUCKIN' GOOD."
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Feb 21, 2020 18:23
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Pancakes posted:Also have I completely missed them earlier or are both Johnny Bench and Pudge Rodriguez going to be top 34? Pretty sure Bench will be, pretty sure Pudge won't be.
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Pos likes peak a lot. Pudge was real good for a real long time as a catcher, and also consistent. I'd be curious if at the end Posnanski gives us an honorable mention list of the 25-30 guys who almost made it.
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Salvor_Hardin posted:I think the next market inefficiency is to borderline check swing on any 2-strike count. Umps see it and their brain pivots to "did he swing" and they are much less likely to call a strike. That is some James Harden energy.
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Feb 21, 2020 22:25
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Yeah, but it's the Mets, so it doesn't even count.
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Feb 22, 2020 21:53
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The Assassination of Yoenis Cespedes by the Coward Mason Saunders.
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And you have #s 32 through 100 of Posnanski's top 100 to catch up on. Each of which seems like at least a thousand words! (32 days until the start of the season!)
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Pancakes posted:Active players still to come in the top 100: Trout, Pujols. I think they'll be more or less untouched, based upon Poz's past stance on PEDs. Bonds in the top 10, Clemens in the top 20 (and either the first or second best MLB pitcher). I think Paige is going to be the top 10 too, very possibly as the best pitcher ever. e: There's 31 spots left, and I figure the following 28 players are locks to be somewhere in there, leaving 3 more. Who am I missing? Probably Lefty Grove, maybe Turkey Stearns? e2: AH gently caress I MISSED MANTLE. Pitchers: Walter Johnson Randy Johnson Greg Maddux Roger Clemens Pete Alexander Satchel Paige Catchers: Josh Gibson Johnny Bench First Base: Albert Pujols Lou Gehrig Second Base: Rogers Hornsby Eddie Collins Joe Morgan Third Base: Mike Schmidt Shortstop: Honus Wagner A-Rod Right Field: Babe Ruth Hank Aaron Stan Musial Frank Robinson Center Field: Oscar Charleston Willie Mays Ty Cobb Tris Speaker Mike Trout Mickey Mantle Left Field: Rickey Henderson Ted Williams Barry Bonds habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Feb 24, 2020 |
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