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MorrisBae posted:MLB C/V August: A Plague of Their Own Are you infectious? There's no infection in baseball!
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IcePhoenix posted:Yeah if you click through, people in the comments were pointing out that Judge's OBP is like 50 points higher so I would assume the OPS+ is about that different. Seems like Kepler is also better at not being injury prone. 
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Aug 2, 2020 16:53
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ProperCoochie posted:Pulling a no-call no-show to a lovely company full of idiots is one of life's greatest pleasures. https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1290022370984378368
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Even if he completely ghosted the team and left without warning, who loving cares? This season is Spring Training 2.0 at best, we’re in the middle of an out of control pandemic that’s already seen several teams sidelined entirely due to infections, and the commissioner spent the entire week prepping ways for the public to blame players for a shutdown even though his office has done less than the bare minimum to ensure their safety. And you’re really going to poo poo on a guy for just throwing up his hands and saying “to hell with this poo poo”? It's this. Cespedes could have been having the best start of his career and walking away, with or without notice, is a perfectly reasonable thing to do this season because the league has completely hosed things up.
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Aug 3, 2020 16:06
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Jupiter Jazz posted:It's still bizarre. Much like you should use always use a lawyer when talking to a cop regardless of the circumstances; using your agent to talk to management about you leaving the season is probably the right thing to do since your agent is there to communicate issues and deal with management.
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Aug 3, 2020 16:30
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STAC Goat posted:And then Carlos Correa was just like "shut the gently caress up, assholes" a couple of times so now we all hate Correa a bunch. And then he yelled at a guy who made him look silly striking out on curves that he should have thrown a fastball and he would have crushed it. So now we laugh at him a bunch. Lmao I'd throw him nothing but breaking balls now and taunt him every single time.
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Aug 14, 2020 21:06
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Extra Innings rule continues to suck Should have walked the first batter. Then it would have been a fly out and a double play. 
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Aug 15, 2020 06:38
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Lmao at the crybabies lamenting a grand slam because the score was already too high. Here's the deal: baseball is both a team game AND an individual game. The battle between the pitcher and the batter is a one on one test, regardless of the situation, count or score, with only 2 true outcomes: a win for the batter in the form of a hit or walk or a win for the pitcher with a strikeout or ball hit directly to a fielder leading to an out. And thus every single at bat should be played as hard as possible to determine if who wins that particular test at that particular time. And that means that when a pitcher grooves a 3-0 fastball down the middle of the plate then you should do your absolute best to rocket that ball into outer space even if the bases are loaded and your team is up 50-0. And remember, the difference between a home run and a long fly ball is like an inch. So hell for all we know, Tatis was trying to hit into a double play and just hit the sweet spot instead.
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Aug 18, 2020 17:52
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Inspector_666 posted:Don't worry, everybody's OK Despite the fact that this season is stupid, having all sorts of stuffed animals and dumb pictures in the stands amuses the poo poo out of me. And things like that just make it even better.
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Aug 21, 2020 18:44
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Dexo posted:Nah, All of it makes perfect sense. Everyone is probably telling the truth here. I've been thinking about it a bit over the course of today and if it is true that Heyward told the rest of the Cubs to play then I just can't really bring myself to condemn the rest of the Cubs for playing, even though they really shouldn't have played. Maybe it's just me, but I loving hate that " 'I'm fine, you go play' while secretly wanting the person to not play" type bullshit because I don't feel like it's real leadership. It's a mixed message and I feel like a real leader should not be afraid to directly state what they believe is the right thing for EVERYONE to do.
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Popete posted:The thing is the rest of the players don't need Heyward's permission to opt to not play. Heyward isn't going to tell them what to do, it's up to the rest of the players to decide if they want to support the boycot and their teammate. I'm sure Heyward 100% meant it when he told them to go ahead and play, that doesn't mean he wouldn't appreciate it if they joined him anyways. I completely understand that, but if you've got a guy who is supposed to be a team leader saying 'I'm sitting out, but you guys should really go out and play' then it's a completely mixed message and makes people want to please someone they like, respect and consider a leader by doing what they say. I would be much more unforgiving of the rest of the Cubs if Heyward had said "I'm sitting out because of this" (without telling the rest of the team to play) or "I'm think we should all strike for the day" and then they decided to keep playing anyway. But as it stands, while I would have preferred it if the entire team had sat out, I can completely understand why they played and can't really write them off with this type of reasoning: Poque posted:They had a choice and they made it.
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