nice recovery Edbot!

06hawkalum wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:Trevor Bauer doesn't seem to like it:

BauerOutage
No idea who made this new playoff format proposal, but Rob is responsible for releasing it, so I’ll direct this to you, Rob Manfred. Your proposal is absurd for too many reasons to type on twitter and proves you have absolutely no clue about baseball. You’re a joke.

Guy gives zero fucks and I kind of love it.

7 minutes of Bauer ranting about how MLB sucks. This is going great

Bucky wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Does the 3 batter minimum carry over innings? For instance if you take the starter out with 2 outs in the 6th and the reliefer that comes in gets 1 out to complete the inning, does he have to then pitch to 2 batters in the 7th?

"Or until the offensive team is put out"

BigEd76 wrote:yeah they're trying to eliminate the "4 pitchers in one inning" bullshit, but as long as the pitcher comes in and ends the inning, that's fine

Also notice the rule change where you have to wait until extra innings to use a position player to pitch UNLESS your team is up/down by 7+

Thanks, I missed that part. I don’t love the 3 batter minimum thing, but agree with swish on the previous page.

Bill McNeal wrote:
Thanks, I missed that part. I don’t love the 3 batter minimum thing, but agree with swish on the previous page.

Who knows whether there's any truth to it all, but it often "feels like" when a guy is brought in for only one batter they nibble around a bit, not wanting to be the one who gives up a big hit, and subconsciously knowing that if they put a guy on the next pitcher may be able to bail them out. I'm sure this is an opinion highly colored by years of frustrating Phillies watching though.

Things going well at the Astros presser:

Jim Crane: "I don't think I should be held accountable."

Jim Crane on sign stealing in 2017: “Our opinion is this didn’t impact the game.”

Per Joel Sherman the Mets were in discussions for Mookie Betts but wouldn’t part with Jeff McNeil.

CFP wrote:Things going well at the Astros presser:

Jim Crane: "I don't think I should be held accountable."

Jim Crane on sign stealing in 2017: “Our opinion is this didn’t impact the game.”

Seems pretty obvious at this point that they are liars and are just gonna say whatever they can get away with to make it go away.

MoBettle wrote:Seems pretty obvious at this point that they are liars and are just gonna say whatever they can get away with to make it go away.

I thought I was in the politics thread for a moment.

CFP wrote:Things going well at the Astros presser:

Jim Crane: "I don't think I should be held accountable."

Jim Crane on sign stealing in 2017: “Our opinion is this didn’t impact the game.”

Then less than a minute later, he says he didn't say that

One of the Dodgers bobblehead giveaways this year is a Max Muncy "Go Get It Out of the Ocean" one when the Giants visit in March

Genius

Nigel "The Freeze" Talton just got eliminated in the heats of the national indoor 60m championships.

Tony Fernandez passed away at 57. Had kidney complications and suffered a stroke, was removed from the ventilator tonight

I was standing in the interminable line at Rite Aid and I was thinking:

I've read that there's no real science behind the traditional pitcher's wind up, that is no evidence that helps pitchers to throw pitches that are faster, or with more bite on the breaking ball, or really do anything at all. And yet, it is well-documented that pitchers generally fare better with nobody on base than with runners on. So I thought about this and I thought that this must have something to do not with the wind up per se, but with pitchers being more cognizant of delivering the ball a little faster with runners on. This means they can't get quite as much on their pitches, etc. But then I thought, "Well, if that were true, what would it matter if the guy on first were anchored there, like the pitcher or Pat Burrell, versus if you had somebody on base who could actually swipe a bag, like J-Roll?"

Which led me to wonder: can we isolate data that show how pitchers perform with anybody on base versus how they perform with real SB threats on base (like, let's say top 20% of base stealers in a given year)? Does it make any difference? Would this be an argument for getting not just speedsters but people truly capable of stealing, not so much for the extra bags but because of the drop in performance of the pitcher that it causes?

I don't have time to find out the answers but someone figure this out: it could be the next "undervalued skill" in the baseball market!

Renovations to Dodger Stadium

BigEd76 wrote:Renovations to Dodger Stadium

i didn't make it through the whole thing, but that's not nearly as bad as I had feared.

TLDR (or TLDS?): all the updates are in the outfield but won’t block the view

I have to say, having now been out to LA (in January!) and simply having sat in the stadium while it was basically empty watching a little batting practice, that place is as classic as Wrigley or Fenway (which I've been to) and is perfect the way it is. Beautiful.

Wolfgang622 wrote:I was standing in the interminable line at Rite Aid and I was thinking:

I've read that there's no real science behind the traditional pitcher's wind up, that is no evidence that helps pitchers to throw pitches that are faster, or with more bite on the breaking ball, or really do anything at all. And yet, it is well-documented that pitchers generally fare better with nobody on base than with runners on. So I thought about this and I thought that this must have something to do not with the wind up per se, but with pitchers being more cognizant of delivering the ball a little faster with runners on. This means they can't get quite as much on their pitches, etc. But then I thought, "Well, if that were true, what would it matter if the guy on first were anchored there, like the pitcher or Pat Burrell, versus if you had somebody on base who could actually swipe a bag, like J-Roll?"

Which led me to wonder: can we isolate data that show how pitchers perform with anybody on base versus how they perform with real SB threats on base (like, let's say top 20% of base stealers in a given year)? Does it make any difference? Would this be an argument for getting not just speedsters but people truly capable of stealing, not so much for the extra bags but because of the drop in performance of the pitcher that it causes?

I don't have time to find out the answers but someone figure this out: it could be the next "undervalued skill" in the baseball market!

Pretty sure I can do that, but my way will take me some time. Might already be a solution out there, though.