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The NCAA isn't doing this out of benevolence. They are still trying to maintain control of something they have no right to control. https://hrealsports.substack.com/p/the-ncaa-isnt-surrendering-on-athlete
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There is a trademark indicator next to that logo, so this could very well be the real deal. It looks like a pin back button from the 1980s, or an enamel painted commemorative coin. -
Saves and blown saves aren't meaningless stats. They're not all that matters, but they're not meaningless. Yates allowed a .515 OPS, Hader allowed a .591.
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Yates had 41 saves and 3 blown saves. Hader had 37 saves and 7 blown saves. Hader allowed 15 homers in 75.2 IP, Yates allowed 3 HR in 60.2 IP. Hader's FIP was 3.10, Yates' was 1.30. I think they got this one wrong, and not by a little.
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Geez.. Kirby Yates. I like Hader, but 15 HR in 75.2 IP.
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2019 MLB Postseason: World Series [Nationals win series, 4-3]
JimH5 replied to Eye Black's topic in Archived Game Threads
The longest game in the 1982 World Series was played in 3:04. So far, the three games in this series have gone 3:43, 4:01 and 4:03. I loathe this pace. I grew up with games lasting 2 hours, maybe 2:30. Those days aren't coming back. But if they don't do something to speed things up, my fandom may be reduced to just watching highlight shows and reading box scores. -
If they were going to hire someone from MLB Network, I wish they would have taken Mark DeRosa. And Greg Amsinger and Eric Byrnes. Girardi is a good leader. He'll do well.
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This should serve as a reminder to anyone who attends any work function, Christmas party, company picnic, drinks with colleagues, etc. Behavior matters. I'm really surprised that they fired him. I thought it would be a suspension with mandatory training or some other lesser punishment. Saturday night he's celebrating a pennant and by Thursday afternoon he's gone. No matter how irreplaceable we think we are, we're not.
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Yes, Bryant's beef might also be with the MLBPA, but he's raising service time manipulation as a way that teams suppress player earnings and contract freedom. MLB is full of guys who are earning less and being tied to their clubs longer than they would otherwise be, if front offices didn't hold them back. If nothing else, his case will draw further attention to the issue to be used in the next CBA.
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I can't speak to Bryant's case specifically, but this tactic by clubs is so common that we all know what it means to "manipulate service time". Players are being held back for financial reasons only. As long as players are bound to one team, simply as a matter of being chosen in a draft, there should be some obligation on the team's part to promote them to MLB whenever they are ready. Instead, players are being held back a week or (in Bryant's case) a day, just to force a discount on future salary. He was in every way a major league caliber player while the Cubs had him on ice as he was when he debuted. Whether that's a legal case, I don't know. But he was legally bound to a team not willing to pay him his worth, and that's a matter worth pursuing.
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Things have changed a bit for this guy since Saturday night. He was on top of the world. Now his team is 0-2 in the World Series, headed on the road, and he's the pariah of the sport. He's the new Bartman, but one of his own making. That is quite a drop.
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I'm not sure if that really applies to front office people. The Ivies are pumping out guys like him every year. Taubman will still have Luhnow in his corner, but he was on the David Stearns track and could have been a GM at a lot of places. I don't think that's possible any longer. And it's fitting that he is now the distressed asset that Osuna was when Houston got him at a discount. His career options are now limited because of his conduct.
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Talk about derailing your career! A guy in his mid 30s who is already the Assistant General Manager, on a winning team at the forefront of a data explosion, and at least for now, he's untouchable. It's never a good thing when a guy who was virtually anonymous to the general public makes this kind of first impression. We've learned in recent days that the Astros front office is seen as arrogant. Now we know they're also tone deaf and vindictive.
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I think it's a good hire. His teammates referred to him as Gramps, etc., so there was enough of an age and experience gap that it's not like bringing back a peer as teammate.
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My Mt. Rushmore would be Caldwell, Higuera, Plesac and Sheets.
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CC's contribution was incredible that season. He's a Hall of Famer, and by many accounts, a terrific leader, beloved by teammates past and present. The 13 starts in 2008 earned him 4.9 BWAR, a figure unreached by any Brewers pitcher in a season since.
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That depends. Will Arcia be wearing it?
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I much prefer the Miller M logo to the Ball in Glove, at least in terms of what I'll buy and wear. I think the BiG looks cartoonish on me, though I think it looks fine on the players.
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Developing Players without the need for minor leagues
JimH5 replied to JimH5's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
It exists as entertainment, but major league teams don't have to stock those teams with players. When 80+ percent of draftees don't ever spend a day in MLB, what is the justification for MLB teams drafting and signing them? What other business hires and pays hundreds of people knowing that most of them will provide them with no financial value in return? And the question really is, are those hundreds of players really best served by sending them to remote outposts with minimal coaching, and having them play hundreds of games? Or is there a better way to help them reach their peak performance level? -
Arcia's salary:$565,700 Hosmer's salary: $21,000,000 (under contract for SIX MORE SEASONS!!!) Davis's salary: $16,500,000 And the other Chris Davis was at -1.3 fWAR for $23 million, and 3 more years at that rate. Arcia is a bargain!
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I also think he'll probably be back, absent a big trade where he's part of a package that brings another SS back. He'll be in his first arbitration year, coming off a bad one, so I don't expect his salary will be more than $1.5 million. And the stats that I posted, while bad, don't really compare to the very worst players who don't accumulate enough plate appearances to make the list. I think if 2020 is a repeat of these last two years, they'll part ways with him.
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To put a bow on this one, Arcia finished the year with a 61 wRC+, last among qualifiers by a lot. Mallex Smith, Brandon Crawford and Yolmer Sanchez were tied for the spot above Arcia at 74. His overall fWAR (-0.4) was 133rd out of 135, ahead of Eric Hosmer and Khris Davis.
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Skilled in what way? Hair cutting?
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Developing Players without the need for minor leagues
JimH5 replied to JimH5's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
Agreed about scouting opponents. More games makes it easier to see a larger sample of their skills. Though amateur scouting (HS & College) is often done with a small sample. -
Developing Players without the need for minor leagues
JimH5 replied to JimH5's topic in Brewers Minor League Talk
That's a good question. I don't know. I think a hybrid system might work, too, where orgs run 6-week mini-leagues, followed by a 3 or 4 week regrouping in their training centers, followed by another 6-week league, etc. I'm just not sure how much of the current system of 130+ game seasons in the minors is truly spent developing skills as opposed to just playing games and grinding out the summer. And as for the Suters, they represent the needles in the haystack. Would guys like that go to Indy ball and make their way to organizations, or would they just be lost? Hard to tell. Anyway, it sounds like the Astros are at the forefront of pushing changes. If their system keeps churning out stars, other teams will try to emulate.
