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  1. jerichoholicninja
    He's averaged 30+ HR a season, career OBP near .400 and OPS at .900. Not sure how much more he needs to do to live up to the hype. But I agree with the overall point that he's almost underrated now. I agree his contract demands and whatever he actually gets will be ridiculous but we're talking one of the best hitters in baseball and he still should be for another 4-6 years.
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    They need to go back to the Winter Caravan. I will never forget the time my mom took me out of school so that I and 15 other people could listen to Doug Melvin in a hotel banquet hall and then hang out with Chris Capuano, Mike DeJean, and Scott Podsednik.
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    Maybe just a hint of hyperbole to this, but I think your point is legitimate for most players. I'm sure the legends of how little effort Ruth put into the game are exaggerated, but if the stories are to be believed, Cobb worked his arse off. I guess I don't mean they didn't put any effort in, they just didn't know how or that that was something that could be done because people didn't see athletics as something to strive for. As for my 12 year old example, what were Ruth and Cobb doing at 12 to be better baseball players? Probably playing stickball in the street or a field with their friends a couple times a week. Any 12 year old with talent today probably has a personal coach, plays on a travel ball team 12 months a year, and has a fitness and nutrition regime. What it takes to develop into a professional athlete today is in no way comparable to what it took probably even 30 years ago.
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    Reintroduction of Hank the Dog.
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    USA today posted in their article that apparently game times went down from 2017 to 2018. They claim teh average game time was 3 hours and 44 seconds. I don't buy that personally. I feel like the average game I attended was closer to 3.5 hours than 3 hours. I wouldn't be surprised if the "average" game actually was a tiny bit shorter, but only because there weren't a lot of teams doing what the Brewers did with their bullpen. If we see more copycats, the average game length is going to go up. Like, a lot. Unless they take serious steps to counteract it. And it may be that Brewer games were longer than average, leading to us having a different perspective. But I admit I'm not looking at those stats right now. Just making educated guesses based on how they used their staff. I don't think the Brewers did a whole lot of mid inning pitching changes and most relievers were starting innings and pitching whole innings, they just used a lot of pitchers to get through games.
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    I have always assumed that the best baseball player ever never even actually played the game. It was probably some guy in the 1940's who destroyed high school competition but when he graduated had to go work in the mines and never touched a ball the rest of his life. The early professional athletes were only professional athletes because they happened to be extremely talented and were fortunate enough that someone noticed them and saved them from working in a factory. Nowadays, kids from an early age have the desire, drive, and opportunities to work hard for years to be professional athletes. I doubt Ruth or Cobb put in half the work the average 12 year old baseball player does today and they were stars of their era while 99% of 12 year olds today won't even play professional baseball at any level.
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    Are the writers the only ones who get votes? I thought that all living HOF'ers got votes too but maybe that was a different HOF. Anyway, while I think writers certainly should have some say I think the majority of the voting should be done by players, coaches, and GM's.
  8. jerichoholicninja
    I don't think the 10 day DL has any effect on relievers. That's more for giving your SP a break without tying up a roster spot. But lengthening the amount of time a player has to be optioned would really have an impact. I doubt the players union would approve this as all this minor league shuttling gives more service time and MLB pay to players who wouldn't be on the roster at all.
  9. jerichoholicninja
    That's exactly what this is and it is becoming common place in pro sports. Create a "new" position for a guy with a new title that's essentially the same job he had before but sounds more impressive so you can promote him and prevent another team from coming after him. In a couple years teams are going to start creating a new position above President of Baseball Operations for this same reason. Probably something like "Despot of All Encompassing Baseball-Related Endeavors".
  10. jerichoholicninja
    He's going to get paid because he's a veteran. Not as much as he would have a couple years ago, but he'll still get something. Might as well just save your money and have Taylor as your 4th outfielder.
  11. jerichoholicninja
    Rivera being unanimous was a chance error on the voter's part. Each one just assumed someone else would leave him off their ballot but nobody actually did.
  12. jerichoholicninja
    I think it's clear that Machado is Plan A... Brewers just waiting for the right time to surprise us all... I can see it now ... Attanasio is on stage Sunday at Brewers On Deck, and suddenly Uecker comes out pushing a wheelchair with a blanket over the occupant's head. Attanasio pulls off the blanket to reveal ... Manny Machado in a Brewer jersey! A course of cheers and jeers rain down while Attanasio and Manny give the crowd the stink eye ... Executive Producer: Vince McMahon It actually would make sense from a PR perspective to sign Machado to take away from the AmFam disaster. (blue?)
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    The money is hardly anything so it's tough to say this is a bad deal but he totally tanked down the stretch last year. After July his OPS was .725 and he posted sub .700 OPS's in both August and September. The OBP was ok but the power was non-existent. Whether it was decline, being tired, or whatever, his second half numbers are more in line with his blah numbers of the previous 5 seasons than what his overall 2018 looked like. Like I said, the money isn't much, but he should be a 4th OF now and they could probably get the same production from some 4A guys for peanuts instead.
  14. jerichoholicninja
    I think we can safely assume this has never, ever happened in the history of publicly financed stadiums. And I see no reason why anyone would agree to it.
  15. jerichoholicninja
    Exactly. As long as there's more money to improve the team I don't care one way or another.
  16. jerichoholicninja
    NFL officiating is horribly inconsistent. The PI no call in the Rams/Saints game happens multiple times every week. I will say I have no idea how they could overturn the Edelman botched punt but, once again, that happens every week to someone. The fact is the Pats won and since everyone outside of Boston hates the Pats, it's clearly the NFL choosing winners. The NFL has too many rules and they are too complicated and detailed for human beings to make split second decisions on with limited eyesight on the action that is actually happening. That is what really needs to be addressed.
  17. jerichoholicninja
    So Bryant made an obvious tongue in cheek joke during a comedy spot at a Cubs event and Molina and his teammates decided to start a Twitter fight over it calling him and Ryan Dempster stupid and losers. If that isn't that whole trashy Cardinals organization in a nut shell.
  18. jerichoholicninja
    Never understood why all this launch angle business is such a big deal now. I was coached in high school 15 years ago to have a slight upward swing. It wasn't a matter of hitting the ball in the air but the very obvious fact that when your swing matches the downward plane of the ball you increase your chances of squaring up the ball. I agree with Chili though, the problem is now batters don't change their approach. Doesn't matter the count, the score, where runners are, they take the same swing and approach.
  19. jerichoholicninja
    That's only 5 catchers. They usually invite every catcher in the organization since they need someone to catch all those pitchers. I wonder if that means they're planning on signing some "veterans" to minor league deals to fill in.
  20. jerichoholicninja
    While I was watching the Chiefs roll through the Colts yesterday, I thought to myself they'll win no matter who they play in the AFC championship game. Then I watched the Patriots even more thoroughly take apart the Chargers today and it changed my mind.
  21. jerichoholicninja
    Perhaps that was the point of his "very" cheap option for next year. Barring an injury or just flat out sucking Pina would have gotten more money for next year than the option is worth. That certainly should up his trade value.
  22. jerichoholicninja
    It is an interesting topic (i.e. the tangible dollar value of postseason play). The true answer is obviously much deeper than solely tickets sales, but I was lucky enough to be able to get tickets to Game 163 at Wrigley through the Cubs website. The face value ticket prices were on average much higher than what the Brewers NLDS games were for roughly equivalent seats. I did some rough math at that time and am fairly confident the Cubs pulled in around $5 million in ticket sales revenue from Game 163 alone. Obviously there are operational costs involved, but not a bad pay day for a game that occurred by mere happenstance. I could very likely be wrong, but I feel like playoff ticket sale revenue is split between the home team and the league. And quite possibly the visiting team as well. If that's true, we're still talking a lot of money but not as much as it appears to be.
  23. jerichoholicninja
    From the player's perspective I don't know if "seriously upping the major league minimum" would be all that great for its members. Obviously they'll be getting more money, and they'll like that, but it will result in older 4A players being priced out of the league pretty quickly. Why pay the veteran "premium" for Eric Sogard or some end of the line 35 year old starting pitcher when you could call up some minor league scrub and get the same production for much less of a cost. Basically the bottom barrel union talent would never vote for that and the guys it would actually benefit aren't even union members to vote in favor of it.
  24. jerichoholicninja
    They don't share that revenue, that's the beauty of it. Then what do they do with it? The amount you can spend on players is fixed so it doesn't help with that. Spend it on coaches, front office staff, scouts, and player amenities I suppose but I would guess when all that is totaled up, there isn't all that much of a variance between teams.
  25. jerichoholicninja
    Re: Titletown District Maybe a dumb question, but with the massive amount of revenue sharing in the NFL, why would a team invest it's money in anything? Whether you generate the most revenue in the league or the least, isn't everyone coming out the same after revenue sharing?
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