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  1. jerichoholicninja
    CC was on record saying he was only looking for 17 outs from the SP or something along those lines. Before the game started CC already knew when he was going to pull the SP independent of how the game was going. He can say whatever he wants. But what I just stated actually happened. 73% of the time the rotation arms pitched 5+ innings. 17 outs also equals 5.2 innings pitched. He didn't say 17 batters he said 17 outs. Look at how many 5.2 outings rotation arms had - it'll show CC made a decision based on how the game was going. In my fantasy baseball league we use quality starts as a one of our stats. Of course, you need to complete 6 innings and allow 3 ER or less to get a QS. I didn't have any Brewer pitchers on my team last year but of the starters that I did have, it was very common for multiple starters go 5.1 or 5.2 innings and allow 3 ER's or less in a week. I even complained to the members of my league about it, that it was getting frustrating how often one of my pitchers finished an out or two shy of a quality start. Makes me think that Counsell and Co's thinking is in line with most of the rest of the league. The Brewers just happened to do it with every starter and had the best record in the NL so they got all the attention for it.
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    So are the Blue Jays now paying more to players not on their team than the ones that are on their team?
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    Pitching is worth rolling the dice on, hoping to get a player turned around, especially in a rebuild. That's my point. Why go through all that and then just dump him? Seems kind of dumb from the Royals perspective.
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    Thought about watching Boom in the Valley and then reading this prompted me to do so. Ya, the format is weird. I think I like it but the skits/re-enactment parts make me feel like they're just making stuff up sometimes. Maybe that's their intent though, that some of this stuff is so crazy you can't make it up. As a huge fan of The Who I knew some of the Michael Fenne/David Kim Stanley story as they (along with KISS and some other major musicians) were unwittingly part of his largest scam. So I'm kind of looking forward to how much of that they cover.
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    Totally agree. But they do have the option now of signing Manny and then trading Torres, Adujar, or Didi for some pitching or prospects.
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    Honest question, does either side care at all about competitive balance? All the players want is more money. And while I'm sure owners would prefer to have a winning team, ultimately whatever they bring to the table will have making sure their clubs are profitable first and foremost.
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    What I find interesting is the Royals traded for him as a Rule 5 pick, kept him on the roster all of 2018 while he was getting blasted to keep his rights, and then released him. What exactly was the purpose of that?
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    Gonzalez makes sense for about 20 teams. I can't believe he hasn't signed yet and there hasn't been all that much news about him. I would think when his time comes he should have enough suitors to drive his price up a little. Not like crazy, but enough that will put him out of our price range.
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    Not interested in a 35 year old middle infielder on a two year deal. Especially one who has been horribly inconsistent his whole career. His BA has been rather constant but where did the 20+ points of OBP and 30-40 points of SLUG come from the last two years and is it at all sustainable at his age?
  10. jerichoholicninja
    Speaking of Mac, he better hope a bunch of these new, first time coaches fail in 2019. Since coaching hires are pretty much trendy and copy cat, if these new guys have good years you can be assured next offseason teams are going to be even more likely to hire the hot coordinator or college guy over the veteran retread. Mike might be looking at settling for an OC spot.
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    A couple months ago some friends and I saw a Brewers plate that was 1091AB or something like that. It was 4 numbers followed by "AB". We spent the next hour or so trying to figure out which Brewer had whatever the number was of at bats in their career. Eventually someone said that's the generic Brewer plate number if it isn't personalized.
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    There is a lot of truth to that. Despite the league being incredibly skewed to offense, top flight WR's really aren't that important. Or I guess more importantly, it's not necessary to highly invest resources into a top flight WR. The passing game now is all about scheme. A great offensive coach can win games a barely average QB.
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    That's a pretty cool stat. But I would think there are a lot of players who never popped out to the pitcher in their career as pitchers generally don't catch fly balls. The same is a little bit true with first basemen as unless they don't have to move to catch it, the 2B is probably going to catch a fly ball in that area.
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    From the player's side, I don't know what they have to complain about. They wanted a system that rewarded veteran players simply for being veteran players and that's what they've gotten and still more or less have. The QO does screw some guys over but we're talking less than 1% of players. Seems silly for them to strike over something that affects less than 1% of their members. Certainly the biggest area is players getting paid more while under team control, which they certainly should, and better pay for minor leaguers (who aren't even union members). But that will take money away from those old guys at the end of their careers. As much as we'd like to think the union would want to help out the young guys, recent history has proven otherwise. If I was a player in my 30's, I would have no interest in changing the system so that it would take away millions of dollars of my future earnings.
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    According to MLB TradeRumors commenters, a deal starts with Yelich or Hader. So there's that...
  16. jerichoholicninja
    The way the rules guy in the booth was talking last night, all a player had to do was pick it up before the ref did. It's interesting if you watch the ref the ball rolls to, he kind of looks at it and then looks around and sees that no one is going after it so then he picks it up. I wonder if the refs are told to let a player pick up a loose ball whenever possible to avoid any controversy about a recovery.
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    The ruling makes no sense. How is it not any different then when a player fumbles the ball out of bounds? If it was ruled a complete catch on replay it should have been the offense's ball where the fumble occurred. To say that a confirmed catch is not a catch because no one picked the ball up is just stupid. Of course no one picked the ball up, the refs ruled it an incomplete pass and the ball rolled away from the players and to an official. It was a dead ball. The fact that someone actually thought up this situation shows how thorough the rules people are. But the ruling they came up with shows just how stupid they are.
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    Read Bill James book on the hall of fame. From the beginning it's been about politics and changing the rules so that the voters' buddies can get in and guys they don't like can't. Really, it's always been a joke.
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    I'm assuming it's Britton and Claudio. Alex isn't even arbitration eligible yet so the comparison is pretty pointless when talking about money.
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    I do find it interesting how NFL teams now pretty much just go after whomever the hot coordinators are at the time assuming they'll fix whatever side of the ball their speciality is and the rest will just work itself out. I would think that skills coordinating an offense/defense has very little to do with how successful a head coach can be. Obviously that's where almost every HC comes from and often times it works out but it seems incredibly short sighted to just go "this guy runs a good offense, he's head coach material." Think what you will of the Patriots and Bill Belichick but they have clearly been the class of the NFL for almost 20 years. Belichick is a defense guy but rarely do the Patriots ever have a really good defense. He just knows how to put together and run a team.
  21. jerichoholicninja
    Certainly more than I would have thought Broxton could have brought back. Reflecting on the trade that brought him here originally, all it took was Jason Rogers (who's now playing indy ball) to get a 4th OF who made some good contributions to the MLB team and a potential bullpen arm. I think that was a Stearns deal. Either way, worked out great for us.
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    I can't see which position two guys who haven't played a game above rookie ball will play is much of a concern right now. Especially when one of them is a first round pick. It will almost certainly work itself out in a couple years.
  23. jerichoholicninja
    When I (recently) lived in Appleton the TRats games were split between Time Warner Sports channel and one of the local channels. Not sure if it was 14, I want to say whatever the CW station was/is. Can't recall if they had local sports, HS football maybe? It was the CW station and they did have high school football at least along with TRats games, maybe even UW-GB women's basketball games. Like I said, not sure if they still do.
  24. jerichoholicninja
    Doesn't channel 14 in Green Bay show high school sports and TRats game? Or maybe that doesn't even exist anymore.
  25. jerichoholicninja
    They have him for two more years. If he can hit the first half of 2019 the way he did all of 2018 or better I would think they could get more for him at the deadline than now. Not saying that's their thinking, but it makes sense to me.
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