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10 years from now this play will be the reason that I will remember that some guy named Godley once was a starting pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Not one bit surprised at that outcome. -
At least the ump didn't screw that call up.
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Godley eventually realized that the Marlins had no intention of swinging the bat that inning.
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That's enough Godley for me, bring in the next arm from the storage closet.
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Just saw the replay, that's one of the worst calls I've ever seen. This Godley guy looks a bit like Doug Jones.
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Yes, being competitive is important. What I'm asking is, what's the end goal? Where do you draw the line as a parent? There's no limit to how many different sports/leagues/camps/tournaments that you can enroll your kids in and most kids like playing sports more than doing school so they will certainly go along with it and have a good time. But where does that get you? In most cases the goal has something to do with college or scholarships but I'm not sure much consideration is going into what happens after the kids get to college (which is when I was seeing them). Also I think in many cases the parents are the competitive ones and not the kids. As for my softball league, if you're competitive to the point that it's not fun, then what's the point? The most fun I ever had in softball league was when our team of misfit grad students knocked out a super-competitive undergrad team from the playoffs. They were upset to the point of tears!!!
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I mentioned this in another thread, but even with the obsession with exit velocity and launch angle, BABIP has dropped to the lowest it has been since the late 1980s. MLB hitters are fully capable of not striking out and putting balls in play if they wanted to, but with defensive shifting it doesn't make sense to do that.
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The assumption about defense-first acquisitions is completely wrong. We paid for top-10 bats at both CF and 2B based on oWAR position rankings. Are the Brewers valuing defense more than a few years ago? Maybe. The simplest answer may be that there's a limited supply of FA available in any given year and the cost-benefit analysis penciled out for JBJ and Wong.
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From my experience teaching at the college level, I would be more concerned about your kids' ability to succeed academically at the college level than their ability to play sports at the college level. If you overmanage your kids' schedule in middle and high school you risk them showing up to college lacking self motivation and intellectual curiosity. College isn't a team sport, nobody is going to motivate you to show up to class or turn in your homework on time. Nobody's going to intervene. Repeating classes that you fail is quite expensive! Also, as an intramural softball player, many of the people who did a lot of competitive sports are quite annoying to play with/against. I think some of them don't even know how to have fun playing sports...and the idea of not really caring if we win or lose is a completely foreign concept. It's unfortunate.
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https://imgur.com/a/4fhPxHa
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You don't need much offense to generate WAR from 2B or CF. Wong and JBJ have been around for a while, they are usually worth about 2.0 oWAR per year. Wong is already at 0.6 oWAR (bref) this year. JBJ hasn't done anything but it's not like he's running well in the negative like Hiura is. Hiura is the one who is really killing the offense, since we're worst in the league at the most important offensive position. Shaw, Urias, McKinney, JBJ etc. are all replacement level so far which isn't great but whatever.
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Gotta love a player that can turn a routine grounder to short into a double.
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Yes, my bad, that's what I meant, writing the code to train an ML algorithm
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The good news is that: (1) All the coding I did 5 years ago is no longer relevant. (2) Every day people come up with tools that make it easier and easier to code. For AI/ML in particular it's more important to have the linear algebra and stats background. Coding a ML algorithm is so easy that you can learn in a couple of hours. I second the Raspberry Pi suggestion.
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I'm also in the small sample boat (especially when you factor for injuries), but we're looking at a team that has a reasonable chance at a division win and another NLCS appearance. And this time they might have the starting pitching + bullpen to pull off the NLCS win. So it's fair that we might want to give this topic some scrutiny. We'll be on the hunt for some bats at the deadline if current trends continue. I'm more concerned about the corner infield positions than the corner outfield to be honest.
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The Changing Aesthetic of MLB: Outcome Frequencies 1986-2020
owbc replied to sveumrules's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
Not a big surprise that getting rid of the juiced baseball has caused slugging to plunge this year. Meanwhile, game time per 9 innings is at a record high, 3:08. The new strategy of choice in MLB is to draw walks and lots of them. Which is a pretty smart thing to do when BABIP has dropped to .284, the lowest since 1989. When you consider what exit velocity and launch angle averages were like in the 1980s vs. today, it's quite amazing that BABIP is that low. -
The Cubs lost because their manager came out of the dugout and gave Hader a chance to compose himself. That said, everyone is sick of garbage ball/strike calls so hopefully MLB rectifies that sooner rather than later
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What’s the advantage to this vs. clicking a button and having a different game on in 15 seconds? Seems like a chatty host who knows the game situation would be the added value...
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This team is going places. Going to be a fun year.
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I’m surprised at the discussion here on that JBJ play, I was amazed he got as close as he did. Not the best jump in the world but wow that guy can cover some ground.
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(1) I'm sick of watching JBJ swing at pitches like he's Chuckie Carr. Send him to the 8 slot and bat Avi leadoff. (2) Is it just me or is the umpiring even worse than usual this year? Or have the Brewers just drawn some awful umpires the last few games?
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We try to watch them all each year as well. Big fan of The Father thus far, though Kaluuya was very, very good in Judas, which was enjoyable. Minari was your typical well-done Oscar-type movie that may win a bunch of awards, but I didn't think it was exceptional. I had the same reaction to Minari...good movie but not an award winner. Enjoyed the supporting roles the most--the grandma and kids in particular. --- Hopper, lets not drag politics into the movie thread please.
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With the Oscars this weekend, I'm wondering if anyone else likes to watch the best picture contenders. I've only gotten through about half of them this year and haven't seen the favorite (Nomadland) yet. Out of what I've seen I thought Promising Young Woman was the best and Daniel Kaluuya's performance in Judas and the Black Messiah was phenomenal.
