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46 minutes ago, miguelito said:

Ok are we numbering them by fielding position or some other fucked up jt method?

2,6,8,4,3,9,5,1,7,dh.

I mean if you think Jordana Brewster can play short stop then go ahead and do it your way. 

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Albert don't call me Joey Belle was a bad man
Well time for another cool story bro.

Pretty sure i have mentioned it before on one of these sites but i was in attendance when Belle hit an upper deck homer in the Astrodome.

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Posted
59 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Well time for another cool story bro.

Pretty sure i have mentioned it before on one of these sites but i was in attendance when Belle hit an upper deck homer in the Astrodome.

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Lookin good, Scraps

 

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(and man I miss Baseball Tonight and classic Sportscenter)

 

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Zach Neto is pretty good.  Man, I remember laughing when they picked him in the 2022 draft.  

Hell, Neto and Horton look like the best players out of that draft.  Horton pitched another gem tonight.

Posted
3 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Zach Neto is pretty good.  Man, I remember laughing when they picked him in the 2022 draft.  

Hell, Neto and Horton look like the best players out of that draft.  Horton pitched another gem tonight.

I want to like him but it’s real hard to get past him looking like a little bitch earlier this year… and getting worked up because he got hit by Brown in June of last year too. Just not a good look. But yeah, he’s fun to watch outside of being a moron here

 

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8 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

Ohtani just got caught looking at strike 3 that was 4” off the plate.  We need auto strikes and balls now.

It’s a bad call but let’s not get carried away.

(but yes there is no excuse not to have ABS in the big leagues)

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4” off the plate was that chick’s first pitch call on Sunday:

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4 hours ago, Scraps said:

Well time for another cool story bro.

Pretty sure i have mentioned it before on one of these sites but i was in attendance when Belle hit an upper deck homer in the Astrodome.

2:13
 

 

 


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“426 feet”. yeah, in your bra. that shit was 475’ if it was a foot.

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Posted
9 hours ago, Iceman said:

Jomboy is a bigger bitch than Neto.

Gotdam...

He literally did nothing but read lips in that vid, and it’s pretty clear what the players were saying. You sound like a bitch

Posted
34 minutes ago, Helobious said:

He literally did nothing but read lips in that vid, and it’s pretty clear what the players were saying. You sound like a bitch

No matter how much you gargle his balls, he's not gonna let you play in the Warehouse Games.

Posted
7 hours ago, Derka said:

 

I honestly think stolen bases is the next biggest market inefficiency.  

Teams flat-out do not try to steal nearly enough (Tigers = 64 SB attempts all season).  Guys like Naylor and Goldschmidt have shown that you don't even have to be speedy to be a successful base stealer.  

There needs to be at least one team that tries to go full-blown '85 Cardinals and just run and run and run.  With so many shitty teams who really aren't trying to win, there is no excuse for at least one of them not to try something crazy.  

The most obvious team that should be trying this strategy is the Rockies.  If I were GM, I'd try like hell to trade for Chandler Simpson and Victor Scott, have an every day outfield of Scott, Simpson, and Doyle, let them chase down everything that's hit and tell each of them that I want 100 SB attempts next season. 

 

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9 minutes ago, Helobious said:

The current SB success rate is like 80%. If more people try it and it ends up going down to like 70% that still seems well worth it.

If read that guys have estimated that the "break-even" success rate is 75%, but that's just dumb because that amalgamates a thousand different game situations.  There are plenty of game situations where I'm sure a 60% success rate would break even.  

I was watching a game the other day where a team REALLY needed to advance a base runner, and the defensive team was playing a catcher who had been in the minors most of the season and was 0-11 against SB attempts.  The pitcher never even threw over to 1B and the inning ended quickly.  

I'm also frequently amazed that there seem to be 2-3 guys in the Astros thread who are always calling for sac bunts to advance the runner.  

This situation is starting to really annoy me.  

 

Posted
15 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Dbacks at Rockies on FS1, woof. 

I was there.  The Rocks started their backup catcher at designated "hitter" (sic).  He now has a .239 OBP.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

There needs to be at least one team that tries to go full-blown '85 Cardinals and just run and run and run.

 

If the rest of their season went the same way, sure. I’ll take that trophy. 

Posted
1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

If read that guys have estimated that the "break-even" success rate is 75%, but that's just dumb because that amalgamates a thousand different game situations.  There are plenty of game situations where I'm sure a 60% success rate would break even.  

I was watching a game the other day where a team REALLY needed to advance a base runner, and the defensive team was playing a catcher who had been in the minors most of the season and was 0-11 against SB attempts.  The pitcher never even threw over to 1B and the inning ended quickly.  

I'm also frequently amazed that there seem to be 2-3 guys in the Astros thread who are always calling for sac bunts to advance the runner.  

This situation is starting to really annoy me.  

 

You’ll  really be annoyed when games return to 3 hours because of 22 replay reviews to determine if the trip of the oven mitt touched the bag before the glove grazed the last cleat.

 

But yeah, I completely agree with you on the premise. Seems to me most teams are so ingrained with the philosophy of not doing anything that might risk stopping a big inning and haven’t fully quantified/appreciated the impact of the larger bases/limited pickoffs on the increase in success rate.

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