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14 minutes ago, TheFlagship said:

That’s a pretty fair assessment. I would be surprised if LeMahieu only put up a 99 wRC+ going forward (I think projection systems penalize him too much for playing in Coors his whole career), but Alvarez seems like a safe bet to top 110 the way he’s playing.

Yeah the LeMahieu number seemed low to me too. But other than that and the Alvarez wild card...each of those numbers seems about right. 

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8 hours ago, Hank Chinaski said:

I think projection systems penalize him too much for playing in Coors his whole career

Nothing "penalizes" a guy for playing in Coors.  Projection systems normalize the numbers because it's literally like playing in a different reality.  See the post directly above this.

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3 hours ago, spystud13 said:

92 runs, most ever in 4-game series. MLB.com has a long write-up on all the crazy shit. 

https://www.mlb.com/news/9-unforgettable-padres-rockies-moments

 

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Blackmon led off Sunday's game with a homer, and he singled later in the frame. Another single in the sixth brought him to 15 hits in the series, setting the Major League record for a four-game series. Buck Jordan of the Braves in 1934 and Bill White of the Cardinals in '61 had 14.

15 hits in a series

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Sucks Frazier got sent down. He’s played great but the upcoming roster crunch had to be dealt with. Tauchman probably has less than a week left before getting released for Judge. Wish Frazier could stay, but he clearly never bought into doing things the Yankee Way and wasn’t a culture fit. Will probably get traded for a pitcher soon.

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1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

They will learn. Maybe some of the veteran players won’t bother but the young guys trying to get to the big leagues will learn. 

That was one of the arguments for why there shouldn't be any rules limiting the shift years ago. It never materialized. Almost no one bunts to beat it or adjusts their swing to go the opposite way. That's because analytics say it's better to strikeout 600 times in a season trying to homer over the shift than it is to have a balanced approach at the plate. It'll end up killing the sport eventually but Bill James thinks it's a good idea so it must be true. 

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On 6/17/2019 at 11:10 AM, thestud said:

He didn’t shit on anybody and he didn’t come off as an entitled little bitch. If he says it’s all sunshine and rainbows with a shit eating grin everyone knows he’s full of shit.

Hitting-wise he has done what has been expected and he is a big reason the Yanks have weathered all of the injuries to this point in the season. If he could play right field at just a league average level he would not have been sent down. 

As has been noted, there's a good chance he winds up being traded in a package for a frontline starter like Bumgarner or Scherzer. Overall he seems like a nice guy who loves the game so it's not hard to feel his frustration right now.

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13 hours ago, Helobious said:

That's because analytics say it's better to strikeout 600 times in a season trying to homer over the shift than it is to have a balanced approach at the plate. It'll end up killing the sport eventually but Bill James thinks it's a good idea so it must be true. 

As long as MLB balls are juiced, as they clearly are this year, it's probably the correct approach. It's June 18 and 8 guys already have 20+ HR, and 7 more are at 19. Overall, MLB is on pace to hit approximately 1,000 more HR than last year. That's what will kill the sport. 

Return the balls (and, thus, HR) to normal and players would be more incentivized to beat shifts in this way. But as long as guys like Ketel Marte hit HR like they're Ken Griffey Jr, not many are going to adjust their approach. 

The idea that "fans want to see HRs" is goofy...fans want to see players doing outstanding things that few can do; when every MLB regular hits 20+ HR, they lose their appeal, and other parts of the game are sacrificed. 

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23 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

Return the balls (and, thus, HR) to normal and players would be more incentivized to beat shifts in this way.

I think it's becoming pretty clear that MLB doesn't have near the control over the balls as they should.  Perhaps they should move the manufacturing facility out of Costa Rica or Haiti or wherever to someplace closer.

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2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

Fuck that douche, should have been a 3 to 5 game suspension. The pitch was questionable but per the announcers the ump had been calling that pitch strikes. It looked to me as it caught a piece of the plate as it crossed the plate. 

 

2 hours ago, spystud13 said:

I was more making fun of all the hashtags. 

Agree with both of these.  If the ump says he made contact and it's not clear that he didn't, then he has to go for more than 1 game.  But the umpire union twitter looks like it's controlled by a 13-yo girl.  

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This has been a very odd game. Yanks have 12 runs on 8 hits. Scored 6 in the first on three hits and now 6 in the 7th on 5 hits including Gleyber's 1st career grand slam. They had no hits in the prior five innings. Baseball is such an odd sport at times. 

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7.2 shutout innings from Homer Bailey.

Reds sweep the Astros.

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling.

Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes… 

The dead rising from the grave.

Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together – mass hysteria.

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