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That kind of thing became rare after the 1964 Phillies collapse. Gene Mauch started Jim Bunning nine times in September, including three times on two days rest On September 16th he started on two days rest after throwing a 10-inning complete game. Going into September Bunning was 14-4, 2.17. In September he was 4-4, 4.68, and 0-3 on two days rest. On September 17th the Phils were 6.5 games up in the standings. They lost 12 of their next 13, mostly with Bunning on short or very short rest, and ended up in 2nd place.

Yes. Payroll as a percentage of revenues has gone down recently. So it's safe to assume more profits.

By my count 27 different teams have won 90+ games in a season since 2010. I think the only teams without a 90-win season in the past decade are Seattle, Miami, and the White Sox. And the Mariners have won 85-89 three of the last six years. So despite some obvious tanking and rebuilding there's nothing quite like the 1990s-2010 Pirates, Orioles and Royals. Or the 1920-50 Phillies, A's, Browns, Braves and Senators. And the Rays, with no discernable fan base and maybe the lowest revenues in the league, have made the playoffs five times since 2008 and have the same number of seasons under 70 wins as the Red Sox.

Here's the rationale from when the '01-02 Orioles history was removed from the Yanks on bb-ref.

There's some truth there, but the Orioles really disbanded after 1902. In mid-season John McGraw left the team and took most of the players with him. Wilbert Robinson was left with a pieced-together squad of donated players to finish out the schedule. It's probably a little more accurate to say the 1903 Yanks were like an expansion team, more than a continuation of the Orioles. A few years ago Baseball Reference stopped including the 1901-02 Orioles in the Yanks' history.

When they were setting all this up pitchers hit almost as well as everyone else. Guy Hecker won a batting title as a pitcher in 1886. Today it's a massive stretch to say the NL has nine players hitting. You have eight major league hitters and a guy who swings like he's your 56-year-old half-drunk Uncle Charlie. It's not real baseball when you intentionally walk Cesar Izturis to get to an even worse hitter to auto-kill the rally.

Why? I liked it better when there were more differences between leagues, when they had totally different league offices, totally different umpiring crews, even different baseballs. There were a few years in the early 20th century where foul balls were strikes in the AL but not in the NL (or was it vice versa?). I think trying different things in each league is a great idea. If you like it, maybe expand to both leagues. If not, do away with it. Or we could just let the NL be the league that hasn't changed a single rule since 1904, and try to sell that as a feature. While the AL can exist in 2020. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

They will have had a more successful postseason. Not a more successful season.

Imagine how much quicker it would have been if not for the O's siphoning off all those MASN dollars. Angelos for the win!

Not a fan of watching the #8 batter constantly be intentionally walked so that the pitcher can strike out with men on first and third and two outs. Also not a fan of using up your entire short bench doing double switches to try to avoid having an .090 hitter come up in the late innings of close games. I'm sure I could grow to hate Philly and Mets and Nats fans as much as I dislike Red Sox and Yanks fans. I guess I could live with it. But I'd rather just do away with divisions, or even better form 3-4 geographically aligned leagues. In the latter we'd just combine the AL and NL East and that's a league and our entire regular season schedule is with those teams.

But if not for the Nats the Orioles payroll might have been $175M, which... doing the math... works out to 58 wins. The @#*$@#$( Nats cost us a #@$*( 58-win season, those @#$#$%$ers!!!

It would also help if they moved the Phillies to Austin, the Pirates to Portland, and forced every man, woman, and child in Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, West Virginia, Virginia, Delaware and Maryland to pay $6 a month to MASN. Who cares what actual people want, it's all about making the Orioles more competitive and profitable.

They should still be the Expos, man!! In a fair and just world the Orioles would have exclusive right to the territory from the Philly city limits to Atlanta and from the Delaware shore to Cincy for all time.

Zero chance of that. Zero. Mountcastle, Santander, Nunez, Mancini... take one PA from any of them and give it to Trumbo and you're being counterproductive. It made no sense to sign him to his last deal. Now that's just crazy.

It didn't take the Nats 10 years. They were done rebuilding in 2012. Everything since then has been maintenance.

The Nats have been over .500 every year since 2012 and have won 90+ games five times in that period with five postseason appearances. They were basically done with rebuilding in 2012 and have been strong contenders ever since. Postseason failures and successes have more to do with hot streaks, injuries, and luck than design. A typical postseason series is a .625 team against a .575 team; in other words a coin flip. We will be very lucky to end up where the Nats are.

What? Why not? We were sure they were tendering him at $7-8. You're going to cut him because his surplus value is only $8-10M instead of $10-12?

When the mass resignation happened they only brought back the ones who were any good. They neglected to show mercy on dozens of umps they deemed worse than Angel and Country Joe.

Maybe you should look on YouTube for games from pre-1999. The reason you think they're so bad is that every game is on HD with 26 cameras and tracking systems. In 1965 the umps were always right, because who could tell?

Better chance than if this was last year's rules. But with today's evaluations he'll get a very minimal offer. He's basically Adam Jones as a hitter, but with zero ability to field and very spotty injury history.

I think it's obvious that the umpires of today are both far more accurate and far better behaved than umpires of 20-30 years ago. Angel Hernandez and Joe West would have been better-than-average umps in 1995.

I'm in favor of electronic aides because I assume that the job is essentially impossible to do otherwise. Let me rephrase, it's impossible to do and not have a lot of obvious missed calls when the game is televised and tracked by modern cameras and sensors. It's different if the standard is "he looked safe" from the perspective of the parent sitting in the bleachers where there's no real objective way to tell.

No, that means that the manager sitting in the dugout, possibly with the inputs of someone who was watching the play in real-time on TV, threw out a challenge in the hopes that he's right. It's not like the challenging team has several minutes to watch various angles and then wave to the ump. They're mostly just guessing and hoping they're right.

I don't understand why they kept playing with me. I was insufferable. Earl was my hero, so I'd often stand on first base and argue until the other kid(s) acknowledged that, yes, I actually was safe. I owe all of Elmbrook Drive an apology for my behavior.

I hit .951 with 192 homers in 1982 backyard baseball. Seriously. I kept stats on graph paper and stuck it on the fridge.