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    If it hadn't been implemented in 1947 it's an affront to our dignity.
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    You wouldn't want to qualify that with the fact that he had a couple of seasons where he was in the MVP conversation, then another three seasons where he was an average to average+ first baseman, before he collapsed to a point where almost anyone else would have been released? But his contractual situation meant that he was given far more rope than any comparably poor player. There have been millions of players, and even thousands of MLB players as bad as or worse than Chris Davis. They just didn't have a massive contract interfering with the decision-making process. Imagine if, say, Larry Sheets had signed a seven-year contract after 1987 that led to him being on the roster through 1992 or 1993. Chris Davis was a lot better than Larry Sheets.
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    You keep saying this, and that implies that current defensive metrics consistently say ridiculous things. They don't. There are some outliers, but by and large they say the players you think are good are good, and the ones you think are bad are bad. When you dismiss all defensive metrics I think you should qualify that with something like "they're hooey because like 3% of the time I kind of disagree with their conclusions." And also that subjective observations are at least as bad, and probably much worse most of the time.
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    I guess, but all this hand-wringing is because he's pulling a Hurricane Hazel, playing 26 miles above his head. He's Joey Rickard, it's really no big deal.
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    The biggest difference is that Stewart is three years younger and Yaz has repeated AAA since 2015. Yaz first got to AA Ball five years ago. Almost everyone plays better the more times they repeat a level.
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    I think they thought that DSJR was worth taking a flier on, and they probably let Yaz go and get a fresh start somewhere else because it was a decent thing to do for someone who isn't going to be an impact player.
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    How can anyone look at a guy who has a sub-.800 OPS as a 28-year-old in AAA and think "wow, we really need to find a way to work this guy into our lineup?" Last year he and Joey Rickard were the same age and had almost identical performances at Norfolk. Nobody was arguing for giving Joey Rickard another good long chance.
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    Is it even possible to give up on someone too early when they're already past the point where most players peak? Yaz stopped being a real prospect about the time he turned 25 or 26, years ago. He's still older than Manny and Harper and Trout.
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    He's 29 next week and his career AAA mark, repeating the level repeatedly, is .784. It would be astonishing if he ended up with any kind of MLB career where he averages 2.0 wins per 71 games. 2014 was the only year where he even remotely approached this kind of production as an age-appropriate prospect in the minors.
  10. DrungoHazewood
    The average major league player now hits 22 homers per 600 PAs. In 1976 that number was 9. In 1945 it was 6. In 1907 it was 2. It was 17 the year Bonds hit 73 homers. We're almost 30% higher than the height of the steroid era.
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    I just had a flashback to RShack telling us all, repeatedly, how hard and expensive it was to get high-def video trucks set up in the early days of MASN. And how it was perfectly acceptable for the O's and Nats to be broadcast in 480i when every other team was in high-def.
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    And at least under the Selig regime they never publicly announced a vote among the owners that wasn't unanimous or nearly unanimous. They just quietly make the issue go away if they couldn't get everyone on board.
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    Probably a vestigial artifact of the long-gone era when minor leagues had some degree of independence and autonomy.
  14. DrungoHazewood
    The run environment doesn't change anything as far as player value goes. An average pitcher is an average pitcher, and a replacement-level pitcher is a replacement level pitcher. Whether there are four runs and one homer a game, or five-and-a-half and one-and-a-half.
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    It makes it just the same. They just have to digest the fact that Norfolk is now a five runs per game environment instead of 3.5.
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    The money exploded in the 70s and 80s, as teams realized they had to have cash to afford free agents and cable happened at the same time. There has been one major league team move since the money went crazy. One. And they played in a French-speaking province that MLB couldn't figure out a way to blackmail into building them a free Mallpark to replace a terrible old crumbling multipurpose half-dome. It would be astonishing if MLB was so craven as to allow Camden Yards to sit vacant so Nashville or Las Vegas can try to start something the Orioles began 137 years ago.
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    They're not going to be sold, they're merging with the Nats. That'll solve the MASN problem, and the Lerners and Angeloses will be compensated for the loss of O's MASN revenues out of the expansion fees for Austin and Portland. The new Baltimore-Washington Nats will play in DC, except for two Frank Robinson Classic home games each in Montreal and Baltimore every year to celebrate the franchise's rich history. Highly-placed sources in the Illuminati have confirmed all the details, it'll happen as early as next year.
  18. DrungoHazewood
    Chicks dig the downtime so they can check their Instagram account. Action implies you should be paying attention, and that's so 20 years ago.
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    In 1992 25% of all PAs ended up as a home run, strikeout or walk. Today it's 35%. Since I was in college we've taken four PAs per team per game and transformed them from stuff happening on a baseball field into nine guys standing around and watching. In 1899 it ws 13%, or under five K/BB/HR per team, so you had 33 plate appearances of people doing stuff in the field. Today it's 25. Is baseball really at its best when more than one in three times up result in nine fielders staring blankly into space?
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    Step one: over a period of three years phase in minimum bat size specifications. By 2023 nobody can swing a bat lighter than 36 ounces, handle diameters will have a minimum that's 50% larger than the average today, and barrels have to be between 3" and 3.25" instead of a max of 2.75".
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    Why? In a full season of 650 PAs B walks almost twice as much, has maybe 7 more extra base hits, but gives up 45 singles I think they're roughly the same, and A may actually drive in more.
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    The '85 Cards led the league in runs, batting average, OBP, and were above average in slugging. They grounded into 30 fewer DPs than average. They were 2nd-to-last in homers, but I don't see why that wouldn't still work today. Didn't the 2014 Royals go to the World Series with a team that hit 95 homers?
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    Is this the opening gambit in a ploy to convince me Richie Martin is more valuable than Chris Davis because he's out batting averaging him by 15 points?
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    Mike Kingery.
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    I dream of a time when baseball goes back to people regularly challenging .400. We've had 25 years of wall-to-wall power, everyone trying to hit every pitch 500 feet. It's time for something different.
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