Uli2001
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Oh Yeah.
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The last time Brach blew a save on Friday night this team went into a tailspin.
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I confess I was sure the Sox were going to choke again today, after yesterday's tease. They had bases loaded in the eight and the ninth and it came down to a two-out blooper by Abreu.
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Bump!
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1 minute ago, El Gordo said:
What's the Penguin doing at Home Depot?
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After a month and a half of putrid baseball, the Orioles are only 4 games out of first place. That's all you need to know about the 2017 AL East.
Someone may win this division with 85 wins.
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Well, it seems that things are looking up a bit since the last time this thread was active.
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12 minutes ago, El Gordo said:
You think Manny belongs with that group. I don't
Jury is still out. He has a lot of maturing to do, that's for sure.
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21 minutes ago, El Gordo said:
Read The Book. Second and fourth tend to come up more often with runners on base. http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2009/3/17/795946/optimizing-your-lineup-by
That was a strange piece. I had never heard that your number-3 hitter is an afterthought as the writer says. It makes not sense, the #3 hitter is in the middle of all the action. I can buy the idea of batting your best hitter second only if you place a high-OBP hitter batting ninth, as a few teams do. Then you have essentially two lead-off hitters ahead of your #2 hitter. Otherwise, it doesn't make sense to me.
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9 minutes ago, El Gordo said:
Pretty decent company.
I guess you have to hit a lot of bombs to be allowed to have that many sombreros. But still, no Bonds, Aaron, or Ruth (or Mays, Mantle, Murray, etc.) on that list.
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2 minutes ago, El Gordo said:
Read The Book. Second and fourth tend to come up more often with runners on base. http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2009/3/17/795946/optimizing-your-lineup-by
I see, but that apparently has not registered with most MLB managers. Bonds batted third during his 70-HR season.
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1 minute ago, El Gordo said:
No your best two hitters bat second and 4th. Manny seemed to be more disciplined batting second.
I had also heard that your best hitter hits 3rd or 4th. Never 2nd.
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Manny with the golden sombrero today. MLB career leaders in this stat:
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Here is where Showalter is lacking again. There's no way Machado should be hitting third right now. He is pressing. Shifting him down in the lineup would allow him to relax a little. But Showalter won't do it. Remember when Jones was in a season-long slump one year and he refused to take him out of the cleanup spot?
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13 hours ago, Mayor McCheese said:
Doesn't matter if Manny is hitting .300 or .185, Manny is going to hit Free Agency no matter what his numbers are.
16 hours ago, Ohfan67 said:Agents are not that dumb.
I am not saying they are dumb. It's risk management. If the Orioles make a meaningful offer, do they pass it up and risk getting less one a half years from now? What if his numbers do not improve? What if he has knee problems again? The Orioles would be taking a risk too of course.
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This would be the absolute perfect time to negotiate an extension. He might not like to negotiate right now, he might even be offended, but his value has taken a hit. If the Orioles make a meaningful offer, it might be hard for his camp to take the risk and pass up.
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It was not too long ago that a 4-run Oriole lead in the eighth was game over.
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The human element allows the MLB to manage the game by controlling the size of the strike zone to suite current perceptions about the game. E.g they want he umpires to stop calling the low strike so they can continue to raise the offensive numbers. Chicks still dig the long ball. Ca Ching!
I think we have a winner.
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I don't want any "human element" from the umpires. Let the "human element" come exclusively from the players. Their mistakes are part of the game, not the umpires'. I repeat, the umpires' mistakes are not part of the game. They are always bad to the game, even if unavoidable. The worst part here is that they are avoidable. The technology is available to avoid them, and it's puzzling, to say the least, why it's not being used.
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Jesse Rogers
ESPN Staff Writer
Jake Arrieta has set a career high with his seventh walk of the game in just 5.2 innings pitched on Thursday against the Brewers. He also gave up two home runs before being pulled.
Uh-oh.
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Starting to be worried about the Jays, not that I thought otherwise.
The division will be a three-headed monster all summer. O's, Sox, and Jays are all 85-win teams at least, barring an unlikely second-half collapse (however, remember the 2012 Red Sox).
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I still don't know how good we are but I am very impressed. That rough series in Houston then they win 2 of 3 in Cleveland. Boston looks great first 2 games and we win 3 straight with poor starting pitching.
The answer is, I guarantee: not as good as they look right now, not as bad as they looked in Houston and the first two games of the Sox series. Somewhere in between. Nothing has changed, if you think about it. The offense is explosive, the bullpen is lockdown, and the starters... well something to do with smoke and mirrors. It has been like this since the second half of 2011 (i.e., the entire Showalter tenure).
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This is an interesting article examining things like steroids and pitchfx and shows pretty definitively that both are responsible for killing the offense in baseball. This quest for "perfection" will continue to kill baseball and all
this micromanagement and open heart surgery that so many people think is better for the game actually isn't better at all. I don't want a "perfect" strike zone at the expense of a further decline in offense.
This is not a knock on technology as much as on the low strike zone in the rule book. MLB is aware of the problem and hence the recent news that the strike zone will be raised to above the kneecap.
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What a lineup. Sigh.