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33 minutes ago, ORIOLE33 said:

You're not following. He immediately became a better hitter when he was traded to the Yankees.

He was a career .680 OPS hitter before going to the Yankees, at ages 22-24, and hit .688 in his first year in New York.   I don't see that as a quantum leap.   He's gotten better since then by a solid amount each of the last two years.    But don't  we expect that kind of improvement from most players?   I think it's pretty well established that age 27 is the median peak of a player's career.   

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25 minutes ago, Frobby said:

He was a career .680 OPS hitter before going to the Yankees, at ages 22-24, and hit .688 in his first year in New York.   I don't see that as a quantum leap.   He's gotten better since then by a solid amount each of the last two years.    But don't  we expect that kind of improvement from most players?   I think it's pretty well established that age 27 is the median peak of a player's career.   

He got better his 1st year in NY and he really took off in his second year, particularly in power.

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2 hours ago, thezeroes said:

The Orioles can not afford to pay out 2 years (2017/2018)of $5.5 Million of a McCann type contract along with the final $21Million owed to ARod and then have a total of $225.2 Million in contracts for any year.  (Baseball Ref Contracts)

That's true. You have a good point there. Wish we could get a GM and minor league instructors that could develop pitching. There's no reason for the pitching to suck lemons. It's been that way for twenty years. Sorry. Just in a piss poor mood. 

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6 hours ago, JR Oriole said:

It is very frustrating that they have a guy like Judge.  And what about Gregorius?  Where in the world did he come from and why is he better than Jeter?  And scrappy Gardner is the worst of all.  Watching these guys have great at-bats in October is going to be torture after seeing our best hitters routinely underperform in the playoffs.  I think it was in the 7th where Judge led off the inning....it was an at-bat with close pitches that would have struck out all of our hitters....yet he patiently stood up there and took the walk.  It almost isn't fair. 

The Indians will beat them handily. 

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18 hours ago, Frobby said:

Don't worry.   In five years Judge will be a free agent, the Yankees will have done nothing proactive to lock him up, and we can simply outbid them for his services.    B|

On that day, I will look to the west in the morning as I feel a chill rise up beneath my feet.

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23 hours ago, Black Bat said:

Hate is such a strong word to disguise jealousy.  Unless your a teenage girl.

In some cases, perhaps, but certainly not with respect to the Yankees and Red Sox.  I don't know how it would have been possible during the Dark Years to attend a game at Camden Yards against either of those teams and not come out of it with a pure loathing for those organizations and their fans.  

And it's not jealously.  Who would want to root for a team that exploits its monopoly over the largest (or one of the largest) media markets to rig MLB in its favor?  Their fans are completely jaded.  A playoff win means much less to them and the stakes are always lower.  

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16 hours ago, Frobby said:

It's a short series.   There's never certainty about that.   I've seen literally dozens of postseason series won by the inferior team.   

Old Boswell article from a few years back.

Since ’95, there have been 38 teams with their league’s best record. What’s it worth? In the first round, quite a bit. The No. 1 seeds have a 24-14 record in division series — a rare lopsided number in baseball. After that, you might as well flip coins to pick a favorite. In league championship series, those “top seeds” have gone 13-11. And when they’ve reached the World Series, they were 7-6.

An even meaner trend has emerged in the NL in this century. I can’t explain it. It may be temporary. Of the 14 teams since 2000 that had the NL’s best record, none — that’s n-o-n-e — won the World Series and only two of those “best” teams even got there. In fact, seven of them were knocked out instantly in the five-game division series, where small-sample luck plays the largest role. These 14 teams were exceptional clubs that won an average of 97.9 games, more than the Nats (91-64 entering Tuesday) likely will.

This changed last year with the Cubs.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals-close-to-securing-nls-top-seed-but-that-matters-little-when-october-arrives/2014/09/23/59b5e05a-4364-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?utm_term=.8dd591f99f35

 

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3 hours ago, Frobby said:

Astros 8, Red Sox 2

Indians 4, Yankees 0

I love baseball.   

I don't have cable but have MLB.tv for the O's only during the season.  I can watch the condensed version of every game, which contains only crowd noise and highlights of each inning.  It's a pretty awesome way to get a quick resume of the game.  I could hear the "Bruuuuuuce" roar and the excitement when Altuve hit his three homers.  They show replays of controversial plays also.

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