60 man roster & taxi squad

[Frobby]

9 hours ago, Can_of_corn said:

If they have a 60 game season 40 are going to be against the AL East? 

I don't think I'm looking forward to that.

Shouldn’t make too much difference.   Last year we were .316 vs. the East, .349 against everyone else.   At those rates, difference between playing 67% of 60 games vs. the East, compared to the usual 47% of games, is less than half a win.    Either way, we can expect to be terrible.  

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Shouldn’t make too much difference.   Last year we were .316 vs. the East, .349 against everyone else.   At those rates, difference between playing 67% of 60 games vs. the East, compared to the usual 47% of games, is less than half a win.    Either way, we can expect to be terrible.  

I wasn't talking about W/L record.  I just don't want to constantly see the same teams.

[Roll Tide]

3 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

I wasn't talking about W/L record.  I just don't want to constantly see the same teams.

Better than no baseball. I suspect we will be picking 1st or 2nd next year as well. 

[wildcard]

15 minutes ago, Roll Tide said:

Better than no baseball. I suspect we will be picking 1st or 2nd next year as well. 

The Pirates looked worse than the O's in ST 1.0.

[wildcard]

1 hour ago, DirtyBird said:

Doesn’t this depend on what the guys who aren’t on the major league roster are doing?

Are guys like Zimmerman and Kremer developing at all if they aren’t getting real innings?

Wonder if the O's Taxi squad will play vs the Nats and Phillies since the travel time would be short.

[TommyPickles]

Geographically there's 4 teams under 150 miles away:

Nats

Phillies

Yankees

Mets

 

I know they're not doing it this way, but man, that wouldn't be an easy 5-team division either...

[DrungoHazewood]

22 minutes ago, Enjoy Terror said:

‪Just thinking about how many times I’m going to hear the phrase “small sample size” from Baseball Internet over the next five months‬

Batters are going to need something like 186 PAs to qualify for the batting title.  That's less than two months of regular playing time. 

Richard Hidalgo once had a month where he OPS'd 1.486 (.477/.532/.953).  Last March/April Cody Bellinger hit .431/.508/.890.  Todd Helton had a month where he hit .476.  Wade Boggs hit .485 one month.  Juan Gonzales slugged .917 in July of '96.  Edgar once had a month with a .560 OBP.

[DrungoHazewood]

46 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Shouldn’t make too much difference.   Last year we were .316 vs. the East, .349 against everyone else.   At those rates, difference between playing 67% of 60 games vs. the East, compared to the usual 47% of games, is less than half a win.    Either way, we can expect to be terrible.  

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[ScGO's]

Over/under on O's wins?  Do we break 20?

[murph]

48 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

Batters are going to need something like 186 PAs to qualify for the batting title.  That's less than two months of regular playing time. 

Richard Hidalgo once had a month where he OPS'd 1.486 (.477/.532/.953).  Last March/April Cody Bellinger hit .431/.508/.890.  Todd Helton had a month where he hit .476.  Wade Boggs hit .485 one month.  Juan Gonzales slugged .917 in July of '96.  Edgar once had a month with a .560 OBP.

How many average fans are going to look back at this season and say, look at So and So if they had just played a full season he would have hit 95 home runs or stolen 150 bases or broken the .400 average for a season! 

[Tony-OH]

Honestly, with the collective bargaining agreement going to most likely affect service time, and with no apparent solution for any kind of minor league games at this point, it doesn't make a lot of sense to not start the season with Mountcastle or Akin or maybe even Kremer and Zimmerman on the major league team.

At least they can get some development time in and maybe help them be ready to help the team earlier in the future when it might matter.

Now if they do come up with some kind of minor league games down in Florida/Arizona then maybe it makes more sense for them stay down there, but I'm thinking this unique situation may actually help some of our closer prospects see big league time this year.

 

[DrungoHazewood]

14 minutes ago, murph said:

How many average fans are going to look back at this season and say, look at So and So if they had just played a full season he would have hit 95 home runs or stolen 150 bases or broken the .400 average for a season! 

Far fewer than would have 20, 30, 40 years ago.

[foxfield]

13 hours ago, Tony-OH said:

It's a 60 game season, Cobb has much better chance of making it through the first half of the season now!

Ftfy

[CarrRun49]

42 minutes ago, ScGO's said:

Over/under on O's wins?  Do we break 20?

I'll take the under

[Just Regular]

3 hours ago, DirtyBird said:

Are guys like Zimmerman and Kremer developing at all if they aren’t getting real innings?

This is the level of player it will be interesting to watch vs. the veteran lefties of the world, in the presumed absence of minor league baseball.  It could be worth letting MLB hitters light them up to get the game situation reps.