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46 minutes ago, miguelito said:

Ok are we numbering them by fielding position or some other fucked up jt method?

2,6,8,4,3,9,5,1,7,dh.

I mean if you think Jordana Brewster can play short stop then go ahead and do it your way. 

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  • shadow_operative2.0
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    I'd be willing to bet a shit-ton on this thread grew up watching Cubs & Braves at their grandparents' houses in the summers. 

  • tx 3 putt
    tx 3 putt

    dont bother him, he's about to pitch the ninth for the dodgers 

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HP ump and 3B coach having a rough day:

 

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last night’s two-hr game for jose ramirez was his 27th such game for cleveland, passing albert belle and jim thome for most all time in franchise history.

Albert don't call me Joey Belle was a bad man

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5 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

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God DAMMIT

Albert don't call me Joey Belle was a bad man
Well time for another cool story bro.

Pretty sure i have mentioned it before on one of these sites but i was in attendance when Belle hit an upper deck homer in the Astrodome.

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59 minutes ago, Scraps said:

Well time for another cool story bro.

Pretty sure i have mentioned it before on one of these sites but i was in attendance when Belle hit an upper deck homer in the Astrodome.

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Lookin good, Scraps

 

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(and man I miss Baseball Tonight and classic Sportscenter)

 

I do still have an OG original of that Rockets Championship shirt that has never been worn/washed etc.

But i think that jort wearing badass is a little older than me

Zach Neto is pretty good.  Man, I remember laughing when they picked him in the 2022 draft.  

Hell, Neto and Horton look like the best players out of that draft.  Horton pitched another gem tonight.

3 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Zach Neto is pretty good.  Man, I remember laughing when they picked him in the 2022 draft.  

Hell, Neto and Horton look like the best players out of that draft.  Horton pitched another gem tonight.

I want to like him but it’s real hard to get past him looking like a little bitch earlier this year… and getting worked up because he got hit by Brown in June of last year too. Just not a good look. But yeah, he’s fun to watch outside of being a moron here

 

Jomboy is a bigger bitch than Neto.

Gotdam...

Thought we were going to see a reenactment of this:

 

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Ohtani just got caught looking at strike 3 that was 4” off the plate.  We need auto strikes and balls now.

 

8 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

Ohtani just got caught looking at strike 3 that was 4” off the plate.  We need auto strikes and balls now.

It’s a bad call but let’s not get carried away.

(but yes there is no excuse not to have ABS in the big leagues)

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4” off the plate was that chick’s first pitch call on Sunday:

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4 hours ago, Scraps said:

Well time for another cool story bro.

Pretty sure i have mentioned it before on one of these sites but i was in attendance when Belle hit an upper deck homer in the Astrodome.

2:13
 

 

 


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“426 feet”. yeah, in your bra. that shit was 475’ if it was a foot.

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9 hours ago, Iceman said:

Jomboy is a bigger bitch than Neto.

Gotdam...

He literally did nothing but read lips in that vid, and it’s pretty clear what the players were saying. You sound like a bitch

34 minutes ago, Helobious said:

He literally did nothing but read lips in that vid, and it’s pretty clear what the players were saying. You sound like a bitch

No matter how much you gargle his balls, he's not gonna let you play in the Warehouse Games.

Dodgers and Pads are about to see a lot of each other.  3 in LA, 3 in SD

8 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

mets is crazy considering diaz’s dominance ever since he got his legs made to be the same size.

Both New York teams come into today with 0.5 game leads for the last wild card spot over a team from Ohio.

7 hours ago, Derka said:

 

I honestly think stolen bases is the next biggest market inefficiency.  

Teams flat-out do not try to steal nearly enough (Tigers = 64 SB attempts all season).  Guys like Naylor and Goldschmidt have shown that you don't even have to be speedy to be a successful base stealer.  

There needs to be at least one team that tries to go full-blown '85 Cardinals and just run and run and run.  With so many shitty teams who really aren't trying to win, there is no excuse for at least one of them not to try something crazy.  

The most obvious team that should be trying this strategy is the Rockies.  If I were GM, I'd try like hell to trade for Chandler Simpson and Victor Scott, have an every day outfield of Scott, Simpson, and Doyle, let them chase down everything that's hit and tell each of them that I want 100 SB attempts next season. 

 

The current SB success rate is like 80%. If more people try it and it ends up going down to like 70% that still seems well worth it.

9 minutes ago, Helobious said:

The current SB success rate is like 80%. If more people try it and it ends up going down to like 70% that still seems well worth it.

If read that guys have estimated that the "break-even" success rate is 75%, but that's just dumb because that amalgamates a thousand different game situations.  There are plenty of game situations where I'm sure a 60% success rate would break even.  

I was watching a game the other day where a team REALLY needed to advance a base runner, and the defensive team was playing a catcher who had been in the minors most of the season and was 0-11 against SB attempts.  The pitcher never even threw over to 1B and the inning ended quickly.  

I'm also frequently amazed that there seem to be 2-3 guys in the Astros thread who are always calling for sac bunts to advance the runner.  

This situation is starting to really annoy me.  

 

15 hours ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:

Dbacks at Rockies on FS1, woof. 

I was there.  The Rocks started their backup catcher at designated "hitter" (sic).  He now has a .239 OBP.

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1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

There needs to be at least one team that tries to go full-blown '85 Cardinals and just run and run and run.

 

If the rest of their season went the same way, sure. I’ll take that trophy. 

1 hour ago, Beau Vine said:

If read that guys have estimated that the "break-even" success rate is 75%, but that's just dumb because that amalgamates a thousand different game situations.  There are plenty of game situations where I'm sure a 60% success rate would break even.  

I was watching a game the other day where a team REALLY needed to advance a base runner, and the defensive team was playing a catcher who had been in the minors most of the season and was 0-11 against SB attempts.  The pitcher never even threw over to 1B and the inning ended quickly.  

I'm also frequently amazed that there seem to be 2-3 guys in the Astros thread who are always calling for sac bunts to advance the runner.  

This situation is starting to really annoy me.  

 

You’ll  really be annoyed when games return to 3 hours because of 22 replay reviews to determine if the trip of the oven mitt touched the bag before the glove grazed the last cleat.

 

But yeah, I completely agree with you on the premise. Seems to me most teams are so ingrained with the philosophy of not doing anything that might risk stopping a big inning and haven’t fully quantified/appreciated the impact of the larger bases/limited pickoffs on the increase in success rate.

2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

If read that guys have estimated that the "break-even" success rate is 75%, but that's just dumb because that amalgamates a thousand different game situations.  There are plenty of game situations where I'm sure a 60% success rate would break even.  

I was watching a game the other day where a team REALLY needed to advance a base runner, and the defensive team was playing a catcher who had been in the minors most of the season and was 0-11 against SB attempts.  The pitcher never even threw over to 1B and the inning ended quickly.  

I'm also frequently amazed that there seem to be 2-3 guys in the Astros thread who are always calling for sac bunts to advance the runner.  

This situation is starting to really annoy me.  

 

Based on the expected runs table I found via google, a 74% success rate is break-even for a runner on first with no outs. By stealing second, the runner gains .23 expected runs while losing .65 expected runs if he’s thrown out.

2 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

 

If the rest of their season went the same way, sure. I’ll take that trophy. 

You'd also need to find another John Tudor for that.

6 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

You'd also need to find another John Tudor for that.

 

Whatever gets the hardware.

juan soto was the nl player of the month in june. everyone calm your tits.

Sat next to JR at Randy Johnson’s home debut for the Astros. I had no idea who he was at the time, but Dad handed me a baseball and said go ask that man over there for his autograph.

going to be a great month of baeball

 

how sports teams don't send all their guys for heart scans is beyond me 

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7 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

I'm also frequently amazed that there seem to be 2-3 guys in the Astros thread who are always calling for sac bunts to advance the runner.  

Well you have to remember that they're not very smart

Milwaukee wants number 13.  They gave up 7 in the bottom of the 2nd to fall behind 8-1 but scored 5 in the top of the 3rd to get back in it.

soto just went deep, one pitch after lindor dropped his second bomb of the night.

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1 hour ago, WBT said:

Milwaukee wants number 13.  They gave up 7 in the bottom of the 2nd to fall behind 8-1 but scored 5 in the top of the 3rd to get back in it.

Winners win. 

1.  Death penalty for anybody that fights at a ballpark.  NFL, MLB, NCAA, whatever.  There's no place for that shit at all.

2) Fuck Josh Hamilton.  He's a fucking piece of fucking dogshit.  Vlad fucking Putin is a better human than Josh Hamilton.  I hope that cocksucker dies in a meth lab explosion.  He's a fucking scumbag. 

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