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Joined September 2023
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Local broadcasters can definitely do this as they don’t need to pretend to be neutral anyway
Note to broadcasters especially in MLB. Please call players by their last names and not their first. Its Rafaela not Cedanne. The trend started years ago and it isn’t a good one.
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This isn’t how baseball works
So if we are realistic here, the Cubs are playing for AT BEST, a sweep in the NLCS. Unless they get Paul Skenes and Mason Miller, their WS hopes are a wrap.
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The funny thing about the @TheRealHoz35 controversy is that he thinks OPS is some sort of new age advanced analytic? In reality it’s basically just an old school rate stat! And the things he claims analytics fail to take into account… are exactly the things it accounts for
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I’m not being a hater; obviously players who played at a high level have a lot to contribute to the discourse. But why knock on the ways in which we’ve come to better understand the game?
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Must be a typo. Should say Braves
The Giants are hiring Jesse Chavez as their bullpen coach, per multiple reports
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What’s funny about this is that maybe they needed a day off
Dave Roberts said today was an optional workout at Rogers Centre, but that every Dodgers player showed up: “Not one guy took the option. So that was pretty exciting for me and just speaks to where these guys are at.”
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If you pitch 6 shutout with 10 Ks to send your team to the WS, you’re remembered forever. If you hit 3 homers to send your team to the WS, you’re remembered forever. Ohtani has done both, in the same game…
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If it’s true that he intentionally threw balls to help people close to him win prop bets, then this is good and necessary
Emmanuel Clase will “never pitch in MLB again,” per @hgomez27 #GuardsBall
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My answer is “homers count as triples.” I’m correct but you aren’t ready for that debate
Completely fix postseason baseball with four words.
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What’s peculiar is the assumption that the tidbit was stolen. I mean, it’s pretty reasonable to see a dominant postseason start and wonder, “has this been done before?” It’s not like the tidbit was super obscure or anything
Ummmm...okay then. Let's be friends instead and not do this. We play for the same team of making awesome baseball content. I'd genuinely love to hang with you. We see like a natural fit. Right? We complement one another. Why do this? teapaw.org/JessicaDBrand/status/1…
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Wait is Busch literally going to sub in for Turner in the middle of the first? Is Turner even gonna play one out at 1B?
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I urge everyone not to allow baseball fandom to become Qanon lite
I talked to a former MLB player recently and he believes some teams are getting juiced balls Brewers are of course one of those teams They're doing it to make small market/cheaper teams look more appealing
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I guess they’re not concerned about the short rest thing?
The Cubs are starting lefty Matthew Boyd in Game 1 of the NLDS on Saturday, per the team.
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This post has vaguely classist undertones
Cub fans Sell everything you own BUY EVERY SEAT IN MILWAUKEE RIGHT NOW If they actually let us take over in their best season in franchise history there is a real conversation for worst fans in sports
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Cubs wild card rotation without Cade: Boyd Imanaga Taillon?
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I was correct. Even a broken clock is right twice a day!
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It seems like PCA doesn’t track the ball as well as he did. His head flies to the side as he swings and his eyes aren’t even looking in the direction of the ball
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This analysis is just wrong lol
The fact that the Mets playoff odds dropped by over 25% in a single day tells you just how meaningless the Fangraphs playoff odds are to begin with.
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Cade Horton is fun to watch pitch. More pitches in the zone than almost anyone else
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I don’t really understand this. Why are the AL and NL “what made baseball great?”
This is what I’ve been telling you is inevitable for quite a while now. The American League (1901) and the National League (1876) will cease to exist as we know them. The last move before total destruction of the traditions that made baseball great.
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