Chemical X
Footballguy
The Giants lineup seems suspect too.
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General Malaise
Footballguy
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
I think they might lose 90 games this year
The General
Footballguy
I have Gray on the squad let's have a breakout season kid!He’s starting Opening Day, but I see that more as Martinez going with a vet than him being their #1. Gore or Gray probably more like best pitcher — still sucky, but not Corbin level sucky.I play in a pretty deep fantasy league and I haven't even heard of a few of these dudes and Patrick Corbin is their number 1The Nats game is Spring Training? That can't be their regular 162 game lineup, can it?This Nationals lineup
Chemical X
Footballguy
thru 4 innings at yankee stadium. 19/24 outs via strikeout. shrink the bases and make bats bigger, like those fat whiffle ball bats.
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
They'll have to lower the mound at some point. Don't know what else they can do.
Strike zone is already as small as it's ever been.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Action Baseball!
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Put more emphasis on hitting things other than home runs.
ChiefD
Footballguy
But.....analytics!
Gr00vus
Footballguy
Can't argue with the analytics, but this is what you get when you apply the results. I think it's crummy baseball from a viewing perspective, but it's efficient for scoring runs.
Move the fences back as far as it takes to change the analysis to restore balance. But I don't think the powers that be want balance, they want home runs and strike outs.
Bogart
Footballguy
But, that's how you end up pitching for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
I think the analytics will shift because of the drastic increase in K's by everyone and the batting averages going down to where eventually baserunners and not striking out will bump run production. There is always going to be an ebb and flow. The difficult part is that the HR mentality is starting to get taught in youth leagues so starting from a young age players are not learning how to hit.....just swing from the heels with launch angle for dingers. So I am not sure how it will actually turnaround.
Chemical X
Footballguy
i mean, all sports change, but is baseball just Ks and Hrs now, kind of like the NBA is just guys heaving 45 3 point shots a night?
Gr00vus
Footballguy
I'm not so sure. Sub .200 batting averages are accepted now instead of ridiculed - how much lower does it have to go? Runs haven't dropped off significantly.
I don't think the analytics have caught up yet either. There is always going to be a lag because it is based on historical data so it takes some time. I am not sure how much and maybe they have already accounted for that somehow. I just think (maybe it's more of a hope) that eventually getting basehits and not striking out will come back into style so the game isn't just a two outcome game because that would suck.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Adley Rutschman? More like Adley CRUTSCHman!
This kid is going to win an MVP or 2 before he turns 30. Bank it.
This kid is going to win an MVP or 2 before he turns 30. Bank it.
Chemical X
Footballguy
mods, please move this to the baseball forum - opening day overreaction thread. tia
facook
Footballguy
LAA -.5 F5
Shohei coming off WBC vs Oakland.
MAC_32
Footballguy
I'm cautiously optimistic the new SB and shift friendly rules are gonna curb some of this dynamic, but it's not gonna be instant.
snellman
Footballguy
Good luck to your Royals! Except when they play the Twins! GO TWINS!!!
snellman
Footballguy
I have 170 lineups goin in DK.
They're not always +EV
Spartans Rule
Footballguy
MLB should increase the field dimensions if it wants to stop the 3-true outcomes game. Everybody's been getting bigger, faster, stronger for 150 years and the field is the same size. It's like letting teenagers play Little League now.
The pitching distance was set to 60-6 in 1893, when a guy who could throw 90 and knew how to make a baseball curve was an ace. Today you need a fastball that sits at 95 and a breaking ball designed in a physics lab just to be a middle reliever. I watch some of these Pitching Ninja overlays of 100 MPH fastballs and 90 MPH sliders that look exactly the same until the hitter starts their swing and wonder how the league batting average isn't like .073.
The pitching distance was set to 60-6 in 1893, when a guy who could throw 90 and knew how to make a baseball curve was an ace. Today you need a fastball that sits at 95 and a breaking ball designed in a physics lab just to be a middle reliever. I watch some of these Pitching Ninja overlays of 100 MPH fastballs and 90 MPH sliders that look exactly the same until the hitter starts their swing and wonder how the league batting average isn't like .073.
Chemical X
Footballguy
i agree that the mound needs to be lowered.
Capella
Footballguy
Every Friday home game this year but since today was their 25th anniversary they broke them out.
Senor Schmutzig
Footballguy
White Sox are right behind them with 10 LOB and 0-7 w/ RISP through 8.
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
I have both Fried and Verlander. Nice way to begin the season.
MAC_32
Footballguy
Which local super boosts weren't today?
ChiefD
Footballguy
The General
Footballguy
The pitch clock is a huge success.
Congrats to to Rob Manfred. Hopefully some more ideas to come to help the game along.
Congrats to to Rob Manfred. Hopefully some more ideas to come to help the game along.
Encyclopedia Brown
Footballguy
If you are going to propose marriage to your girl, maybe think twice about when and where you do it: https://twitter.com/ComplexSports/status/1641672596482564096
I was talking in general
FairWarning
Footballguy
Can’t believe that he’s the ace. Didn’t they learn anything from last season?I play in a pretty deep fantasy league and I haven't even heard of a few of these dudes and Patrick Corbin is their number 1The Nats game is Spring Training? That can't be their regular 162 game lineup, can it?This Nationals lineup
MAC_32
Footballguy
FairWarning
Footballguy
A couple of takes from the Chicago games yesterday.
- the Cubs are totally pitching and defense.
- the White Sox won a game they wouldn’t have last season.
- the Cubs are totally pitching and defense.
- the White Sox won a game they wouldn’t have last season.
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
But they still made stupid mistakes and frankly were lucky to win.
FairWarning
Footballguy
Sox? Probably true, but they may have improved 5-10 games with a competent manager. they have too much talent to underachieve, but they have to stay healthy also.
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
That's what everyone is saying and thinking...but again, if you watched the game and the mistakes...they were identical to last year. Cease was magical for the innings he pitched and the bull pen looks good.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Love the pitch clock, makes the game so much more watchable. Tigers/Rays took just over 2 hours and even the Bos/Balt 19 run game where each team used 6 pitchers finished in about 3 hours.
The radio guys seem to be having the hardest time with the new clock. They are used to filling tons of dead time between pitches that doesn't exist anymore. As they babble on about whatever, you can hear the ump make the call or the sound of the ball being hit in the background.
The radio guys seem to be having the hardest time with the new clock. They are used to filling tons of dead time between pitches that doesn't exist anymore. As they babble on about whatever, you can hear the ump make the call or the sound of the ball being hit in the background.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
This!
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
I can't watch/hear the Orioles where I live (unless they are on ESPN or Fox, which hasn't happened in 400 years). I only stream TV and I am considered "in-market" - even though I live 120 miles away from Baltimore with another MLB team in between - so I can't even stream the radio broadcast, with no OTA radio stations broadcasting near enough to pick up.
Anyway, this is all to say that I haven't seen Adley play yet. Everything I read about him - not just from O's beat writers, but national MLB guys - makes it seem like he's a unicorn. He's already a team captain and hasn't played a full season yet. His teammates adore him. Behind the plate, his work is off the charts. And he can hit a little: 5-5 with a walk and 4 RBI yesterday.
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
Assuming it was saved as a sort of rain date
BeTheMatch
Footballguy
MLB baserunners stole 21 bases on opening day and were caught stealing just twice. The 30 teams combined for just 6 steals in their first games last year.
ChiefD
Footballguy
Yes.
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