Official Around Baseball 2023 Thread

MadduxFanII said:
This might be too pedantic a point to be worth making, but I would point out that ERA is not a strictly observational accounting of objective facts. "Earned runs" inherently require a subjective judgement from an official scorer, and then you get into inherited runners and how they're assigned. ERA is more results based than FIP or xFIP, but "Pitcher X has an ERA half a run below Pitcher Y" is not the equivalent of saying "Player X has five more home runs than Player Y." You're still making certain judgements and projections. They just happen to be judgements and projections that we've been making in baseball for a hundred years, so we tend to take them for granted.
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This is also a fair point
 
UNCBlue012 said:
I think I’d give Strider the ball in Game 1 and Fried in Game 2 to give Max some extra time off. This sets up Spencer for a potential Game 4 and Max as the stopper in a winner-take-all. Plus, I like Strider as the backup Game 1 starter because I think he'll use his closer-like mentality to an advantage. He's baseball's ultimate strike-out guy (very literally). In the playoffs, swing-and-miss stuff is so important. I think he shoves.
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...what?
 
Tapate50 said:
How much would they have to move to get there and who
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Not that much, before arb, etc.

That being said if they wanted to play it safe, just need to get rid of 1 of Bogaerts, Darvish, etc.

I think more than anything else it's a sign that they won't be going after Soto at all.

But I think they'll likely see if someone will take Machado as well before he gets expensive.
 
zbhargrove said:
I think the Rockies are the worst run team in MLB
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Rockies at least have the excuse of not having a big budget. At least they continue to produce talent, even if they don't know how to properly value that talent before they let them walk in free agency. The Angels can't develop talent, consistently hand out terrible contracts, and they cannot properly value the talent they do have. It's an organizational failure from top to bottom and it's become a part of their culture. They need to do a complete rehaul of their organization. From the scouts, to the minor league coaching staffs, to the front office. And they need the owner to not to meddle.
 
MadduxFanII said:
I don't know -- the A's seemed to have achieved exactly what they set out to do. What they set out to do was stupid and evil, of course, but they got there.
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I agree. I can remember when MLB took over the Expos and I honestly think the same argument can be made in respect to this year's edition of the A's. If you're not going to even attempt to be competitive, there have to be consequences. I think other teams are mismanaged through short-sightedness and faulty assessment of players' abilities, but the A's have been willfully negligent the past few years. It really is an embarrassment to the game.
 
Brooks Robinson passed away. For many of us Boomers, he was something to behold in the field. Not many guys with a .723 OPS in the Hall of Fame and Robinson was pretty much a grinder with the bat, but he set the standard for defense at third base. He had kind of a lumpy body, but he was extremely acrobatic and there wasn't a play he couldn't make at third.
 
50PoundHead said:
Brooks Robinson passed away. For many of us Boomers, he was something to behold in the field. Not many guys with a .723 OPS in the Hall of Fame and Robinson was pretty much a grinder with the bat, but he set the standard for defense at third base. He had kind of a lumpy body, but he was extremely acrobatic and there wasn't a play he couldn't make at third.
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78.4 WAR ain't too shabby.


Also, as I said in the GDT, with how the magic works with the Baseball Gods, Baltimore may get that plot armor of invincibility in October from the passing of their Mr. Oriole, the same way Mr. Brave, Hammerin Hank, gave us the plot armor in 2021.
 
If there was any team that should win it instead of us, it should be the O's. That being said, I hope we sweep them in the WS if we face off.
 
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