Ozzie And Dansby

BeanieAntics said:
Here is a question, would you rather make the playoffs and have a competitive team for 10 years straight with only a 5% chance of winning the World Series or have one year with a 95% chance of winning the World Series, but its guaranteed that you'll be terrible for the next 9 years.

I like scruples questions like these lol
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Give me 10 years of having a team worth cheering.

A championship doesn't change my life in any way compared to just making the playoffs. Having 10 years of baseball worth watching certainly makes my life better.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
I would like to ask for continuance to consult my research department.
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Ok. I still think we have to throw historical out. The Yankees did it twice before 1950. There were only 16 total teams then and one playoff series. Those two have to be thrown out. Then the A’s did it in the 70s. 1 year was a strike year and again the total teams came to 24 with only two rounds of playoffs. Today’s game is much harder to accomplish back to back WS much less 3 straight titles. I would like to argue that we will see 10 straight division titles before we ever see 3 straight WS winners. However I think both are likely not to happen with the way teams turnover now.

So I again ask to strike historical data based on apples to oranges comparison.
 
CyYoung31 said:
10 years of playoffs with a chance to win it all every year, no question. I consider sustainability the ultimate measure of success.
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Agreed. That is one of the reasons why I'm so happy we've been able to build a winner while keeping a basically intact farm system that is among the best in baseball. I think we should have an exceptionally large window of contention, especially now that we have Acuna locked up long term.
 
Not sure it was mentioned since it was in the athletic but there was an article a few days ago about Chipper working with Swanson this off season to rebuild his approach. He mentioned how Swanson got abused by sliders and worked to correct that. And also believes Swanson can eventually be Jeter like offensively.
 
thewupk said:
Not sure it was mentioned since it was in the athletic but there was an article a few days ago about Chipper working with Swanson this off season to rebuild his approach. He mentioned how Swanson got abused by sliders and worked to correct that. And also believes Swanson can eventually be Jeter like offensively.
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The natural question then follows....When is Chipper going to be our next manager?
 
One of the biggest differences in our offense this year: As a team so far we have a 13.1 BB%. Last year we didn't have a single starter with a walk percentage that high.
 
Enscheff said:
That's the natural question after hearing "Chipper helped fix Swanson's offensive approach"?
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I’d take him as a hitting coach any day, even though he’d probably create a PR embarrassment for the team once or twice a year in interviews or on twitter.
 
jpx7 said:
I’d take him as a hitting coach any day, even though he’d probably create a PR embarrassment for the team once or twice a year in interviews or on twitter.
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I purposely don't read anything he does or says to avoid losing respect for him as the player I remember.
 
Swanson has an WOBA of 465 and an xWOBA of 451. Definately not sustainable but his numbers aren't a fluke. He's hitting the piss out of the ball.
 
Chipper seems like a guy who enjoys his life away from baseball and occasionally parachuting in to talk hitting with one guy at a time. Make him the hitting coach and he'd probably last as long as George Brett did as the Royals' hitting coach.
 
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