MLB Off-Topic

[l3ulvl]

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Is he actually going to play in the minors or is this one of those "legacy picks" like when the Jays drafted Roy Halladays son the first time he was eligible after Halladay died.

sometimes these work out, I remember Al Avila drafting Alex Avila for Detroit and he ended up having a solid career

[Blzer]

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Reminds me of this post I made a few years back:

Does anyone ever sometimes think that a player is signed to a team just because their name has some connection to their organization?

The Mets had Matz, the Indians had Bauer and Bauers, the Yankees had Judge and Drury ("jury"), Canadian teams had Vlad Sr. and now they have Vlad Jr., the Padres had Tony Gwynn Sr. and Jr., the Griffey's with the Mariners/Reds and the Bonds' with the Giants... I think this list goes on in weird ways like this, and some of the father/son ones actually do make some sense, but I was wondering if they ever signed somebody because, on top of their talent, they could put a PR spin on their names and make it a win-win for them.

Hell, even Joey Bart for the Giants would make sense since we have the BART Train in the Bay Area. The marketing behind that literally takes care of itself.

[Majingir]

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A's Sacramento opener will be March 31st vs the Cubs. They'll use the ATH abbreviation.

[Dead2009]

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MLB to Mull Over Return to Individual Team Uniforms For All-Star Game
https://news.sportslogos.net/2024/07...game/baseball/

[Bard]

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MLB to Mull Over Return to Individual Team Uniforms For All-Star Game
https://news.sportslogos.net/2024/07...game/baseball/

Thank god.

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[Majingir]

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MLB introducing "rivalry week" which just means all games will feature teams facing off against a closely located team.

Mets vs Yankees
Phillies vs Pirates
Os vs Nats
Rays vs Marlins
White Sox vs Cubs
Cards vs Royals
Guardians vs Reds
Twins vs Brewers
Angels vs Dodgers
Astros vs Rangers
Rockies vs DBacks
As vs Giants
Mariners vs Padres
Braves vs Red Sox
Jays vs Tigers

Most do make sense, obviously Red Sox vs Braves and Mariners vs Padres aren't the two ideal matchups but that's the best you can do to make all others make sense.

[dubcity]

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A's Sacramento opener will be March 31st vs the Cubs. They'll use the ATH abbreviation.

For some reason I didn't realize until just now that they will play 3 full seasons in Sacramento. I was thinking it would be just 1 season, but the Vegas stadium obviously still needs to be built. And the stadium in Sacramento will have artificial turf, because that is somehow better in the heat.

[Majingir]

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Rays might actually be getting their new ballpark

https://twitter.com/Colleen_Wright/status/1814023277469188460?t=GRingEERYvAhr04P1N7s9g&s=19

[Ghost Of The Year]

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MLB introducing "rivalry week" which just means all games will feature teams facing off against a closely located team.

Mets vs Yankees
Phillies vs Pirates
Os vs Nats
Rays vs Marlins
White Sox vs Cubs
Cards vs Royals
Guardians vs Reds
Twins vs Brewers
Angels vs Dodgers
Astros vs Rangers
Rockies vs DBacks
As vs Giants
Mariners vs Padres
Braves vs Red Sox
Jays vs Tigers

Most do make sense, obviously Red Sox vs Braves and Mariners vs Padres aren't the two ideal matchups but that's the best you can do to make all others make sense.

I like the Braves Red Sox gameswhen the Braves return to their original city as a Boston homecoming.

[Sportsforever]

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Random question - does anyone recall when pitch count became a part of the broadcast display?

I can’t remember it not being there, but in watching some games from the late 2000’s/early 2010s it isn’t there and it isn’t mentioned. Made me wonder when it started being displayed…


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[The Kid 24]

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Awesome news!

MLB, MLBPA Agree To Redirect CBT Money To Teams Losing TV Revenue https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/...v-revenue.html


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[Majingir]

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Random question - does anyone recall when pitch count became a part of the broadcast display?

I can’t remember it not being there, but in watching some games from the late 2000’s/early 2010s it isn’t there and it isn’t mentioned. Made me wonder when it started being displayed…


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I'd say around the mid 10s maybe?

Looking at league averages, from 14-15 is when things jumped a lot in terms of pitchers used per season per team. A jump of 2.2 pitchers just between those 2 seasons. A jump not seen as drastically between 2 seasons since the mid 50s (* if I checked correctly).

That's when people really started looking at pitch counts and all that. I remember when the Royals won all the media people were saying how teams would copy the Royals (to be fair, they say that about every championship team) with their bullpen usage, and clearly it happened since the Royals rise happened the same time as the bullpen usage change.

Despite that I wouldn't notice or care as much if it suddenly disappeared. However, I can't believe it took until the late 90s? or so until scorebugs became a permanent thing in games in all sports and not just a quick flash on the screen during breaks in play.

[Ghost Of The Year]

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Despite that I wouldn't notice or care as much if it suddenly disappeared. However, I can't believe it took until the late 90s? or so until scorebugs became a permanent thing in games in all sports and not just a quick flash on the screen during breaks in play.

Back then people had attention spans and didn't need constant reminding what down it was, or what inning or even how much time was on the clock. Nowadays ,we need scorebugs and could never survive those prehistoric days. Lol.

[Majingir]

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Back then people had attention spans and didn't need constant reminding what down it was, or what inning or even how much time was on the clock. Nowadays ,we need scorebugs and could never survive those prehistoric days. Lol.

Is it really attention spans or just people being more invested and data driven than before?

Or is it also because people are more likely to tune in/out at any given moment so they kind of have to know what's going on at any given moment instead of waiting 50 seconds for the next time the scorebug shows up.

[l3ulvl]

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combination maybe? attention spans are affected by multitasking, attention spans in general don't have the opportunity to be spent on a single thing, but that's a different tangent and I've already lost track of the original point