MLB Off-Topic

[jake44np]

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I don't get it. It's clear nobody cares about baseball in that area. Just give up that franchise to a more deserving city. Goes for Mia too.

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That's not true at all.
I worked in Tampa for a few years, people love baseball there.
They just don't want to go sit inside a concrete dump for 3 hours a day when it is sunny and 85 degrees outside and the beached are 5 minutes away.
With the right stadium and ownership they could thrive.

[Blzer]

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If anyone remembers [or doesn't], here was the previous stadium renderings/designs:

http://www.stadiumpage.com/t61.html

[CMH]

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Anyone know the reasoning for naming ASG replacements before the final vote?

Also shouldn't the replacement be someone in the final vote before finding another qualified player?

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[Jr.]

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An interesting read/interview about shifts and three hitters' approach to it.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24049347/mlb-hitters-explain-why-just-beat-shift

For those that don't want to read the whole thing (it's pretty long): why hitters don't just bunt or slap it to the opposite field every time...

Spoiler

1. Hitting is hard, and it's not easy to adjust your swing to hit ground balls the opposite way when you haven't done that since you were 8 years old.
2. Getting three singles in an inning is difficult. Guys that are shifted against typically aren't singles hitters, they're supposed to drive the ball. So they're typically going against what the team relies/expects/needs of them (to drive the ball) if they bunt/hit a ground ball the other way.
3. The hitter likely played into the hands of the defense, who is willing to give up a single to a power hitter.

[Speedy]

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If anyone remembers [or doesn't], here was the previous stadium renderings/designs:

http://www.stadiumpage.com/t61.html

I LOVE the RF on this...I like this rendering much much more than the new one they've come up with.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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An interesting read/interview about shifts and three hitters' approach to it.

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24049347/mlb-hitters-explain-why-just-beat-shift

For those that don't want to read the whole thing (it's pretty long): why hitters don't just bunt or slap it to the opposite field every time...

Spoiler

1. Hitting is hard, and it's not easy to adjust your swing to hit ground balls the opposite way when you haven't done that since you were 8 years old.
2. Getting three singles in an inning is difficult. Guys that are shifted against typically aren't singles hitters, they're supposed to drive the ball. So they're typically going against what the team relies/expects/needs of them (to drive the ball) if they bunt/hit a ground ball the other way.
3. The hitter likely played into the hands of the defense, who is willing to give up a single to a power hitter.

I think my takeaway from that same article is these players don't even want to beat the shift. All of their responses are much less about how difficult it is to control where the batted ball goes and much more about wanting the extra base hit and the homer and not caring if they get beat by the shift in a given AB.

[TripleCrown9]

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MLB is currently on pace to have fewer than 50 balls in play per game for the first time ever.

Currently on track for 49.7

[kehlis]

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Anyone know the reasoning for naming ASG replacements before the final vote?

Also shouldn't the replacement be someone in the final vote before finding another qualified player?

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It goes to whoever was next in votes at the position of the player that dropped.

(At least that’s what I read regarding Lowrie)

[countryboy]

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Or in Yadi's case, if you get hit in the ding dong as a catcher you automatically get to go to the All-Star game.

[CBoller1331]

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Astros sent Ken Giles to AAA after he cussed out AJ Hinch after being pulled yesterday

[PhilliesFan13]

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Astros sent Ken Giles to AAA after he cussed out AJ Hinch after being pulled yesterday

Giles needs anger management.

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[steelerfan]

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Astros sent Ken Giles to AAA after he cussed out AJ Hinch after being pulled yesterday

Good riddance.

[CBoller1331]

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That trade has been pretty mediocre for both teams....Giles obviously has had his ups and downs. Vince Velasquez has been OK for the Phils but is still figuring some things out, Oberholtzer is out of the bigs, and Thomas Eshelman has yet to make the big leagues, and Mark Appel retired before throwing a major league pitch.

[SPTO]

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Astros sent Ken Giles to AAA after he cussed out AJ Hinch after being pulled yesterday

Maybe if he pitched better he wouldn't be getting pulled and having "reason" to cuss out the manager.

[WaitTilNextYear]

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I'm having this weird feeling like something important is supposed to happen in baseball 1 month from now, but I can't remember what.