4/9 - 4/22 Game Discussion Thread

[KSUowls]

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Jose Ramirez said he has had shoulder tightness since spring training. Nice to see he has an excuse for 5 walks over this last 1.1 innings.

[ShowTyme15]

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I believe Jansen is hurt. He just doesn't look right.

I agree, but the Dodgers are saying he's healthy. Maybe it's a mental thing with him right now?

[SPTO]

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Mookie's gonna go down as one of the best Red Sox of all time.

That's quite the statement but you may be right.

BTW who here honestly thought the Red Sox would be steamrolling everybody the way they have been this year? This is a bit of an "out of the blue" start for this team.

[Speedy]

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Albert Pujols so far in the year per Fangraphs: -1.9war

I wonder what is the all-time single season mark for negative war.

He holds the mlb record for most GIDP.

Interesting tidbit I found the other day.

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[SPTO]

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He holds the mlb record for most GIDP.

Interesting tidbit I found the other day.

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At least some old timers can say

"at least he keeps the ball in play"

Heh.

[Blzer]

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At least some old timers can say

"at least he keeps the ball in play"

Heh.

I know this isn't the point of your little shtick jab right there, but your post brings me back to my thread about ground balls and the means of success versus failure with them. Many of Pujols' double play balls, if hit hard enough, could have found a hole for a base hit if it went 15 feet in either direction of any of the infielders (or a double if down the line, or foul if off the line).

I know that I created that post when the strikeout was more frowned upon than it has been this year and late last year, but putting the ball in play can potentially lead to that base hit. Its success rate is less than that of 50% for sure, so maybe the modernists have a good point that the traditionalists need to account for.

[SPTO]

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Well I was being snarky for sure but I actually think putting the ball in play is better than whiffing at the plate especially when you have a situation where moving the runner over or a well executed sac fly can do more than just striking out would.

Actually, to your point though in one of the KC/TOR games yesterday the Royals had overshifted a bit and there were 4 straight singles by the Jays that just beat the shift whereby if they had stayed in their traditional positions would've most likely led to outs. That kind of goes to the whole shift/no shift argument but still it shows that if you can get the ball in play in the right area things can happen that wouldn't with the strikeout.

[CMH]

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That's quite the statement but you may be right.

BTW who here honestly thought the Red Sox would be steamrolling everybody the way they have been this year? This is a bit of an "out of the blue" start for this team.

The Red Sox are legit but I don't think anyone seriously expects any team to start this hot. Baseball is way too random to consider it.

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[areobee401]

4/9 - 4/22 Game Discussion Thread

Mookie's gonna go down as one of the best Red Sox of all time.

Assuming he stays after his current deal. Which I'm not sold on him doing.

[bcruise]

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Cards-Cubs wiped out again. Makeup tomorrow (not a DH apparently)

[CMH]

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Assuming he stays after his current deal. Which I'm not sold on him doing.

Yankees will sign him and he will discover the disabled list.

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[WaitTilNextYear]

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On the bright side of all these postponements, it's going to be rare that the Cubs are not playing this summer.

[roadman]

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No worries for the Brewers to be ppd @ home.

Dan Jennings just saved Davies rear.

Runners on 1st and 3rd, 1 out, and Brewers up 2 to 0

6-4-3 double play.

[Majingir]

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For anyone who hasn't seen what the Facebook games look like, this picture is how it is. Guess they're trying to make it a more interactive type of broadcast. And no commercials, but they do show the between inning clock.

Something I wouldn't mind is if they make things like this like video games. Allow fans to choose which cameras they watch the game from, ability to mute one or more commentators and things like that. Not just for MLB, but all sports. One thing I don't like about this though is that you can't go back and watch something that just happened.

After awhile, I wonder what we'll see with the viewer numbers. FB viewers will be different than TV ones, but it also allows for FB to be more marketable instead of just caring about US TV ratings and that type of stuff. Phillies/Mets and Brewers/Cards both got around 4.5M total views, so will be interesting to see where this Jays-Royals game ends up. Seeing number in the 60,000s for LIVE viewers, but total viewers obviously will be 6 if not 7 figures.

[dubcity]

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For Phillies/Mets and Brewers/Cards both got around 4.5M total views, so will be interesting to see where this Jays-Royals game ends up. Seeing number in the 60,000s for LIVE viewers, but total viewers obviously will be 6 if not 7 figures.

To me that is an obvious clue that the facebook view totals are about as informative as youtube's. Probably even less so. The 50 people who click play by accident, or watch for a minute and then turn it off, count the same as the 1 guy who watches the entire game.

The live numbers are likely the most useful, and I'm sure a lot of those people had the sound off.