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  1. Edgy MD
    Ways to solve the 15-per league problem. Sure. Byes. Whatever. We'll all need rest, and a team getting a few bye days can get medical workups. Still have interleague play, under the notion that we've advanced to the point where one team every three days flying with their self-contained group on a private jet through private airports is a manageable risk. Return to 16 teams in one league and 14 in the other, possibly by setting up a central team (Cleveland? Kansas City?) with some temporary digs in Florida. Expand by two teams. Maybe the teams debut in their home cities (Norfolk? Montreal? Nashville? San Antonio? Portland?) next year or maybe the disappear after one abbreviated season), but Rob Manfred wants to expand to 32 anyhow. Imagine the fun if two homeless teams are actually playing in the big leagues and America is having a reality show where multiple cities are trying to make them their own.
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    I can't invite my Bumble match up to my room?
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    Interesting that between the time of the reporting and the time of the story's publication, Dwight Gooden entered rehab.
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    With regard to the print annuals, am I correctly guessing that the 2020 edition hasn't seen the light of day yet?
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    Well, when doing career comparisons, projecting lost time that affected everybody from the era — such strikes and wars — especially including all that played both before and after the event, seems like a more valid effort than projecting lost careers from particular events that effected one person, such as an on-field injury. There's at least some support out there to revisit the case for Pete Reiser, who basically had something less than half the career he should have, thanks to military service and injuries. I'm not a supporter, but I'm certain all for revisiting cases periodically.
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    Throw back to Spring 1987 as https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/04/07/new-yorks-met-a-fans-notes-on-keith-hernandez/Pete Hamill profiles Keith Hernandez in The Village Voice. Keith is Keith, mentally restless, detached from the concerns of lesser men, and bored by everything: Spring Training, leading off innings, prime time at the athletic club. He feels embarrassed for adult autograph hounds. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he kicked coke back when he said he kicked coke. But it's amazing how back then right up to yesterday, you can always sense the addict's personality right under the surface. [fimg=500]https://www.villagevoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/1987_0407_01_KEITH-HERNADEZ_OP-1366x1910.jpg[/fimg]
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    Despite stupid new rules about declaring guys to be batters or pitchers on the roster, I think this might be a good year for novelty acts.
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    My feeling is that age doesn't catch up with pitchers so much as mileage. That said, he did get a late start in the bigs, kind of putting him in the Ron Guidry predicament.
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    Stro tweets footage from the same block of ex-Met José Bautista continuing his training in an attempt to come back as a two-way player.
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    I was just watching this and Gary is on. I notice that THE SHOW has Brandon Nimmo jogging leisurely to first after a leadoff walk, and just as I'm thinking "That's not Nimmo," Gary says, "There's something you'd never see in real life." And then Jeff McNeil takes a fastball for strike one, and just as I'm thinking "That's not ..., Gary says, "And there's something you'd never see in real life."
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    Again, they may have really bloated rosters, so replacing the Sewalds won't be an issue. They could, in theory, house the AAA teams in Arizona, also, and try to play something like a AAA season out there. I don't think field space will be an issue. Maybe the rest of the players remain in Florida. All those logistical problems are real, though. Re-integration procedures will have to occur eventually though, and while the challenge is to anticipate all those possibilities, it's hard to imagine it coming off without a hitch. That said, MLB has seemingly made far more grown-up decisions than The White House so far. I know that's setting the bar low, but somebody has to show leadership.
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    Yeah, and I agree that peak Lagares was better. And while my doubts about dWAR (and its baseball-reference vs. fangraphs distinctions) continue, I think the total-career-value is what we're asking here, no?
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    No, not initially, but eventually, we will all have to try to re-integrate.
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    Lefty Specialist wrote: Basically you're holding MLB players prisoner for 4 1/2 months. Not sure how that'll work. But ratings for this would be through the goddamn roof if they manage to pull it off. What about announcers? I can't see Keith locking himself in a hotel room in Arizona. Who would feed Hadji? Anybody can be an announcer, and considering the $$ and the scarcity of jobs, I imagine few would walk away from the season. I also imagine that, if they are able to get things started and maintain controls and positive tests don't start popping up, they will slowly start to integrate players families in.
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    =batmagadanleadoff post_id=34826 time=1586276389 user_id=68] There's more than one way to look at this. Shortstop might be the more valuable position, but Keith revolutionized his position and might be the best defensive first baseman in the history of baseball. Keith played first base better than Rey played shortstop
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    Frayed Knot wrote: Even giving weight to positional importance, Rey's 'defensive prime' was just too short to compare for overall impact. This is my problem with considering Beltran. He was really only fully healthy-- and at full defensive capability-- for three years with us. But peak-period outfielders are worth a lot, because 95% of the balls a shortstop doesn't get to are singles. (I made up that number. I guess that one in 20 might be that flare over the thirdbaseman's head that drops for a double.). What outfielders don't get to are more likely to drop for extra bases — dubbles, tribbles, and ho-hos.
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    Well, these are spring training complexes, so they might use secondary fields simultaneously with the primary ones. Plus college and minor league facilities are available. Also, since the minor-league season will either be cancelled or seriously curtailed, they might go with full 40-player rosters.
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    Check out MLB, seeing opportunity in crisis. • Implementing an electronic strike zone to allow the plate umpire to maintain sufficient distance from the catcher and batter Going nuclear on replacing ups with tech! • No mound visits from the catcher or pitching coach Going nuclear on the pace-of-game policies. • Seven-inning doubleheaders, which with an earlier-than-expected start date could allow baseball to come closer to a full 162-game season Going big on the crazy Lunchbucket plan! • Regular use of on-field microphones by players, as an added bonus for TV viewers Going big on acknowledging that their fear of digital communications helped make the Houston sign-stealing scandal possible! • Sitting in the empty stands 6 feet apart -- the recommended social-distancing space -- instead of in a dugout A preview of what it's going to be like once fans return to the stands, mentally prepping the public!
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    I just realize MLB can make a FANTASTIC amount of $$ with team-trademarked face masks.
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    In fact, this is what MLB data guys can be doing with their downtime — calibrating tracking software to record data from archival game footage.
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    =batmagadanleadoff post_id=34799 time=1586221286 user_id=68] =smg58 post_id=34794 time=1586219087 user_id=62] Rey. His 99 was as good a defensive season as anybody has ever had.
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    I'd probably go with Beltran. But I'm not sure the defensive metrics available have yet been able to capture what Hernandez did. For that matter, I don't think they capture what Grote did.
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    Great to see the Old Molio around. [YOUTUBE]6gOVeBWDW48[/YOUTUBE]
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    Edgy MD wrote: Al Kaline never played a day in the minors. I don't know who else can make such a claim. Did Ichiro Suzuki bypass the Japanese minors? Bob Horner and Jim Abbott. Al Kaline taught me the value of the base on balls. Strat-o-Matic, 1971 set. By the time I was in Junior High,, the walks column would be the first place my eyes went when I scanned the back of some hitter's baseball card. Here's this Posnanski piece on Al Kaline I read last week: https://theathletic.com/1568128/2020/02/05/the-baseball-100-no-51-al-kaline/https://theathletic.com/1568128/2020/02/05/the-baseball-100-no-51-al-kaline/ Jeff Burroughs 1978 was my Al Kaline.
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    Yeah, was thinking that even the few guys who went straight to the Show would likely have seen a rehab assignment. But yeah, Winnie qualifies. Robin Yount played a half season in the New York-Penn League at 17.
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