Ceetar

if you're going for completions sake, just watch 'em all in the order they came out. But I'm halfway through like 3 of them in the middle so what do I know.

I'd add more than 2 teams to be honest, and would better randomize interleague play and get rid of forced Mets-Yanks every year. You play a random small subset of the other league, 6 teams maybe, varies, randomly. Maybe a weight for subway series stuff, or by request of owners or something, so they happen more often, but not every year. Travel isn't as bad as it was, but we're learning more and more how much lack of sleep, and weird schedules can mess with you, performance wise, so it's still important. travel time from Seattle park to Seattle airport to JFK to your home is still a long travel day. I'd add at least 1 team near Seattle, but maybe 3. Vancouver, Portland, etc. And on the same travel vein, since Mexico City gets mentioned a lot, 2 teams, maybe more, there. Same division so they get a lot of lesser travel days to make up for how far they have to travel otherwise.

=bmfc1 post_id=30636 time=1580230056 user_id=73] I'm not advocating for the DH but this is Manfred's biggest argument: it increases offense and the game doesn't have enough action. The players want it because it's paid higher than a utility player. It makes life easier for managers because they can think less. It avoids the DH discrepancy during interleague games and the World Series. I'd still rather watch deGrom/Matz/Noah/Stro hit.

Let's suggest something else. You can reenter the game in future innings if you've exited. why not? you could throw your two best starters every other inning, lefty/righty. You could use your best reliever in the 6th against Trout and still use him to finish off the 9th. You could glue a pitcher to Bryce Harper. "In this weekend series against the Mets, Bryce Harper faced Stephen Matz 14 times and struck out in 10 of them." If you used a LOOGY in this situation, You'd have to balance diminishing returns. Seeing a lefty specialist once a game, or once every other game is tough, but there's a reason those guys aren't starters. Do you use him down 1 in game 1, knowing Harper might start to get the timing down by the time you want to use him up 1 in the 9th in game 3? Think of all the opportunity to kill the manager for using/not using guys this way! You'd have to nail down some rules. Maybe if you come in on defense you have to bat once, and if you pinch hit, you have to play an inning in the field? Or maybe a 3 inning lag time, or you can only return in the position you left. (in the batting order) so no batting David Wright third, removing him, and then bringing him in 6th in the next inning. Phillies are bringing in a lefty to face Conforto in the 5th! Rojas subs in Cespedes. 8th inning, pinch hit Conforto for Cespedes and now the Phillies are bringing back the lefty! Gotcha! I dunno, it seems fun.

yeah, i just think that this wrinkle adds MORE nonsense. 1. It basically eliminates openers and i'm pro-opener. (use your 26 players however you want, even if that's a pitcher an inning) 2. this is why it won't happen, it'll basically eliminate full time DHs. You're not having David Ortiz only play 3 PA a game. Which means you're having him play the field, which means you're not likely having another 'good/regular' 1Bman anyway, so you're eliminating a spot. So now you're basically half-resting guys and using matchups/PH anyway, so might as well just have the pitcher bat. (or have no DH and just a PH spot?) 3. There are some shenanigans that'll happen that'll be amusing, but I don't think that's a good reason to do it. Specifically the 'pitchers getting hurt' bit, because while they may not run, if David Ortiz is due up third in the bottom of the 6th and you've got 2-out, 2 on and really want to go to a reliever, managers are going to put the starter in the outfield to preserve that AB. (I guess you could eliminate pitchers' playing the field at all, but now pitcher's are even more separate from the rest of their team. It's like they're playing a different sport)

I liked a thing I saw floating around a few weeks ago - the DH leaves the game when you remove your starting pitcher. 1. "Saves" starters from getting "hurt" in phantom batting/running injuries 2. You added a 26th roster spot, might as well use it. 3. You're going to pinch-hit for your relievers anyway. 4. Strategery. I don't like this for much the reason I'd prefer no-DH uniformly than all-DH.(I just think we've gone so far in baseball that even NL pitchers are basically mailing it in. Might as well remove the mailing it in aspects) freedom. I like the idea that we've got 9 players that we can use however we like. Whether that means 9 pitchers, or 1. defensive replacements, guys that only bat from the left side, Openers, LOOGYs, second RFers playing by the SS for 5-man infields. Switching the pitcher to RF and then back to P. I like the free form of it, the uniformity, all 9 guys try to score, all 9 guys then try to prevent the other team from scoring. Sub 'em out how you see fit to maximize it. On that note I also HATE the designation of pitchers as pitchers and hitters as hitters. Worst thing that's happened since the DH. I also dislike the automatic IBB rule because it legislates in a silly workaround. I'd rather they'd go the other way and not let the catcher out of the box period. It's a competition! why are we letting managers wave a hand and click 'skip'? Plus it hurts the flow of the game. It happens so fast and often so simply that you miss it unless you're laser focused on that moment. Sometimes the announcers miss it too. Plus the 4 pitch stretch of getting to boo the team for skipping a guy is a fun part of the fan experience.

yes, Colon was just thrilling to watch. [attachment=0]colon.png[/attachment]

=kcmets post_id=30575 time=1580153762 user_id=53] =Ceetar post_id=30574 time=1580153557 user_id=102]want is a strong word.

=kcmets post_id=30567 time=1580149608 user_id=53]Ceetar!

someone's gotta play in Syracuse.

=smg58 post_id=30457 time=1579909227 user_id=62] McNeil had a higher OPS+ than Arenado each of the last two seasons. That's a non-starter. Brandon Nimmo has a higher career OPS+ than Arenado. Can we please stop mentioning him in every rumor? But if they'd take Cano, they could have any prospects they'd like.

=Centerfield post_id=30441 time=1579896831 user_id=65] Now let's do Arenado. First of all, if the Mets could afford $35 million a year for a third baseman, they would have been in on Rendon. They weren't, and they cannot. And nothing could be dumber than passing on Rendon because you don't want to pay money, then trading for Arenado, taking on his salary, his optout, and giving up young talent. And if the Rockies ask for McNeil, you hang up and never speak to them again. Nolan Arenado will be 29 in April. His career OPS is .897. He plays half his games in Coors. Arenado gives you out of the world defense at 3B. WAR of 5.7 in 2019. Jeff McNeil will be 28 in April. His career OPS is .896. He plays his home games at Citi. McNeil doesn't play nearly as well on D, but can play 4 different positions well. WAR of 5.0. McNeil makes nothing and is under control for 5 more years. Arenado makes $35 million, has a contract paying him that until he's 35, and has an optout after 2021. It would be insane to pass on Rendon, then trade McNeil for Arenado.

I like Marte, after perusing his stats, but if last years defensive blip is real and not some aberration, whether just in the defensive statistics or like, nagging injury that healed now or something, it's less interesting. It continues to be a weird fit though, because the Mets DO have outfielders. It's easy to say "don't count on Cespedes" but like, he's actively being very active. But even if you did, he's the 4th or 5th best hitting OFer depending on how you count Davis and McNeil, and if you don't they have nowhere to play, unless you think Lowrie's activation last year wasn't real and he's got some secret chronic career-ending injury and won't be able to play at all. And even so, Davis and McNeil make the 4th and 5th Infielders too! The mets could use better defensive players, but like, I don't know that acquiring Marte and having to either sell low on Cespedes and Lowrie is that helpful? Even if Marte is good defensively, I don't think that bump makes the Mets better than they are with Davis-Nimmo-Conforto? I guess you could figure it out all in Mid March, it just feels like a weird fit now.

hopefully they'll reissue 8 soon.

Helton's a hall of famer too, as far as I'm concerned.

=seawolf17 post_id=30287 time=1579706896 user_id=91] I love that the one vote has sent MFY fans into apoplexy, because that tells me a lot more about those fans than it does about the Hall, CI, or the voting process.

2020-WhenHeLiesToTheMedia

I said would've been. Funny how working together towards a common goal makes you care less about nebulous things from years ago.

=LWFS post_id=30219 time=1579620938 user_id=84] =Ceetar post_id=30206 time=1579576150 user_id=102] yeah and the vast majority of MLB players are idiots too. Didn't a lot of pitchers get all whiny about steroids too even though they were just as roided up, if not more? Hell, plenty of pitchers get all up in arms about the shift too, even though they're dead wrong about it hurting them.

the BBWAA hall is still a thing? pass.

=nymr83 post_id=30209 time=1579577486 user_id=54] and the legality is irrelevant? Where can I send your Trump2020 bumper sticker?

yeah and the vast majority of MLB players are idiots too. Didn't a lot of pitchers get all whiny about steroids too even though they were just as roided up, if not more? Hell, plenty of pitchers get all up in arms about the shift too, even though they're dead wrong about it hurting them. Plenty of players have come out and been all like "hey, like, those other guys do this too"

=nymr83 post_id=30188 time=1579566844 user_id=54] Video today of the Astros shelling Stroman, garbage can banging clearly audible. Stroman pissed. This is why Beltran could not stay, how would you like the guy who cheated you to be your new boss?

Frayed Knot wrote: And how is that better?!? All that means is that it's stealing that clearly couldn't be done except with an illegal system set up just for that purpose. Or does the fact that the signals weren't as easy to decipher as See-Spot-Run make this stuff OK? Gee, everything I stole from you shouldn't even qualify as a crime because of the expensive and intricate security system I had to disable just to get past your front door! You are implying it's okay for me to bypass your security system if I simply guess a bunch of times as long as I don't use a computer program? And that it'd be basically impossible for me to get in, even with tech, if you simply used more than a 3 digit password? I'm saying if it's okay for me to sometimes bypass your security, if we're going to make that okay, might as well just make it always okay and if you use a 15 digit password and I guess it that's just good on me, but if you use a 1 digit password and I get in maybe bad on you? And you're going to get all up in arms because I used a computer to run every single digit password to get passed it? but analogies aside, if it's okay for me to decipher a sign, then it is. Either make it part of the game or outlaw it and put in electronic communication between catcher and pitcher.

I mean, the report contradicts what you're saying, but okay. I'm saying that a lot of times the Astros weren't simply seeing 1 finger and not banging for a fastball. Sometimes they had to decipher the more 'complex' set of signs that a battery uses when say a guy's on second. I.e. the "we know the other team is probably seeing these signs and therefore we're going to give the bare minimum level of effort involved to keep them from guessing it"