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Dumb bunt, Cora dumb

Edit: yup

Bunting Rafaela (who is actually swinging it well lately) to get to Duran vs a LHP. Brilliant!
 
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2/3 vs. a blistering hot KC squad, (with the only loss being in extras) is nothing to scoff at.

Now on to Detroit, where they hopefully can build on it.
 
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A win is a win is a win.

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Terrier said:
nypost.com

Rockies fire manager Bud Black, bench coach after rare win in team’s dreadful 7-33 start

The Colorado Rockies announced the firing of manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond, with the team off to a 7-33 start after beating the Padres 9-3 on Sunday.
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There are too many MLB teams not even trying to compete

There are too many teams in MLB that are not only bad — they're embarrassing.
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The Yardbarker article about teams not trying to compete has been an issue for years, and it's because there is no salary cap/floor in the league.

Devers and Bregman combined have a higher AAV than the entire Marlins payroll.

The Pirates have one of the best young players in the game in Paul Skenes, and refuse to spend any money, and will probably trade him once he hits arbitration, especially 2nd time through.

It's embarrassing for the league that there's 10-15 teams who spend, some mid level teams who are good every few years, then the same shit teams every single year.
 
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JRull86 said:
The Yardbarker article about teams not trying to compete has been an issue for years, and it's because there is no salary cap/floor in the league.

Devers and Bregman combined have a higher AAV than the entire Marlins payroll.

The Pirates have one of the best young players in the game in Paul Skenes, and refuse to spend any money, and will probably trade him once he hits arbitration, especially 2nd time through.

It's embarrassing for the league that there's 10-15 teams who spend, some mid level teams who are good every few years, then the same shit teams every single year.
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This is what happens when you have a commissioner who hates the sport he runs. Teams have no accountability to anyone.
 
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JRull86 said:
The Yardbarker article about teams not trying to compete has been an issue for years, and it's because there is no salary cap/floor in the league.

Devers and Bregman combined have a higher AAV than the entire Marlins payroll.

The Pirates have one of the best young players in the game in Paul Skenes, and refuse to spend any money, and will probably trade him once he hits arbitration, especially 2nd time through.

It's embarrassing for the league that there's 10-15 teams who spend, some mid level teams who are good every few years, then the same shit teams every single year.
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I agree with you. How do you fix it, though?
 
I think the 1B replacement for Casas can develop as we go here. It doesn't have to be Devers. I think the sole focus on it having to be him blew up where we then see John Henry schlepping to Kansas freakin City.

Devers-Bregman-Abreu hopefully stays in tact. That's a very good, balanced heart of the order. It's fairly weak after that though. They are in an ok position but now I want a little more than just hovering around .500.
 
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I think the 1B replacement for Casas can develop as we go here. It doesn't have to be Devers. I think the sole focus on it having to be him blew up where we then see John Henry schlepping to Kansas freakin City.

Devers-Bregman-Abreu hopefully stays in tact. That's a very good, balanced heart of the order. It's fairly weak after that though. They are in an ok position but now I want a little more than just hovering around .500.
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This should tell us something.
We have no legit 1B prospect in the minors.
We should be drafting one this year, and or take a prospect that can no longer play 3B and get them trained at 1B.
 
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yazmybaby said:
I thought it was a great call bunting the runner over. It takes away the DP.
It moves the runner into scoring position. We had the lead at the time, why not play small ball and get another run home?
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Great post. Teams don't bunt as much as they used to, so players aren't as good at it as they used to be. You can't guarantee your next AB will be a home run. Bunting with a man on third and less than 2 outs is the only guaranteed run in baseball.

MLB's Brian Kenny only looks at today's stats and concludes that all bunting is bad. :laugh:
 
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I thought it was a great call bunting the runner over.
It takes away the DP.
It moves the runner into scoring position.
We had the lead at the time, why not play small ball and get another run home?
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Because bunting a guy over and relying on a guy slashing .237/.263/.309 with a 30% k rate against LHP to do something productive isn’t smart, it’s just giving up a free out. Especially when Rafaela is one of the hottest hitters in the lineup at the moment

What has this team done to make you think they can get runners in from 3rd with 1 out of with great success? Situational hitting is one of their biggest weaknesses so far imo
 
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I thought it was a great call bunting the runner over.
It takes away the DP.
It moves the runner into scoring position.
We had the lead at the time, why not play small ball and get another run home?
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Bunting is fast becoming a lost art. :confused:

It's too bad because you can't rely on 400 foot home runs all the time :eyeroll:

I can't stand today's hitters- they strike out way too often going for the home run when a hit will do the job (driving in runs) just as effectively. Yeah I get that home runs are where the money is these days but still, it's awful to watch.

End of rant.
 
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Beliveau said:
Great post. Teams don't bunt as much as they used to, so players aren't as good at it as they used to be. You can't guarantee your next AB will be a home run. Bunting with a man on third and less than 2 outs is the only guaranteed run in baseball.

MLB's Brian Kenny only looks at today's stats and concludes that all bunting is bad. :laugh:
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???
 
CDJ said:
Because bunting a guy over and relying on a guy slashing .237/.263/.309 with a 30% k rate against LHP to do something productive isn’t smart, it’s just giving up a free out. Especially when Rafaela is one of the hottest hitters in the lineup at the moment

What has this team done to make you think they can get runners in from 3rd with 1 out of with great success? Situational hitting is one of their biggest weaknesses so far imo
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And surprisingly, Rafaela is one of the Sox's best clutch hitters.
 
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The only way that happens is if he hits a single.
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OF/1B/3B Pete Rose had the opposite problem. He didn't have enough power or speed to hit a double. His career .409 SLG% is not even top 1000 all-time. In 15,390 career PAs he hit only 746 doubles. No 1B or 3B or OFer since his rookie year has had so low a SLG% and got in the HoF. Even the 997th ranked DJ LeMahieu is better.

I'm 62. Let's be honest. We formed opinions before metrics, and they never change. If Pete never bet on baseball and retired today, he may get in the HoF for being the all-time hits leader but he's obviously not HoF worthy. Every reply to this post will be negative. :laugh:

Counting stats are the devil's tools. The media and young people's sports analysis today is horrible. Over half of HF posters have consistently and repeatedly voted in polls that OV and McDavid have top 10 careers all-time right now. The biggest problem is that they think scoring the most points (or goals) automatically make you the goat. That totally ignores defense, physicality, passing, different scoring eras, and number of games and seasons played. Gordie was top 10 in scoring 21 seasons in a row! Dman Potvin has more assists than OV.

In basketball Kareem played 4 years of college and won 3 rings in his 3 seasons of eligibility. Freshman were ineligible plus they made a college no dunking rule for Kareem, so he created the greatest move in NBA history, the skyhook. Jordan played 3 years in college and only played 1,072 NBA games. LeBron went straight to the NBA at age 18 and has played 1,562 NBA games. He should have more points than Kareem and Jordan.
 
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Beliveau said:
OF/1B/3B Pete Rose had the opposite problem. He didn't have enough power or speed to hit a double. His career .409 SLG% is not even top 1000 all-time. In 15,390 career PAs he hit only 746 doubles. No 1B or 3B or OFer since his rookie year has had so low a SLG% and got in the HoF. Even the 997th ranked DJ LeMahieu is better.

I'm 62. Let's be honest. We formed opinions before metrics, and they never change. If Pete never bet on baseball and retired today, he may get in the HoF for being the all-time hits leader but he's obviously not HoF worthy. Every reply to this post will be negative. :laugh:

Counting stats are the devil's tools. The media and young people's sports analysis today is horrible. Over half of HF posters have consistently and repeatedly voted in polls that OV and McDavid have top 10 careers all-time right now. The biggest problem is that they think scoring the most points (or goals) automatically make you the goat. That totally ignores defense, physicality, passing, different scoring eras, and number of games and seasons played. Gordie was top 10 in scoring 21 seasons in a row! Dman Potvin has more assists than OV.

In basketball Kareem played 4 years of college and won 3 rings in his 3 seasons of eligibility. Freshman were ineligible plus they made a college no dunking rule for Kareem, so he created the greatest move in NBA history, the skyhook. Jordan played 3 years in college and only played 1,072 NBA games. LeBron went straight to the NBA at age 18 and has played 1,562 NBA games. He should have more points than Kareem and Jordan.
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Beliveau said:
OF/1B/3B Pete Rose had the opposite problem. He didn't have enough power or speed to hit a double. His career .409 SLG% is not even top 1000 all-time. In 15,390 career PAs he hit only 746 doubles. No 1B or 3B or OFer since his rookie year has had so low a SLG% and got in the HoF. Even the 997th ranked DJ LeMahieu is better.

I'm 62. Let's be honest. We formed opinions before metrics, and they never change. If Pete never bet on baseball and retired today, he may get in the HoF for being the all-time hits leader but he's obviously not HoF worthy. Every reply to this post will be negative. :laugh:

Counting stats are the devil's tools. The media and young people's sports analysis today is horrible. Over half of HF posters have consistently and repeatedly voted in polls that OV and McDavid have top 10 careers all-time right now. The biggest problem is that they think scoring the most points (or goals) automatically make you the goat. That totally ignores defense, physicality, passing, different scoring eras, and number of games and seasons played. Gordie was top 10 in scoring 21 seasons in a row! Dman Potvin has more assists than OV.

In basketball Kareem played 4 years of college and won 3 rings in his 3 seasons of eligibility. Freshman were ineligible plus they made a college no dunking rule for Kareem, so he created the greatest move in NBA history, the skyhook. Jordan played 3 years in college and only played 1,072 NBA games. LeBron went straight to the NBA at age 18 and has played 1,562 NBA games. He should have more points than Kareem and Jordan.
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I don't think you caught my joke.
 
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