I was going to post something like this. People are slow to warm to change. If you had asked me my thoughts on this in June if 2020 I would have said it was a gimmick and I hated the idea.
I’m also guessing that the kind of person to visit Fangraphs and MLBTR is more accepting of 4+ hour games than casual fans who watch their local team once in awhile.
I'm actually not sure what I think of it. Kiermaier absolutely disrespected Randy on the play. But he's also the CF general, and does have a cannon of an arm, so his justification made sense and Randy should have stood down when he heard him calling for it.
I recently read 3 nights in August, about Tony La Russa. The author kept using wins as a measure of pitcher quality. As in "Darryl Kile was a 19-win starter in Houston, but wasn't even a 0.500 pitcher in Colorado. La Russa knew he still had it in him to be a 15-20 win pitcher".
It was not a good book.
I don't think they should limit the number of pitchers specifically, but 26-man rosters are absurd. Stupid concession to the PA in exchange for fixing the stupid expanded September rosters.
I'm not sure what's more pathetic: Odor hitting 4th in their lineup, or the fact that nobody hitting lower has really been better than him, with the possible exception of Urshela.
Will be watching Ohtani. I’ve seen his first two starts, and he just looks rusty. Top tier stuff, but no command. He hasn’t pitched consistently in years and it shows. If he can settle in this year, he could put up one of the most fun seasons ever.
I’ve actually always thought regular season record was the better tiebreaker than H2H. I know Yahoo made it convention to have H2H as the first tie-break, but I like that regular season record rewards season-long success.
It's f***ing insane. He's out there tonight throwing 101 in the 7th with a wipeout slider, an unhittable 90 mph change, and pinpoint command of all three pitches. And he's looked like that three starts in a row. Is prime Pedro the last pitcher who looked this dominant?
Hopefully they don't screw this up with a work stoppage next season. They need to crank out a new CBA, and do it without months of s*** slinging in the media.
It really does seem like a healthy Andersen is the guy you want in the playoffs. He's shown the ability to be very, very good for long stretches in the past.