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  1. Laika
    Baseball was NOT a pure upset sport before expanded playoffs because only truly good teams made the playoffs. There were still upsets but it wasn't an 84 win team going on a run. The regular season weeded out all the mediocre teams. Most of the time. That doesn't happen anymore. They let mediocre teams in and then have coin-flip series. The playoffs are extremely random. It's not pure randomness! It's just relatively random. Aces win playoff games and trophies but only *some* Aces of course. Clayton Kershaw does not count. Jake Peavy does not count. Tyler Glasnow does not count. Chris Sale does not count. Kevin Gausman does not count.
  2. Laika
    then do it, fart muffin you can't because I'm right
  3. Laika
    Aaron Nola had an ERA/FIP over 4 in the NL this year. Is he even still an Ace? He's Jose Berrios level
  4. Laika
    The randomness in baseball playoffs is much higher than most other sports. Upsets are probably much, much more common than the other major sports. Basketball would have the least upsets. Hockey probably more upsets than basketball but still not close to baseball. I don't know anything about football but it's basically just a wizard vs. wizard matchup between QBs right? Feel like there are less upsets in football despite the one game sample size, just because of how it is played.
  5. Laika
    Agree with all of it They HAVE to sign someone who can maybe have a strong offensive year but it's probably an OF/DH I'd rather watch Tim Anderson try to remember his name all year than watch Biggio and Espinal platoon and combine for 11 home runs. Babe can be the presumptive starter at 3B with Orelvis and Barger waiting for their shot around the IF.
  6. Laika
    Nah f*** this s*** If he was truly "cackling" it repeatedly while walking around the clubhouse with reporters in there, then there is no reason to keep it hush If you overhear a stray thing from a player sure, don't report it, but if a guy is acting like THAT then he is definitely signalling that it's fair game
  7. Laika
    I think he had the second highest xwOBA of all free agents. Ohtani .428 Jorge Soler .376 JDM .370 Joc Pederson .368 Mitch Garver .363 Tommy Pham .361 Andrew McCutchen .351 Donovan Solano .349 Gary Sanchez .342 Chapman .339 Belt .337 Teoscar .336 Lourdes .326 Candelario .319 If I am Toronto I am probably just waiting out the market again and trying to get a dude on a Belt-like deal near the end of the offseason. Pederson/Soler/JDM would all be sweet. Garver I think is legit. Pham and Cutch work but preferably they are in a platoon or your ostensible 4th OF. Solano is a sneaky good fallback option on the infield.
  8. Laika
    Arcia made fun of Harper's baserunning error (getting doubled off to end the game). Harper heard about it and then hit two homers and stared him down. But apparently what Arcia said was in his own clubhouse, to his own teammates. Something benign like "attaboy, Harper". So a reporter must have over heard and like, told the Phillies.
  9. Laika
    "Ross needs to get better" well at least he said that, haha
  10. Laika
    Everything wrong with the offense's collective approach this season smells like Don Mattingly. Falling behind in the arms race so they hire a dinosaur? Makes no sense.
  11. Laika
    Payroll not going down is good news 2023 Payroll was like $214M Coming off the books: Chapman $12.5M Ryu $20M Belt $9.3M KK $9M Whit $6.75M Grichuk remainder $4.3M That's what, $60M? Say arbitration raises eat up $15M of it. Still $45M to throw around. And they don't need to buy *much*. A couple bats and an SP5.
  12. Laika
    So Shapiro said nothing of note, other than confirming that Rossy will return?
  13. Laika
    Oh, clubhouse distractions have nothing to do with baseball now? That's news to me. I thought the people in the clubhouse were the ones who played the game.
  14. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    The difference is there is so much scoring in the NBA that it is rare for a 5 minute OT to not end the game. Double OT games are relatively rare. In the NHL it would be much, much more common for games to go to 2, 3, 4 OTs. So they would just need some way to make that unlikely. Something like a 20 second "shot attempt clock" so teams have to play aggressively. Or maybe a rule where if the 2nd OT ends with no goals, the team with the most shots on net in overtime wins the game. f***, why not do 1v1 60 second overtime shifts instead of a shootout? That would be insanely fun. It would be the ultimate test of skill.
  15. Laika

    NHL Thread

    Laika replied to GD's topic in Other Sports

    Honestly 3v3 OT with some kind of basketball style "shot clock" would even be better than a shootout.
  16. Laika
    Speaking of Jordan Groshans - WOOF. Dude hit well in AAA in 2022 after the trade and earned a cup of coffee but was so bad in 2023 that he didn't even get a day in the bigs. Full year in AAA at 23 years old, 74 wRC+. He has NO power. Kind of shocking when you think about his amateur swing videos.
  17. Laika
    lmao, Anthony Bass the funny thing is that it actually WAS defensibly a baseball decision IIRC they had to activate White or lose him and you could justify Bass as the worst RP at the time. Or at least the worst asset in the pen.
  18. Laika
    I dropped him Had saves locked up and wanted to stream some hitters
  19. Laika
    Well he HAS to be better than 2023
  20. Laika
    Everybody wanted Dodgers v Braves Gonna get DBacks v Phillies
  21. Laika
    The Jays had a lot of down-list players make huge strides. I would say the system developed well this year. It will be underrated on off-season rankings
  22. Laika
    Sigh. Moreno is a superstar isn't he.
  23. Laika
    Ryan Pressly went 3-2 on all three hitters and struck them all out Three absolutely wicked full count whiff pitches Nails.
  24. Laika
    The Red Sox were NOT rebuilding on purpose. They signed Turner, Yoshida, Jansen, Duvall, Paxton, Chris Martin, Kluber. They previously brought in Story. They just sucked. They ended up looking like a rebuilding team at the end of the year though.
  25. Laika
    IIRC there were changes done to the WAR calculation that completely rekt Doumit's numbers, post-career. Like he went from a slightly above replacement level catcher to the worst catcher ever and worst framer in history.
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