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  1. Grant77
    Do teams not make a good chunk of their revenue from television ads? More innings means more ad revenue. Also to your last point, the shootout in the NHL is still disliked by players and new and old fans alike after 20 years. Change can be good, like when MLB added the wild card, but a bad idea is a bad idea and people don't get used to it. Time will tell if extra inning gimmicks will be well received.
  2. Grant77
    Agreed. No gimmicks, a tie is fine.
  3. Grant77
    I'd prefer a 20 round draft with rounds 6 to 20 assigned the same 20k cap. The 5 round draft heavily favours teams with a bigger fanbase and destroys what the draft is meant to do, help bad teams get better.
  4. Grant77
    I fully expect that the best remaining players after the draft will flock to a limited number of teams. The Jays are probably hurt by this more than any team in the league. Americans won't readily sign in a different country.
  5. Grant77
    I'm looking forward to seeing players get ejected for spitting.
  6. Grant77
    That's not surprising considering the Mariners started their franchise with 14 consecutive losing records. By the time they had won more than 85 games, the Blue Jays had already done so 11 consecutive times and won 2 World Series. That franchise was truly embarrassing and wasted the primes of Ken Griffey Jr, Alex Rodriguez, and Edgar Martinez. Since then they have mirrored the results of the Jays in a lot of ways. A few highs surrounded by mediocrity.
  7. Grant77
    That would make for a heck of a rotation: Halladay Clemens Stieb Morris Niekro
  8. Grant77
    I would probably put Rance Mulliniks ahead of Kelly Gruber, but it's close and depends on the criteria.
  9. Grant77
    https://thisdayinbaseball.com/carl-hubbell-of-the-new-york-giants-pitches-18-innings-of-shutout-ball-in-the-first-game-of-a-doubleheader/ How would you guys compare this game to Kerry Wood? I get that it was a different era, but it was still highly irregular. We'll be lucky to see something like 91 Jack Morris again, let alone this. The Cardinals lineup featured 4 Hall of Famers and another top 5 MVP candidate that year.
  10. Grant77
    I feel the same way.
  11. Grant77
    That would be consistent with studies done in the last couple of months, but it doesn't mean that the virus will be eradicated. Influenza is also sensitive to heat and humidity, but is always present. I'll be pleasantly surprised if the province of Ontario and particularly the city of Toronto allow any baseball to be played in the Rogers Centre. I think if we get baseball then it will be in a different city. As long as it's on radio or TV then I'll be perfectly happy.
  12. Grant77
    Just because doesn't support your Trump style ideology of opening everything regardless of the cost doesn't mean they live in fear. Life has to return to normal at some point, even if the virus is still present. All I'm saying is that playing baseball in a region that has handled the crisis extremely poorly and remains a hotspot is not the best answer for this season. I support plans that have teams playing in regions that present less of a public risk. That way we can get our baseball without having a bunch of people die because of it.
  13. Grant77
    We're getting there. So a city where people don't maintain social distancing and the virus is running rampant would be a ________ place to play baseball? A) good bad
  14. Grant77
    Per capita, Toronto far exceeds the national average. It's one of the worst areas in the nation by any measure and it's poor response has endangered other areas of the country. Baseball should not be played there right now.
  15. Grant77
    Tampa and Detroit are at the same longitude. The goal of this alignment is to reduce travel, not to maintain arbitrary division names that aren't based on geography to begin with. Atlanta and Cincinnati are the next closest teams to Tampa.
  16. Grant77
    Swapping Cleveland and Detroit with Tampa and Miami would make a lot more sense. Also, Seattle is a real pain for travel.
  17. Grant77
    Toronto is one of the worst areas in all of Canada from what I have read. Outside of Quebec, the rest of Ontario and Canada have been quite a bit better. We have 2 active cases in my Northern Ontario district of over 100,000.
  18. Grant77
    Not many, if there are any. Yuniesky Betancourt came to mind, but he wasn't quite there with the batting average.
  19. Grant77
    It's not an anomaly, but he was excellent in AA the previous year with a much larger sample. I put a good deal of significance on MLB numbers, even in a small sample. That sinker is probably the best in our farm system and his slider showed some swing and miss. His problem is getting ahead in counts and locating the sinker down in the zone. That may take a couple of years for a taller pitcher, but I think that there's a reliable 2-3 win starter in his profile.
  20. Grant77
    A rookie who puts up a 4.05 FIP in his first taste of big league action is not essentially useless. The groundball profile is a nice fit for us and he could easily have a career like this: https://www.fangraphs.com/players/jake-westbrook/412/stats?position=P Shapiro and Atkins always mention him in our top 4 or 5 pitching prospects and speak very highly of him. They obviously see something.
  21. Grant77
    I doubt that they would have fired Cora had they known that this would be the punishment. There was surely a lot more to this than what is contained in the report, but MLB didn't find it or they didn't act on it.
  22. Grant77
    It sucks to have these unpleasant memories brought back up in the news again. Drug addiction and abuse can happen to anyone, even those that you least expect. RIP Roy.
  23. Grant77
    I get what you're saying, but pitcher usage was very different in the 80s. When Stieb paced the league in 1984, 51 other pitchers topped 200 innings and the top guys were regularly getting close to 300 innings. When Doc threw 266 in 2004, he led the league by more than 20 innings. He was an extreme outlier in that regard. I do agree with your last point to an extent. Stieb did hurt himself in the awards voting with his personality. It would have been fun to watch him in one of those markets.
  24. Grant77
    If I were to guess, I would say it has a lot to do with velocity and a different approach from hitters. There were big strikeout guys like Dave Kingman and Rob Deer, but those types seemed to be a lot rarer than today. Most guys went for contact over power and that was valued by GMs of the day. Looking back at the best pitcher of all time by WHIP, Addie Joss struck out only 3.5 batters per 9. It's easy today to think that strikeouts have always been the best way to judge pitchers, but that wasn't always the case. I'm certainly not making a case for Vuckovich, but it's so interesting how perceptions of pitchers have evolved.
  25. Grant77
    It's worth noting that even Dave Stieb only struck out 5.2/9. It was a different game back then with far fewer strikeouts. I'd argue that it was better in that respect. Also, my reference to his hitting ability was due to his acting role in Major League. He did a nice job, check it out.
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