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  1. John_Havok
    I know, it makes no sense, but when you see multiple guys struggle offensively, and see the same trend in their batted ball profiles going from pull heavy to more centre/spray at the same time, it makes me wonder.
  2. John_Havok
    If I had to guess, I'd say it's almost like they want all the guys to be similar hitters rather than focusing on what makes each hitter great and just limiting the flaws.
  3. John_Havok
    How about dem Braves?
  4. John_Havok
    You know how it is, if someone hasn't heard of prospect X that must mean nobody else has either.
  5. John_Havok
    Yeah it's hard to leg Vlad's openness to coaching. On one hand, he clearly took advice on things between 2020 and 2021...but then got worse in the two seasons following. So...one could reasonable fall on 1 of 3 scenarios ... Either he never actually took any advice prior to 2021 and succeeded inspite of that, then continued to change nothing and subsequently got worse, or He did take advice prior to 2021 then rested on his laurels and stopped taking advice and subsequently got worse..or He continued to seek advice after 2021 but got the advice was horribly wrong and he got worse. Injury could have also played a role in the worsening outcomes regardless of whether he did or didn't take advice in any of those years
  6. John_Havok
    Also true. Fortunately theres not a ton of sweeper dominant starters out there. about 100 MLB pitchers in total used sweepers at the start of last season according to some MLB article i just read, and my guess is the majority of them are relievers. I havent looked up any data to back that up though. Ohtani throws one of the best though.
  7. John_Havok
    I think the lowest profits in 2022 was Cleveland at 38 million. Currently the team is valuated at 1.3 billion. Now, DickPole could probably explain this far better than I could, and 3% (38 million out of 1.3 billion) doesn't look like a lot for annual returns on it's own, but when these teams are raking in tens of millions in ancillary income that doesn't get reported on the MLB team's books, that 3% turns to much higher % very quickly. And Baltimore in 2022? Baltimore had the highest profit margin of any team in 2022. Revenues 262 million, EBITDA of 65 million for a margin of 25%. 1.7 billion valuation. Other teams had higher EBITDA in terms of actual dollars of course, like say... Boston at 72 million, but with their much higher revenue of over 500 million, their margin was only 14% with a much much higher valuation. Don't let these small market teams fool you. They're making tens of millions every year on baseball and other streams related to baseball and can absolutely afford to spend more on their product, they just choose not to.
  8. John_Havok
    Situational deficiency imo, rather than a chronic one. Without a legit LH power threat in important PH situations (especially playoff ones) it's a bit easier for opposing team's managers to work their bullpen to their advantage.
  9. John_Havok
    I get your reasoning but…what’s the realistic alternatives in the FA market that would have address the LH power issue knowing Pederson wanted a specific coast and Bellinger wants more money and years than any sane org is willing to pay? Ohtani was never coming here. Seems like a lot of the frustration is centred around this FA crop being overall pretty s***** overall without much in the way of realistic improvements, especially in the LH power hitter department.
  10. John_Havok
    Conversation and stating things with certainty are two different things. I can state with certainty that people here who state payroll specific things with certainty, are idiots.
  11. John_Havok
    Still hits lefties very well...140 WRC+ against them last year and 125 career. Just keep him off the damn field. Between him and IKF, they've just recreated Chapman
  12. John_Havok
    Because it's true?
  13. John_Havok
    Nah, Kikuchi is better than DeSclafani. Desclafani is about cooked.
  14. John_Havok
    I know this wasn't directed at me, but my feeling is there isn't a dollar limit if you think of "you can't go over X dollars no matter what" It's more of a "if this guy gives us what we need AND it's not a contract that's obviously a massive overpay that makes no sense, spend it" I know that sounds wishy washy, but it's probably as close to reality as possible. Low spending clubs have X dollar limits, high spending clubs don't. Sure there's probably some figure out there that roughly matches those parameters now that the biggest fish are off the market, but it's just not looked at in the same way as a hard limit with only X dollars available. So the answer is really that Atkins has enough money left to do whatever he feels he needs to do, as long as it's not blatantly stupid.
  15. John_Havok
    I understand that. But why does everyone skip the Korean war and only mention ww2 as THAT being the defining period of his missed time? He even fought his eligibility status and only went after a public backlash against him and he lost his sponsors. I don't blame him for that, just that people hold him up like a shining example.or heroism because WW2 when they don't even know the basics of the story
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    NBA Thread

    John_Havok replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    NOt sure, like many sports its really hard to compare players in different eras. Especially the NBA now where more and more big men are 3pt threats rather than the slow, plodding, post up players they were in years past.
  17. John_Havok
    He never fought in WW2, he became a naval aviator and was a flight instructor. He was deployed and flew missions during the Korean war in an absence you didn't mention. Side note: Why is the fact that he served in WW2 but never deployed always the big thing that people talk about and never mention the Korean war when he actually went into combat? one of those Mandela effects?
  18. John_Havok
    Yeah nothing says "white" like the son of a Cuban immigrant that was born in Miami with the last name Martinez.
  19. John_Havok
    No excuse. Bleacher report links should be banished faster than Frenchsoup’s 13 personalities.
  20. John_Havok
    You f***ing know better than to link Bleacher Report here. Hang your head in shame sir
  21. John_Havok
    Might also be related to the minor league contraction that took place. Granted those teams were all rookie level or lower but that could have started a ripple effect.
  22. John_Havok
    If Pettitte gets in while keeping other guys steroid guys out, they should just stop the voting altogether and disband the Hall as it would be rendered completely meaningless. as it stands now it's on the brink of irrelevance.
  23. John_Havok
    I didn't get that feeling either. His mechanics were off from pitch 1 onward. Same time between innings at the seasons prior so his warmup pitch routines on the mound are not a variable in the equation. Pitch clock could definitely be a variable if he was losing velo noticeably or as you said his mechanics began well but proceeded to get noticeably worse. That wasn't the case observationally, so I discount the inclusion of the pitch clock as a meaningful variable in being the cause of his struggles. I hypothesize that it would factored in more to his mental state during the game in trying to fix the problem rather than being a cause of the problem. If you're not able to execute properly, the last thing your brain wants is to be "forced" to try and do it again right away. And, none of what I said discounts the fact that being in better shape is still better for the guy in any case.
  24. John_Havok
    Why waste time on a guy's posts when he has the kind of opinion roughly equivalent to a baby crying with a full diaper?
  25. John_Havok
    I’ll never understand the supposed logic of “Deserves to be in Cooperstown, but not on the first ballot IMO” Unless you’re just trying to predict how other people will vote with the idiotic 10 player limits
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