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  1. John_Havok
    Orelvis was the International League Player of the Week for last week. 9-25 overall and homered in 3 straight games.
  2. John_Havok
    Location isnt an issue with the Marlins, they've just been traditionally s***** for years. People want to see the Rays (at least... I think?) but truly, getting to and from that Stadium is a nightmare. I did the drive when I was in Florida a few years ago and there's just no way I would do it even remotely regularly. The traffic getting in and out is akin to hitting yourself in the balls with a jackhammer.
  3. John_Havok
    no clue about the same location, but the fixed roof in Florida would seem to be a necessity due to the insane weather they have down there. Even with a retractable roof they'd probably have to have it closed 75% of the time, so no reason to spend the extra money - that would be my guess anyways. And if you have a fixed roof, way harder and costlier to do real grass. It's not even the fixed roof and turf that are are the real big problems, the real problem was transportation and that doesnt seem to have changed.
  4. John_Havok
    Here's a link to a more detailed story. Says talks with Tampa never got off the ground. Stadium is only going to seat 30,000, fixed dome roof, artificial turf. Artist rendering is pretty cool but yeah, hard to imagine it won't still have the same transportation issues the current dump has. https://www.tampabay.com/sports/rays/2023/09/18/stadium-gas-plant-district-2028-tropicana-field-stuart-sternberg/
  5. John_Havok
    https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-playoff-format-faq Condensed version is top 2 division winners get a bye, Division winner with 3rd best record hosts WC 3 in a best of 3. WC 1 hosts WC 2 in a best of 3
  6. John_Havok
    The new market inefficiency for teams: hire random people, provide them with steroids dissolved in a skin penetrating substance to go around to ballparks and shake every opposing player's hands on a daily/weekly basis.
  7. John_Havok
    Baseball is so weird.
  8. John_Havok
    It’s not unfortunately. The Gameday zone matches the zone we see on TV, but not the Statcast zone. It’s one of the things that MLB wants to iron out before they ever bring the ABS to the majors, they want to be sure the zone we see on TV for any broadcast is the same one as Statcast uses
  9. John_Havok
    Use baseball savant, they use the Statcast pitch tracking tech from the games for their data and graphs. Gameday zone is not as precise
  10. John_Havok
    Pitch 5 wasn’t the terrible call, the slider for strike 2 was terrible. Pitch 5 caught the edge of the zone, but could have gone either way Remember, the zone you see on TV is terrible for the height of the real zone, much better on width
  11. John_Havok
    Ya had to say it….you had to bring Swanson’s name into this….NOW LOOK WHAT HAPPENED
  12. John_Havok
    Wasn’t even a bad pitch. 97 up and virtually out of the zone, just a great rip by a great hitter.
  13. John_Havok
    Green, Hicks, Romano is a pretty nailz back end of a pen.
  14. John_Havok
    Probably also just giving Green that extra few tosses to get ready.
  15. John_Havok
    It’s anecdotal of course but, when he makes the exact same basic baserunning errors repeatedly, there’s only 2 real scenarios. Either he’s being instructed properly and keeps making the mistakes anyways…which would indicate he’s uncoachable…or he’s not being instructed at all. I find it hard to believe it’s the latter. Now, there could be a sit auction where the term uncoachable means one thing to one person and one thing to another. Some take it as a guy who refuses to listen to coaches because he thinks he knows better, others see it as someone who absolutely listens but then forgets anything because he’s a bone head. I don’t think it’s the former in Vlads case.
  16. John_Havok
    I think analyzing how a manager managed 25 - 30 years ago is never going to make sense, so…why bother? How and why games are managed the way they are is different. Cito had his pluses and minuses like every other manager
  17. John_Havok
    2nd arb year coming up he’s a Super 2
  18. John_Havok
    Maybe at the plate. On the bases he still the single dumbest baserunner by far on the team.
  19. John_Havok
    Today, the Blue Jays pulled a Homer. For the non-Simpson watchers out there, pulling a Homer is defined as succeeding despite idiocy.
  20. John_Havok
    Wtf is going on with Ohtani and the Angels? Apparently his locker has been cleaned out and he's not with the team
  21. John_Havok
    Not sure what you mean. Hurl’s 20 year streak is very well known
  22. John_Havok
    What’s Hicks here for if not to hold a lead late in a game? Hasn’t pitched much lately so get him in there
  23. John_Havok
    They're just a sideshow.
  24. John_Havok
    Definitely winning tonight then. Hurl's 15 year streak is unbreakable.
  25. John_Havok
    Bend over and I'll show you
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