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    If we are relatively lucky with injuries then maybe one of Roark or Anderson pitches well enough to be traded.
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    Replacing one MVP candidate (they both got votes last year) with another!
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    Yeah there will be. Borucki, Thornton, Kay, and Shun will all be competing with him for the initial one rotation spot, he'd have to be lights out to jump ahead of all of them. Then hopefully the likes of Hatch, Perez and Waguespack will also be pushing by the time Shoemaker gets injured!
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    No wonder Beltran was the only player named in the report - it's coming out that players (justifiably) threw him under the bus: "Not only was Carlos Beltran considered a driving force of the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal, but former teammates also said he refused to change when confronted by Brian McCann. "He disregarded it and steamrolled everybody," a member of the 2017 Astros said of Beltran's response to McCann's concerns, per Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich of The Athletic. "Where do you go if you're a young, impressionable player with the Astros and this guy says, 'We're doing this'? What do you do?"
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    Based on past tweets Heyman really seems to love Pillar, haha.
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    I don't really see how he can now, we have too many starters ahead of him. If he isn't turned into a reliever then he'll have to wait for the inevitable injuries to create a chance IMO.
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    Which is one of the reasons why it'd be a travesty if Ohtani was converted to a full time outfielder. Going from the most exciting player in baseball to just one of the best outfielders smh.
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    16 teams with 7 game series is up to 98 games - IMO that is far too many. For me the playoffs drag on in the NBA because the first round or two are mismatches for the elite teams. TBF I have no problem with off days or short series, so I think we just have different preferences.
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    No I mean the playoffs would be too long, separate to the regular season, just like in the NBA they'd drag on IMO. I'd reduce the regular season in any case.
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    IMO that's too many teams in the playoffs and all series being 7 games would take too long. I'd be happy with a playoff structure something like this: Teams a. division winners - top 2 seeds (i.e. most wins). b. 2 best other records join 3rd division winner. c. 2 wildcards (i.e. 6th and 7th best records in the league) Rounds 1. Teams from c. play each other in 1 game elimination. 2. Winner of round 1 joins the 3 teams from b. 5 game series, the division winner either gets to pick who they play (if MLB wants to introduce that) or plays the wildcard winner. 3. Teams from a. have home field advantage over the round 2 winners in a 5 or 7 game series. 4. Winners from 3. play in 7 games series. This wouldn't massively lengthen the duration of the playoffs, allows 2 extra teams per league in, would still make it difficult for non elite teams to win it all, and keeps an advantage for having the best record and for winning your division.
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    IMO this is where the balance comes in. In the NBA, a sub .500 team might get in the playoffs but they are never going to beat the elite teams. In baseball getting into the playoffs gives you a chance to win it all, so expanding it too much would make the regular season almost irrelevant. But if it's only expanded a bit, it's unlikely we'd see "terrible" teams making it. You'd have a hard time convincing me that if say the Red Sox had made an expanded playoffs last year, gone on a great run and won it all, that they would have been undeserving of a title. In the same way that if the A's (who finished 10 games behind the Astros) had gone on an epic postseason run and won the World Series, we'd be talking about the amazing postseason they had and not the fact that they weren't the best regular season team. I mean the Nats didn't even win their own division and they are the current champs.
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    The playoffs are more exciting than the overly long regular season. I’d be fully behind increasing the number of playoff teams. A couple of extra teams making it last season would have seen Cleveland (93 wins) and Boston (84) getting in for the AL, I don’t see how that would have been a bad thing. It needs to be a balance though, the NBA with over half the league getting into the playoffs means that you regularly see sub .500 teams making it. The pick your opponent also seems a bit gimmicky, but at least it’s unique.
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    Shame it won't happen for a few years, but hopefully this is the next step in the much needed relocation of the Rays.
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    "Its" doesn't have an apostrophe when it's possessive because it's the genderless equivalent of "his" and "her".
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    I’m pretty sure another argument they use is that a universal DH makes the AL/NL split meaningless. As you say, I’m sure they’ll get over it.
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    Yeah robo umps will change the value of catchers significantly. And if pitch calling goes to the dugout too then we'll see many more bat first catchers.
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    That’s the great thing about this year though, it’s so open anything could happen!
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    PSG over Dortmund Liverpool over Atletico Atalanta over Valencia Tottenham over Leipzig Bayern over Chelsea Barcelona over Napoli Manchester City over Real Madrid Juventus over Lyon I think this year’s CL is very open, there are at least 7 teams that it wouldn’t be a shock if they won. I like Man City and PSG for this year but who knows? It’ll be fun finding out though!
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    Talking about early season predictions, this one is still looking good!
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    Yeah, in pretty much every sport, when commentators and analysts are ex players, they'll often use "back in my day" cliches. When they are media people, they tend to do it much less.
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