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Post by rizzuto on Mar 13, 2022 19:06:03 GMT -5
 Jeter has been seen at Steinbrenner Field. He is planning to unretire like Tom Brady and play another season. Finally, someone who can do more than walk, homer, or strikeout. I heard on Buster Olney's podcast that last season there were only five singles per game. No wonder batting averages are plummeting. It is now fashionable and laudatory to be Dave "Kong" Kingman. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 13, 2022 19:10:29 GMT -5
Jeter has been seen at Steinbrenner Field. He is planning to unretire like Tom Brady and play another season. Finally, someone who can do more than walk, homer, or strikeout. I heard on Buster Olney's podcast that last season there were only five singles per game. No wonder batting averages are plummeting. It is now fashionable and laudatory to be Dave "Kong" Kingman. When he was playing, Dave Kingman was considered a one-dimensional doofus strongboy. Little could we have suspected that he was a trailblazer. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 13, 2022 19:19:05 GMT -5
Along the same lines of baseball's devolution, MLB Network showed a stat on the number of pitcher starts on four days rest and how it has changed dramatically just since 2016. In that year, 48 percent of starts came on four days rest. That number has declined every year until in 2021 it hit 33 percent.
I don't think it's going to turn around, which is why the six-man rotation seems to be lurking.
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Post by inger on Mar 13, 2022 19:57:52 GMT -5
Along the same lines of baseball's devolution, MLB Network showed a stat on the number of pitcher starts on four days rest and how it has changed dramatically just since 2016. In that year, 48 percent of starts came on four days rest. That number has declined every year until in 2021 it hit 33 percent. I don't think it's going to turn around, which is why the six-man rotation seems to be lurking. Six strong, brave men, willing to brave 4.2 innings of work and finish the season at 0-0… |
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Post by noetsi on Mar 13, 2022 20:08:52 GMT -5
Or they can find pitchers who can pitch with less rest.
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 13, 2022 20:43:19 GMT -5
Along the same lines of baseball's devolution, MLB Network showed a stat on the number of pitcher starts on four days rest and how it has changed dramatically just since 2016. In that year, 48 percent of starts came on four days rest. That number has declined every year until in 2021 it hit 33 percent. I don't think it's going to turn around, which is why the six-man rotation seems to be lurking. Another bone for me to pick: I advocated multiple times for the Yankees to employ a six-man rotation when we had Tanaka, who was so much better with an extra day of rest and to which he was accustomed in his native Japan. I also thought the top of the starting rotation would not be so ragged by playoff time. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 13, 2022 20:56:41 GMT -5
Jeter has been seen at Steinbrenner Field. He is planning to unretire like Tom Brady and play another season. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 14, 2022 11:41:13 GMT -5
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Post by kaybli on Mar 14, 2022 11:43:56 GMT -5
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Post by rizzuto on Mar 14, 2022 12:10:08 GMT -5
Boone always had good hands. It’s the lineup construction, relief management, pick-up basketball part of his brain 🧠 that worries me. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Mar 14, 2022 12:14:24 GMT -5
Boone always had good hands. It’s the lineup construction, relief management, pick-up basketball part of his brain 🧠 that worries me. Yep. That basketball game led directly to the acquisition of A-Rod, and that is what I most hold against Boone. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 14, 2022 13:38:11 GMT -5
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Post by acuraman on Mar 14, 2022 14:59:47 GMT -5
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Post by noetsi on Mar 14, 2022 15:59:56 GMT -5
Nice to see you accuramen.
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