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2019 MLB Regular Season running thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by John B. Foster, Feb 17, 2019.

  1. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    PTBNL for Ogie Oglethorpe?
     
    Last edited: Aug 20, 2019
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  2. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    Todd Frazier did the same with the Mets recently. It’s there. Still have to execute, which isn’t easy.
     
  3. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Disappointed the LL Classic. Was hoping the Cubs and Pirates were playing Lamade.
     
  4. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Only if you think Jeter and his fraudulent Gold Glove deserved it that year. :)
     
  5. Scout

    Scout Well-Known Member

    You think launch angle would work in the Astrodome or old Riverfront?
     
  6. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    The balls are juiced, and the parks are bandboxes.

    So yeah, slap hitting, and hit and run sounds like a good idea...
     
  7. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    Remember they tried to deport him to Canada but they wouldn't take him back.
     
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  8. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Only one park has opened in the last 10 years, so it's not that.
     
  9. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I only follow the Angels. They cut the height of their right field fence a year ago from 18 feet to 8 feet.
    I am pretty sure other parks have made changes and they rarely help the pitchers. Didn't Citi field reduce the dimensions a couple years ago?

    This is also interesting

    In MLB’s New Home Run Era, It’s The Baseballs That Are Juicing
     
  10. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Yea, there have been changes like that. Coinciding with the different baseball -- and look what it's done in AAA this year -- it helps add to the total.

    Then there's places like RF in Yankee Stadium, where DJ LeMahieu hit a HR that would have only been put in 5 of 30 parks.
     
  11. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Genius Joe has himself and all the fawning national reporters to blame if he is considered overrated. He did well with the Rays, but those teams were talented and the media ran with how great Maddon was. He liked to talk about himself. Self promotion can bite you on the ass.
     
  12. Della9250

    Della9250 Well-Known Member

    In 13 full seasons as a manager, Maddon has had a losing record three times, two of them coming in his first two seasons.

    Has won at least 90 games nine times, made the playoffs eight times and won four division titles. He has won a championship to go with another pennant. By the end of the season he will most likely be 38th on the all-time win list.

    We should all be so overrated.
     
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