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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    People are relatively confident in Miranda because last year's breakout came with increased contact skill, bat speed, and ability to drive the ball. Those things don't really "go away"; the hope behind Miranda is largely scouting-based, not necessarily stat-based. Obviously, he could still fall flat on his face against major league pitching but that applies to any prospect. With that said, some are all too willing to directly translate MiLB success to the expectation of immediate MLB success. It usually doesn't work that way, which is why smart front offices don't routinely bank on unproven prospects, especially at multiple positions at once.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    Gilligan has better knees.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    No. Gilligan was taller.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Awwwww, little buddy just missed that one.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    Carlos Correa is a big believer in bootstraps.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    Ryan Jeffers has a career 90 OPS+. Drew Butera had a... wait for it... career 48 OPS+.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    He's yelling obscenities at all the teammates that are both worse at baseball and paid less than him.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Baez is the premium version of Eddie Rosario. I'm not even saying that in a mean way, that's just who he is, for the all the good and bad that comes with that.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    We're seeing in real time why Bally Sports North is worth all that money they get from all of us.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    If they're competent, they do not talk to other front offices about trading Correa. That's exactly the kind of thing that gets leaked to the press and could lead to disastrous results while a clubhouse and manager are focusing on a pennant run. Just enjoy the nice thing you have and worry about next year, next year.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    This, and that's the way it should be.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    They've instilled enough confidence through this offseason and early season that I'd extend them. I think I'll feel more confident in the decision in early November, though.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    There's actually a history to the clock, though, and a lot of it involves umpires simply refusing to enforce the clock because there was no convenient mechanism for them to do so. Without giving umpires a hard, consistent line from which to declare a ball or strike, they're going to keep doing what they're doing right now: nothing. I highly encourage everyone to listen to the Effectively Wild podcast, particularly the recent episode on the pitch clock. They do a pretty deep dive on why the current rules aren't enforced because it's a pretty lousy rule without good framework around it. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-1848-shantz-encounter/
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yep, that's when I noticed the game start to really slow down, as both the Yankees and Red Sox tended to take a lot of pitches and they all stepped out between pitches to fix their obviously-malfunctioning batting gloves. Why the teams never invested in higher-quality batting gloves baffles me to this day.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    It will make the game more exciting through the reduction of down time, especially with empty bases, which is the most uninteresting aspect of the game because literally nothing is happening.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    They're legit in that they're a good team. But if the comparison point is the Yankees, Astros, or Dodgers, it's hard to suggest they're legit. But with a key addition or two in July, anything can happen in October. Look at what Atlanta did last season.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    Actually, what I said was And I'm the one who started this line of conversation. Levi was obviously being hyperbolic because Hargrove wouldn't stand out in today's game, as I showed with the Ortiz at-bat. The reality is that today's game moves at the speed of Mike Hargrove, which is a real problem.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    This is what we have right now and have had for about 50 years now. An informal agreement that no one will enforce the pitch clock that sits in every MLB stadium because no one has to enforce it. Which is literally the point of a "rule". We tried your way and it doesn't work, never has.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    What’s hilarious about this is the “human rain delay” took 15 seconds between the first and second pitch, which is outrageous. So I grabbed the first David Ortiz at-bat I found on YouTube. How long between the first and second pitch? No big deal, just 18 seconds.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    The world record for the 100 yard dash was half a second slower in 1968 than it is today. Pretty much every Olympic record falls at least once a decade. NFL players are WAY stronger and faster than they were 40 years ago and we have combine numbers to show it. But sure, I buy into your point that while literally the entire rest of the sports world has become faster and stronger over the decades, baseball players being the fat slobs they are have slid backwards. I mean, back in the day everybody was a Jacob deGrom throwing 103mph and everybody was a human tank like Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani. Harmon Killebrew wasn’t only 6’ tall, that’s just my imagination. During that time, baseball has become a global game and competition for a roster is the highest it’s ever been as Latin and Asian players storm MLB, raising the level of competition even higher.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    lulz
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Buxton hasn’t been good lately and Larnach has the handedness advantage. I would have left Trevor in, too.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    This game is fun!
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    Very possibly true. The first “strike” was definitely not a strike.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, damn it. Arraez was exactly the guy you want in that situation because he doesn’t usually do exactly what he just did.
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