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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, just tweak things to encourage more, faster action. That's really the goal. Diminish the three true outcomes and require the game pace to speed up. People aren't tired of baseball because the games are three hours long, though they *are* a little too long. People are tired of baseball because it's three *boring* hours right now.
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    I despise seven inning games. I believe the zombie runner has merit, but not really in its current incarnation. Start with a runner on first in the 11th, a runner on second in the 12th. The game is likely over by that point and the goal of avoiding 15 inning games is accomplished.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    That's exactly how I feel. And MLB doesn't need to blow up the game to achieve better results. The goals should be faster pace of play (easy to implement, stop batters from leaving the box between pitches), fewer strikeouts (change the mound slightly), higher BABIP (eliminating the shift against LHB), fewer home runs (already done with the deadened ball), and the return of the stolen base (slightly bigger bags). The needle can shift just slightly on all these things but together, they will change the game considerably. MLB doesn't even have to do all of those things but they should start implementing some of them ASAP.
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    The NFL and NBA have growing fan bases, MLB has a shrinking fan base. Seems like people tend to favor entertainment over preservation of the 19th century.
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    Exactly.
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    This isn't a trend that will likely cycle out of fashion, though... it's an inherent change to the strength and advantage of certain players. You can't stop pitchers from throwing triple digit heat and velocity has been on an upward trajectory every year for the past... 20 years? 30 years? And MLB literally did something about the homeruns... they changed the ball, just as they've done many times throughout baseball history. Is there something more "fundamental" about the sport of baseball than the ball itself? That gets changed regularly and we accept it. The shift was basically non-existent just ten years ago, excepting a few specific players in history (Williams, Ortiz). I see no reason not to rule it out of existence entirely, I don't really care if it has been done before or not. I see MLB's stubbornness about history a bug, not a feature.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    He also walks.
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    Sure, those are all the same thing. *eye roll*
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Kids in the minors learn the basics, there's more to it than just not being able to spray balls. First, most players will show better results attempting to pull the ball more often. It has a cascading effect of fewer groundballs right to short and other automatic outs. Second, VELOCITY. There's little you can do to prepare players to face 98mph guys, who are so bloody common in today's game... and "deciding" which way to take the ball when guys are hammering the zone with 98mph fastballs is a skillset most players simply do not have because it's really freakin' hard. I'm all in favor of just banning the shift because I don't see why it should exist. It's not fun to watch, it doesn't add to the experience. And then consider moving/changing the mound to reduce the massive advantage pitchers have in the game right now.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    It’s so promising that Polanco is still putting that kind of barrel on the ball with his ankle effed up again.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, he's an easy one to cheer on, that's for sure.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    What do you mean, the play at home? He was thrown out at home on a squibber to third base, if that's what you're asking.
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm sure it's back-dated, no reason not to do that.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Meh, that was a real waste of a double.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    It's impossible for Astudillo to do anything normally, isn't it?
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    People can suggest any hypotheticals they please, but it's also my right to push back hard on the worst of them, as I've done here. And it wasn't some innocuous "it feels like Baldelli has deprioritizing fundamentals", it was "Baldelli is prioritizing analytics over fundamentals", which just made me roll my eyes, as Baldelli was a solid fundamental player himself (good defensive player, good baserunner IIRC) and he just coached two fundamentally solid teams in 2019 and 2020. It's just another variation on the lazy and tired "Baldelli doesn't understand baseball, only spreadsheets" take that has littered Twins Territory for the past couple of years and I'm gonna push back on that awful, lazy take every single time. I have no problems with people criticizing Baldelli but I do have problems with bad takes that are just riffing off the worst, dumbest takes of talk radio and Twitter.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Oh yeah, he hasn't been playing well lately, but it's likely due to the multiple injuries he's facing right now, which is what prompted my first comment.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    Sigh. One step forward, one step back. It never ends with this team. Hopefully Buxton will be back soon.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    #CRICKET4EVA
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    That's not what I responded to though, is it? I directly responded to the implication Baldelli was somehow ignoring fundamental baseball. And Baldelli didn't only play baseball, he spent several years in the front office of what is generally regarded as the smartest organization in baseball. What is a bigger fallacy than thinking a skill will transfer - which wasn't my argument anyway - is the layman's assumption of incompetence at a high level in any given profession, which is implied about Baldelli on this forum all the time, including the post I quoted above.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    These narratives about Baldelli need to stop. I'm hardly in the mood to defend the guy - I don't think he's done well as a field manager this season - but the hubris in comments and forums are driving me up the wall. Rocco Baldelli knows more about what it takes to play Major League Baseball than anyone on this forum or Twitter. Full stop. He was an above average centerfielder at age 21, for crying out loud. He was on the path to having a really nice professional career before being knocked out of the game by a freak malady. But he "pays more attention to analytics than he does to fundamentals"? Get out of here with that nonsense. There's plenty of room to criticize Baldelli for a myriad of reasons but he literally succeeded at the highest level of this game for multiple seasons. He's not some guy who spent a weekend learning Excel macros and exporting B-Ref tables, yet that's the way I see keyboard warriors talk about him on a daily basis.
  24. Brock Beauchamp
    No, you’re right, either John or Aaron said “almost 30” in the podcast, you’re not misquoting them.
  25. Brock Beauchamp
    Colima’s 2021 season in one Gameday image
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