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  1. Nine of twelve
    The answer is no.
  2. Nine of twelve
    I have very recent memories of Dan Gladden saying Adrianza with a long a as the first syllable. It made me literally switch the radio to something else.
  3. Nine of twelve
    Nope. I want the Vikings to win more than any other NFL team but I'm very whatever about how and what they do. It's not baseball, it's only the NFL.
  4. Nine of twelve
    This is a bit tangential but... I believe starting players officially enter the game at the point when the lineup cards are presented to the umpires before the game. Managers do not see the official opposing starting lineup until after both teams' starting lineups are presented. Is there anything to prevent a manager from making a last-minute change if there is an opener match-up that is more favorable? Say Team A announces a right-handed starting pitcher the day before the game. However, Manager A anticipates an abundance of left-handed batters near the top of the opposing lineup and presents a lineup card with a left-handed pitcher, presumably as an opener. Is this within the rules? Would this constitute poor sportsmanship or is it only strategy? This also gives an advantage to the visiting team since they could wait until after the lineups were presented to warm up the opener, thereby concealing their strategy.
  5. Nine of twelve
    Actually I suspect it might be NoDak oil fields.
  6. Nine of twelve
    So what if there's always one or more interleague series going on? I think that matters not one bit. IMHO interleague play should be spread out over the entire season anyway whether it's mathematically necessary or not.
  7. Nine of twelve
    My opinion about Gladden's work in the booth is that it makes him LESS deserving of HOF honors.
  8. Nine of twelve
    This is probably true for almost every HOF, certainly the biggest ones.
  9. Nine of twelve
    Gladden (and possibly Tovar) is an example of the slippery slope of Halls of Fame and why I don't put a lot of value in them. If player A has a good run as a Twin and gets in, then player B should get in too. Same for player C, and D, and E. Etc, etc, etc. Now that Gladden is in, then what about Larry Hisle? Lyman Bostock? Jimmie Hall? Tom Brunansky? Randy Bush? Gene Larkin? Gary Ward? Shane Mack? Ron Coomer? Lenny Green? Roy Smalley?
  10. Nine of twelve
    I'm significantly older than you; even so it's Kirby for me as well. And this also makes him my favorite baseball player of all time.
  11. Nine of twelve
    I specifically remember Patrick Reusse saying on the radio in 2005 that an elbow injury was almost a certainty for Liriano because of the violent delivery he used to throw his slider. Human bodies are only capable of so much for a given period of time, and Liriano's given period of time ended in 2006. But, man, what a given period of time it was. It hasn't been many times that the Cy Young winner has been second-best in his team's rotation.
  12. Nine of twelve
    I hope and expect that someday filling such a position with someone with two X chromosomes will not be a noteworthy event. But it certainly is now and I think it's good that this happened.
  13. Nine of twelve
    Talent retention might also be called talent maintenance. It does not necessarily mean retaining specific players. It means maintaining the amount of talent in the organization. And it's intertwined with the other four things RivBri listed. A well-run organization with money has the advantage in that money to retain a specific player is available if a satisfactory trade can't be made.
  14. Nine of twelve
    Yes. In chronological order: talent identification, talent acquisition, talent development, and talent utilization.
  15. Nine of twelve
    You're not taking it far enough. Let's just play Strat-O-Matic games and have that take the place of MLB. Heck of a lot cheaper, no risk of injuries, no worries about COVID, no labor disputes, no litany of prospects flaming out in A-ball, no controversies about public funding of stadiums. Who's on board?
  16. Nine of twelve
    I know this is redundant and obvious, but scouting and player development are the keys to success in MLB. For every team. I think the primary thrust of this thread is the hypothesis that TB has had higher success in this than the rest of the league. I would be curious to see (and am far too lazy to do) a quantitative analysis of each team's draft choices and other first signings. If there is a way to quantify player development and trades that would be of interest as well.
  17. Nine of twelve
    I hadn't considered this aspect of electronic pitch calling. While I have not researched these systems extensively, security would certainly be important. But compare and contrast a pitch calling system with a banking or investment on-line system. These systems manage billions of dollars and handle many thousands of public transactions per day. My assumption is that it would not be difficult to protect a system that has only 30 locations and does not provide public access to any features. Moreover, TV will still be using strike zone approximations during broadcasts, both to enable viewers to visualize the zone and to enable their graphics people to evaluate and fine tune their graphics. Any tampering with electronic pitch calling would be very easily noticed. So even if a system is hacked, I think it would be nigh on impossible to use what would have to be very subtle adjustments in the strike zone to significantly affect the outcome of an individual game or a 7-game postseason series, or for that matter even the regular season. There is just too much else going on in a baseball game. So then people will say, well, if hacking is so unlikely to influence an outcome, why have the system in the first place? To me the response is obvious. Human umpires are much more prone to outside influence and much, much more prone to error than a properly-protected electronic system. Remember, it's all about getting the calls right so that players are the ones who determine the outcome of a game, not umpires or anyone else.
  18. Nine of twelve
    Doesn't this site have a policy discouraging participants from pointing out errors in spelling, grammar, etc? Shouldn't a good moderator intervene in a case like this? (I freely and enthusiastically admit smart-assedness on my part, of course!)
  19. Nine of twelve
    One, the pitchers it favors are the ones who throw strikes, especially in parts of the zone that makes pitches less hittable. I think that's a good thing. Two, the problem you lay out is not with how the pitches are called, it's with the strike zone itself. That can easily be changed by the rules committee.
  20. Nine of twelve
    When people are angry that they made a mistake they often aim the ire elsewhere.
  21. Nine of twelve
    It seems that the word gamesmanship is just another way of saying "trying to get the umpires to make calls in your favor that you are not entitled to under the rules."
  22. Nine of twelve
    As we all know, Kirby had several health and other personal problems between the end of his playing career and the end of his life. In spite of his generally very positive public persona the unexpected premature end to his career had to have been devastating to him on a personal level, especially considering the self-blame that must have resulted from knowing his loss of vision would have been prevented by having a routine eye exam done that off-season. I strongly believe he would still be alive today if he had been able to continue his career until retiring on his own terms.
  23. Nine of twelve
    I know this is from nearly three years ago, but I want to make two points. First, there will almost certainly alway be some bugs. The issue is whether these bugs are major or minor, and it's my understanding that only minor bugs remain at this point in time. Second, there are many bugs with using human umpires as well, and these bugs will never be gotten rid of because of the limitations of the human visual system and related judgement abilities. Considering these two points, I believe that electronic pitch calling has become superior to human pitch calling. Moreover, further improvements will almost certainly be made in the electronic method but almost certainly not in the human method. If getting calls right is the most important thing, and I believe it is, there's no question that the electronic systems should be implemented now.
  24. Nine of twelve
    I like math, and I enjoy seeing analyses. Therefore you are wrong. I say this partially sarcastically. Someone disagreeing with your opinion does not make them wrong.
  25. Nine of twelve
    In other words, players being unfairly and unnecessarily penalized by human umpires is part of the sport and he hopes that this unfair practice continues.
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