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  1. dex8425
    Nope. He's only eligible for the final 21 games, and eligible for the postseason.
  2. dex8425
    If there was a Cy Young vote after 60 games last year Odo would've gotten some votes too.
  3. dex8425
    Getting a lot of house projects done with not watching baseball in the evenings!
  4. dex8425
    The owners' hard line stance is paying for 50 games (or less) at prorated salary. (Roughly 33% of players' full salaries) The players' hard line stance is not playing more than 50 games at 33% salary. Their justification for not playing more games is that if they played 70 games, they'd be playing 20 games for free since the owners already offered 50 games at prorated pay. I don't see how this is solely the fault of the owners. It's a negotiation. By definition, that means two sides.
  5. dex8425
    Mauer should absolutely be in. Even if you're a "small hall" proponent. The peak is absolutely hall worthy with the MVP, three batting titles as a catcher and five silver sluggers. The longevity is just good enough; the 2000 hits is an important milestone. No other AL catcher won a batting title; Mauer won three. Only catcher to do it in the modern era period. Only five catchers have won an MVP. Mauer's HOF resume compares favorably/slightly better than that of Mickey Cochrane. He won't be first ballot, but he better get in within the first four years.
  6. dex8425
    I don't think we'll need an asterisk. I think people for years will know why the 2020 season was weird, like they remember why 1943-1945 were weird MLB years.
  7. dex8425
    His breakdown video of Kepler hitting five HR's in a row off him is pretty good.
  8. dex8425
    Cy young voters didn't start looking at the non-win stats until later, the Felix Hernandez year when he won the Cy Young and went 13-12 on a Mariners team that lost over 100 games. Of course, the argument is that Cy Young was a stat accumulator who won a lot of games, and that historically "wins" mattered to a pitcher who was considered for the Cy Young award. I'd rather the award go to the best pitcher, not "best pitcher on a good team who wins 20 ish games or more."
  9. dex8425
    You've got three hall of famers, one future hall of famer, and possibly the best hitter to not be in the hall of fame. Can't argue with the top 5.
  10. dex8425
    What about Berrios, Hill, and Maeda? Odo and Berrios pitched well enough to win those two games last year. Everything else was a disaster.
  11. dex8425
    OMG, it's almost like people watch more stuff on the internet and social media than TV!
  12. dex8425
    I'm pretty sure if Royce Lewis hit .360 in just about every level like Juan Soto than he would be with the Twins right now. Hey, the Twins promoted Arraez straight from AA and that worked pretty well. Arraez is younger than Devers.
  13. dex8425
    I do agree with you that the written rules weren't necessarily clear at the time. However, baseball (for some reason) has a LOT of unwritten rules. If you as a batter on second base yell, "curveball coming" to the batter at the plate, well, that's not against any rules. But the batter on second base will most definitely get a fastball to the back his next time up. Seems like 100% of current and former players also have agreed for years that using technology to steal signs is against the unwritten rules. Now the written rules are clear on this. Another unwritten rule is that there's some sort of clubhouse code, where you don't rat out fellow baseball brethren. I totally get loyalty but personally I think this rule is stupid as applied to the astros situation. This is why some people were/are mad at Mike Fiers.
  14. dex8425
    Didn't Jose Canseco do that? Or did he just sell it?
  15. dex8425
    It's not subjective. Using technology to steal signs and relay them to the batter in real time is 100% cheating. It's explicitly against the rules. Your hypothetical scenario is not cheating. Nobody would say that's cheating and it's not against the rules.
  16. dex8425
    They probably honestly don't think of themselves as a cheater. Before they make a decision to cheat, they rationalize it as not being cheating in their mind, and thus can accept themselves doing it. Heard it with Lance, heard it with Barry, heard it with asbel kiprop, heard it with Pineda. "everyone else is doing it" "it doesn't provide that much of an advantage." "it probably didn't even help." "I never failed a drug test" "My superiors told me to do it, and I wanted to keep my job; I have to provide for my family"
  17. dex8425
    I mean, he's the first position player to apologize, so that's something. Bregman and Altuve's comments were disgusting and really made me dislike both of them even more. I'm still convinced they used buzzers (and/or some other way of using codebreaker in real time to the hitter without using banging) but the commissioner's report did not mention that. I think the MLB is trying to sweep this under the rug as quickly as possible. I think there's a correlation between the release of the new playoff format and AJ Hinch's press conference where he didn't deny using buzzers as well. MLB wants so badly to make everyone think it was just the trashcans for that one season and for everyone to move on.
  18. dex8425
    Looks like it. He only played in 64 games in 2018 and 57 in 2017.
  19. dex8425
    He also has a baseball youtube channel that many of you on here might find interesting.
  20. dex8425
    The argument that is the same is that prospects are just that, prospects. They are unproven and as such, you are not sure they will ever work out at the mlb level. Some do work out, but due to the numbers, most don't. For every Mike Trout first round pick there are three Kyle Gibsons and three guys who never make the majors. I'm not comparing Graterol to Stewart per se, only saying that they were both once top pitching prospects.
  21. dex8425
    Ah, yes, that's what I was thinking of. He's pitched well enough to have a world series win for sure.
  22. dex8425
    I would also not call him an ace. But I'd rather have four years of him than 6 years of Graterol.
  23. dex8425
    Two points: He did meet your qualifications of an "ace" in 2016, but last year was his best year in terms of WHIP. He's also got great playoff numbers and lots of postseason appearances. He's also elite (by any measurement you use) against righties. Lots of innings in Japan, but they do have 6 days between starts, where in mlb you only have four. And one question: Who else would you want as an available starter in 2019 for Graterol? He's a relief prospect with a bad injury history. Chris Archer? Nathan Eovaldi? Jordan Yamamoto? I'd have rather dealt from our hitting prospects, but this makes our team better for 2020 and 2021, and we don't need Graterol in the bullpen this year, even if he was healthy, which is a big if. I agree that we still don't have an ace on the caliber of Justin Verlander or Gerrit Cole, but most teams don't. And JV still has not won a playoff game.
  24. dex8425
    My view as well. Hypothetically If the price/contract is the same, I think I'd rather have Maeda over Price. I would have gladly slotted Price in this rotation but Maeda has a higher floor.
  25. dex8425
    And Kohl Stewart. Also, don't forget Alex Meyer was recently the Twins top pitching prospect.
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