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  1. biggentleben
    The comment about "proving time and again that he's a horrible person". Oddly, when sober, he's not been that person. His addiction brings out things in him that are not good at all. I never ONCE said that all addicts are violent or need to be locked up. My point here is the exact opposite. A person in the throws of their addiction is not the same person they are sober, and assuming things about them on the whole due to how they respond/behave in their addiction is what is not okay.
  2. biggentleben
    I wrote a monster of a piece on the Braves, but it covered a bit on every team this offseason in relation to the Braves: http://videobaseballscout.com/atlanta-braves-2019-2020-offseason-overview/
  3. biggentleben
    FTFY.
  4. biggentleben
    A lot of teams when you consider the contract versus replacement prospects. Not many WANT Rizzo, but I could see Bryant drawing interest from many of the biggest farm systems - Padres, Rays, Braves, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, and I could even see the Twins having interest if Sano is moved to first.
  5. biggentleben
    Beltran's name is on an academy in Puerto Rico, and he doesn't just allow his name to be used, he's significantly involved. He is a tremendously good baseball man. While the adage about great players and managing is there for a reason, there are also hosts of examples of the exact opposite, like Frank Robinson, Joe Torre, and Davey Johnson (one of the best 2B in the league before getting injured after the biggest offensive season of his life and never able to get right again).
  6. biggentleben
    Wolf is also one of the most respected umpires in the game. He sets a zone and sticks to it all game. He's had the same zone throughout. Different pitchers make it look potentially wider or taller, but he's tremendously consistent. One of my favorite in the game to have behind the plate in a game I'm watching.
  7. biggentleben
    I compared Soto to peak Garrett Anderson when he was first called up. I still like that comparison, but Anderson was never a guy who rose to the moment the way Soto does.
  8. biggentleben
    I had the chance to cover Wisler with the Braves. First, he's a very self-aware guy and willing to be open about issues he's having on the mound and will take coaching. Bad part was the young pitcher wrecking ball was employed in Atlanta at the time in Roger McDowell. Plenty of promising young arms came and went during his tenure. When you can nearly ruin Julio Teheran as a top-5 overall prospect, you've got issues. The sinker, when he's behind it, gets great late action. His issue has always been that he gets too much ahead of his arm in all of his deliveries. He's worked on it, but never been able to get it completely to stick. Perhaps Wes can have more success with him as he's a legit arm that I had a retired scout tell me he graded as essentially the second coming of Brandon Webb when he was in AA with the Padres. He sold me pretty well that Wisler was going to floor at Derek Lowe bullpen and peak at Brandon Webb starter with Derek Lowe late-career starter being his middle outcome. Needless to say, that was before McDowell got hold of Wisler.
  9. biggentleben
    SABR tells me to in their writing guide, so I listen.
  10. biggentleben
    He's nowhere near the same pitcher.
  11. biggentleben
    I'd wager he renegotiates, akin to Kershaw. The Nationals are going to reportedly have two priority focuses - Stras and Rendon, so both in-house guys to re-sign/renegotiate.
  12. biggentleben
    The "robo ump" can be overridden by the human ump. The AFL had almost no overrides by the umps, but in the American Association once it was implemented, it was usually multiple times per game that the ump overruled the robo ump. The umps were reviewed based on the times that they overruled the system and the pitches that they overruled.
  13. biggentleben
    I understand that Strasburg will likely opt out, but he's not a free agent. That reporting is simply inaccurate. I heard it on the radio pregame tonight. Then again, the game feed from MLB.com for radio was the Astros feed, and they apparently haven't ever watched baseball outside of Houston.
  14. biggentleben
    The American Association and AFL are MLB's test grounds. Very likely there are tweaks to come from the AFL experiment based on reports from players and umpires involved, but all in all, both players and umpires appreciated the consistency of the zone game in, game out.
  15. biggentleben
    Ugh. That's the entire point. The Nats had significant players out the entire year at different times but finally got healthy just ahead of the playoffs in time to make a run all the way to the World Series after never winning a playoff series at all before. Now they get to the World Series and their ace and top catcher are both notably injured along with significant day-to-day injuries along the way that simply weren't there at the end of the season like other teams.
  16. biggentleben
    Team? Absolutely. You'd seriously take Kershaw, Ryu, Buehler over Scherzer, Strasburg, Corbin? That's quite surprising. The Dodgers have 25 guys who could step on the field at any moment and contribute. That's what makes that team so good is their depth. However, the starting 9 talent overall would certainly favor Washington. They're just devoid of depth behind it.
  17. biggentleben
    Trea has said he's not feeling right after taking one in the happy place. Each game the Nats have had a guy or two face a significant injury delay.
  18. biggentleben
    Honestly, the Nationals in their starting 9, rotation, and closer/setup man have arguably the best team in the league. What doomed them was a tremendous lack of depth behind that. They got healthy as a team coming into the playoffs, which was a huge thing, but injuries have befell the team in the Series, and it could end up costing them a title.
  19. biggentleben
    Whenever they say "we are", you can always respond with "Ny-strom". Twenty years ago this year, and it's as big a game against Penn State as the U has ever won.
  20. biggentleben
    No Scherzer. No bueno.
  21. biggentleben
    Frankly, that's Robles defensively. To his credit, the kid has incredible reads once he messes up his initial read and elite closing speed, but those who try to argue him as an elite defensive center fielder just leave me shaking my head. Worst is when a Twins fan attempts to equate Buxton and Robles. Nope, no, nyet, not a chance they're in the same ballpark defensively.
  22. biggentleben
    Girardi will come out with a few 90-win teams out of the corner-infield and corner-outfield heavy Phillies before going nuts and demanding someone find him a competent shortstop and/or center fielder. Honestly, I'd have loved to see Girardi with a younger club. He was brilliant in Miami with a club almost entirely made of either rookies or guys under 25 in the lineup and a pitching staff that featured 3 starters under 25 as his top 3 in the rotation by season's end. Then he asked for a reasonable bump in pay and was dismissed. Two years later, he was a World Champion, managing the Yankees.
  23. biggentleben
    ...and Grant has allowed that mid-80s WGN return from commercials likely led to a lot of dead air time right around commercials that we don't see now along with more commercials than the average game in the same era had. The Twitter discussion from the article was very, very good, and Grant conceded a lot of potential adjustments to the overall conclusion in the article. In one of the most commercialized regular season environments in 1984, he found nearly 10 minutes more commercials in an average game 30 years later. That's telling.
  24. biggentleben
    Regular season, that ball is out. Then all this is moot.
  25. biggentleben
    That one seemed to be a Ross or field sort of bet.
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