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  1. TheLeviathan
    I hear people talking about the front-loading aspect, but I can't find the details? What does the structure look like per year?
  2. TheLeviathan
    Is the newest season on Prime yet? We watched the first....two I think?...but the one that was last aired on Sci-Fi wasn't out yet. I enjoy hate watching The Gifted right now too.
  3. TheLeviathan
    Absolutely has to be tied to revenue, for sure. And a cap floor as well. But something has to be done about the spending disparity. The argument is that any given year small market teams succeed, but over the long haul it's a massive advantage to a few markets.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Well, I'd prefer to see MLB start sharing all revenues and make a large cap number, but it is probably a pipe dream. I don't want to see billionaires make out on all the fan's money, but I also hate the fact that the Dodgers or Yankees can pump tens (hundreds) of millions of dollars more into their product than we can. That advantage is beyond just the 25 man roster, it extends up and down the organizational process of developing talent.
  5. TheLeviathan
    This might be a great argument for the salary cap as well.
  6. TheLeviathan
    The fact that I got all of those comic book references seems like something I shouldn't be proud of anymore. Hang on to the Claremont issues kid, they're gold.
  7. TheLeviathan
    In football the gap between plays is the only "inaction". But you are virtually guaranteed action will happen after every play clock interval. You are not assured the same thing in baseball. From the time the first pitch happens to the end of the at-bat could be several minutes where very little is happening. And if a guy gets on base, you might see even more time that is milked between when he got on base and a baseball play of consequence from the next batter. Football simply does not have that kind of down time. Squeezing those step offs, throw overs, batting glove adjustments, time outs, standing and watching the signs, shaking off, etc. would do enormous good for the game. Whether it makes a sizable change in actual game time or not I don't care, the perception of speeding up the game will go a long way.
  8. TheLeviathan
    Thing is, it's not really "strategy". I can't think of a comparable analogy in another sport, but it'd be like forcing your kicker to play QB for a play and teams punt the play before just to avoid the awfulness of it. That's what most of the vaunted NL strategy boils down to: how do we give up outs or topsy-turvy our lineup to avoid this awful thing that isn't at all like actual baseball.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I'm not sure many people would agree with you that the time between plays in football is at all comparable to the time between action in baseball. If you count a football play vs. an outcome to an at-bat there is FAR more downtime in baseball. If you're trying to count a football play to the time between pitches....then you're unfairly comparing apples to oranges.
  10. TheLeviathan
    It doesn't solve all your problems, but reddit streams are a beautiful way to say "screw you" to sports leagues and get to watch your favorite teams.
  11. TheLeviathan
    I'm for the pitch clock. Universal DH needs to happen. There are only emotional arguments for having pitchers bat (like, "that's how it's always been", "I like it better") whereas it's an objective fact that having pitchers hit leads to terribly unathletic/non-competitive moments in games. Any arguments about "strategy" really boil down to one thing - in the NL, you try really hard not to have those moments happen. All you're strategically doing is avoiding the thing you say you want to keep around - pitchers hitting. So just do away with it. AL managers still use the hit and run and (too often) the bunt. They just use those strategies in an effort to score runs rather than desperately avoid some hack with a .150 batting average.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I really want to know what the deal is with Gurley. His usage made no sense at all.
  13. TheLeviathan
    The chunky milk commercial for wireless made me laugh. But yeah, I don't blame the NFL. Some games just don't turn out thrilling, if anything that's what makes me the most confident that NFL outcomes are legit. (Unlike, say, the NBA) Championship weekend was probably the best any of us will ever see, it's not shocking the Super Bowl was a step down.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Brady was mostly bad too. It's like they were all hungover or half asleep.
  15. TheLeviathan
    It was more bad offense than good defense for sure.
  16. TheLeviathan
    I wish we had a right-handed Jake Cave.
  17. TheLeviathan
    I'm not saying you are doing anything wrong spycake, but I do question the way the stat is used broadly. But best left to other threads.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Seems like you laid out the problems just fine. Sure, it makes sense to incorporate it, but remember all those problems when you use the stat too. Your convictions behind the stat should reflect the flaws in the ingredients. If I bake muffins I don't get to frame them as healthy because they have blueberries as I conveniently forgot the tub of sugar i put in it too.
  19. TheLeviathan
    The fact that it's impossible without it in no way weakens my point. The problem is the nature of the adjustment itself.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Yup, that's sorta my point. Despite the fact that the positional adjustment sorta makes it apples and oranges (or, at the very least, weakens the comparison considerably) - the stat is still widely used that way. I understand people want it to be a good comparison tool, but really what it can be used for is a very rough approximation of value. And in the cases of WAR totals driven by defensive calculations, it becomes pretty sketchy altogether. When I said the vast majority of people use it more forcefully than it is warranted, I'm speaking about just about every time it's used on Fangraphs. MVP arguments are rarely made with the very nuances argued in that link. For example, rarely when there is a large disparity (say, 6.0 vs. 3.0) is any mention made of how much the defensive component makes up each player's total. Certainly, here on this forum with Byron Buxton, this is true but you also see it on Fangraphs. I appreciate how they try and caution the use of the stat and they do a nice job laying out the limits of it, I wish they followed those outlines more frequently to set a better example.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Except, it goes beyond just being a hardliner about 3.5 vs. 3.1. It's also about people comparing a 3.5 WAR in CF to a 3.5 WAR at 2B. That isn't a particularly responsible use of the stat either. Frankly, WAR is a fairly limited stat for accurate comparisons used too broadly IMO. There are better stats for assessing value (on offense and defense separately) and it may be best if we stop pretending we have a good measurement for both offense and defense that can be compared across positions or too rigidly.
  22. TheLeviathan
    I wish people understood this, but I think the vast majority of people do not employ the stat appropriately.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Things change quickly in baseball though. I agree with much of what you say, but I bet there are trade targets out there more appealing than this. And if there aren't....then I'm ok holding off. I don't want the team to make moves for the sake of it either. Kiriloff and Graterol are pretty valuable chips. If I'm pushing them into the middle of the table, I want to feel really good about what I'm getting back. And, frankly, I'm pretty ok with Castro/Garver/Austidillo. That's not where I'm pushing all-in to help. There are other places we can gain more from making a splash.
  24. TheLeviathan
    If the price tag is Kiriloff and Graterol, I think I'd prefer to look elsewhere. I feel like that kind of package could land a pretty damn good pitcher and I'm more interested in that anyway.
  25. TheLeviathan
    I dig this SD Buhr. This post was on fire.
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