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  1. TheLeviathan
    That's a good point, often at a younger age the pitchers are still hitting. And I'd be ok with a similar rule being put into place in MLB. Baseball and football are rather comparable on this issue because there are clear transition points from offense to defense. I look at forcing pitchers to bat a lot like if the NFL forced one of the defensive players to punt or the QB to kick field goals. I doubt any football fans would find that to be a good idea. By the time you've reached an elite level of play, you've had to hone a specialized part of your craft to get there. Even when pitchers were regularly hitting they were still awful hitters and that trend has only gotten worse. I think the main flaw in the argument is the idea that pitching = defense. In that people argue if you're playing defense you should also be required to hit, but I see defense and pitching as very different things. I don't require everyone playing defense to pitch, but somehow everyone playing "defense" (in this other meaning) has to hit. I just find the logic applied selectively in order to justify tradition and that is the core of this issue - a fallacious appeal to tradition.
  2. TheLeviathan
    It's not coddling, it's just understanding most athletes are either born with major league pitching talent or hitting talent. I never hear how we coddle the other 8 positions by not forcing them to pitch an inning. We wouldn't do that because It'd be rightly called a farce. So is this.
  3. TheLeviathan
    They focus on him thumbing his nose at the rest of the G7 for unbalanced trade deals. I'm 100% against trade wars, but Trump isn't entirely wrong that the rest of the G7 is taking advantage of those deals. If we're going to hand out charitable trade deals I guess I'd rather it go to nations that need more help than the other juggernauts.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Injuries like the ones to Tanaka will lead to universal DH. It's inevitable now that interleague play is so common. Also, from my perspective, the pro-pitchers batting side has always sounded like that parent we've all heard. (And maybe we've all been) You know the one. Where they sit down with you at dinner with their kid and they tell you "My kid is a good eater!" and then you watch them make airplanes out of spoons, douse everything in ketchup, bribe with cookies, forcibly shove food in their face, and perform any variety of other magic tricks to get their kid to eat. The reality is - kids are generally terrible eaters. I feel that way about "good baseball" when I hear NL fans talk about all the "strategy" that pitchers batting creates. It's a lot like all those tricks to help the "good eaters". Your kid ain't a good eater, you've just become so accustomed to all your shenanigans you forgot what good eating looks like. Ditto NL baseball. It's basically one big, nonsensical delusion. Your kids aren't good eaters. And "good baseball" doesn't need guys with a .200 OPS hitting all the time.
  5. TheLeviathan
    Regardless of where you stand, it’s a good read: https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2018/6/7/17437016/national-league-pitcher-hitting-dh#
  6. TheLeviathan
    Didn't you hear? #waronchristmas. Struggle is real.
  7. TheLeviathan
    These have become an excellent addition to the site. As a displaced Twins fan they are invaluable, thank you.
  8. TheLeviathan
    I think this kind of thing was inevitable in the quest for gay rights, sad as that may be to say. This kind of buffoonery may actually expedite things legally.
  9. TheLeviathan
    They can decide if he remains a Twin. They don’t get to end his career as you keep insinuating. He can sign elsewhere and keep playing. They can advise him to retire. His doctors can advise it too. Ultimately Joe decides when he is done, as he should.
  10. TheLeviathan
    That's good! My problem with manager criticisms is they are almost always so unfair and inconsistent they render the poster's views as nonsense. Look no further than Buxton is Monitor's fault but no credit for Rosario. Nonsense.
  11. TheLeviathan
    Are you there to defend him when he uses those guys and they blow games and the chorus is "why not use your best guys"?
  12. TheLeviathan
    Well said.
  13. TheLeviathan
    This. Cutting Maier out of the decision is straight up nonsense.
  14. TheLeviathan
    Sure, but there really is only so much you can do with depth. Competent major leaguers aren't eager to be Plan B or C. The Mariners are playing the corpse of Gordon Beckham for example. If you had said at ST we would lose Castro, Mauer, Polanco, and Buxton for much of the first half and sano, Dozier, Buxton, and LiMo would all be flailing....it wouldn't take a genius to expect offensive collapse. It's the healthy guys playing like garbage that hurts most.
  15. TheLeviathan
    Sending Max Kepler down is just a terrible idea.
  16. TheLeviathan
    In three years when you wonder how you could be so intoxicated to post this idea and still retain enough motor functions to type, I will gladly let you buy me a beer so we can still be friends Van.
  17. TheLeviathan
    He isn't old goods now, but you seem to be saying he has 3-5 equivalent years in him. That would greatly defy a large data set of trends.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Utley saw a noticeable dip around 32/33 and Cano showed similar signs before a sudden surge last year. (Which is probably not coincidental to his steroid bust). 32/33 is roughly the aging curve for infielders. Could Dozier bust the curve? Sure. Still a bad gamble IMO.
  19. TheLeviathan
    His baseball effectiveness will end, the gamble is on how likely a mid-to-late 30s middle infielder can keep up his production. I would say that’s always a bad gamble. Dozier’s streaky trends only add to that for me.
  20. TheLeviathan
    And he is 25, probably time to accelerate a bit. He sounds like he will fit nicely as a forth OFer if he stays track.
  21. TheLeviathan
    A trade war up to November is going to be a big boost for Dems and a wedge issue to the GOP. And it'llhurt a lot of people.
  22. TheLeviathan
    It'd be easier to have a gameplay towards Realmuto if we knew what, if anything, the team plans to do with all the free budget room we have. I think we should aggressively acquire him and plan to continue to spend this offseason. Locking down the catching position would help tremendously. But if we are going Scrooge mode this off-season it may be wise to keep Gordon.
  23. TheLeviathan
    Dossier is not a player I'd bet on for aging gracefully with production. I don't know how "needed" he will be, but as far as investments go he is a ridiculously dangerous one IMO.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Because it's awesome: https://sports.yahoo.com/m/b600ce8d-ad2e-3d71-803d-2f51cfbde7d5/woman-steals-show-at-san.html
  25. TheLeviathan
    Plus, it happens in the NFL and NHL too. Why baseball is so weird about this never made sense to me.
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