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  1. The Great Hambino
    Alcala just playing chess here to get the bases loaded Edit: wow, the rare triple-ninja'd
  2. The Great Hambino
    Helps that Narvaez has forgotten how to catch the ball
  3. The Great Hambino
    Time to score 2, finish the inning, and incite a brawl until the rains come
  4. The Great Hambino
    Detroit Free Press is reporting that Dobnak is tagging along with Paddack. The return is Enrique Jiminez, a 19 year old catcher in the FCL. And salary relief, I guess
  5. The Great Hambino
    Now pitching: the Cowardly Lion
  6. The Great Hambino
    Good effort Lee
  7. The Great Hambino
    We've been Funderstruck
  8. The Great Hambino
    That wasn't Bader's finest moment
  9. The Great Hambino
    Good for Metellus It seems like the Vikings never have ugly contract holdouts like the Bengals always seem to have. The Vikings also always rate at the top of those NFLPA organization surveys, while the Bengals are at the bottom. I don't think these are coincidences.
  10. The Great Hambino
    You're just looking at it upside down
  11. The Great Hambino
    I'm talking about the M hats. The M hats are 0-6 on the road all-time in the World Series
  12. The Great Hambino
    I prefer to think of them as 0-6 on the road all-time in the World Series
  13. The Great Hambino
    Pretty sure I saw Lee miss that grounder a few days ago
  14. The Great Hambino
    This may be an unpopular opinion, but the Metrodome era M hats were AWFUL. I hope they're not trying to bring them back more often. Go ahead and replace the dollar store Marlins M, but don't you dare encroach on the TC
  15. The Great Hambino
    This is a good point - I’ve been pretty critical of Joe’s mismanagement of the big contracts followed by right-sizing in short order, but it’s very possible that his uncles pulled the rug out from under him and he was left to fall on the grenade for the family like he did with their failed radio stations. He may just be the family patsy. It still puts the blame on ownership, but maybe not just Joe specifically
  16. The Great Hambino
    That's an even bigger indictment of ownership if they greenlit a $200MM, 6 year contract and a 3 year, $72MM extension based on a one-time $50MM windfall
  17. The Great Hambino
    I agree that that sort of allocation is tough for a mid-market team, but in the Twins' case I don't blame the front office for that. It was Joe Pohlad who signed off on the Correa contract and Lopez extension, only to do all his "right-sizing" nonsense a few months later. You can't say he was forced into it by the TV situation because those issues were known well before those contracts were signed. Since I highly doubt Falvey went rogue in signing these contracts given that he's been granted more power within the organization since they were signed, one of two scenarios must be true: 1. The coming reduction in payroll was known to Falvey, and ownership was in full agreement with signing these contracts anyway 2. The coming reduction in payroll was not known to Falvey, and ownership pulled the right-sized rug out from under him. Personally, I lean more toward scenario 2. But either way, it's on the nepo-owner
  18. The Great Hambino
    Re: robot strike zones I am in favor of it, but not because the umpires are bad. As has been stated by multiple others, MLB umps are mostly really good at their jobs - I think that's one reason why the bad ones stick out. I think it's just not reasonable to ask a human eyeball to accurately call pitches on the edge of the zone, especially at the bottom of the zone with all the late-movement nastiness these lab-created breaking pitches can have. I hear the arguments about removing the human element. To me, the human element should be limited to players and coaches as much as possible. If we have the technology to remove external human element in a manner that doesn't distractingly bog down the game, we should use it.
  19. The Great Hambino
    I think this is a spot where their recent failures to groom useful players from their international free agent classes shows up. Those are the guys who you can control at the age of 16, which theoretically gives them more of a chance to debut in the majors at an earlier age. Right now, the only player on the 40-man they've acquired through international free agency is Emma Rodriguez. Only two others - Duran and Pablo - came up through international free agency, and they were acquired via trade. Almost the entire roster is American/Canadian/Puerto Rican and therefore came through the amateur draft. And since most college players are getting drafted at 21, it's going to be pretty tough to have a 19-21 year old pop through when that's how you've built your roster. It's been a long time since the Sano/Kepler/Polanco class. This may be one of this front office's major weaknesses that sometimes gets overlooked.
  20. The Great Hambino
    Yeah, Ruiz is an important part of this equation. I doubt it happens if that's still Teoscar Hernandez coming up
  21. The Great Hambino
    It didn't help that Jax pitched to Ruiz like he was still facing Ohtani
  22. The Great Hambino
    I guess Lee can jump a little bit
  23. The Great Hambino
    If you don't steal third with a pinch running specialist at second and a pitcher that takes an hour and a half to get to the plate on the mound, then you're never gonna steal third
  24. The Great Hambino
    Nice play by Clemens Also, did his deke on Freeman (kept a fake tag on him) keep him at second when the ball skipped away from Jeffers? Maybe, maybe not. But I like that he did it anyway
  25. The Great Hambino
    Angels In The Outlier
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