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MLB General Discussion (Official Thread)

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BB73;2038572; said:
The same number of teams in each league and each division? What a concept.

Baseball is ridiculous for having that inequity for so many years.

Now if they get rid of the DH and add a salary gap, I might pretend to care a little more.
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this. 100% this ( and im not even kissing ass)
 
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http://content.usatoday.com/communi...seball-playoffs-wild-card-2012/1#.T0728XnleSr

Extra wild cards coming to MLB playoffs


GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Major League Baseball, after month-long negotiations with the players union, will finalize the 2012 postseason format as soon as Thursday, expanding the playoffs by two teams.
"We'll have an answer in the next couple of days,'' Michael Weiner, executive director of the Major League Players Association, told USA TODAY on Wednesday.
The expanded format was approved for 2013 in November, but Commissioner Bud Selig strongly pushed for the extra wild-card round to begin this year. The difficulty was trying to squeeze in the one-game, wild-card round playoff game, with the regular-season and World Series schedules already finalized.
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I don't like this at all. This move was entirely made to put more emphasis to winning the division. I know other sports have done it but I don't like the idea of a play-in game to basically make it into the bracket. What if you have a 95 win wild card team who ends up playing against an 82 or 83 game winner and the 95 win team loses? Plus the wild card team then is entering the divisional round at a distinct disadvantage not having their #1 pitcher available to start that series.
 
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Not a ton of baseball chatter on the site right now but I thought I'd get a thread going to discuss MLB not directly related to the Reds, Indians, Orioles etc....


First off this is one where letters don't do it full justice so I'm going to have to spell out,

What The Fuck?

The Rockies signed Chris Volstad yesterday, but that?s not stopping them from going after more veteran pitching. The club is ?aggressively pursuing? free agent right-handers Carl Pavano and Derek Lowe, Troy Renck of the Denver Post reports. The Rockies would like to complete another deal this week.
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Owner: "Hey we gave up more runs than anyone in baseball last year, what the hell are we going to do about it?"

GM (with a straight face): "Sign Volstad, Pavano and Lowe of course. Duh."

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You just can't make this shit up. What on earth could they possibly be thinking other than the obvious "someone has to do it"?
 
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Nutriaitch;2295081; said:
all 3 guys are ground ball pitchers.

Lowe being a sinkerballer is the most extreme of the 3.

in a park like Coors, keeping the ball down is huge.
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Flyballs traveling aren't the only problem in Coors. Breaking balls don't break and sinkers don't sink like they do in other parks.

I get the groundball thing but they are going to get pounded. I'm quite sure they, and the Rockies front office, know this and are just going from the premise that you have to try and put a reasonable facsimile of a MLB team on the field to sell tickets.

It reminds me a lot of the lost decade in Cincy where the off season plan was to hope some has been/never was pitcher could significantly out perform his numbers in a hitters park.

I give them credit for at least thinking of groundball tendencies and bringing in flyball guys like Eric Milton (shudder).
 
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Jaxbuck;2295103; said:
Flyballs traveling aren't the only problem in Coors. Breaking balls don't break and sinkers don't sink like they do in other parks.

I get the groundball thing but they are going to get pounded. I'm quite sure they, and the Rockies front office, know this and are just going from the premise that you have to try and put a reasonable facsimile of a MLB team on the field to sell tickets.

It reminds me a lot of the lost decade in Cincy where the off season plan was to hope some has been/never was pitcher could significantly out perform his numbers in a hitters park.

I give them credit for at least thinking of groundball tendencies and bringing in flyball guys like Eric Milton (shudder).
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could also be thinking "no matter who we throw out there, they gonna get rocked. might as well do it on the cheap."
 
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Nutriaitch;2295708; said:
could also be thinking "no matter who we throw out there, they gonna get rocked. might as well do it on the cheap."
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Pretty much.

Vets looking for one last pay day from some team that will have them. They go out and swallow some pride every 5th day to stay in the show.

We've seen it before but it still strikes my irony funny bone when I see a shitty pitching team try to "fix" it with names like Lowe, Volstad and Pavano or better yet to try and sell those moves as an attempt at improvement to their fans with a straight face.

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yeah, I wouldn't call any of those guys a "fix" for anything.

I'd take Lowe as a potential 5th starter at best.
prolly more useful as a middle reliever at this point in his career though.

Volstad is still young, but even his AAA numbers were nothing to write home about.

Pavano...how the hell does he keep getting jobs?
He's like AJ Burnett without the flashes of above average.
 
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Speaking of more FO WTF action...Phillies sign Delmon Young.

Dude should have to wear a football helmet when he plays LF and he is by all accounts a locker room cancer. Not to mention his particular offensive skill set (sucking) is redundant in the Philly outfield.

On the positive side, he's a warm body and cost $750K
 
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