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  1. Tiger337
    Both cutoffs tell the same story, that is, their pitchers have very little experience pitching a full season of innings. I could have used 162 since 162 innings is what a pitcher needs to qualify for the ERA title. Another number I could have chosen was 165 which would say that a pitcher had 33 starts (a full season) averaging five innings per start.
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    It's a real organization. It's antifa that doesn't exist as an organization.
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    I can definitely see the pitching being bad. They have one pitcher in their roation that has ever pitched over 160 innings and he has done it only once. I can also see them being good if the young pitchers emerge quickly and stay healthy. It's a big question mark though.
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    I think Baez would only be a 1.4 WAR player if his defense is sub-par.
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    I think most systems have them under .500. The Tigers are counting on a lot of young players and young players don't usually have good projections.
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    That is harsh. Most systems have him between 2.5-3.0 WAR.
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    This is a bit elitist, but still funny:
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    Kids suck today. Parents suck today. Baseball isn't the way it used to be. What is the world coming too? Even Randy is getting into it. lol We really are a bunch of angry old men.
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    I like that. How do the extra competitions fit into the regular season schedule?
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    I do like the relegation aspect of soccer. There is no tanking in European soccer.
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    It looks like something is happening in soccer until you realize it isn't.
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    I got a chance to talk to Beckman down in Lakeland as he was waiting for his interview show to start. He was very friendly and patiently answered all my questions.
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    I am an old many shaking my fist at the clouds, but don't you dare take away my wRC+.
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    I can see Manfred doing this too. I don't believe he has any feel for the game or its history. A lot of young fans don't care about history, but baseball fans, more than any other sport I think, have always liked tradition and history and you are going to lose fans if you don't understand this. Baseball will never be as exciting to the casual fan as other sports. You can't compete with them at that level.
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    It's .109 if you exclude AL.
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    I have never liked expanded playoffs, but 14 teams goes above my threshold of what I find acceptable. They are trying to mold baseball to be a generic sport like any other sport and I think expanded playoffs work worse in baseball than any other sport.
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    I was just giving a hyperbolic response to your cliche mocking of the double switch. I have never seen anyone here say that the double switch was a reason for wanting pitchers to bat.
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    Yeah, this could be the most destructive move they had made since I became a fan and Manfred's rationale was "fans love brackets!!!!!"
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    I think they should make it like football where you have separate offensive and defensive teams. That way you'll always have a good hitter at the plate and great fielders in the field.
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    Yeah, this is what I don't like about the DH. I like it when teams are forced to decide whether to play the slugging outfielder who can't field at all versus the weak hitting gold glove caliber defender. That is more interesting to me than having the no defense slugger just bat the entire game.
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    Pitchers hit .142 with a wrc+ or 6 in 1972, the last year before the DH. They hit .108 with a -22 wrc+ in 2022. So, they have gotten signicantly worse since 1972, but they were bad back then too. Pitchers weren't always anemic hitters. They hit .216 in 1930 with a 32 wrc+ which was still not good but they were enough of a threat to not be considered an automatic out. Even in the 1940s and 1950s they hit .180 some years. They started to drop off a lot after that. The Negro League pitchers were actually pretty good hitters and it was not uncommon for individual pitchers to play multiple positions and hit better than league average.
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    I don't care which side wins. I kind like the draft lottery. It will be fun! I don't really like the DH, but it's not practical to have pitchers bat anymore. I just wish they would do something to discourage the use of professional designated hitters - maybe limit the number of plate appearances some can have as a DH over the course of the season. Expanding the playoffs to 14 teams is the worst thing ever.
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    It's OK for kids I guess. I am not a kid. 🙂 I can't believe the nation's ad execs have conned the country into thinking they must tune in to watch their ads. It boggles the mind!
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    The only way to watch the Superbowl is to mute the commercials and go eat a long meal at half time. A couple of years ago I was at a family Super Bowl party and I left at halftime. They were shocked that I would leave with before the game was over when the Patriots were playing. I said "All I've seen for two hours is singing, dancing and commercials. Where's the football?".
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    Young peope today are usually more comfortable around people of different races than adults. Most people are not intentionally racist today, but they make assumptions about Blacks and Hispanics which can make their lives difficult.
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