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    Story's End?

    They're 2.5 games out of the last playoff spot at the moment. Doesn't seem that outlandish to think that Mayer versus Story could be the difference in them making up that gap or not.
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    Ugly Devers Stat

    Now he's 1-27 with 21 Ks in his last 7 games
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    Ugly Devers Stat

    Dating back to last season, Devers is 1-23 with 18 Ks in his last 6 games.
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    Red Sox hook Crochet for Kyle Teel, Braden Montgomery, Chase Meidroth and Wikelman Gonzalez

    "Hey Gerrit sorry to hear about your elbow. Lucky for you it didn't happen until after you signed that massive contract! Would've cost you millions! Good luck on your recovery. Craig" "Oops sorry Garrett that was meant for Cole. Crazy how your names are so similar!" He should unironically do...
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    Passan: How the Sox hitting philosophy helped make KC, RA and MM into the best position-playing-prospect trio in a generation

    This didn't sound right so I looked it up, and his career slugging percentage is.524. Still great but .554 is Willie Mays/Mickey Mantle territory.
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    Best defensive performances ever in a Super Bowl

    If you were evaluating the best offensive performances, would you give more credit to a team for running up the score late in the 4th quarter than you would if they had pulled their starters early? Collins was far from the worst QB to lead his team to the Super Bowl. Hell, the Ravens were led...
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    Placing Mahomes in History

    Despite shitting the bed a few days ago he still has had the best career of any QB before turning 30 and it's not particularly close. Of course, the odds that he (or any other QB ever in the future) accomplishes anywhere near what Brady accomplished in his 30s and 40s are vanishingly small. But...
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    Weird baseball stats

    Virgil Trucks in 1952 threw 2 complete game no-hitters and a complete game one-hitter. He also won a complete game six-hitter where he didn't allow an earned run (but did allow an unearned run) and had another win where he gave up 1 run on 2 hits in 7.2 innings. His final line on the season was...
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    2024 MLB Offseason News

    Also would have accepted dour
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    2025 HoF Ballot

    If WAR isn't your thing he was also ranked #7 in hits, #2 in doubles, #10 in triples, #13 in runs, #4 in walks, #6 in stolen bases, #19 in batting average (with a handful of guys ranked ahead of him that only played a few years in that period), #8 in OBP (likewise) and #9 in WPA from 1998-2004.
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    2025 HoF Ballot

    He also flew under the radar because he had his best seasons playing for some not-very-good Phillies teams. Plus the fact that his prime was just before the media started to catch on to the fact that OBP was a relevant stat. I always thought he was super underrated when he was on Philly and was...
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    2025 HoF Ballot

    I'm not sure if you're jesting but that's actually a fair point. Parker had ~1000 more plate appearances in his career than Rice but Rice had 2076 plate appearances with a runner on 1st with less than 2 outs while Parker only had 1924. So Rice grounded into a double play on 15.2 percent of his...
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    2025 HoF Ballot

    Rice was before my time but I find it hard to reconcile his reputation as "the most feared hitter" of his time with his actual hitting stats... Mike Schmidt's career overlapped Rice and he was a flat-out better hitter on a consistent yearly basis. Dave Parker, who was elected by the verteran's...
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    2025 HoF Ballot

    Interesting... is there a reason BBRef removes the strike zone runs from their calculation? Not that I doubt the value of framing or the methodology behind how they are calculated, I just don't see why BBRef wouldn't include them if the science is settled.
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    2025 HoF Ballot

    What makes Fangraphs the source of truth over BBRef for Martin's defensive value? If the numbers were reversed and BBRef had him (or another catcher) as being worth 51 WAR and 189 defensive runs saved while Fangraphs credited them with only 38 WAR/56 DRS then would they no longer be a...
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    Blake Snell to Dodgers: 5 years, $182 million

    I didn't say that it did. I was asked if I pay more taxes than I have to (which is a ridiculous way to frame a tax avoidance scheme) and my answer is that I would not be concerned a single iota about reducing my tax burden if I made Shohei Ohtani money. HTH (Keep in mind the context of this...
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    Blake Snell to Dodgers: 5 years, $182 million

    Ignoring for a second your dishonest framing of the issue, if I was worth as much as Ohtani makes on his media endorsements alone then I would not structure a contract to defer almost all of my salary to a future date for the sole purpose of avoiding taxes, no. Even if it does make me less...
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    Blake Snell to Dodgers: 5 years, $182 million

    You like the fact that they're effectively stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds?
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    Daily Walkoff (another online game)

    Are players only supposed to fit into one of the 4 columns? Because
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    The insane MVP voting in 1999...and why Pedro is the GOAT

    In 1996 the conventional wisdom was that RBI was the best statistic for capturing player value and JuanGon was an RBI machine in those days (144 in only 134 games in 96... Belle actually had more that year but the media hated him too much to vote for him as MVP)
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