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Basically for the same reasons you see in MLB, NBA, and NFL. Fewer games makes each regular season game matter more (see NFL vs MLB or NBA)....
Sure - but you get multiple do-overs now. Alabama and Tennessee play each other in a few weeks, along with Georgia/Texas. The losers of those...
At this rate, they CFP might have a bunch of 8-4 teams in it. The disappointing part of a 12 team playoff is that none of these upsets matter....
JV has pitched once in his entire career out of the bullpen - 7 years ago in the playoffs, where he went 2.2 innings and gave up 1 run, 3 days...
JV has started a gazillion postseason games and has a ton of good ones and a ton of bad ones. Nobody can say definitely how he'd do either. But...
When I talk about using arbitrary stats, these are the kinds of things I refer to.
We have 4 elite bullpen arms right now. You're turning an AL Cy-Young contender into a middle reliever to try to save a game where you're already...
This seems ridiculously unfair to Blanco. How did he essentially end up the backup to the #4 starter? He's #5 in the AL in ERA and leads all of...
I would think Arch would make those decisions for himself and on what he wants. Just because he has famous family members doesn't mean they...
Feels like everyone here was in the wrong. He has a tinted window that he refuses to roll down - at that point, you're a realistic threat. The...
The advantage here for the Astros compared to other teams is that its sort of unclear who their best pitchers are. If they are forced to use...
Except that the alternatives were getting $30MM pitchers that they may or may not need or paying $10-$15MM for mediocrity. I don't think not...
The other way to look at this is that the Astros didn't spend oodles of money on a starter that everyone insisted they needed, they lost a crazy...
Randy Johnson is the best example of this. It didn't work out at all in terms of Astros success, future WAR, etc. But I don't think anyone...
None of the 6 games he has lost have gone to extra innings.
Is it, though? People misunderstand the NFL system. Sure, players don't have guaranteed long-term contracts, but unlike MLB and NBA, players can...
Pena has a 0.620 OPS hitting cleanup this year. Singleton started most of the games in May with an outstanding 0.213 BA and 0.680 OPS....
The time to sign Tucker (or any star player) is after a relative down season - but at that point, everyone just wants to trade him and move on...
This is only true if you don't understand how contracts are structured and that players are overpaid in the latter years intentionally in order to...
Math.
