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Sorry - I wasn't keeping track of who said what. And I agree with you that the team will win the division as they generally do and that they will...
No, they haven't. The team is never as good as it looks when things are going well. It's never as bad as it looks when things are going poorly....
The whole point of a playoff system was to "determine it on the field". The idea of pre-determining which conferences are strongest seems absurd...
The bipolarness here is getting ridiculous. A week ago, people wanted to sell everything at the deadline. There was a multi-year talent decline...
This is from 2010 but found trends pretty consistent over time. How Do Baseball Players Age?: Investigating the Age-27 Theory | Baseball...
It's always funny when teams look for a "championship pedigree" in a coach. In the past 50 years or longer, the only coaches to ever win a...
People claimed the only reason the Astros didn't win the World Series in 2023 was Dusty Baker. The 2024 team had basically everyone back from that...
Your bad memory might explain your repeatedly bad analysis of the Astros.
Remember when people wanted to trade Framber because the Astros had sooooo much starting pitching, and really, who needed a reliable 200 innings...
Teams aren't going to juggle pitching rotations for matchups in May. Teams understand waaay better than fans that its a marathon and not a sprint....
You appanrently will be shocked to learn that the Adelson family is one of the GOP's largest donors. So how does this affect your entire...
Yeah, because I'm sure death threats against your kid would provoke perfectly rational, well-thought out "what is the ideal way to deal with this"...
Or maybe he's a human being who hadn't had his kids threatened before and reacted like any angry dad might.
Ah - I see the issue. Jake (and others like Framber who signed for $18MM this year) avoided arbitration - so these were negotiated 1-yr...
Interesting! My googling for some reason didn't include Arrietta's results: Highest MLB Arbitration Salaries | AP News
Skubal is two years ahead of Brown and is probably the best comparison point if Brown sustains. Skubal got $2.5MM in year 1 and $10.5MM in year...
Sorry - I was looking at WAR for that stat, but you're right by OPS which is a better measure for his hitting. ESPN has his WAR at 4.8, 2.8, 2.1,...
No pitcher has ever gotten more than $13MM in any year of arbitration in MLB history. $5 / $10 /$15 would be pretty impressive and...
Luhnow and Elias never had to deal with payroll constraints in their runs. They gutted the teams and their payrolls and rebuilt them from the...
How it's broken up doesn't matter but the 3 years of arbitration matter because you already have cheap cost certainty in those 3 years. So the...
