Kolek planning to go pro
So I wonder who will acquire Cole next season. My Yanks sure need starting pitching, but I'm not so sure they'll go after him.
300 game winner may never happen again.
Good morning and congrats to the Nats and their fans. The team earned a World Championship. It truly did.Has there ever been a World Series where the road team won every game? Incredible!
Congrats to the Nats. Went to their home opener this season with my family. The return of Bryce Harper with the Phillies. Trea Turner broke his hand. Phillies won. National fans were pretty despondent about the rest of the season. But, their team survived Harpershima.Side note: Now the entire starting rotation of the 2014 Tigers have won rings. Verlander, Scherzer, Price, Porcello, Sanchez. Not that I am bitter or anything.
I feel for you Tower, those were some good teams in Detroit the first half of this decade. You have to be a little lucky as well as good to win the World Series.
Yet another example that you don't need to open the vaults to sign big name free agents to succeed in the MLB.
The way the games are trending now, you could have a 5th inning guy who completes the 5th inning 60 times a year when you have the lead and win 40-50 games like the best save guy gets 40-50 saves. You could end up with some strange things as strategy changes, so you can never say never. In the old days you could average 18 wins a year 17-18 years and get to 300. Now you have to average 15 wins for 20 years, because wins are harder to come by when you are only pitching 6 or 7 innings for 32 or 33 starts.
What??? The Nats regularly spend in free agency. Scherzer and Corbin seem like glaring examples of pretty huge contracts. They also have the 5th highest payroll.
Maybe Martinez was the mastermind behind the 2016 Cubs.
Ewing theory
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Sometimes I hate living in the Eastern time zone.
Side note: Now the entire starting rotation of the 2014 Tigers have won rings. Verlander, Scherzer, Price, Porcello, Sanchez. Not that I am bitter or anything.
"@joe_sheehanThe team that hit more homers was 7-0 in the World Series, and 26-6 in the playoffs. Please take your smallball talk for a long walk off a short pier."Just thought that was interesting.
The analytics guys knew this several years ago. The rising HR counts every year have happened for a reason. The interesting thing will be if MLB goes back to the ball they used several years ago and a lot of the HRs end up as flyouts on the warning track.But for now, it is uppercut swings for hitters. For pitchers, it is the ability to best control the 3 true outcomes - strikeouts, walks, and HRs.
MLB will either change the ball, either how tightly it is wound or the height of the stitching, to "correct" the huge advantage hitters have over pitchers now. That is, if MLB wants to. More home runs=ratings and butts in the seats.