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Old 09-06-2009, 10:16 PM
 
Location: Long Island via Chapel Hill NC, Go Heels?
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That the players whom aren't being overworked are the 10-17 year olds who pitch every game for travel teams, while those being overworked are fully grown men who throw 90 pitches a game and 5 pitcher rotations. Some Kids throw 400 pitches in a given weekend on travel teams, while a starter on a major league team will throw 400 pitches in games, in a month. Yeah they practice every other day they aren't playing, but still that's pretty ridiculous when you think about it. Most of those kids on travel teams will not even play after college, and if they do, they'll all or 99.9% percent will play minor leagues and never make it to the mlb. Stuff's outta whack.
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Old 09-13-2009, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Hometown of Jason Witten
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That small market teams have no money.
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Old 09-13-2009, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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The half-swing. It is not defined in any rule book, the umpires say it is the toughest call, the replay shows that they are wrong half the time.

In college ball and the lower minors, there are very few half swings. Major leaguers are abusing the privilege, and then abusing the umps who can't be expected to call it.

Change the rule: If the bat goes far enough to enter the strike zone, its a strike. Plate ump calls it. No appeal.

If Eddie Stanky was playing today, he's force them to change it, like he did a lot of other rules. He's stand there and take "almost" swings, and if he hit it, he'd pop it over the first baseman's head, and if he didn't, it would be called a ball.
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Old 09-18-2009, 11:51 AM
 
Location: Cook County
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Seems like that would be pretty easy to defend against it, once you saw it once, and he would be sacraficing a lot of ABs trying to cheap his way into hits.

Also Scott Podsednik has been doing this all year.
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Old 09-20-2009, 06:44 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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I wonder about the myth of the batting order. I've always thought that it shouldn't matter who bats first, or second, or sixth. Because that order only holds up for the first inning. You don't know who's going to come to the plate as your leadoff batter in the fifth inning, for example, do you? So why should it matter how you organize your lineup?
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Old 09-25-2009, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I wonder about the myth of the batting order. I've always thought that it shouldn't matter who bats first, or second, or sixth. Because that order only holds up for the first inning. You don't know who's going to come to the plate as your leadoff batter in the fifth inning, for example, do you? So why should it matter how you organize your lineup?
Millions of simulations have been run with random batting orders, and it is proven that the batting order makes so little difference, it is not worth trying to find a strategic one. Using the best possible batting order, instead of the worst possible, would gain about 3 wins per season. The current strategy of using the three highest OBS in the 3-4-5 spots proves to be the best. By a margin of a game of two over a random order, or three games over the worst, for example, Pujols batting 8th and the pitcher batting 9th.
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Old 09-25-2009, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I have no idea, seriously...no idea what you're talking about. So you're saying that unless every team plays the same teams the same number of times, that results are invalid? When has that type of schedule ever existed?

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From 1900 to 1960. Every team played each of the other 7 teams in the league exactly 22 times. Eleven at home and eleven away. The reason the season was expanded from 154 games to 162 was to preserve the perfect schedule balance within a ten-team league, with 18 games against each opponent. In those days, it was thought to be important, for exactly the reason I stated.
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