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    Stealing strikes is ok but stealing signs is not?

    There has been a study done on "false" strikes and balls and the age of the pitcher/batter with a lot more "false" strikes being called when the pitcher had much more experience than the batter and vice versa. The summary of the stduy: Unfortunately, the link on Phil Birnbaum's site to the...
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    Stealing strikes is ok but stealing signs is not?

    As seen in the Boston Herald and MLB Trade Rumors, more catchers are adopting a new receiving stance, "lowering one knee to the ground to give them a stronger base and allow them to better frame pitches for the umpires." The umpire gets a better view of balls and strikes but it makes it harder...
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    Jeter Downs

    Oh, I see what the problem was. The list the oumbi included from bb-ref only included the youngest player in each league for each season and in 1955 there was a younger player than Pagliaroni in the AL. BTW, there are a set of twins, Joe and Red Shannon, listed with the Braves in 1915; however...
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    Jeter Downs

    I think it was Chuck Stobbs for the Red Sox, b. Jul. 2, 1929, debut Sep. 15, 1947 (game 2) at age 18 years, 2 months, 14 days.
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    Extinct the Panthers (the team, not the animal)

    Wouldn't mind seeing 3x3 for regulation play.
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    Let's Talk About MLBTV

    Under Terms of Use on the MLB app it says, "For Services billed on a yearly basis (e.g., MLB TV Yearly, MLB TV Single Team and At Bat subscription Services), your subscription will automatically renew annually on or about March 1 each year at the then current year's regular full yearly price...
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    Joe Posnanski's top 100 Baseball Players of All Time

    How about Ralph Kiner and Willie Stargell? Both played LF for the Pirates and had an OPS+ of 186. 1949--.310/.432/.658/1.089--Kiner (Forbes Field-grass 1973--.299/.392/.646/1.038--Stargell (Three Rivers Stadium-Tartan Turf and sliding pits*) Unfortunately, I dan't don't have two players from...
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    Chris Sale 2020 - TJ Bound and Down

    further tweet from Abraham:
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    Chris Sale 2020 - TJ Bound and Down

    I don't think I was being sarcastic, just realistic.
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    Joe Posnanski's top 100 Baseball Players of All Time

    What do Joe Morgan and Manny Ramirez have in common? They are two of the ten batters with a WAR of 186 in a year in which they qualified for the batting title. What separates them? Among those ten players in their 186-WAR year, Manny ranked 4/3/1/1 in AVG/OBP/SLG/OPS while Morgan ranked...
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    Chris Sale 2020 - TJ Bound and Down

    You are shocked that Pedroia cannot play in spring training this hear? He played three games at 2nd base in 2018 and he played four games there last year (only three complete) and DH'ed in two games. ANd to boot, he is currently 36 years, 6 months, 2 weeks, and 1 day old. Do you think he's...
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    Let's Talk About MLBTV

    In order to get free MLB TV you will have to wait. Other than that, there was an update to the MLB app a little over a week ago.
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    Romo staying at CBS for $100-plus million

    I have turned off games because of the announcers.
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    New pickoff rule coming to minors

    I don't recall hearing about this experiment in Indy ball but MLB is in the final stages of a plan that will change some of the pickoff rules in part of the minors in 2020. Pitchers will have to step off the rubber before they can throw to a base in a pickoff attempt. The Andy Pettite-style...
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    Flytrap: Oberlin College attempts a shift

    https://www.mlb.com/news/featured/oberlin-college-baseball-team-and-the-infield-shift This is quite funny and even has a Red Sox reference.
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    Death to the Stars

    After hearing Blake Comeau's name called out, I began to wonder if his parents were being cute...Blake Como. Then I learned how his last name was spelled and I got thinking whether the French might spell the lake's name that way. And actually they would but it also would be Lac Comeau...which is...
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    Openers?

    If you go back in time, you find that starters frequently accounted for a high percentage of teams' saves. For example, starters for the Indians had 7 of the team's 12 saves in 1936 (Bob Feller's first season), 10 of 15 in 1937, 8 of 13 in 1939, 14 of 22 in 1940, 9 of 19 in 1951, 11 of 18 in...
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    Why Do Games Take So Long? and Time Between Pitches: Cause of Long Games?

    Another thing that I think has changed hitting is body armor. Batters crowd the plate today much more than the once did and that allows them to handle pitches on the outer part of the plate better.
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    4G Android phone megathread

    Review of the camera and zoom levels: https://www.cnet.com/news/samsung-camera-test-galaxy-s20-ultras-108-megapixel-camera-100x-zoom-photos/ About 2/3-rds of the way down, there are images of the SF Museum of Modern Art at no zoom, 10x/30x/100x zoom. The latter is pretty blurry as any movement...
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    Our ownership group

    Before or after the comma?
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