Yup, including the last one. Late March/early April is always bad. My ideal opening day is more like the old time154 game schedule which started closer to mid April.
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Other than Zack Greinke, I never want to see a pitcher hit in an important spot. I mean, there are bright moments like Colon hitting a HR, or Rick Porcello with a double into the gap, but in general, it creates a lot of anticlimax in what could be big innings.
Plus, now we won't have to tie ourselves in knots trying to compare strike out totals for pitchers across leagues!
I'm there with you. It's a deeply unpopular opinion but I really liked the strategy of NL games and the imperative to actually use their bench hitters/pinch runners... especially since we didn't have to deal with it in the AL and got to enjoy Big Papi for a decade.
But often you wouldn't, teams would just PH for the pitcher. Especially with most starters out of the game after the 5th inning these days I don't remember too many instances of this happening in games I watched recently.
Maybe it's just for this year. With a makeup series tacked to the end of the season and the first playoff round being three games, any delay will put the World Series on Thanksgiving.
A lot of baseball fans are older (as I am), and I bet they don't fit into that demographic. Maybe kids will like them?
A banned shift probably adds +5.0 WAR to Rafael Devers’ future career. Hopefully in the same uniform.
Wait---both Michael Kay and Alex Rodriguez are calling play-off games? I really hope that they have those alternate stats-oriented games so that I don't have to hear them, esp. Kay. Kay?
Or ask Calvin Ridley the difference between advertising for Draft Kings and creating an account there.
Michael Kay and Alex Rodriguez. Did Satan decide on the lineups? They could be the broadcast teams for a Georgia Ellenwood vs Alicia Schmidt race and I’d still avoid it like the plague.
Yikes on spike about those broadcast teams.
It does feel good to complain about baseball related topics without any talk of labor negotiations, however.
It does feel good to complain about baseball related topics without any talk of labor negotiations, however.
I'll be interested to find out over the next few days what objections the MLBPA executive board had to the agreement when they voted 8-0 against it. What were they not satisfied with, what did they want to continue to negotiate? I certainly have my own opinions about that but wonder what theirs were.
One interesting nugget in the new agreement: Starting in 2023, the schedule will feature fewer divisional games, and every team will play at least one series against every other opponent, including in the other league. The exact format is still being determined.
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About damn time. (Looking at you AL central)
This should make things more balanced than they currently are.
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About damn time. (Looking at you AL central)
This should make things more balanced than they currently are.
Hope these are worn for the home opener, if only for the color scheme:
https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/free-agent-tracker
Pitchers batting one of those things that I like in concept (harkens back to yesteryear, novelty, occasional hilarity, etc.), but sucks in practice. How many times does the 8 hitter work a walk to make it 1st and 2nd with 2 outs in the 3rd, only to be followed by the likes of a Nick Pivetta dragging a bat up to the plate? Good riddance.
Advertising in Baseball used to be a lot more repulsive, IMO.
Playing every team in the league in at least one series is 87 games right there. So will be a lot less infra division games I’d assume? I think 18 or whatever they play now is too many but if they only play the Yankees 2-3 series, it feels like not enough. More games in different time zones might not be ideal for TV
I guess this is how the CBA works but changing a million things at once seems to make it harder to figure out what ends up working and what doesn’t.
Going to be a few 2 game series. Already the Braves/Red Sox and the other fake geo rivalries do that.
I think under the old playoff system, Game 7 of the World Series was going to fall before Halloween. Seems like with the make-up series added to the end and the new wildcard format, that's probably going to push the old schedule back a week. So I think they should be done before Veterans Day, but not by much.
48 games against opposite league. 60 against other divisions in your league. 54 against your own division. As an example. Lots of possible solutions that work and make sense.
I mostly agree, but I kind of wish that Ohtani got to finish his career before the DH was extended. He had the possibility to be a unique advantage in a no-DH environment.
I guess I don’t expect a flurry of announcements tonight, players and owners were not allowed to talk right?
I can't believe this, more balanced schedules are actually coming?
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that sounds about right….12 games against each divisional opponent, 6 against other teams in your league, 3 against teams in the other league. Good luck to the schedule makers!
Ugh! That's three minutes before SoSH has it's nightly two-minute shutdown! (Maybe we can all get on a group chat by phone to fill in the gap?)
Yeah, I don't envy the scheduling office, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE this change, assuming it is something close to this.
No, but I tend to dig in and resist what I respond against to irrational extremes. (Edit: of course I say the MLBPA should’ve held the line to at least get more back from ownership and put them up against the deadline to refund RSNs for missed games from the comfort of my couch, rather than settling and getting back to what they want to do.)
Clearly I will be one of the first up against the wall of the revolution doesn’t go my way…
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Nothing has annoyed me more than anyone (including pundits/ writers I like) complaining about diluting the sanctity of the 162 game season in determines who is the best, without acknowledging that hat the unbalanced schedule makes it a farce…
This CBA is better than I feared, worse than I hoped for.
I am euphoric at the thought of baseball returning.
I am euphoric at the thought of baseball returning.
I get it. But the reality is that the leagues should have the same rules, and there's no way the DH would go away.