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D-train wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 22, 2019 2:30 pm

Yeah, I don't think any thought he would be worse even though he somehow is. Its more laughing at the giddy Roots sports crew and the rest of the M's PR machine thinking he would go right back to 2016 Seager.

well bpj talks about felix being worse from losing weight...

how about Vladimir Guerrero Jr.?.. he seems pretty chubby to me, if you are Ross Atkins are you insisting he get in shape?

here is Joe Posnanski on Stairs HOF qualifications, its more along the lines of pure chance and fate, it is an interesting career


https://joeposnanski.substack.com/p/bal ... att-stairs

you don't see a difference?...there are 16 year old kids in the DR getting contracts based on somebodies projection of what they might turn into as a ML player someday, its entirely weighted to final outcome. When you bring your resume into Boeing nobody is going to care about what you might be doin...

I wasn't thinking more of the subjective aspect of baseball. In the regular world generally you get a job and then have the opportunity to work your way up through the system getting rewarded for accomplishment, the path opens as you develop ability. Baseball is based a lot more on somebody else's p...

Bill James... "Look at it. Somebody decided he was a second baseman, he tears through the minor leagues, gets to Montreal, the Expos take one look at him and say, 'He's no second baseman, get real.' He bounces around, goes to Japan, doesn't really get to play until he's almost 30, then hits 38 homer...

so how about after this season?...Are they a 90 win team by 2021?...add 30 wins in two seasons....

so what happens when you get your robot umpires and there are no more bad calls? If you love seeing a manager race out to argue a bad call, what happens when we eliminate them?

the Gareth Morgan sensation

https://halohangout.com/2019/07/14/la-a ... portunity/

My point was that some here view him as the greatest manager of all time or close to it. He was 12 under with us and 3 under with the D Backs. Joe Torre was below 500 to show for his time as a Braves manager. Seems guys are more successful in their second or third jobs. Maybe JD should have thought...