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MLB 2014-2015 Offseason |OT| Playoff Dreaming

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RumblingRosco

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I guess this is a good thread for this question, but where do you folks buy your jerseys? I'm not so worried about if they're truly authentic, but something that looks good and is durable would be great. Price isn't a major concern either.
 
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xbhaskarx

Member
Baseball is dead to me.

I don't even want to go into work tomorrow with all the bandwagon Giants fans who can name maybe three players...
 
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HarryDemeanor

Member
Corran Horn said:
I can finally post in this thread now. Hi Harry
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ConradCervantes

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Congrats to Devolution and the rest of Giants-GAF!

Maddon is managing the Cubs now, eh? LAD fucked up big. Cubs gonna run the table on the NL for the next eight years minimum.
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Cards dropped the ball on the odd-year thing. Maybe the Giants should work a deal with the Yankees instead to take the odd years, mainly to prevent Boston from doing it again.
 
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brianjones

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ConradCervantes said:
Congrats to Devolution and the rest of Giants-GAF!

Maddon is managing the Cubs now, eh? LAD fucked up big. Cubs gonna run the table on the NL for the next eight years minimum.
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they have no pitching

Hope they beat up on the cards tho and prevent them from facing the dodgers in the playoffs
 
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jello44

Chie is the worst waifu
Astros get over the hump and finish over .500.

Not calling playoffs just yet.

Bullpen needs fixing and an upgrade at third.

Winter Meetings should be fun.
 
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zulux21

Member
Ninja Scooter said:
Will the M's resign Ichiro to a farewell contract like Griffey Jr?
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I don't see the M's Resigning Ichiro.
I think he has two years left in him (as I imagine he would want 3k hits in the majors) thus I think his focus this offseason will be getting with a team that will let him be an everyday player. Then next season he could worry about a farewell contract as he hits 3k hits... or he could play with whatever team still wants him and then the year after that (if he needs more hits... as 156 hits in a season nets him 3k which he would likely do as a full season starter) do a farewell contract with the ORIX Buffaloes (his renamed former team in japan) as that would likely be a far more fitting farewell tour for him anyways.
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Lowest career World Series ERA (minimum 30 innings pitched)

1. Bumgarner, Giants 2010, 2012, 2014 - 0.25 ERA, 36 innings pitched
2. Brecheen, Cardinals 1943, 1944, 1946 - 0.83 ERA, 32.2 innings pitched
3. Ruth, Red Sox 1916, 1918 - 0.87 ERA, 31 innings pitched
4. Smith, Brooklyn Robins (before they were called the Dodgers) 1916, 1920 - 0.89 ERA, 30.1 innings pitched
5. Koufax, Dodgers 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966 - 0.95 ERA, 57 innings pitched
6. Mathewson, Giants 1905, 1911, 1912, 1913 - 0.97 ERA, 101.2 innings pitched
7. Rivera, Yankees 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2009 - 0.99 ERA, 36.1 innings pitched

Goddamn!

Also:

Most consecutive scoreless relief appearances in postseason history:

1. Rivera, Yankess 1998-2000 - 23
2. Affeldt, Giants 2010-2014 - 22 (highest by a lefty) - streak still active
3t. Casilla, Giants 2012-2014 - 19 - streak still active
3t. Bradford, Athletics 2000-2008 - 19
3t. Cook, Mets 1996-2000 - 19
 
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Fox318

Member
ConradCervantes said:
Manfred's first official announcement will be plans for an expansion team for Sydney.
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He will merge with the south Korean and npb.
Expansion teams in Raleigh, Sacramento, Montreal, Omaha, Hawaii, Italy, buffalo ny, and Sydney
Lowers the mlb.tv price
Forced arod to play for the brewers
Announced that plans to build the fist ballpark on the moon
Removed dh from American league
Gives free compy of mlb the show and a pen to every person who buys a ticket to see a game
And finally He will award the Mets owner lifetime control of the Mets.
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
ConradCervantes said:
Atrocious, and it wasn't just him either. I was feeling alright about the Royals last night since they played a great Series the first six games, but they had no business winning last night trying to be heroes once Bumgarner came in.
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FanGraphs went into detail on that:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-ace-that-worked/

I don’t know where to begin. I guess here: Bumgarner threw 68 pitches, and 50 for strikes. That’s a rate of 74%, and previously in the playoffs, he’d been at 70%. In the regular season, he came in at 68%. What’s implied is that Bumgarner came right after the Royals aggressively in relief, maybe not wanting to waste his bullets. From the sounds of things, Bumgarner was all over the strike zone.

And that’s totally true, except for the part where it’s a complete and utter lie. This is where things get really interesting. Let’s use the Brooks Baseball version of zone rate. Entering Wednesday, combining the regular season and the playoffs, Bumgarner threw 42% of his pitches in the zone. Out of the bullpen in Game 7, Bumgarner threw 29% of his pitches in the zone. That was, for him, a season low. So Bumgarner finished with one of his better strike rates while also finishing with one of his lower zone rates.

There was a generous call or two. I’m not saying Bumgarner didn’t get help. And hell, when Nori Aoki lined out in the fifth, we came worse positioning away from a tie game. But the main story of Bumgarner’s appearance was this: he didn’t throw strikes in the zone because the Royals didn’t make him. And he’s hard enough to hit when he throws strikes in the zone.

Bumgarner folded in the high fastball by the truckload. It was the iconic pitch of the iconic appearance, with high fastballs accounting for 43% of Bumgarner’s pitches. Previously in the playoffs, the rate was 22%. During the regular season, the rate was 23%. Bumgarner established a new career high for average fastball pitch height, and while that’s not exactly a sexy kind of sentence to read, it goes right along with what people who were watching would’ve observed. Bumgarner faced 17 batters. Of those plate appearances, 11 ended with an elevated fastball.
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Cleverly, Bumgarner worked a 1-2-3 seventh inning with one fastball out of nine pitches. To some extent that probably set the remainder up. All he needed was the threat of the other stuff, and the fastball success could follow. There were high fastballs, then there was an interlude, then there were high fastballs again, dangerous again because of the possibility the pitches would be something else out of the hand.
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Branduil

Member
Dark FaZe said:
that final at bat was fucking awful

bumgarner with one out ftw, if I'm Alex Gordon I might just say eff it and round third for home
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Whatever the odds of Gordon scoring on that play, they were almost certainly higher than Salvador Freaking Perez getting a hit.
 
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XiaNaphryz

LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
2015 World Series odds are up!

http://www.mytopsportsbooks.com/free-picks/mlb-baseball/mlb-futures-2015-world-series-odds

Los Angeles Dodgers 15/2
Washington Nationals 15/2
Detroit Tigers 10/1
Los Angeles Angels 10/1
San Francisco Giants 12/1
St. Louis Cardinals 12/1
Kansas City Royals 16/1
Seattle Mariners 18/1
Baltimore Orioles 20/1
Oakland Athletics 20/1
Pittsburgh Pirates 20/1
Atlanta Braves 22/1
Boston Red Sox 22/1
New York Yankees 22/1
Cleveland Indians 25/1
Cincinnati Reds 33/1
Tampa Bay Rays 33/1
Texas Rangers 33/1
Toronto Blue Jays 33/1
Chicago White Sox 40/1
Milwaukee Brewers 40/1
New York Mets 40/1
Chicago Cubs 50/1
Miami Marlins 50/1
San Diego Padres 66/1
Philadelphia Phillies 75/1
Arizona Diamondbacks 100/1
Colorado Rockies 100/1
Houston Astros 100/1
Minnesota Twins 100/1
 
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