chicagocubsfan
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Keith Law's take on the Cubs
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MLB 2014-2015 Offseason |OT| Playoff Dreaming
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evil solrac v3.0
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the game is fine. most diverse game, 70-80 million people thru the gates every year, big TV contracts, compelling storylines, all the game needs is to find more and more talented, athletic players and the rest will take care of itself.
Dominican Power
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Why not start with implementing the DH in The NL first?
how about banning the dh
Dominican Power
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Go root for The Mets then, you heathen.
The DH is unamerican.
Dominican Power
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So are you, canuck.
That one stings.
The problem with this idea is that it makes sense, and as we know, that disqualifies it.
Ninja Scooter
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it's nice to see the white sox in the upper half after so many years in the bottom... helps that kenny is no longer running things and trading the farm for washed up players to "help with the run to the playoffs" where they get nearly nothing out of that player...
I mean hell he traded for Carl Everett twice... in back to back years. he did alright the first year... but not well enough to get a contract from the WS.. then did worse the next year but they still traded for him. (to be fair none of the traded players panned out but a few of them were well regarded at the time)
trade for griffy a bit later cost them a few more players, again didn't amount to anything but they were well regarded at the time
for jim thome they traded their good center fielder and a guy named Gio González.
the best part is the white sox would get Gio González back the next year as the phillies returned the favor trading good young talent for an over the hill older player... which the white sox would then trade again along with some of their better young talent for nick swisher :/ (which at the time didn't look like a horrible deal, but then swish just sucked horribly)
the bad part though is that the white sox farm system is up at 12th mostly because of middle infielders and two decent pitchers.... they don't have a very balanced farm at all.
Sir Alemeth
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The Dodgers are projected by Baseball Prospectus to be the best team in 2015 and win the NL West by 13 games:
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/dc/
Purple Cheeto
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Baseball Prospectus has a much higher opinion of the Angels than Fangraphs.
http://www.fangraphs.com/depthcharts.aspx?position=Standings#AL-W
chicagocubsfan
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Wonder why they hate the ChiSox so much. Maybe expecting regression in Abreu and LaRoche?
the nationals will probably win more than the dodgers because they will go 18-0 each vs the braves and phillies
chicagocubsfan
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Can you post the Cubs?
He believes Severino is a reliever so it makes sense that he isn't on there, but I'm pretty sure Law's list well be the only one in which Severino doesn't crack the top 100. I expect him to be in the top 50 in other sites like BA, BP, and MlB, where he was already ranked as the 7th best RHP.
I'm also sure that Law's list is the only list in which Bird cracks the top 100.
Yankees got:
23. Aaron Judge
80. Greg Bird
chicagocubsfan
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Cubs on the Top 100 are Bryant at 1, Russell at 4, Soler at 14, and Schwarber at 90. Soler and Schwarber should be higher and shocked Edwards is not on it.
Fenderputty
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I'm with you in that the criticism of baseball being slow is funny when football has a ton of standing around and TV stoppages too. I bring this up to anyone who says baseball is slow.
I think this all comes down to a mentality or perspective though. A baseball game is open ended. There's no clock or guarantee that a game will end within a specific time frame. Adding a pitch clock doesn't really stop this as the game is about outs and not pitches, but I think it helps with this "we need something now" internet generation that's not paying attention to the sport anymore. It would speed up games too.
I would hate being a baseball fan on he east coast.
The Braves just made a major FA signing.
chicagocubsfan
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I was reading something today saying that Shields might get a deal just north of Ervin Santana's which could be a steal for some team.
oh yeah, i know the reasoning i was just surprised. becuase as you said every other media outlet will have him within the top 100. ALso sucks to see sanchez fall off. i hope he gets his act together this season.
HarryDemeanor
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The Friedman Difference
Rock And Roll
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We all do. Hang in there another month!
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
The Dodgers were heavily favored last season as well, and we all know how that turned out!
Maybe the Friedman Difference will mean you guys lose in the LCS instead of the divisional round.
I don't know, the Friedman Rays never really pulled it off.
chicagocubsfan
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I wish they would do the same thing that Madden did with the Sunday Ticket edition.
Would be sick to have a MLB + MLB.TV package you can buy discounted.
HarryDemeanor
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the white sox are almost always projected to have a bad season. as someone posted earlier in this thread, there was a stretch that a number of seasons they were projected 10+ wins below what they did... one main theory was that the white sox in general tend to have a lot less long injuries than any other team thanks to one of the best medical staffs and Don Cooper keeping the pitchers in check. Thus because of the reduced injuries they do better than projected on a consistent basis.
it wouldn't be surprising to see some regression from some of the players, at the same time the bullpen in general should be much improved and likely would have made the white sox a .500 team last season so with the new signings it would be surprising if they weren't at least a .500 team this year. at the very least I will for sure be getting mlb.tv for opening day this year, last year it was a long debate and last year I did it just because I wanted to watch some baseball... this year I am doing it because I want to watch the white sox win
a 10 year wait is long enough, time to win it again.I'm just hoping they do what they did like 2 years ago and if you preorder mlb the show you get a month of mlb.tv for free. It would be enough to buy the show day 1 with a GCU discount.... I am iffy as it is, but there is a good chance I get it since I don't have a baseball game on the ps4 yet and I wouldn't mind playing some games with you guys even though I will suck as all I play is road to the show with my created character.
I just hope it isn't a total pile of shit like last year
Do you guys still run a gaf league?
When is the reveal?
Welp, so much for getting a PS4 and MLB the show.
I usually have a league with some of the regular. The game usually falls flats on its face.
Besides the load times and the shit online(which is pretty much all sports games now besides madden and fifa) it was a good first game for next gen. I grabbed a preorder for it at $40 when target had the wrong price. Just fix the load times please
BFIB
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First gameplay reveal is Feb5th.
Load times have been awful since PS2, on every iteration.
BFIB
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On OS forums, Russell is stating that "load times will be vastly improved on every level". I'm not hopeful, but we'll see.