2014-15 MLB Off-season Thread: Nynja's Dynasty Is for Shitting Up Threads

[archibaldcrane]

It reduces scoring.

[Mertron]

just read about the changes this guy wanted. im a fan of the pitch clock, but im not sure how I feel about a giant clock on the field annoying the shit out of me all game

[Moss]

It reduces scoring.

lol. christ

[Headspace]

did he have a single argument/reason for eliminating shifts?

He's still reeling over the Ryan Howard contract

[FNH]

just read about the changes this guy wanted. im a fan of the pitch clock, but im not sure how I feel about a giant clock on the field annoying the shit out of me all game

Haven't read too much into it passed the headlines, but I'm just hoping it isn't a time that will cause pitchers to get sloppy. Home run derby gets pretty old after a while.

[Moss]

could have something like tennis, where in slams you have 20 seconds between points. it's enforced when the chair umpire deems it necessary, usually if it's an egregious violation and/or the player is deliberately stalling.

you dont need a big visible running clock, just an ump keeping an eye on the flow and giving a warning if it's starting to take too long. then you give a warning and start penalizing after that.

[FNH]

could have something like tennis, where in slams you have 20 seconds between points. it's enforced when the chair umpire deems it necessary, usually if it's an egregious violation and/or the player is deliberately stalling.

you dont need a big visible running clock, just an ump keeping an eye on the flow and giving a warning if it's starting to take too long. then you give a warning and start penalizing after that.

What would be the penalty? Adding a ball to the count, or straight BB?

[Moss]

Just a ball I would think

[FNH]

I'd be ok with that I guess. I don't see a big problem with the current situation, however. Never really noticed many pitchers taking an exceptionally long time with their routine.

[Headspace]

I'd be ok with that I guess. I don't see a big problem with the current situation, however. Never really noticed many pitchers taking an exceptionally long time with their routine.

Just middle relievers.

[Soa]

So the new commissioner says he's not changing the WS home field advantage gimmick for the AS game. He also says that HoF voting is perfectly fine as is, and so are the asinine blackout restrictions. This guy will almost certainly be worse than Selig, which will be quite an accomplishment.

[Bregor]

Just middle relievers.

Outing myself as an old here, but the only guy who had a routine that I actually liked was Mike Fetters.

[Bregor]

KLaw's top farm systems. #1 is of course THEO:

Take a moment to recover from your surprise ... The past 12 months have seemed more like a coronation for the Cubs than one for the teams that actually played in the World Series. The hype around their system is justified by the talent in it, with the strongest collection of top-shelf hitting prospects I can remember since I started working in baseball. They have someone coming at just about every position other than catcher and first base, and most of them fare well both in traditional evaluation and in analysis of their performance to date.

The Cubs' draft strategy under the Theo Epstein/Jed Hoyer regime has been to grab a polished hitter in the first round and load up on arms later. That, along with the trade of Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel that netted two more top hitting prospects, has produced a system that's full of hitting prospects but still a bit light on the pitching side. The first wave of bats reached the majors in the middle of 2014, with more coming this year, but there won't be enough at-bats for Javier Baez and Jorge Soler and Arismendy Alcantara and Addison Russell and Kyle Schwarber and Starlin Castro and Anthony Rizzo … and that's not even everyone who might end up pushing for playing time. The Cubs are in prime position to flip a young hitter for a pitcher or even to swing a bigger deal, especially if they want to try to set themselves up to win the NL Central in 2016. There are young starting pitching prospects here to like, led by 20-year-old Duane Underwood, but they're all a few years away.

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story...s&refresh=true

[NynJa]

It reduces scoring.

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/9/7/8/9225...t_kp6bm7ab.gif
If you're so predictable as a hitter that you cant manage to hit that gaping hole known as the entire left half of the field, you're bad and you shouldnt feel bad that the teams are playing you in such a way.

[FNH]

Lol who was that shift for?

[Bregor]

http://mlb.mlb.com/images/9/7/8/9225...t_kp6bm7ab.gif
If you're so predictable as a hitter that you cant manage to hit that gaping hole known as the entire left half of the field, you're bad and you shouldnt feel bad that the teams are playing you in such a way.

The batter was Seth Smith and it actually worked, he grounded out. Then the next batter hit an RBI single to win the game.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...01408290.shtml

(Obviously the extreme defensive alignment was due to the situation but whatever.)

[NynJa]

I just googled extreme shift. I was looking for something like 3 fielders on right side, 3b on SS, and just gone with that, but then that gif came up and I had to use it.

[Aksannyi]

I've never seen fielding like that before ... god that looks ridiculous lol.

[Soa]

Law ranked the Braves #6, is he fucking high? Their system is ass, even after dumping half of their roster.

[Moss]

we got solid prospect returns on all the trades, where is the confusion?