Front Office Curmudgeon ⚾

Fan of baseball history, the pitch clock, shift ban and 70s baseball; SABR member/USA Baseball certified coach & lifelong student of America's national pastime.

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To increase action and reduce time between balls in play, @MLB should encourage a predictable strike zone and fewer arms by:

(1) Allowing umpires to use ABS on every pitch
(2) Reducing pitchers from 13 to 11 per roster
(3) Emphasizing durability metrics in pitcher arbitration.

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@FinnHuckster @BBGreatMoments THIS is the correct answer.

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@BBGreatMoments Todd Jones. Dude always gave up 1 less run than he had.

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@PrideOfDetroit Well, that would be Ohio. The Indiana - Illinois thing isn't quite the same dynamic. But it's interesting. If they move 30 minutes the other way, no one blinks, but crossing a state line seems to change things.

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@jp52291 @nut_history Ty Cobb. Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, this wasn't the 1890s...

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@nut_history Note that he was on the ballot but the voters didn't bite. He had a shot. This isn't an overlooked candidate. What IS the Hall of Fame? It's a museum (which has a TON of Joe Jackson) and an honor society, honoring the game's greats. Does taking money to throw the Series DQ?

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@uscfan981 Lol... Just trolling.

I'd start with Charles White ;-)

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@DanClarkSports @KalshiSports But I thought Ruth sucked?

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@nut_history Wow... In 1934 that's very much in play. I'd assumed it was 1919 or before.

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@CaliSix6 @BBGreatMoments Tatis is another candidate sadly. Still better than Betts last year and this...

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@BBGreatMoments Lou Whitaker

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@michaelroot21 @BBGreatMoments They went for a pitcher but his .333 ba / 1.178 OPS, 7 rbis and 3HRs were tremendous. He was also the tying run in Game 7.

Is he overrated? Honestly he's so highly paid and praised, he'd always be in the conversation but that's he never made a team better is easily dismissed.

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@CaliSix6 @BBGreatMoments Having an off year so far, but Id say Mookie Betts given his season last year plus this seasons slow start...

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@schoondawg1 @BBGreatMoments Had you answered this a year ago. Dude is back to ripping it up this year.

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@BBGreatMoments All the Mets fans think it's Soto and the Yankees fans say Judge...

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@Elprez_epm @BBGreatMoments Yeah... This is nuts.

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@michaelroot21 @BBGreatMoments Nah. Washington doesn't win the 2019 World Series without him. Second only to Aaron Judge when he was with the Yankees.

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@BBGreatMoments Maybe Mookie Betts... Living off past performance. He's very good but I'm not sure he's at the elite level he was a few years ago

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@Travis_Sawchik @LastComiskey @BlairKamin @SportsBandbox @lesuerg @whitesox @architecturejks @MLBcathedrals A baseball first field / park would be good news. The reserve seats at Tiger Stadium as a kid were better than all of the first few rows in a modern stadium.

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@BBGreatMoments Fun fact. In 1968 Tigers pitcher Earl Wilson had 7 HRs in 92 PAs.

His @StratOMatic hitting card would look like Barry Bonds.