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@Hawksheart7 Now it's the park's fault? C'mon, man. Both teams play under the same conditions.

There's nothing wrong with the park. It's a beautiful park with a shitty team in it

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@HumanResou29575 @artiebucco_chef He is hitting 094/.234/.226 since May 6th, and playing basically every day. He has definitely not been a "bright spot"

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@JohnChr13937345 @eddiesofficials Yeah sure. A high scoring game in MLB is exactly the same as a league where fan catches count as outs 🙄

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@AskJunieJr @nazzobetweeting Or they can take the Q from Prospect Park to Atlantic, get off, and walk 2 minutes to the G train

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@pjyankeeedved I think they meant prospect busts? None of those guys were homegrown Yankees players.

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@Ikswor_Abab @skraxxy I should point out here that a .600 OPS is far, far above what the average pitcher would achieve in MLB when pitchers used to hit. Greinke and other "good hitting pitchers" all were in the .500s. And they were rare.

Even awful position players are way better than pitchers

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@Kasador08 @whismurat1767 @skraxxy The Mets' primary DH this year has been Juan Soto. The guy stole nearly 30 bases last year and is a superstar in his prime. Not exactly an aging Greg Luzinski out there.

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@Kasador08 @whismurat1767 @skraxxy That hasn't been the case in MLB for like 25 years now. Most teams, with only a handful of exceptions, use the DH as a rotating utility spot, with very athletic guys swapping in and out for half-rest days, injury rehab, and just getting the best positional matchups strategically

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@whismurat1767 @skraxxy We don't need DHs for the other 8 positions because they are competent across the board at hitting. Though some positions are stronger than others, they're all within a range of like .100 OPS apart.

Pitchers in a given year were like .350 OPS below the #8 WORST POSITION.

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@nepechri @skraxxy The pitcher hitting didn't add strategy choices. It *reduced* them. If the pitcher comes up, with 1st + 2nd/1 out, YOU'RE BUNTING. Pitcher up down 2 with bases loaded in the 7th, YOU'RE PH-ING. 1 option.

Having real #9 hitters, these decisions become situation-based, not forced

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@skraxxy @Kira444u It's "avoidable" by instituting a rule tweak that says that, because pitchers are universally so terrible at hitting, they can sub in and out of the game for a real hitter without penalty.

Making them hit just forces everyone to have the same boring-ass auto-out.

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@skraxxy I'm an NL fan and I love the DH. It showed up in the NL like 20 years too late.

Further, this is a real majority opinion I think. When it was rumored, most NL fans whined about it, but now you almost never hear a peep because everyone now sees that pitchers hitting is stupid

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@skraxxy Yeah, but the #9 players who are now hitting who can actually, y'know, HIT, come up big in those spots more often.

So now you don't have to wait through 10,000 consecutive strikeouts and weak ground balls to the pitcher's mound to get to that "big hit".

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@blockkboyy615 @DolphinMossad @eastsidedav Early on yes (1962-1968), because as one of the first 4 expansion teams, they had the other owners colluding against them and keeping talent away, and didn't get good until the draft was instituted.

Since 1969 (57 years), the Mets are over .500 with the 11th best record in MLB

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@JedIsOverParty @DolphinMossad @eastsidedav The Astros are definitely the most recently successful expansion team, no debate about that.

I think historically, overall, they're neck and neck now that they each have two titles. The Astros were bad for a LONG time.

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@QuietSilihoutte @The__Cooler @Blahsquiat145 I wasn't at work when I wrote that. I was just saying be considerate to people in general.

Also, if you don't give a shit about getting people fired at work, black people don't really need to see that shit written out on their timeline either

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@eea154 @The__Cooler @Blahsquiat145 I mean I know that people are shitty and thoughtless and inconsiderate on Twitter, but we can still say something when they act shitty and thoughtless and inconsiderate.

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@BMiggy Semien wasn't traded for McNeil. He was traded for Nimmo. Nimmo, Ewing and Benge could have been on the same roster, with one of Nimmo and Soto DH-ing on a given day.

Trading Nimmo for Semien was an unforced error, and you can't wipe that out by creative accounting and semantics

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@Footballbot2000 @KickinitwitKeef I believe this account may be going for the "saying intentionally stupid things for flame-bait engagement"

It's rare, more of a 90s Usenet thing, but it still exists in the wild sometimes